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Logger nate

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Well the home made "tractor" is going to its new home at my brother's, my mother sold her place in Alaska and is moving to Idaho closer to us.IMG_3175.JPG It's a great wood hauler, have hauled a lot of wood on the back seat and in a home made 4x8 trailer we pull with it. IMG_1008.PNG Dad, brother's & I made it around 83. Int. Scout axles, trans, transfer case, model T frame rails, 2 cyl. Wisconsin bayler motor, belt drive clutch. Originally had single cyl. motor and 2, 3 spd. transmissions.IMG_1018.PNG Rear axle solid to frame-no driveline just a u joint, front axle has center pivot.
 
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Spent a lot of time today finding parts, losing parts, fixing saws, breaking saws, and dressing bars.

One saw off the bench and hopefully won't be coming back on the bench anytime soon. If it hadn't been a 70 cc saw I'd probably have thrown it in a trash the second time the recoil broke (rope broke first then the recoil spring slipped because the spring lip was bent improperly).
 
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Nate ever hear of a doodle bug? That tractor looks like what we would call one. I like the idea though, super low gearing and 4wd


Uncle Mike, why don't you hop up my pops little saw? He called me today to tell me your mower made his life SO much easier on Sunday. He also mentioned you tweaked the "big saw". He had a couple bigger trees at that lot I'd like to get out of there before he sells it. If I can get my hands on Bills dump trailer again it's worth the drive for me. Last time we used Rich's truck to drag them up the hill in log length then buck them up and load them.
 
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Awesome pics Nate !
Thanks!
Nate ever hear of a doodle bug? That tractor looks like what we would call one. I like the idea though, super low gearing and 4wd


Uncle Mike, why don't you hop up my pops little saw? He called me today to tell me your mower made his life SO much easier on Sunday. He also mentioned you tweaked the "big saw". He had a couple bigger trees at that lot I'd like to get out of there before he sells it. If I can get my hands on Bills dump trailer again it's worth the drive for me. Last time we used Rich's truck to drag them up the hill in log length then buck them up and load them.
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Heard of them, can't say I really know what they are though. When it had the 2 trannies it would just crawl. Put them both in reverse and it goes forward. Even with just the one trans top speed is about 25 mph. Pretty amazing what it will do, it floats with the tires it has now.
 
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why don't you hop up my pops little saw?

I offered several times, he seems to like it just the way it is. Conversely, one mention of improving his 460 and it was in my garage the next day!

Now if I can get him to replace the ES bar with an E bar, it will be about 10 oz lighter and balance better. He may really get to liking it!
 
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Spent the morning trimming out a path to put my driveway for new house. We flagged the road a few weeks ago but I aint sure I like how it lays. Getting rid of the under brush before I start cutting any big trees. I found one dead whitepine, about 18in dia thats dead and right next to it is a 24in yellowpine that looks like its trying to uproot. Got to the top of the hill and found a 24in whitepine that had blown over and another big one with the top broke out. I also have 5 or 6 30in+ dia whitepines right where I want to set the house. I got to come up some kind of mill to make boards with. Theres enough lumber in the trees I have to take down to build a house and I have enough timber If I wanted to cut it to build several more.
 
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Store it somewhere dry, and hire someone to come in with a portable sawmill. It will save you a lot of time, and do better job of turning the logs into lumber than you could with a chainsaw.

Philbert
No place to store it in the dry, aint even got a driveway. I'll probably just sell it to the local mill to get it out of the way. The whitepine beetle is starting to hit and with my luck they will probably wipe out my whole place. I'll probably have more wood then than I can give away.
 
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Spent the morning trimming out a path to put my driveway for new house. We flagged the road a few weeks ago but I aint sure I like how it lays. Getting rid of the under brush before I start cutting any big trees. I found one dead whitepine, about 18in dia thats dead and right next to it is a 24in yellowpine that looks like its trying to uproot. Got to the top of the hill and found a 24in whitepine that had blown over and another big one with the top broke out. I also have 5 or 6 30in+ dia whitepines right where I want to set the house. I got to come up some kind of mill to make boards with. Theres enough lumber in the trees I have to take down to build a house and I have enough timber If I wanted to cut it to build several more.
! then you need to stop jawing and start sawing !! as someone else say's... lol
 
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Rained all morning, in the afternoon tested my 066 in some big Oak, then tested my brother's MS 460 in a Red Oak crotch, it did real well!

Then I hauled some rounds out of the brush & split them, but I still got lots of rounds to split!
 

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Cowboy254

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Well you can tell temps are getting warmer and folks are focusing on stuff other than firewood. This morning I had 6 notifications waiting rather than the 25-40 I'd have over the winter.

Getting colder down here...

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However, good things are happening, like my new shed that I knocked up.

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Rollerdoors at both ends so we can still drive through and access the back of the house from the top driveway.

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13.5m x 7m with an elevation of 4.6m at the high side. Near left will be chainsaw maintenance area/workshop. Mid to far left double level storage and on the right there will be mower/boat/trailer storage. Probly hang a kayak or two from the beams. Just need the power hooked up and a bit of tidying up around the edges and then I'll start building the double level storage area and workshop. At least I'll have something to do when it is too wet to cut wood. :)
 
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Alright, I admit it. I didn't build the shed. But I paid to have it built which is more effective since anything of this size that I tried to build would be very embarrassing and almost certainly collapse on me. A man's gots to know his limitations! Looking forward to fitting out the inside though.
 

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