Falling pics 11/25/09

[treeslayer2003]

Well I guess I should introduce myself I'm Jared and 26.


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oh man, you don't even get tired lol.

 

[Skeans]

oh man, you don't even get tired lol.

I do because I'm also a mechanic and have a cdl


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[treeslayer2003]

I do because I'm also a mechanic and have a cdl


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some may not believe it but that stuff can be worse than falling. i been hurt way worse in the shop than in the woods.

 

[bnmc98]

Both the face and back cut are slanted to go down the hill side well the top goes the same as the face.


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makes sense i guess, I haven't done it but that's not saying a lot

wouldn't you have to chase the hinge about off? slick stump.......

I could see a narrow face opening helping pop it off sooner so it slides down but that might be a little like asking for a chair, dunno, never done it.

I've always just used the snipe method.

 

[treeslayer2003]

me to, since i quit jumpin.....steep face too.

 

[bnmc98]

some may not believe it but that stuff can be worse than falling. i been hurt way worse in the shop than in the woods.

That is the very place my back goes out most often. Wrenching.
What sucks is I have another oportunity to do the same over the next day or so.
We lost a ring and pinion in the 518 so we have to swap 3rd members

 

[treeslayer2003]

That is the very place my back goes out most often. Wrenching.
What sucks is I have another oportunity to do the same over the next day or so.
We lost a ring and pinion in the 518 so we have to swap 3rd members

that sucs.......you got one to put in it? i grab up parts any chance i get.

i take it your an owner operator like me? i have one employee.........mah shadow lol. and dad drives the truck.

 

[bnmc98]

No, its not my skidder, the guys I work for. Yes they have two other 3rd members actually. I cut and do some mechanic work for them which "technically" my title is timber faller and that is what I am a independent contractor to do, but the lines are grey and I end up doing quite a bit of skidding for them with their machine.

 

[treeslayer2003]

gonna have to pull both planetarys and axles......stump pans.......take a gear oil bath.......fun.

 

[bnmc98]

I think pull axles, bottom pans, and pull the axle housing out the back. Plan A anyway. We'll see. You know how that goes

 

[treeslayer2003]

oh yea....i never had a cat.......you will be greasy tho lol.

 

[Skeans]

We're the same way, dad drives, one employee, and me the Mexican lol


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[Skeans]

Sounds like it's time for a deere skidder so you can unlock the axles less issues.


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[Skeans]

oh yea....i never had a cat.......you will be greasy tho lol.

Cat a bad word in my mouth other then the dozer/track skidders the excavators log loaders I hate to work on. Deere, kobelco, doosan, even the old timberjack, or even timbco but cat stuff is expensive and too big. A good example is a Fabtek 2000 you can't buy without the fabtek/cat 501HD carrier now.


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[treeslayer2003]

Sounds like it's time for a deere skidder so you can unlock the axles less issues.


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i have one......they worse imo.

 

[Skeans]

They don't jump in the landings like a cat will, I know the older cat skidder (518) had air brakes too.


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[Skeans]

Sorry for the bias but running a bit of everything and owning a bit of everything I'll never own a cat again, unless it's for pushing stumps and roads.


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[treeslayer2003]

thats cuz they don't pull with all four all the time. thats good some times.........some times it sucs. i like my old clarks, wish i could afford a later model one with a grapple. easiest to work on ever.

 

[treeslayer2003]

Sorry for the bias but running a bit of everything and owning a bit of everything I'll never own a cat again, unless it's for pushing stumps and roads.


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lol, every one has a favorite. i never had a cat skidder, did have a 944 loader, it was a good machine.

 

[Skeans]

The loader were ok, been around the newer 988's and the guys that run them here hate them they can't see because the cab is so slow the newer excavators look like a zero turn but they aren't and you can't see behind you so. We use to take the 440 and put the 540 grapple back ends on them for thinning, and then run that and a D4H track skidder with a 653 with a fabtek 2000 4 roller doing export.


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