paccity
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could not find my first thread on this, but this was brought out by the boys at fallon logging . any one here set any this big? i'll bet there is.
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DavdH
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Yep, and I've had to swede chokers that size, and I've broken them to, but this was 30 years ago. Into much smaller stuff these days,
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Yup. Brings back memories of an old Swede catskinner who liked to jump the Cat backwards at you if you didn't move fast enough. He was deaf and communicated by screaming at the top of his lungs...not always in English, either.
Makes me tired just looking at that thing.
Makes me tired just looking at that thing.
I have one that came with the place. It is hung up on the well house. I decided to stain the well house one day. I wrasseled that beast off the wall. Then, I had to put it back. It was a fight, but I finally got it back up.
I dug up a shorter one but with the same diameter cable and large bell on it. Now I have to figure out what to do with it. :frown: Maybe I should have reburied it.
I dug up a shorter one but with the same diameter cable and large bell on it. Now I have to figure out what to do with it. :frown: Maybe I should have reburied it.
Take it to the Swap Meet in town next year.
RandyMac
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I set a lot of 7/8", 1" and a few Bull chokers that were 1 1/4".
Humptulips
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Looks to be 1 inch. Set many of them and many 1 1/8 inch chokers. 1st yarder I ever worked on had a really big one 1 1/4 or 1 3/8. Never used it but occasionally.
1 inch was the standard highlead choker and 7/8 was the standard slackline choker when we were logging old growth.
Now my Dad who is still alive said several companies prior to WWII used 1 3/8 and 1 1/2 bull chokers. He said he had personally broke an 1 1/2 choker.
When he started out he worked for Bordeaux Bros and they used 1 1/8 and 1 1/4 on the slackline.
It ain't old unless it's babbited. That looks to be pressed.
1 inch was the standard highlead choker and 7/8 was the standard slackline choker when we were logging old growth.
Now my Dad who is still alive said several companies prior to WWII used 1 3/8 and 1 1/2 bull chokers. He said he had personally broke an 1 1/2 choker.
When he started out he worked for Bordeaux Bros and they used 1 1/8 and 1 1/4 on the slackline.
It ain't old unless it's babbited. That looks to be pressed.
Maybe I could trade with the axe/saw guy? I need a choker packer though. Or I could just take the short one, I can carry it.
paccity
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looked at it closer and the ends are babbited..
Can you please define babbited?
Metals406
Granfodder Runningsaw
Patty, Babbitt is melted like lead, and poured for bearings, or in this case -- to retain the mouse.
Soldering the end on, essentially. Babbitt is expensive to buy these days, mostly purchased to re-bearing old machines.
Sport Faller
Gate Pimp
WRONG!
Babbitt is infact, Charlie Babbitt, the egomaniacal high end car dealer portrayed by Tom Cruise in Rain Man :jester::jester::jester:
Metals406
Granfodder Runningsaw
Ummmmm. . . Who gave Jake sugar?
Sport Faller
Gate Pimp
Ummmmm. . . Who gave Jake sugar?
Pop Rocks and Diet Mtn. Dew is a helluva drug
The one I dug up is short and has an eye spliced on the end. I think it was used for hooking a guyline to or something.
You Montannians better get you boats out if you get our weather. We just had a downpour that maxed out the gutters. The weather controller has a sick sense of humor. Just before, the sun came out and the birds began to sing. Then, the SMITE button was pushed....:msp_sad:
You Montannians better get you boats out if you get our weather. We just had a downpour that maxed out the gutters. The weather controller has a sick sense of humor. Just before, the sun came out and the birds began to sing. Then, the SMITE button was pushed....:msp_sad:
Metals406
Granfodder Runningsaw
Oh yeah, we're fix'n to be smote as well. Today's pretty nice, then 5 days of Noah's Arc weather.
I'm not saying I want 85° and clear skies. . . Just a little warmer and less moist-ish. I had thick frost on the truck windows this morning -- it got below freezing last night.
Howz Ben doing today? His hips still hurting him?
Might be a Cat choker. If so, you being a yarder fanatic and all, you'll have to get rid of it. :msp_biggrin:
Oh yeah, we're fix'n to be smote as well. Today's pretty nice, then 5 days of Noah's Arc weather.
I'm not saying I want 85° and clear skies. . . Just a little warmer and less moist-ish. I had thick frost on the truck windows this morning -- it got below freezing last night.
Howz Ben doing today? His hips still hurting him?
He is fine. We went on a 3 mile walk today. The Grapple Cat is tormenting him.
He landed wrong when getting out of the trailer Monday morning. He just sat for a minute or two, whimpering. I got him to hobble around on a short potty walk then put him in the pickup. He wanted out near Ritzville. I got him out and he was fine. He's been fine since. If the rain stops, I plan to get out the dog ramp and see if it works for the trailer.
Metals406
Granfodder Runningsaw
That Grapple Cat is bossy!
