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$18,000 more or less, twice the time to actually finish. It has been back in woods for awhile now I have just been working 7 days a week to pay off the repair bill, I am home today nursing a leg that got crushed between to logs when I was bucking up behind the skidder and got pinched.

I ran into a host of problems in doing this rebuild. The single biggest complaint has been ordering parts from Little Valley in New York, a former Timberjack dealer who does mostly aftermarket parts now. We recieved over the coarse of the build almost $2000 in the wrong parts, That added with the delay and re-order time and in some cases parts that took three weeks to get here made this project a night mare. If I had only one machine it would have put me under. The other major screw up was the transfere case re-build done by an outside shop. They did not shim the shaft and the machine would only work up hill or flat. It had more than 300 thousands in play and of coarse did not work. The guy who did the work swore up and down that it was not his fault, Not until my mechanic went over there with the book did it get done right. this added another three weeks to the project by the time he got the parts that were ruined in me getting the machine back out of the woods and all of the wear on the gears from them slamming against each other.

Glad to have to have it back and working again..Bob

 

[mingo]

Looks like you did a real nice job and take care of that leg.

 

[sgrizz]

Glad to see you got it back together. Those type of projects always seem to take twice as long. :msp_thumbsup: Hope your leg heals up quick . When you say crushed , do you think you may of fractured it or just bruised it pretty good?

 

[Slamm]

How much did you originally pay for the machine or is that $18,000 including the original cost of the machine?

Just wondering,

Sam

 

[serial feller]

That could have been posted in "The Whining Thread"! :hmm3grin2orange:

But seriously, what you went through really sucks. I spent four hours and a trip to town fixing equipment today, which really hurts, and is nothing compared to your story.. Take care of that leg!

 

[mingo]

Nice job on the muffler guard. Is that an Eaton winch? I thought 240s came with a Gearmatic.

 

[plasticweld]

The leg is doing better, I am walking around today and will be back at work tomorrow to make up the lost couple of days. Turns out was just crushed and I broke no bones but I will be doing some hoping around

to answer a few questions.

I paid $16000 for the machine not quite a year and a half ago.

Work I had done new pins and bushings in the center pins, steering ram, walking beam and blade. Engine rebuilt transmission and reverser rebuilt transfer case rebuilt, unversals and pillow blocks replaced. Back bumper rebuilt exhaust rebuilt, rear end completely rebuilt.

As I had said before when I started this project I bought the machine with the idea that it would work 6 months before putting a ton of money into. It did not make it 2 weeks before I had one break down after another each one tied the machine up a few days and in one case a week. I had looked at buying a new machine but each one I looked at seemed to be a more expensive version of what I had with no guarantee that it would be anymore dependable for the money spent. At least now I know what I have.

It is a Eaton winch some of the 240s did come with them