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I hope he lived a long life. Enjoyed the song. Ron
So if you scoll back 2-3 years in this thread... I may have posted about hiring my brother for the day, and him managing to break the seat, and door on my excavator... (4 hours... and he broke that much stuff... screwed a clients driveway up too)
well... I've finally had enough and fixed the seat, spent enough time lurching around in it today digging stumps that stopped and yarded it out and took it home to weld it back to more or less upright and straight...
well... I've finally had enough and fixed the seat, spent enough time lurching around in it today digging stumps that stopped and yarded it out and took it home to weld it back to more or less upright and straight...
So I go to install the damned thing this morning, and the bolts don't line up... turns out the bottom frame work is roached too... had to "persuade" it to fit again...
Guess I'll have to break down and buy a new seat soon, which feels wrong... old janky machine with a shiny new seat... gross
Guess I'll have to break down and buy a new seat soon, which feels wrong... old janky machine with a shiny new seat... gross
You’d be amazed at some of the things you can find at a Ritchie Brothers auction.
It’s too damn hot… Already.
Check out the road trip I just did, just because!
rebuilt 3 cylinders on the essavator, changed hydro fluid, filters dumped in 20 gallons of fresh fluid...
took er to the job, where I almost immediately blew a travel motor hose, and dumped most of that 20 gals of brand new $10 per gal fluid on the ground...
Were talking, I fueled, greased, was still in low power so it could warm up, hadn't even cut a single tree, so I just spent the better part of my monday digging out the hose, removing panels and rolling around in dust and oil...
Still better then working in a factory
took er to the job, where I almost immediately blew a travel motor hose, and dumped most of that 20 gals of brand new $10 per gal fluid on the ground...
Were talking, I fueled, greased, was still in low power so it could warm up, hadn't even cut a single tree, so I just spent the better part of my monday digging out the hose, removing panels and rolling around in dust and oil...
Still better then working in a factory
NM, t feel your pain and agree doing something you love though hard and with many setbacks beats doing something you don’t like though steady and predictable.
Changing gears - I get jealous of PNW inhabitants about this time every year as I spend $$ on those delicious sweet cherries. Would love to have a couple trees in my backyard though birds would probably eat all the cherries.
Ron
Changing gears - I get jealous of PNW inhabitants about this time every year as I spend $$ on those delicious sweet cherries. Would love to have a couple trees in my backyard though birds would probably eat all the cherries.
Ron
birds don't seem to bother them much, problem is they really only grow well around Wenatchee, along with the apples we're supposed to be famous for, so even for 90% of the residents here, its still a drive to get them
So much for my image of downing fresh cherries while cutting tall timber.
So far I like the ones from Washington State better than California or Oregon cherries. I just bought some from Canada. I will have to do a taste test. This season, cherries are the cheapest I have ever seen $1.99/lb. Usually $5.99 to $7.99.
Ron
So far I like the ones from Washington State better than California or Oregon cherries. I just bought some from Canada. I will have to do a taste test. This season, cherries are the cheapest I have ever seen $1.99/lb. Usually $5.99 to $7.99.
Ron
we get some wild cherries on this side... but they are kinda smol and a sour (as I've said many times before, we get all sorts of hardwoods out here, they just ain't a big deal, its not all Fir and Cedar)
If you find taters grown in Skagit County out there.... buy them all, Ida HOE, and CA taters taste like fertilizer, they don't need much if any in skagit county
Sad to see this thread inactive; of course, life goes on with many twists and bumps.
Personally, I been too busy with family matters to do any cutting since last October. Things are starting to settle down now, so I have begun rounding up all my stuff that is scattered in the woods in various parts of the county. My little Deere 420C dozer took about four trips because it wouldn't start. Turned out to be a bad battery and closed points. When I returned with the trailer a few days after fixing it, it didn't want to start. An over-zealous shot of starter fluid, 66 years of accumulated grease, oil and dirt, and a backfire through the carb started a nice fire in the belly pan. Two bottles of water from the truck just aggravated the fire. The flames were hitting the hood before I got it out of the way. Thankfully, I had a shovel and enough damp soil on the undercarriage to smother the fire.
Today's work included pressure washing and degreasing the Deere to prevent a repeat. I took it for a little spin and pushed a little dirt to see how it would do given all I have used it for is skidding. Shortly, a hydraulic hose blew drenching my leg and the freshly cleaned dozer with hydraulic fluid. I take that as a sign that my life is back to normal.
Hope all is well with the rest of you.
Ron
Personally, I been too busy with family matters to do any cutting since last October. Things are starting to settle down now, so I have begun rounding up all my stuff that is scattered in the woods in various parts of the county. My little Deere 420C dozer took about four trips because it wouldn't start. Turned out to be a bad battery and closed points. When I returned with the trailer a few days after fixing it, it didn't want to start. An over-zealous shot of starter fluid, 66 years of accumulated grease, oil and dirt, and a backfire through the carb started a nice fire in the belly pan. Two bottles of water from the truck just aggravated the fire. The flames were hitting the hood before I got it out of the way. Thankfully, I had a shovel and enough damp soil on the undercarriage to smother the fire.
Today's work included pressure washing and degreasing the Deere to prevent a repeat. I took it for a little spin and pushed a little dirt to see how it would do given all I have used it for is skidding. Shortly, a hydraulic hose blew drenching my leg and the freshly cleaned dozer with hydraulic fluid. I take that as a sign that my life is back to normal.
Hope all is well with the rest of you.
Ron
My yesterday was similar. All my help took a vacation, so I'm home alone. Decided to start cutting my piles of logs into firewood. So I fueled and oiled the saw, and not once but twice my help forgot to put the cap back on the bar oil tank. The first time I slopped it all over my leg, so I had sticky bar oil on my leg until I decided I was done.
After about 3 hours of cutting blocks, I decided I had done enough, so I hopped onto the tractor to hook up the brush hog. I don't know what I hit, but the shear bolt is sheared. I sure hope it's a real shear bolt and not something else in there smeared around the shaft so I have to fight it off.
After about 3 hours of cutting blocks, I decided I had done enough, so I hopped onto the tractor to hook up the brush hog. I don't know what I hit, but the shear bolt is sheared. I sure hope it's a real shear bolt and not something else in there smeared around the shaft so I have to fight it off.
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Stumbled upon a tv show tonight, The Last Woodsmen. Heartening to see a pair of fallers struggling with a big cedar and diagnosing the stump after it finally fell. Disheartening to see big cedars exploding and a Canada goose nest holding up an entire operation. We have an abundance of Canada geese here, I suspect we could have shipped them a gaggle for less than 15 minutes of their lost production.
Ron
Ron
Where has Northman disappeared too?
He's still around on the social medias, probably just busy
'bleeve he took his saws and went home.
