Mud Season Begins -- Building Waterbars With Skidder And Old Smokey Hydraulic Hose Fail
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- I put in some waterbars to stop the water from running down the skid road. Then use Old Smokey to move red pine logs on the landing. Progress grinds to a halt when Old Smokey blows a hydraulic hose. Removing the hose turns into quite a project.
new subscriber your speech sounds like you are from western maine. maybe my jugment of vermont is slanted by massacusett carpet baggers.
Im in Northern Vermont right up by the Canadian border. Funny you should mention Maine. I was just up in Milanocket last week. Drove all 96 miles of the golden road. Nice country up there.
We got a good old 640 cable skidder also. The DOT stopped me a couple winters ago. After inspecting the truck over the trooper tagged it "Out of Service", you have to fix it there or tow it. The only thing wrong was the low air pressure warning lite was out. After chasing for parts and tearing the dash apart, 3 hours went by and it was 7 PM with the mill closed. Yup thanks a lot, it was fun.
The DOT took the fun out of trucking for me. They always stop log trucks because there is no way for us to tall exactly how heavy we are when we load up on the landing. And the more we get on the truck the more we get paid so we are always walking a fine line there and they know it. So us loggers are an easy mark for the DOT. The low air pressure light comes on in my truck around 60 PSI and my parking (spring) brakes are already coming on by then. So that light isn’t telling me anything I don’t already know.
Great video.
Thank You.
Where abouts in Vermont are you from
Up in Franklin County. The Northwest corner of the state close to the Canada border.
Nice I'm logging in Peru Vermont
great vid!!!
Thank you.
After paying stumpage, fuel, and maintenance on the equipment are you making any money ?
Not really. And it seems like it has always been that way. I will get ahead for a while but it either goes to raining for a month or a major breakdown happens. Any money I have saved from this winter will probably be spent by the time I start doing cut-split firewood.
Next time try a sds hammer drill on just hammer n maybe if u have a old chisel cut the chisel tip off so it’s blunt n put it against the side of the hex fitting n hammer on it a few seconds n I’ve been n a hard spot like that with old lines on a dozer n old timer done that n I couldn’t believe it when he turned it loose with ease I guess it loosened up any rust n shock loads kinda n loosen up crazy but I do it all the time now works great on bolts in a aluminum housing to
I never thought of a hammer drill Ill have to give that a try next time I have a stubborn hose like that
Awesome Video TK. Love your operation my friend.. I also Really like the music you added in... by any chance do you know the name of the first song at 26:50 ? Thanks and be safe out there
TWG 👍🏻
Thanks. I will get the name of that song for you tomorrow. Its on the desktop in my office. I downloaded a few songs for that video and I don’t know the titles off the top of my head.
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Your pretty good on the loader I’d look like a drunk monkey on it now a skider r excavator mint 👌🏼
👍👍 I probably would look like a drunk monkey on an excavator. I haven’t ran one much.
@@TimberKing I love running excavators I’m definitely n my happy place first one I learned to run was a cat 315 with about ten thousand hrs n the guy that owned is must have never met grease lol but after that ole girl it was a John deere 225c like new loved it put 5500 hrs on it myself