Go big or go home. 😂

[BargeMonkey]

 
Went back up north today, waiting on the Cat salesman to figure on my delimber but supposedly it's a green light. Actually a pretty nice machine, like a space ship compared to my Timbco. Been buying / walking wood like a man on fire. 



The guy also was trying to sell this beast, friend of his is an iron dealer in Ireland and brought 2 machines over, bigger than what I want. 😂

[Peter Drouin]

They will get the job done.  8)

[thecfarm]

Good for you.

[chep]

Heck Yeah barge!!

Full on cut to length now. Leave that slasher skidder delimber nonsense at home. 
Your production will be different for a while til you get dialed in. 
That forwarder come with tracks and chains? 

[teakwood]

That cat has no tilt base, are they still able to work in steep ground?  I know from experience that in a excavator it gets hard to turn uphill with a full bucket in a slope

[Corley5]

 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)  Welcome to CTL

[mike_belben]

Congrats eric.  Time for you to quit l0llygaggin and actually go do some real work now i guess  

;D

[Ed_K]

 Way to go Eric, wish I was 20 yrs younger I'd come run that forwarder for you ;D.

[BargeMonkey]

I didn't buy the forwarder, guy wanted to make sure I knew it was sitting there for sale 😂 he's going to find out what the bottom dollar price is, at 75k now, they sold one set of tracks it had, new 8.3 cummins, its clean but right now im not jumping unless i can buy it for 1/2. it's BIG, I'm going to run my 230 long bunk for a while, what's nice with that harvester is I can process bunched wood behind my Timbco or cut and send out delimbed tree length. The owner has ALL the books which is huge, couple bars and chains, its just that size machine I guess most guys don't want it, he bought it as a back up and doesn't need it. The problem with a tilter like that is your getting into a dropside lowboy, my Timbco is 13'2" on my trailer now, this is pretty tall also. 

[lopet]

Congrats and good luck with your go big plan.

[millcreek40]

Both of those machines are within twenty mins from my house . You can drop either one off at my job just to make sure there good  lol

[Southside]

Maybe it's a different set up but with my Fabtek tree length tends to like to jillpoke on me when it gets out there.  

[BargeMonkey]

 I don't think it's going to work to well on huge tree length, the owner is doing it with a Ponnse 8 wheeler / dangler right now and said the skidder is taking the bigger stuff shorter, get the first 2 logs cut out and then the top next to it, says you walk the head up the trees quite a bit. Not really my goal to do it but the ability to do it is huge, some of the ground here just isn't meant for a forwarder sometimes. Alot of our hardwood especially the stuff here on the mountain is short, 40-60ft max. Going to be a huge learning curve. 

[BargeMonkey]

Both of those machines are within twenty mins from my house . You can drop either one off at my job just to make sure there good  lol

I called Rodney on my way up, he was out of the house, he wanted to go up with me and watch it run, planning to go back up in a week or so, GF saw the coach outlets in Lake George, I can't win 😂  the owner seems like a good guy, we know alot of the same people and the story on the machine checks out, it actually was down here in Hancock doing the pipeline work before he bought it. 

[Skeans1]

That cat has no tilt base, are they still able to work in steep ground?  I know from experience that in a excavator it gets hard to turn uphill with a full bucket in a slope

It's not that bad especially running a dangle head with a full harvester that'll have the extra pumps to run everything.