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[lumberjack48]

When i went out to Montana back in 1966, i went to work for J. C. Neils a lumber Co. in Libby.

I had worked with a pole skidder up at International Falls MN. so i knew what chockers were and chocker bells.

I got on as a chocker setter, behind a slide bar, short track, D8 with a skid pan, with 12 chockers., with funny looking bells

This what i wanted to show you, the chocker bells, I'd never seen such a thing, i didn't know at the time that the right name was Boxer Glove bells.
You would think they wouldn't stay hooked, as long as you don't give them no slack they stay hooked.
Then on the landing there 4 times faster to unhook, they worked good.

  

[thecfarm]

I've never seen any this far north.

[snowstorm]

When i went out to Montana back in 1966, i went to work for J. C. Neils a lumber Co. in Libby.

I had worked with a pole skidder up at International Falls MN. so i knew what chockers were and chocker bells.

I got on as a chocker setter, behind a slide bar, short track, D8 with a skid pan, with 12 chockers., with funny looking bells

This what i wanted to show you, the chocker bells, I'd never seen such a thing, i didn't know at the time that the right name was Boxer Glove bells.
You would think they wouldn't stay hooked, as long as you don't give them no slack they stay hooked.
Then on the landing there 4 times faster to unhook, they worked good.

 

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