Another couple saved from the scrap pile

[bushmechanic]

Some pics of another couple of skidders saved from the scrap heap. One's a S7 International and the other is a Timberjack 201B.

  

  

  

  

  

    

[lopet]

I guess the new rubbers on the TJ are making up for the missing engine.
What are your plans ? 

[Puffergas]

Some nice looking skidders there..!

[tantoy]

Good job and thanks for saving them. Is the tj with chains yours?

[bushmechanic]

Lopet the 201 is mostly for parts for mine. I paid way less than the tires were worth alone so couldn't pass it up. Yes tantoy that is the machine I use to plow snow with wintertime and haul my firewood with, soon to have some newer boots on it lol. I plan to make a single rack forwarder in the near future as a project when time is available of course.

[coxy]

nice old iron  8) 8)    that tj is one crude looking skidder wonder how many years of school it takes to figure out how to work on it  :D  thanks for the pics

[loggah]

Thats some vintage iron right there!!!  ;D

[Maine372]

that's quite the set of fenders on the TJ. I wonder what the square tube on the bottom was for. looks like it would take a moffett forklift or something.

[HiTech]

Good job, nice old machines. Fixed up you could still make a dollar or two with them. I was probably a teenager when they where built.

[huskyxp]

Seen a few old skidders in my area with those type fenders so they could pile 8 foot stud and pulp wood , wrap cable around pile and bind against back then hammer down to landing!

[bushmechanic]

  Yes huskyxp that's how we haul wood here too. Skidders are gone from our woods now all hauling is done with forwarders. Here's a pic of my machine from a couple of years ago... got nipped up and couldn't go back and of course forgot the saw : 

 

[lopet]

That's quite a bundle. 8)

[thecfarm]

Like to see the pictures of those old skidders.

[mad murdock]

Couple of nice saves there!!! Wow bushmechanic!  That is one way to drag shortwood 8) i have not seen that method before!

[tantoy]

Yes huskyxp that's how we haul wood here too. Skidders are gone from our woods now all hauling is done with forwarders. Here's a pic of my machine from a couple of years ago... got nipped up and couldn't go back and of course forgot the saw :

 

LIKE!

[Lumberjohn]

Always been Timberjack fan and that is an old one. I saw early Timberjack brochures on Ebay a while ago and there is a model that looks more primitive from 60-63 if I remember correctly. I like that S7, it looks fairly straight and is probably a lot newer than the TJ.

[huskyxp]

Yes huskyxp that's how we haul wood here too. Skidders are gone from our woods now all hauling is done with forwarders. Here's a pic of my machine from a couple of years ago... got nipped up and couldn't go back and of course forgot the saw :

 

rite on, ya most everyone here is cut to length nowadays but back in 90's when wood prices where high a guy up Rd from me bought a lot of old skidders off the rock for resale and parting out! Someday I got to get over there for a moose or trout vacation lol looks beautiful over there

[kiko]

I too can't stand to see them go down as scrap.  My problem is they always seem to show up when I have  the least money.  Also have a weakness for ford trucks ( my wife refers to it as a mental illness). Do you plan to restore or revive s7.  Either way great finds.

[bushmechanic]

Kiko I may make a forwarder out of that S7, not sure yet. I have been watching for a C4 Tree farmer to make one because a lot of the 201 Timberjack parts are interchangeable. I bought the S7 because I needed a tire at the time and that was on the market. Huskyxp I saw a moose this morning and two stag caribou on the way to work. I guess I should have tied one on for you ;D

[thecfarm]

 bushmechanic,how do you bunch the wood up like that?

[larry1]

In the late 60's I stared as a choker kid to learn the trade and rode on top of that Timderland Ellicott winch . The engine was a 4 cyl  Ford gas, and when it failed we extended the front frame and installed a 6 cyl  ohv  international  , that gave it way more power and better weight transfer .  The S8 were popular for a while and would pull good with that 6 cyl  diesel ,but don't remember any S7 around here . Your  right about the old C4  , they also had the 4 cyl gas ford  and other similar parts -- they are both great finds --have fun with that old iron .

Larry --ont.

[bushmechanic]

thecfarm, I lay the main cable out behind the machine and pile the wood up against the back of the skidder on the cable. I usually pile 3/4 to a cord of wood or logs then hook the cable chokers together pull her tight and off you go.The lower that you have the cable end to the back of the pile the better it will pick it up and keep the wood out of the mud. I cut and pile my wood in the woods on "a brow stick" also when I don't have the machine handy. You have to get two high stumps of which you v-notch and put a 10 foot stick in the notches, then pile your wood on the stick on one side and on the ground on the other. This way you can back into the pile and slide the cable under the "brow" pick it and rock and roll baby.

      

[jocco]

I heard THERE WAS A PRE 201 THAT WAS A TEST modle.I hered it called a 190, 195 once but not sure. Could have been some changes over time. Dad saw one of the first in late 50's or early 60 got to watch it and said he could see the horses days were numberd ;D

Always been Timberjack fan and that is an old one. I saw early Timberjack brochures on Ebay a while ago and there is a model that looks more primitive from 60-63 if I remember correctly. I like that S7, it looks fairly straight and is probably a lot newer than the TJ.