Trying to identify skidder

[Vance in AK]

Hi all.
First post & I'm looking dor help trying to identify a skidder I used to run in le late 70s/early 80s. 
Could be wrong, but seems it was kind of cream colored.  What I do remember is that it had an oxe of some type on it.  Don't remember if it was just a head or the whole animal, decal or cut out design.  It wasn't a new machine at the time, but not ancient either.  About the same size as a 518, maybe a little smaller?
Thanks for any help.

[thecfarm]

Vance in AK,welcome to the forum. Still working in the woods?

[KyLogger]

Probably a Pettibone, had a rams head on the side of some of em I think. Mountain Goat or something like that.
Hope this helps.

Tom

[mad murdock]

Welcome to the forestry forum. Mebbe it was a Mountain Logger?

[barbender]

I was going to guess Mountain Logger, too.

[Vance in AK]

Thanks for the welcome guys, & mad murdock & barbender, you nailed it!!  Thanks, that's been bugging me for years.  I thought of every other skidder I had run but couldn't come up with the Mountain Logger.

thecfarm, not in the woods anymore.  I grew up in south central Oregon (Klamath Falls) & logged from centeral Oregon to Sacremento Ca.  Left Oregon for Alaska in 88 & have been out of the industry since.  Have been full time pastor of a church here for the last 10 yrs.
Still love cutting firewood & think it would be a ball to have a small one man show as a hobby about 1 day a week  :-).  Cut & skid & let someone with a selfloader do the hauling. 

[mad murdock]

Glad to help joggle the old memory bank. Which part of he Great Land do you call home? We moved from the interior to ORE about 15 yrs ago, and now are blessed to be the stewards of a 40ac. tree farm. Life is grande.

[Vance in AK]

Glad to help joggle the old memory bank. Which part of he Great Land do you call home? We moved from the interior to ORE about 15 yrs ago, and now are blessed to be the stewards of a 40ac. tree farm. Life is grande.

I'm in Kenai.  Left Klamath Falls for here back in 88.  Sure miss that country.  That 40 acre tree farm sounds awful nice ;D
Where were you up here?

[barbender]

I'd love to see all of that country out there. On the Mountain Logger, I think they were made in the NW somewhere, I've only seen pictures of them. I remember they had a big set of horns on them, I think

[lumberjack48]

I know a guy that has a small M Logger, he bought it new in 1970, it has a 2 cylinder Detroit, good skidder, he logged full time with it.

[barbender]

LJ, if that is the Mountain Logger with the 2 cylinder Detroit, I heard a story about it. The story went that the owner and some friends got good and drunk, and the owner made a bet that he could winch the skidder up off of the ground up into a tree. So they hooked the cable up in a tree, he winched himself up into the air, then the engine died I suppose it starved for fuel. So then he was stuck up in the air : Can you confirm or deny this story? :D

[barbender]

it has a 2 cylinder Detroit

I have to pay more attention :

[lumberjack48]

Yes, true story, fast Ed and his side kicks

[mad murdock]

I'm in Kenai.  Left Klamath Falls for here back in 88.  Sure miss that country.  That 40 acre tree farm sounds awful nice ;D
Where were you up here?

Kenai, land of championship combat fishing! When we moved it was from the Fairbanks area. Prior to that we did the bush thing, lived in Aniak, Kotzebue and Nome.