Timberjack Snow Removal

[shamik]

My '68 out of the warm barn into the never ending snow!!!!

  

 

[Woodboogah]

Nice looking machine!

[goose63]

Man shut that door and turn the heater on

[coxy]

nice looking jack ;D and you can keep the snow

[mad murdock]

Shamik, that is one nice TJ you got there!  What's all that white stuff in the pic?? ;D We have had a cooler than normal winter here on the left coast, but not too much of that stuff this year.  Been a dryer than normal winter thus far.

[logman81]

Nice jack , what model 225?

[David-L]

Nice jack, what kind of planetaries. Looks to be a 208 or 225? what do you have for a powerplant?

                                     David l

[thecfarm]

I would think you would want the ground to be frozen before plowing.  ;D

[lynde37avery]

good looking machine. whats the specs?

[beenthere]

I would think you would want the ground to be frozen before plowing.  ;D

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[cutter88]

great looking old jack!!!

[shamik]

Nice jack , what model 225?

Thanks, it's a model 200H

[shamik]

Nice jack, what kind of planetaries. Looks to be a 208 or 225? what do you have for a powerplant?

                                     David l

Thanks, it's a 200H and it is a 172 gasser

[shamik]

great looking old jack!!!

Thanks cutter88 and everyone else for your comments!!

[lumberjack48]

I bought a new tf in 1968, basically the same running gear, i had the model 9 gearmatic. The 172 Ford is a tough motor, and easy on gas.

      Heres a picture, i was 20 yrs old,



 

[Maine logger88]

LJ48 if you don't mind me asking what did the tf cost new?And nice looking tj shamik! is the 200h similar to a 205?

[lumberjack48]

 The tf was 9,500. delivered, 20 cd a day machine, in nice Aspen on flat ground i could pull 30 cds, its all about method. Work with the skidder, turn  for turn, with the feller helping hook, the skidder has to be moving to get wood out. My saying was 10x10, 10 turns by 10 am, that was my goal every morning.

[beenthere]

LJ48
Any idea where that TJ may have ended up over all these years?

[lumberjack48]

No i don't beenthere, i wish i had a 100 of them.

[Maine logger88]

Man too bad you couldn't still buy a new skidder like that for that even triple that now would be a bargain! Wow I wish that I could pull 20crd per day sounds like you could really move some wood! How big of twitches did you pull?

[cutter88]

not real fermilliar with the crd system we always use metric ton about hominy trees is  cord to me a cord is a cord of fire wide 4'x8' 1 face cord

[David-L]

nice looking C-4. wish they still made machines like that. everything is always bigger these days. But not better IMO. Brothers C-5, 1970 i think with a 353 screamer. 

                                                    David-l




 

[shamik]

LJ48 if you don't mind me asking what did the tf cost new?And nice looking tj shamik! is the 200h similar to a 205?

As far as I know, there is not a whole lot of difference in them.  For my machine, for the size, it is a real work horse.

[Maine logger88]

Yeh the timberjacks  are definitely a workhorse! Did you paint yours or buy it fixed up like that?

[SwampDonkey]

That tree farmer is the same model machine dad bought in the 70's, used, after he sold the horse. Worked well on the farm. Gas motor, always turned over when needed. Dad sold it about 17 years ago and the guy used it first for clearing off his new house lot. The thing hauled potato trucks, farm tractors, potato harvesters and transport trucks out of muck holes and ice. :D

[SwampDonkey]

Always had to use cords around here because anyone a little older than me refused to learn metric at all. If you handed anyone a scale for metric tonne or m³, they said what the heck is that in cords. :D