Detroit Alarm Clock

[Hilltop366]

It's a chainsaw to us but it is a dinner bell to deer.

I've always said that a Detroit has the amazing ability to turn diesel fuel into a bunch of smoke a whole lot of noise and a little bit of power.

[Ron Scott]

I can agree with that, especially now after needing and encountering the inconvenience of hearing aids. ;) The noise of the Detroit's was especially not popular during our hunting seasons. Noise pollution got to be a problem.

[loggah]

I got sick of listening to the Detroits years ago in my Timberjack,and i traded for my 86 tree farmer c6d with the Duetz, like nite and day ;D  then as i got slower i traded that for a powershift Franklin with a Cummins. I think thats why i still have my hearing !!!!! ;D

[danbuendgen]

I just moved to a new job with a fair amount of houses around. I'm sure we will have the whole neighborhood upset this weekend. Just had 3 days of rain, so we will have to work this weekend to make up for it. I worked last Saturday and people were complaining about the skidder and saws.... It's the "not in my back yard" thing.
People have there houses built out of lumber, they burn firewood, but once a logger is working near them, they get upset about all of it. The noise, looking at piles of logs at the landing and looking at equipment when they drive by, the way the neighbors property looks after, pollution (as if they don't burn fuel??), ect. Now if I was a farmer haying a field on the weekend, or doing any loud farm related chore, it would be no big deal. But overall, people don't like loggers....
I have had it happen a few times where we have to drive the skidder and/or the forwarder down the town dirt road to get loaded on a trailer to move to a new job, and people come out of there little houses to see what is going on and complain about it. The noise, tearing up the road, safety, "I'm going to call the cops". Got that one once! Again, if I was a farmer on a tractor pulling a piece of equipment down the road, it would not be a issue.
I wish people would grow up and look at the bigger picture.

[Ed_K]

 Don't bet on the farm issue, the police showed up more than once when we were still running the dairy farm. One time for cutting hay at 7pm, couple time they showed up when we were chopping green feed to feed the milker's when we finished milking. Told the cop, what are we supposed to do not feed the cows.
I got in trouble once for telling a irate lady to move back to where she came from, an ruin that place some more ;D .

[xalexjx]

I had a 353 in my c5 tree farmer, now with my timberjack with cummins and an enclosed cab I dont think i could go back to it, nice to spend the majority of the day in the cab with the radio going and not be hearing the detroit scream in my head after going to bed!  :D

[Bert]

I have a hard time understanding why you would want equipment to be loud.   I enjoy pretty good hearing and would like to for years to come.   The more quiet the better.    Ideally hydraulic hum would be the only thing heard.   Sacrificing production because of noise wouldn't fly but I would choose something quieter than a DD .

I never said i wanted loud equipment. I wear headphones to protect my hearing. Just a man working with what hes got is all. If i could buy a hybrid skidder I could afford I would. A prius skidder  ;D Good luck with that, I think I'll stick to my detroit.

[danbuendgen]

Don't bet on the farm issue, the police showed up more than once when we were still running the dairy farm. One time for cutting hay at 7pm, couple time they showed up when we were chopping green feed to feed the milker's when we finished milking. Told the cop, what are we supposed to do not feed the cows.
I got in trouble once for telling a irate lady to move back to where she came from, an ruin that place some more ;D .

Edd, I guess you are right. People can be just a pain in the butt. Well some people that is.... That's what I tell people too! Go back to where you came from! I'm trying to live here to get away from your kind!

[enigmaT120]

I think Oregon has a Right to Farm law that probably covers forestry too.  Also zoning laws to try and keep the woods and farm land from being over run by subdivisions. 

[danbuendgen]

I'm pretty sure VT has a right to farm law also, but that doesn't stop second home owners, and folks with a broom stick up there a** from calling the cops!

[longtime lurker]

The exhaust system on the 666 with 453 GM in it let go a while back - pipe let go on the exhaust bracket so with the weight on it it proceeded to break the pipe in front of the muffler and crack it jsut off the manifold.
(Anyone running one of them without a muffler is nuts - and you can hear what the engine is doing better when its got a muffler)

Sooooooo... being as I was cutting a block about 10 miles from the local exhaust guy, and seeing as she's registered... I called dude up, booked her in, and drove her straight up the road through open farmland. Dude told me he could hear it coming for a good five minutes of the trip... so could everyone else in about 40 square miles I'd reckon :D

Anyway, new pipe, new muffler, and a spark arrestor later and she was a different beast. Didnt have the spark arrestor before - the muffler / spark arrestor combination really quiets it down, and sitting on it with ear muffs on I can hear rattles and squeaks I never heard before: maybe not so good as I found things to fix lol