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Title: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: Magicman on August 11, 2017, 12:33:13 PM
 

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I was successful enough in Jeff's PR "Poston" game to win 4th place which netted me another 60" Logrite Cant Hook, but it needed some slight modifications before it could join my team.


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First it needed my customary Reflective Orange Tape, so a bit of cleaning was necessary.  Next, I wanted to dip the handle end to protect it against being damaged.


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The cushion rubber handles got a coat of rubber cement so that the plastic dip would adhere.


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And then it was a series of dips into this.


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To get a nice buildup.


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I also gave the old Logrites another dip.


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Team Logrite is ready for action.   logrite_cool

Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: WDH on August 11, 2017, 02:26:55 PM
Next time that I come over to saw some walnut lumber, I won't have to bring one  ;D. 
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: red on August 11, 2017, 02:35:49 PM
The Magicman liquid translations . For adding dish soap to water he uses Glugs.  Now the question is how many plastic dips does it take ?
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: fishfighter on August 11, 2017, 02:39:49 PM
For some reason I can tell some people just don't have anything better to do with all this rain us south bound people are getting. ;D

I own you one Lynn. ;D
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: grouch on August 11, 2017, 05:48:52 PM
I want to just stand back a safe distance and watch you use all of those.

Ordered mine last night and it still hasn't arrived. Shouldn't a helicopter be flying over by now?
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: paul case on August 11, 2017, 05:49:30 PM
I would like to ''saw'' one of them at my place so he could ''leave 'em''.

Nice score. If it was anything to do with DP, I thought it would cost $300.

PC
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: Magicman on August 11, 2017, 09:29:33 PM
I thought seriously about getting another 60" when we were at Logrite in July.  The 48" works well with small logs and logs up to ~30".  Logs larger than ~30" need the larger hook as well as the extra length of the 60" to manage them.  I now have two of each.   ;D
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: 4x4American on August 11, 2017, 09:52:52 PM
Thats a purdy good idear for the ends, but, I like to have the hole on the end open to use the 60" logrite as a cheater pipe.  Works good when ya need it
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: larrydown60 on August 11, 2017, 10:02:53 PM
Sure is purdy I just wish I had just one LOL I have to wait till next weekend to get one. I have a friend going to Booneville show and he will pick me up one. These logs are heavy and I think I am getting to old to wrestle these logs around by hand.
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: moodnacreek on August 12, 2017, 08:17:54 PM
Can't believe you guys like those fat pipe cant hooks. If you had to use one all day long , all week you would hate them.
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: grouch on August 12, 2017, 09:08:28 PM
Quote from: moodnacreek on August 12, 2017, 08:17:54 PM
Can't believe you guys like those fat pipe cant hooks. If you had to use one all day long , all week you would hate them.

Y'all are new 'round chere, aincha?
:D
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: Magicman on August 12, 2017, 09:12:09 PM
Maybe you can't but I certainly can.  Yup, they are perfectly sized to handle the logs that they are designed for.  The sawmill specials have a smaller handle with a bat knob on the end and are for turning lighter weight logs and cants.  The others have man sized handles with a cushion grip that are far superior to wooden handled hooks and peaveys for turning and adjusting larger and heavier logs.
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: Jeff on August 12, 2017, 09:21:40 PM
Quote from: moodnacreek on August 12, 2017, 08:17:54 PM
Can't believe you guys like those fat pipe cant hooks. If you had to use one all day long , all week you would hate them.

Most of us do or have. Maybe you could get them to build you a junior sized model.
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: POSTON WIDEHEAD on August 12, 2017, 09:51:35 PM
Quote from: Jeff on August 12, 2017, 09:21:40 PM
Quote from: moodnacreek on August 12, 2017, 08:17:54 PM
Can't believe you guys like those fat pipe cant hooks. If you had to use one all day long , all week you would hate them.

Most of us do or have. Maybe you could get them to build you a junior sized model.

;D
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: 4x4American on August 12, 2017, 09:58:43 PM
I use a logrite mill special every day and love it  logrite_cool
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: Cazzhrdwd on August 12, 2017, 10:16:37 PM
Geez MM, you want to sell one? :)
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: grouch on August 12, 2017, 10:39:31 PM
Quote from: Cazzhrdwd on August 12, 2017, 10:16:37 PM
Geez MM, you want to sell one? :)

Please save one of those poor, abused LogRites. Look at that stable of scars! The only one not showing evidence of maltreatment is the new one, and we all know its fate as soon as the rain stops. This man even brags about force-feeding them alcohol and compressed air (https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php/topic,97310.0.html)! I expect to see tearful tv commercials about LogRite rescues any day now. Operators are standing by.

Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: Magicman on August 12, 2017, 10:56:06 PM
There are no wimps allowed in my crowd.  You gotta carry your load or it's out of the kitchen for you.

I have more scars that those hooks will ever see. :-\   :D
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: red on August 13, 2017, 06:24:33 AM
I think you need to build a Stable for your Logrites .
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: dgdrls on August 13, 2017, 06:47:41 AM
I was loading cedar yesterday with the "48" and within 10 seconds
I heard "that is an awesome tool" 

6 days to Boonville, adding to the fleet then :)

D
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: Kbeitz on August 13, 2017, 07:10:25 AM
I still use my grandfathers... It does the job...



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Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: Magicman on August 13, 2017, 07:51:57 AM
That is only because Logrites never make it to the junkyard.   :D
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: paul case on August 13, 2017, 09:17:31 AM
I have a blackened log rite cant hook that will hook them from around the corner.
MM, may you be so fortunate to never have any of yours blackened in the same way as mine.
It may be the only one with such a resume'. No wood handled anything could make it through a barn fire.

PC
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: Magicman on August 13, 2017, 02:46:37 PM
There is a second Blackened Logrite in existence that was blackened in the same fire.


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It is being shown here by it's previous owner, our late member Willie Steele. (wwsjr)


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It is shown here by it's present owner, Marty.  Since Willie bent it, we decided to leave it bent.
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: DaveinNH on August 14, 2017, 04:18:25 PM
I have looked at that first picture several times and still cant decide if its the grin on your face or the proportion of the Logrite to you that makes you look like a little kid in that picture. Either way you look like a very happy kid at Christmas.
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: Magicman on August 14, 2017, 07:41:36 PM
Guilty as charged.  The happy grin is there for sure and the camera angle does make me look like a kid with a new toy even though I am ~10" longer/taller than it is.   logrite_cool 
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: grouch on August 16, 2017, 08:41:42 PM
It's all Magicman's fault. I'm goin' to the poor house 'cuz he can't restrain himself from posting pictures.

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New arrival, today.

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Claw retracted so as not to scare the UPS man, I suppose.

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Gotta feel better to stretch out normal again. Hmm. 3/8-16 grade 5 bolt. Reckon I could hang my tractor from that?

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Now I mean no disrespect to the good folks at LogRite, but I ain't reversing that hook again. It'd end up wrong every other time, for the way I work.

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That's just showin' off.

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Old guy meet new guy.
(Mine's not quite the heirloom that Kbeitz showed. Doubt my grandchildren will do anything with it but hide it).

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Too much socializing and not enough work. I watched 'em for quite a spell and I couldn't tell that they'd moved that log nary a inch in all that time.

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Can you tell which is which? The resemblence is just uncanny.

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Might take me a while to get used to that blue handle. There's just something a little different compared to the wooden one.

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Gonna have to separate those two. Don't want any twisty-handled hookaroons in the stable.

I might have gotten a shy one. I don't like to get rough with the help, but if that log ain't moved soon I'm fixin' to lay on hands. We might both end up scratched and scarred like Magicman's herd, but I aim to learn that new guy what work *is* around here.
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: Magicman on August 16, 2017, 08:47:12 PM
Your life as a Hooker will never be the same.   ::)
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: grouch on August 16, 2017, 08:55:54 PM
Quote from: Magicman on August 16, 2017, 08:47:12 PM
Your life as a Hooker will never be the same.   ::)

And now you're trying to ruin my monitor and keyboard! I was enjoying that sandwich.
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: Magicman on August 16, 2017, 09:18:19 PM
 

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The back of my Logrite T shirt.   ;D
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: 4x4American on August 16, 2017, 10:40:08 PM
You're somethin else Grouch lol lol keep at it :thumbsup:
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: grouch on August 16, 2017, 11:20:14 PM
Hey, I'm innocent. It's that crazy man at the Knothole Sawmill.
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: POSTON WIDEHEAD on August 17, 2017, 03:51:53 AM
Quote from: grouch on August 16, 2017, 11:20:14 PM
Hey, I'm innocent. It's that crazy man at the Knothole Sawmill.

(old saying)
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: WDH on August 17, 2017, 07:33:04 AM
Quote from: 4x4American on August 16, 2017, 10:40:08 PM
You're somethin else Grouch

Must be all that coffee  ;D.
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: grouch on August 17, 2017, 04:50:26 PM
Quote from: WDH on August 17, 2017, 07:33:04 AM

Must be all that coffee  ;D.

Whatareyoutryingtosay? ThatI'mhyper? Addicted? There'snothingwrongwithcoffee! It'safinetradition! IcanquitanytimeIwant. You'rejealous! Whatwasthat? Didyouhearthatmousegnawinginthewall? Iknowthatsucker'sinthere. They'realwaysaftermywires. BRB;coffeegotcold.
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: Farm29 on December 25, 2017, 11:28:04 PM
Finally got me one cant wait to use it never can help to think what's going to happen with the wooden handle ones when it would decide to snap.  Sure is pretty all shiny and new


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Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: Magicman on December 26, 2017, 07:53:49 AM
Contrats!!  For some reason they always seem to want/need a mate.   ;D
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: PC-Urban-Sawyer on December 26, 2017, 11:03:31 AM

Grouch said:

"And now you're trying to ruin my monitor and keyboard! I was enjoying that sandwich."




You think that's bad, I was drinking a full cup of coffee!!!


Herb



Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: DR Buck on December 26, 2017, 11:22:32 AM
Logrite is an addiction.


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Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: Andries on December 26, 2017, 11:39:40 AM
DR_Buck - is that a Logrite catalogue photo?
:D   ;D   :D
Wow, that's an addiction, or maybe all those blue items have forgotten to take "the pill" on a regular basis?
I see arches, an' cant hooks, an' Mega hooks, an' hookaroons, maybe a peavy or two and a trailer . . . but is that a splitter in the background ?
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: Dave Shepard on December 26, 2017, 11:42:33 AM
Firewoodinator. More than a splitter.
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: Andries on December 26, 2017, 12:06:49 PM
Had to run a search on that and found this thread;
https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php/topic,92875.20.html
Thanks Dave.
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: Southside on December 26, 2017, 09:21:15 PM
Are we sure that poor Logrite was old enough to consume alcohol?
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: runmca on December 30, 2017, 10:50:22 AM
courtesy of the FF Christmas contest!  8) This joins my Logrite Junior Arch.

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:new_year:
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: POSTON WIDEHEAD on December 30, 2017, 05:37:05 PM
Poor dog....you stuck it right on the top of this head.  :D

Congrats Runmca!  :)
Title: Re: 'Nother Logrite in the Stable
Post by: Jeff on December 30, 2017, 05:43:45 PM
BAHAHA!! :D