Author Topic: "The Timberjack Breakthrough" (Read 919 times)

C5C Tree Farmer · « **on:** February 01, 2023, 08:16:51 PM »

If you recognize numbers like 404, 330, and 225 you will probably enjoy this 1970 Timberjack promotional film. A guaranteed DEF, ECM, and BMP free presentation.

Hogdaddy · « **Reply #1 on:** February 01, 2023, 09:01:24 PM »

Thanks for the video. They were really running them!!

barbender · « **Reply #2 on:** February 01, 2023, 09:52:13 PM »

I can't believe guys could hammer all day like that, but I could also never understand how the axle housing on cable skidders would get all cracked up. Makes more sense now😊 Cool video👍

OH_Varmntr · « **Reply #3 on:** February 01, 2023, 11:56:06 PM »

Nothing like beating them off stumps and over logs.

newoodguy78 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 02, 2023, 08:05:47 AM »

Man that made my lower back hurt just watching those guys. Cool old video thanks for posting.

logman81 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 02, 2023, 07:10:04 PM »

Sure are running them like they got payments to make!

thecfarm · « **Reply #6 on:** February 02, 2023, 08:29:47 PM »

Maybe I missed it. I just skipped through it.
No chains?

Southside · « **Reply #7 on:** February 02, 2023, 08:31:48 PM »

Never realized they had an air seat suspension in some of them.

B.C.C. Lapp · « **Reply #8 on:** February 02, 2023, 08:51:32 PM »

Wow, those guys drove them like they stole them.

C5C Tree Farmer · « **Reply #9 on:** February 02, 2023, 10:29:29 PM »

No such thing as an hourly rate back then...all pay was based on production volume. If money was borrowed against the machine it was a tough row to hoe.

Resonator · « **Reply #10 on:** February 03, 2023, 08:45:58 AM »

And the modern Detroit engines are so powerful, yet easy to maintain... Whaahhhhhhhhhhhh!

barbender · « **Reply #11 on:** February 03, 2023, 08:50:29 AM »

😂😂😂

B.C.C. Lapp · « **Reply #12 on:** February 03, 2023, 09:00:04 AM »

Quote from: C5C Tree Farmer on February 02, 2023, 10:29:29 PM

No such thing as an hourly rate back then...all pay was based on production volume. If money was borrowed against the machine it was a tough row to hoe.

Yup no such thing here now either. So for many of us not much has changed. Facts is quite a few of us here make our living by production volume on machines from the 70ies and 80ies and some even older. I've never owned a skidder that was built after 1980. Once a machine is past 15 or so years old it aint how old it is that's important. Its how it was treated and maintained.

KWH · « **Reply #13 on:** February 03, 2023, 10:33:22 AM »

The skidder abuse was pain full enough to watch, But I wouldn`t even want to cut those logs with a my chainsaw never mined putting them on my mill.

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