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Started by mike_belben, July 23, 2018, 11:44:49 PM

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mike_belben

Thats a tough one.  Youre doing good work, keep at it man. 
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BargeMonkey

My mechanics like your serious.... 🤷‍♂️  lets get the parts, tools, load up the sleds and in we go 😆... that new 800 Assault will take a man right off the bars...



snowstorm

Quote from: BargeMonkey on January 22, 2021, 09:28:22 PM
My mechanics like your serious.... 🤷‍♂️  lets get the parts, tools, load up the sleds and in we go 😆... that new 800 Assault will take a man right off the bars...



800  assualt i have one it is a weapon fairly quick

snowstorm

there is always something to fix. couple weeks back the hydraulic pump in the rottne gave up. found a good used pump. take the old 1 out and the spline is bad on the gear box. out comes the gear box. needs 1 shaft bearings. some of it is coming from sweden. 6.0 ford in 1 of the f550's. low power  then will not start no codes. scaned it low high pressure oil. 250 lbs takes at least 500 to start. changed the standpipes and dummy plugs air tested it. ran a jumper to the ipr valve while air testing. no leaks. left the jumper on spliced that inti the harness. and it started runs like a new one. so did putting 12 v to the ipr free it maybe. normally it only uses a volt or 2 or the new used connector?

chevytaHOE5674

Skid steer started pushing coolant about 100 hours back. Quick tossed a head gasket in and it ran like a top for 100 hours until it started pushing coolant again. So head is at the machine shop getting magnifluxed, pressure tested, rebuilt, etc. Started prepping the block and found a .002 to .003 depression right at the edge of 2 of the liners. This little Yanmar ran like a sewing machine quiet as can be and had great oil pressure. But things just got a whole lot more expensive.





Walnut Beast

How many hrs total are on the motor. You will have a like new machine when you get everything together 👍

mike_belben

Yeah very little glycol is required to destroy oil.   Sucks man. 
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chevytaHOE5674

3200 hours on it now I think. Motor will be brand new when its all done. Rubber bits in the drive hub on the back of the motor is hanging out so that will get replaced. Scooped 50lbs of "debris" out of the belly pan. Before it goes back together ill drag it outside and powerwash the machine out as best I can for the middle of winter.

Not upset about it at all other than the fact I have a few step decks to load with hay that ill have to do with the tractor loader instead (which takes nearly double the time).

BargeMonkey

Not my picture, not my machine, and I wouldnt want to be this guy... @Skeans1  whats a new cab cost for a fancy harvester ? 100 installed ? 🤷‍♂️ 


 

mike_belben

Didnt take any pics but drove 205 miles round trip and sawzalled the snot out of a cab chassis van today to pull a ford 460/C6 for my dumptruck build.
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Walnut Beast

Quote from: mike_belben on January 23, 2021, 10:41:53 PM
Didnt take any pics but drove 205 miles round trip and sawzalled the snot out of a cab chassis van today to pull a ford 460/C6 for my dumptruck build.
Get some pictures next time 👍

Tacotodd

Mike, I'd like to see where you sawsalled  and your logic in choosing those particular points.
Trying harder everyday.

mike_belben

Well its a van so the engine has to come straight out the front, very little room for lifting with carb on.  I sawzalled the nose from top of grill to bottom of bumper between the frame rails.  Cut the floor pretty thoroughly then exhaust.  Unbolted starter/alt/PS pump, jacked it up, took out trans xmember, and rigged up 2x4s under the motor mounts like skis so it could be pulled straight forward.  Then hooked a cable basket to the forks and a choker off the tailhousing to lift it out and onto a pallet.  


 Was there Noon to 5ish taking my time.  I also got side mirrors, driveshafts and carrier, radiator, trans and oil coolers, brake master and booster, ignition module, etc.  He wanted $400, i gave $550 and feel i did pretty dang good.  People want $1000 to $1300 for junkyard 460/c6 lately.  Took a few weeks to find this.
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Haleiwa

Quote from: BargeMonkey on January 23, 2021, 07:54:27 PM
Not my picture, not my machine, and I wouldnt want to be this guy... @Skeans1  whats a new cab cost for a fancy harvester ? 100 installed ? 🤷‍♂️



That one's a little hard to figure out.  Did he cut it with the head not fully gripping the log?  Or did he release the head with the log leaning back towards the machine?  It doesn't take long for a tree to fall the wrong way.  I remember the man who sold me my Valmet asking "Have you dropped a tee onto the cab yet?" soon after I started using it.  The answer was "No, but I did have a few limbs brush the window on the way down".
Socialism is people pretending to work while the government pretends to pay them.  Mike Huckabee

so il logger

Looks like they cut it with chainsaw and was using the harvester to push it. Got the power line too...

:laugh:

mike_belben

Thats a whole new insurance premium class right there yall. 
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Skeans1

Quote from: BargeMonkey on January 23, 2021, 07:54:27 PM
Not my picture, not my machine, and I wouldnt want to be this guy... @Skeans1  whats a new cab cost for a fancy harvester ? 100 installed ? 🤷‍♂️



Cab looks ok but never know and sure wouldn't want to find out either a dangle head doesn't make a great pusher another good reason to look into a shovel.

chevytaHOE5674

Took me 2 trees on the cab before I learned how to push trees with a dangle head. When you have to push against a heavy lean or away from an object (power lines in my case) it was best to have the machine in a straight line with the direction you want to push. Face cut in the front, saw mostly thru the holding wood, feed the head 20' up the tree and then push/drive forward.

One of the last jobs I cut was thinning about 2 miles of trees along a high voltage power line. Made for a lot of jockeying around to push trees away from where they wanted to go.

BargeMonkey

 I honestly didn't have the amount of Timbco seat time I should have when I bid that job down to the dam yrs ago, part of it was cutting along the road, high voltage stuff on the other side, they would shut the road off for a couple trees at a time and wouldn't let me cut during school bus hours. I made it happen 😆 I did join the big blue flash club the job prior to that, actually was working along the road and the one neighbor stops, ask if i was an employee for the "firewood king", 😆 i explained i was not... about 4hrs later i go to jack a LARGE HM, now i know better, screaming NO NO NO in the cab like a little girl as I smoke the power to this neighbors house and like 6 others 🤷‍♂️ right about dinner time....

barbender

😂😂😂 The slow agony of watching a tree go the wrong way😬 I dropped one on the harvester cab once, a tall slender spruce. I wasn't paying close attention, but when I cut the tree and pulled the butt away from the stump I could feel it coming back (this was after dark) typically just feed the butt into the ground and then push the stem away from yourself. I went to do that, I hadn't realized that my chain had hit something and cut crooked, making the bar hang up extended out. On Ponsse harvesters, if your bar isn't "home", the feed rollers won't move (to keep you from mangling your bar) well in this case it kept me from getting that butt into the ground on time, so I got a big BAM! on top of the cab😬 Thankfully it wasn't anywhere near the size of that cab flattener oak.
Too many irons in the fire

dustintheblood

Quote from: BargeMonkey on January 22, 2021, 09:28:22 PM
My mechanics like your serious.... 🤷‍♂️  lets get the parts, tools, load up the sleds and in we go 😆... that new 800 Assault will take a man right off the bars...



Never ever did I ever imagine I could wheelie a sled...
Till I did.
And did again and again and again
I'm hooked.  Too much crazy stupid fun, but I mean --- come on!!! They are begging to be stood up
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dustintheblood

Quote from: BargeMonkey on January 25, 2021, 10:02:26 PM
I honestly didn't have the amount of Timbco seat time I should have when I bid that job down to the dam yrs ago, part of it was cutting along the road, high voltage stuff on the other side, they would shut the road off for a couple trees at a time and wouldn't let me cut during school bus hours. I made it happen 😆 I did join the big blue flash club the job prior to that, actually was working along the road and the one neighbor stops, ask if i was an employee for the "firewood king", 😆 i explained i was not... about 4hrs later i go to jack a LARGE HM, now i know better, screaming NO NO NO in the cab like a little girl as I smoke the power to this neighbors house and like 6 others 🤷‍♂️ right about dinner time....
Sorry man, but that's dang funny
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mike_belben

You shoulda walked over and told him you were just kidding.  Take the family out to the sizzler on firewood king's tab tonight!



My first climbing job was of necessity.. I had a row of 50 to 70ft pines in a 10ft wide alley between fence and my garage.  They were on a hill that was washing away and completely rootbare and i was broke. I stripped the middle into a spar and rigged the others down off it then took it down but there was one left in the corner out of reach id have to do conventionally.


  I didnt trust the tree as its own rigging.  I was about maybe 40 feet up and decided to let it fly.. My aim was pretty remarkable thus far.  we were roping and wedging the top to go right but it wanted left and a gust helped it.  It lifted, broke hinge and corkscrewed counterclockwise, still vertical on the stem about to step into the harness and crush me.  I dive right and it shoots straight down where i was onto the garage.  


No sparks but i was a little red in the cheeks. 
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snowmountain

Hi Guys,

Long time lurker here.  I enjoy reading and appreciate all the information you all share. Thanks.  We have a old dairy farm and large woodlot in Western Mass.  Past few years tearing down the old buildings (all too far gone) so we can start new.  Will be logging some maple and cherry to use in building the house.

I have a 1960 JD 440 dozer with a hydraulic winch I use in the woods.  Not fast at all but it does get the job done if your patient.  The below pics are more of a "did something stupid" than a carnage thing.  They were actually taken about 10 years ago when cleaning up after a flood.  You know how it goes...just another couple passes and I'll stop...well that did not work out.  Probably a cord of split wood was lost getting the dozer out.  Jack blade, lift dozer, push cordwood under, walk tracks to pull under...repeat, repeat, repeat.  Had about 5 lengths of chain to a come along and a distant tree. Eventually it came out without having to get another machine on site. Thought you all might enjoy my stupidity:)

Jack Hayden



 


 

 


 

mike_belben

Welcome aboard Jack.  Recovering western masshole here.



Ive got a reluctant mini pond in my yard from the dozer finding the wet spot too.  And i planted a cord or so one time for the forklift after it played divining rod one day.  Never gets old.


All in good fun right?  You know you done good when the fluid is all tilted to one side and you cant move anymore! 

;D
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