"The Timberjack Breakthrough"

[C5C Tree Farmer]

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.
The Timberjack Breakthrough - YouTube

[Hogdaddy]

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

[barbender]

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]

Nothing like beating them off stumps and over logs.   :D

[newoodguy78]

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

[logman81]

Sure are running them like they got payments to make!

[thecfarm]

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

[Southside]

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

[B.C.C. Lapp]

Wow, those guys drove them like they stole them.

[C5C Tree Farmer]

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]

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

[barbender]

😂😂😂

[B.C.C. Lapp]

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]

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.