Daily carnage thread

[Dave Shepard]

My splitter is feeling the effects of running off of my backhoe hydraulics. Break it, weld it better, try a bigger chunk of wood.  :D I don't know what the relief on the splitter is, but the Kubota is putting out 3100.

[JB Griffin]

I think you have a low tire Dave. ;D

[mike_belben]

 Nah thats just a slow leak. 

[Dave Shepard]

I'm going to take those off. Then I can get the beam right on the ground for the big chunks. 

[GRANITEstateMP]

Dave,

I think it's just flat on the bottom, you should be good!

[sawguy21]

These pictures remind of my days on ground support for helilogging. Those guys could break a steel ball with a rubber hammer.

[moodnacreek]

Wait till it gets below zero.

[gaproperty]

This promises to be a good thread😁 I usually don't tear too much stuff up, but when I screw up it's usually pretty bad. A few weeks back, I backed my loaded forwarder into the front of a truck that was loading on the landing (worst part was, he was parked exactly where I told him to load) I was just barely creeping when I hit him, in fact I never even felt it. Pushed him back about 3'. He had just started loading, if he would've had more wood on it probably would've totally wiped his truck out. As it was, it didn't look too bad, but it all adds up- Ali-arc bumper, A/C condenser, radiator, air to air cooler, grill and hood. $10K or so👎👎👎 I'll have my head hanging quite low for some time. No, I did not think taking pictures at the time would be appropriate 😑

The only people who don't make mistakes are the people who don't do anything.  

[barbender]

Thank you, gaproperty. As it turns out, insurance covered it so it least it didn't come straight out of the boss' pocket. I need to get a back up camera on my machine, not long after the incedent you just quoted, I had an elderly landowner (I later learned he has fused vertebrae in his neck, so he can't look up or to the sides) drive right up behind me when I was unloading on the landing. I started backing up to go to another pile, and I happened to remember the processor operator telling me that this landowner had a tendency to get in the way. So I decided to turn a bit to see behind myself, there was a Suburban about 5' behind me!! If I wouldn't have seen him, I would have drove right over the top of him before I felt it. It was a very bad move on his part to drive right into the blind spot of the machine, when I wasn't even aware he was out there, especially in light of the fact he could barely back up a vehicle because of his medical condition. I mustered my best stern tone (it's not really my way, especually with an elder that you are working for) and told him under no circumstances could he come that close to the machine. He was very sorry, and I felt bad for jumping his case but I'd rather do that than run him over!

[snowstorm]

one of this weeks projects. rear springs 2564 ih truck. i did one side by myself. it can be done but it aint fun. the other side i had a little help. when you burn those 1" u bolts off its like a cannon going off..........bang

[maple flats]

And I thought I had it bad having to change the 3 hoses to one track drive motor on my excavator (one, pressure each direction and one pressure equalizer or vent). Tight to work but nothing like what you guys are dealing with.

[mike_belben]

Theyre even louder with a die grinder, did tons of em at the JY.  


Toss an empty whip cream can in a bonfire sometime if you wanna hear a sonic boom.  Just beware it can blow the logs right out.  The kinda bang where your head ducks at the same time as your feet jump and you become a little hovering ball of 'holy chit what was that' for a second or two. 

[kiko]

TC 726 Articulation joint carnage

 

 

[mike_belben]

Dang.  

[barbender]

Unbelievable! Them Georgia boys know how to trash a machine, I've seen it before!😂 I wish I had pictures of when that Ponsse forwarder Deck used to own, had the frame/center section give up the ghost in dramatic fashion!!

[mike_belben]

Thats called extracting maximum value!

[kiko]

I might be have to post the repair in the daily Fab thread. Here is one my helper took, his lens is not scratched.  


I have a frame of a TC 718 , I plan to cut those forks loose and weld them into this one.

[Puffergas]

Still more run left in that pin.    ;D

[GRANITEstateMP]

Hey Bub, you hear that noise??

[Dave Shepard]

Hard to believe someone could tolerate running a machine like that. 

A local scrap yard had a couple of Trojan 2000 loaders worn pretty bad there. But not that bad. They had a guy come in and weld them up and line bore them. $750 each. I think that was a good deal.

[Gearbox]

They come apart easy when there wore like that .  That was planed right

[barbender]

Kiko, that Ponsse processor you used t service is up here cutting away still. Pushing 30K hours, Jake just called me the other day and thought the engine had finally given up the ghost. He was ready to put a new engine in, and didn't even feel bad about it. Well, it turns out it was just a bad ECM, it just got delivered back to the woods this afternoon to go cut some more😁 

[mike_belben]

Thats a lotta bd feet!  I found the buyers for half a dozen cut up cat 235[A] excavators and 966 wheel loaders from the 70s.  19k hours is the highest meter i ever saw.  Granted a few prob croaked before the machines.


Was there ever a skidder with any form of suspension at either end?  I cant help but think an unspring chassis has no choice but to hammer the center pin and axle cradle pivots. 

[Logger RK]

When I bought my TF C7D,the guy I bought it from said he'd changed the cradle pins. He used soft steel for the pins. Grease holes got plugged & after a few months it took it apart & they looked like the one there's a picture of. 

[kiko]

Barbender, those kind of hours are rare as hens teeth down here, A random knucle boom not operating a delimber I have seen that high.  I think the summer temps shorten engine life.  Extreme heat always blows the engines on the edge of failure. 
Mike, not that it matters but this is a buncher.  I have never seen a skidder with any kind of suspention .  I doubt it would take more than a day or two to rip that out from under a skidder.