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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIRohpwMHmI)
Thanks for the video. They were really running them!! lol
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👍
Nothing like beating them off stumps and over logs. :D
Man that made my lower back hurt just watching those guys. Cool old video thanks for posting.
Sure are running them like they got payments to make!
Maybe I missed it. I just skipped through it.
No chains?
Never realized they had an air seat suspension in some of them.
Wow, those guys drove them like they stole them.
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.
And the modern Detroit engines are so powerful, yet easy to maintain... Whaahhhhhhhhhhhh! :D
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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.
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.