What are you cutting 2025?

[barbender]

Forwarder tracks have raised cleats on the crossbars. Once those wear off you can barely turn on snow and ice. So you weld new ones on. Why couldn't you just weld cleats on your grousers?

[BargeMonkey]

Ed if I had your money I wouldn't be buying poverty iron 😆. I've been hunting for an 822, 100k+ buys you a 20yr old machine with 20k+ frame hours, and only God knows. Trailer is more of the problem then the buncher, used 50 ton is 40+, half spanked, better off to put the money down and eat the FET. Going to look at an honestly nice shape not all stove up 35 Talbert about 1hr from Staten island when I get back to the yard, be it for me for the year. I had a feeling that machine was the trans gender confused model, called deere today and it's the 13th one built after Deere officially took over, but still has a Jack tag. 

 Leaving Norfolk about to get partially stomped, have 4 passengers on board, I said keep eating guys, the mate and I have money on which one of you gives it back first. Boats going to smell like puke and poor life choices in a few hours. 

[barbender]

You know Barge, my Alger ancestors originally came across from England in the early 1600's. 3 brothers, they were fisherman that set up a fish drying station on an island on the coast of Maine. 

So apparently, they were seafaring men by trade. 

That tendency did not get passed on to me. I have no desire to explore the open sea😊

[Gearbox]

For grouser calks 1 inch grade 60 rebar and 7018 welding rod . I built up grousers with it and it held up quite well

[BargeMonkey]

I guess no one's cutting wood, so your getting boat pictures.

 All 4 passengers got sick, 1x violently, wasn't even rough,  like 6-8' side to.
 Dropped another boat in the water, 3rd shipyard I've done this year. That's 640 metric tons empty weight, to give you some scale.

This boats due to go up about the time I get off, oils slow, bounce around bumping ships the next 6wks.

[customsawyer]

Them guys standing there help put it in scale too. 

[Nebraska]

url=https://forestryforum.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=359679][/url]

Hay....

[Resonator]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVBuLhbY3CY
Found a video of the boat hoist being built. Designed so all of the wheelsets swivel, it can drive sideways or do a 360 in it's own footprint.

[David B]

Gonna haul some logs today and this recent adoption may also someday

It is a KB6F. The F designates the dual rear drivers, which seems rare. 

[Resonator]

Definitely have seen more single axle KB trucks than tandems. I think they were pushing the limits of what they could do with the low horsepower engines and hydraulic brakes of that era, on a highway truck.

[barbender]

Cool truck!

[David B]

Definitely have seen more single axle KB trucks then tandems. I think they were pushing the limits of what they could do with the low horsepower engines and hydraulic brakes of that era on a highway truck.

Rated for 28,000 with 98 hp. 😆

[David B]

[Old Greenhorn]

I've got a bunch of trees, at least 8, that are dead and need to come down. Some are 'technical jobs' but there are more than a few I can do myself with some care. Yesterday I took a RO that had a tricky swing and cut the whole thig up for firewood and it's waiting to be split and stacked. Today was monthly food shopping day so I didn't get at it until about 1pm or so and the weather has been dank and overcast with rain everyday out of the last 3, things are pretty well soaked and I didn't feel like getting all wet splitting wet wood.
 So I have this dead pine on my front lawn I have wanted down for 2 years now, even hung a rope in it 2 years ago, getting ready. I waited and waited until the right person was here to yank on the rope and pull it over while I cut. Never seemed to happen. It's only 14" on the stump, but now it's beginning to degrade and take some bends, so I decided that it has to come down before it falls toward the house.
 I rigged the rope and with a snatch block for re-direct I hooked the Mule up to it. If it went backwards with the lean it could take out the power feed to the house. The rope was just a safety in case needed. So I laid in my cuts and placed wedges to hold it up straight, then cleared out the holding wood. It started to go on its own just fine until the top tip hit a branch in a RO and started toward the house, but the hinge held and would not allow that, so it stopped and hung right there. I ran and jumped in the Mule and gave it a tug and it 'mostly' came back on target and dropped like a rock.



In the photo above you can see a decent tree about 15° to the left of where the top landed, this was the target. So I missed by a little because of the deflection, but I didn't damage my wife's precious ornamental grass on the right side of the stem. Photo shows the rope all cleaned up and the tree limbed out.
 My goal is to 'kind of' do one tree complete each day, but that's not my reality. First, it was a short day, second I have to pick up every little branch and twig (it's the front lawn and folks talk), third it was humid as all get out and even rained a little on me as I worked, forth, some of these trees present challenges to get the logs out and some have a lot of topwood left.. You only needed to have a suggestive thought in your head to break out in a full sweat today. Holy cow, I was soaked to the bone with sweat. When I came in for a dry shirt I checked the local weather stations and it was 100% humidity which I guess explains some of that.
 Anyway, I bucked up 1 25' log, not sure why yet, limbed it all and collected almost all of the branches onto a yard trailer for burning. I'll pull the logs tomorrow, get the rest of the branches, and it there is no more standing water on the lawn, like now, I'll run the mower around. Normally I save a little pine for campfires and give most of it away for the same, or take it down to Bill's for his owb. I may split some of this up and stack it as supplemental wood in the winter and mix it in with the Hardwood.
 So  a little tree, but one I have wanted down for 2 years, so that is something. Just keep moving forward and staying busy. It's better than playing golf, I guess.

[thecfarm]

One less dead pine in the back field. 
I will leave the small limbs and run the bush hog through it when I mow the field.
There is a small dead fir that fell into the field too.
One good size fir too. But I tried to move it with the tractor, and it fell apart. Looks like the bush hog will get that one.