Rolled the forwarder

[Frickman]

Yesterday I rolled my forwarder. Well, just layed it on it's side. Everything's OK, my buddy came by this evening and we used my skidder to put it back on it's feet. I could have done it myself, but he wanted to see it in person. I've made that particular turn on a kind of side slope a hundred times, the hundred and first time it bit me. It slopes into the hill, so I never worried about it much. Now I'll have some dozer work to do. 

I'm letting all the oil settle overnight and will go try to start it in the morning.

[Jeff]

Richard, did ya ever get that digital camera? ;D

[Frickman]

No Jeff, no digital camera yet. I had one of those throw away cameras in the pickup, I didn't get it out though.

Got it started and down off the mountain, now it's back to work Monday. I didn't even scratch the paint worse than it was.

[Bicboro]

Heres a pic of my forwarder flipped.  I was out changing a hose on my harvester when I heard too many logs hit the ground.  I knew exactly what that sound was.  I hopped up on a stump to see Josh raging mad.  All I could do was laugh.  It was his first time.  Luckily on these new TimberJacks, only the bunk goes. The cab stayed up.  It was a nice thing to learn, you know what I mean?  It took my 1270d and a D6 dozer to flip the bunk back over. 

[Dave Shepard]

I guess you have to have a sense of humor in the logging business. :D Maybe the next generation will have a self righting mechanism. : Tell your guy that it's the best time to grease it. ;)


Dave

[Frickman]

I'm glad this thread was brought back up. The job I have my forwarder on is about wrapped up, so the machine is for sale. I want an Iron Mule or something similar that is smaller. Send me a message if you're interested.