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    Gawd help me... We are considering getting a log truck

    Why would someone spend close to 200 grand for a new truck that might make 80 bucks an hour and 30 of that goes into the fuel tank. If you run used equipment then the benefit of smaller payments is offset by extra repair costs. If you want to buy trucks to get your wood moved they need to get...
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    Logging Accidents: And They Walked Away.........

    The seats on these machines need to mounted to the cab with a bottom instead of on the machine deck so the cab doesn't get drug over or through the operator sitting in the seat attached to the machine. Had an 071 that had a log pulled into the cab which pushed the control panel into the...
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    Kenworth Thread for 848--849--850

    Wouldn't it be easier to load the truck with the shovel instead of laying it on its side and pushing the logs into the bunks ?
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    Kenworth Thread for 848--849--850

    This last bunch of pictures are great. Thanks for posting them.
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    Loaders, Limbers and Roadbuilders.

    You could put an excavator boom on a Tigercat L855 and you would have a 300 hp leveling excavator with a ton of swing tourqe
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    S. Madill, Blacksmith, Founded in 1911 in Nanaimo BC

    Maybe they use them because they get them at a good price. I have had 2 trucks with 60 series in them, both bought because they were cheap. Got better fuel mileage than the cats and cummins on the same job and had zero mechanical problems. To the best of my knowledge they are still running fine.
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    British Columbia Forest Products Ltd.

    Can't we all just get along. I get tremendous satisfaction seeing the pictures and learning about the companies and people behind them. No one should use information on this site to profit unless they ask the poster first ie is that machine for sale, could you ask the owner if I could sell it...
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    Thunderbird Yarders, Loaders, and Etc from the Murray's in Eugene Oregon

    An electronic release choker is pretty neat but they will be really slick when they can electronically set themselves.
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    CAT 345 Hydraulics

    If your pilot pressure is to low if will not release the travel brakes and will make all the other functions slow or not work at all. We had a machine with a weak spring in the pilot relief that sounds like similar symptoms. I adjusted the pilot pressure and the problems went away. Most pilot or...
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    Yarder crew wanted

    JR what has happened to your yarder crew ?
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    Thunderbird Yarders, Loaders, and Etc from the Murray's in Eugene Oregon

    Modern machinery sells parts for thunderbirds
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    S. Madill, Blacksmith, Founded in 1911 in Nanaimo BC

    I owned and ran a BE 30B for years with a tag master, how hard is it to learn to run snorkle machine and cast the grapple without having a giant mess of your lines. Do you have a thumb button to run the brake on the crowd drum? Thanks
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    How to blow wood chips from Mobark 6600

    Bandit makes a hydraulic chip blower that goes on a 3800 grinder, you could probably adapt one of those to your morbark
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    4/53 Detroit Question

    Black smoke could be a plugged air filter or other obstruction or the blower is worn.
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    4/53 Detroit Question

    Dello 100 30wt or 40wt , dello 400 passes the rings causes more smoke and drains from the air box, will also slober out of the stack if it idles or has low load for long periods.
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