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    Serial number guide?

    Thanks. I knew it was early 90's, but didn't know which year.
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    Serial number guide?

    Case dozer. 550. # JAK0014120
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    Logging Equipment- Dead at Mt. St. Helens!

    Haven't checked in for a while. Looked at all the pics again, but didn't read most of the comments. Tears flowed again. Read some of my own comments, and thought I would say here that my brother Paul who I mentioned here, is no longer with us. Another old growth logger and man among men has gone...
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    How do you do Road maintenance ?

    I wish someone would teach the bozos on the blades around here how to shape up a road. I grew up on logging roads in the PNW where a blade hand would be ran off if he did a lousy job without showing that he was learning. Here we tolerate amateur work and pay good money for it on Borough roads.
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    Looking at used Case & JD dozers

    Ran the 550 long track today. Machine is really clean. Under carriage looks new. Still have the JD 450C to look at over the weekend, and now have 2 more 550 Case dozers to look at. 1 in Anchorage, a 96, and a 91 in Palmer. Both around 3000 hours and good under carriages according to the sellers...
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    Looking at used Case & JD dozers

    I've tested and looked at several already, from a 1966 350 on up. I have determined that I need to stay away from the dry clutches. Ran a 450B Case yesterday and nearly ran it through the guys hanger cause the brakes were dead. Looked at a JD 450C that had problems with the winch brake not...
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    Because of this site

    I would have been the one hooking your trailer onto the shovel so I could latch to your truck. Probably threw some wrappers too. I chased on the landing most of the time, and ran yarder. I was the 'good looking' one. Haha.
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    Alaskan Logging Equipment, Left to Rust

    I used old iron for a playground when I was a kid in the logging camp. My Dad had a 2 axle dump truck behind the house, on the south side. I would sit in that thing and read books when it was chilly outside. The sun shining in the windows warmed it up nice. I would do my reading in the passenger...
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    chainsaw thread

    Hahaha. Picked up a near new Husqvarna 3120 today. It's an older one with the screw on filter cover. Hardly used. It's gonna rape some logs. Also did a little work to a Stihl 050 I bought a few weeks ago. Yup, runs like a top. Oh, and I got a Stihl 041 Super. Had to do a little work to it too...
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    Alaskan Logging Equipment, Left to Rust

    If the environmentalist found themselves short of toilet paper, they would put a gun to your head and tell you to start cutting trees down.
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    chainsaw thread

    I ran the 372XP a week ago. It screamed through the wood. I haven't run the 575XP yet, other than just firing it up. I am looking to get a full wrap handle for it. I have quite a few saws in this displacement range, mostly Stihls. Been using the MS460 for most of my firewood cutting.
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    Some Loggers Names

    J.D worked for my Dad in the late 60's. I think he was a Faller.
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    chainsaw thread

    I recently bought 2 Husqvarna chainsaws. A 372XP with a 28" bar, and almost like new. Used for one job. Also picked up a 575XP yesterday at a pawn shop. 32" bar, and also looks nearly new. I looked up the specs on these saws. Looks like they are both currently being produced. The displacement is...
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    Alaskan Logging Equipment, Left to Rust

    My Dad ran a spar tree and sled donkey until he bought a Tillman tower in 1967. Tallest spar we rigged was 235' to where we hung the mainline block. Al Smith from Taholah was our tree topper. Got it on home movies. Broke that spar several times on that setting. Was under 100' when we finished...
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    Alaskan Logging Equipment, Left to Rust

    I'm thanking you now, Brother.
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