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Recent content by Skeans1

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    Sooooo... How's everyone's quarantine going?

    Ever try a 50/50 mix of acetone and ATF as a penetrating oil? Might do the trick there.
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    Doosan DX140 LC vs Deere 330C LC

    Are these stumps in rows?
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    Doosan DX140 LC vs Deere 330C LC

    Why not it’s great free nitrogen back into your pasture, have you considered something narrow enough to go between the rows of stumps like a nursery does or an orchard shredder?
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    Sooooo... How's everyone's quarantine going?

    Can you put in the quotes 10 percent interest charged per 1000 if not paid in full at 30 days?
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    Vancouver Island, BC. Logging at its Best!

    Or B those area maybe left for buffers or carbon credits.
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    Loaders, Limbers and Roadbuilders.

    @John Shipp Did you look into the Neuson brand? https://www.neuson-forest.at/index.php?id=4&L=1
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    Loaders, Limbers and Roadbuilders.

    A squirt boom is the piece that slides in and out as an extension boom allowing for more reach. This video has a pretty good view of one as a foot/extension.
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    Loaders, Limbers and Roadbuilders.

    Yes, I’ve seen some videos and pictures of the pin on squirts you have available over there with foot as well. This squirt is a long one but an idea. Just out of curiosity are you required to use the calipers with your keto over there?
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    Loaders, Limbers and Roadbuilders.

    We use to see the small thinning excavator conversions with a foot on them here on the west cost it wasn’t any wider then the back bone of the head.
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    Advantages of popular older equipment

    They also had all the stuff from Blount/Fabtek for CTL equipment as well as the track skidder which it looks like aren’t in the sale.
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    Advantages of popular older equipment

    Cat forestry equipment isn’t the same as the dirt stuff for parts take the early Track Skidders or even some of the wheel ones not to mention the brands they bought out to relabel good luck getting parts for the stuff.
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    Kobelco SK230-5 weight? Would a 25T tag handle it?

    They do? We’ve had a few with almost 20k shovel logging that might say different.
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    S. Madill, Blacksmith, Founded in 1911 in Nanaimo BC

    John this was stated after the session was over, what stopped it was one party walking out of the house. Also in that Metro the tri county area there’s still a ton of logging still going we were in Washington county up off 26 when all of this took place and if it had we no longer would of been...
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    S. Madill, Blacksmith, Founded in 1911 in Nanaimo BC

    Our lovely governor and legislative bodies here in Oregon
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    S. Madill, Blacksmith, Founded in 1911 in Nanaimo BC

    They said it will happen next session or nothing else will get done so we’ll have to see.
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