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S. Madill, Blacksmith, Founded in 1911 in Nanaimo BC
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furpo
Senior Member
I wondered if you guys had brought 12440. I had a look over it before it went down to Gizzy. Needless to say Im jelious
SPMiller
Senior Member
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prolog nz
Well-Known Member
Yeah doug must have only owned it for about a year and a half I guess? He spent abit of money tidying it up in Rotorua before it went down the coast and has spent about the last 6 months parked up down gizzy so it hasnt done much since duncan owned it.
Gotta love it though just so simple to access everything compared to the 23.
prolog nz
Well-Known Member
Yeah its not a bad horse aye roger not many options around when it comes to buying a 124 at the moment the only other used one around that I new of was 12423 but justin from JDC bought that machine
GYOP124
New Member
I currently run a madill 124 have been for a few years but this particular yarder is having shifting issues in the transmission it wants to drop into second on it,s own and nobody can figure out why was wondering if anybodyelse is having the same problem ?
furpo
Senior Member
Under what conditions is it shifting down? Is this just a random thing or is it repeatable?
GYOP124
New Member
Generally the problem is random.Sitting at an idle it will shift back and forth on it,s own but downhill yarding conditions depending on the situation it will shift down when there is plenty of rpm for it to go into 4th and always when the grapple is going back out empty. Not all the time it,s been intermittent .Other than that it,s been a great machine prefer it over the 123.
Sigurd
Well-Known Member
Some more pics
I would be glad if somone has any info about these machines like make and spec.
Sigurd
I would be glad if somone has any info about these machines like make and spec.
Sigurd
LOGDODGER
Member
Try replacing the change down switch on the left joystick, ours done it a while back and it was just a dodgy switch!!
075
Senior Member
Looks like a Sparmatic with VIEW (Vancouver Iron Engineering Winches)Winch.
furpo
Senior Member
In addition to checking the switch and wiring have a look and see if the shift ram is working properly. It may have a leak. Might also pay to check that the controller does not shift it back to 2nd when it incounters a fault. The operators manual might have something in the troubleshooting section about that.
Sigurd
Well-Known Member
075
Senior Member
Sorry no. The one I worked on was a slackline and had a Gearmatic 3 speed torque in it, and would break an 11/8 choker with ease in low gear
Sigurd
Well-Known Member
hi dheheh
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furpo
Senior Member
bushman1
Active Member
torkelH i think it was you who wanted to know about arcata/simpson 044. the one simpson had in 1989 auction was sold to somebody in idaho.got there and the roads wer'nt wide enough dont know what happened after that. arcata bought theirs from weyco in coosbay it ran a few years in klamath and sold to a rock outfit (Mc something)in hamilton montana at the time the rock outfit had a couple of washingtons.also simpson pre 1989 ran 2 divisions in CA. i remember 044 belonging to southern division logging in 1979? also very old forest industries article when they got first one.