Add a 12"-inch piece of heat shrink tubing over the wire compression fitting on the magnet that extends well over your soldered splice. heat shrink is sold in different shrinkage percentages and wall thickness. Buy maximum shrinkage and wall thickness. if you size the heat shrink tube so the I.D. Just fits over the wire compression fitting on the magnet it will also shrink to the diameter of the taped-up section and to the wire diameter. if you want that bend, have it in that position when you heat it to shrink it. You will have a durable and long-lasting repair. buy it by the foot online.
I remember growing up riding in the log truck with my grandpa. Only loader they had for loading logs was a LS98 linkbelt with a young heel boom and man did that thing scream.. remember that was the only thing that’d wake me up when we got to the landing was hearing that old thing squeak and roar. man I miss riding in that truck and seeing the old equipment.
Right on man, love the ol B cats! They just run damn good. Drove a lowboy truck previously '78 freight shaker with a 15 double-over that the old mechanics had "tuned"...........man that thing would pull. Not put you against the back wall pull, but it just pulled and held power forever in the claterpillar rpm happy range
well then... dang good thing yer in Idaho... I might swing buy and "liberate" some parts lol... like a clean hood, maybe swap loaders with ya... (mines a clapped out grizzly... but it has a marginally longer reach so is that a win?) bet you got a lighter drop axle too lol... Getchew a handful of spare hydro hoses, you will need them, at least enough to replace everything on the stick/grapple and a couple of others, as well as a pile of fittings... they will break, and it will suck when they do.
HEY STUPID..IT'S A DOUBLE RIB BUNK. YOU DIDNT CLEAN THE BARK OUT OF THE BUNKS. IF YOU ARE GOING TO BE " MR.KNOW- IT - ALL"....ATLEAST KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING...YOU DONT
I would let the poney run longer to warm the diesel engine however the starting engine is flat worn out and on borrowed time I believe so I don’t like to run omit any longer than I need to.
@@tttco I would do it like you do even if it weren’t worn out. My old neighbor and friend whom I acquired my 60 and other equipment from would always give the D318 in the Bucyrus 22-B he bought new in 1947 a whiff of ether to start instead of beating the pony to death. As far as I know the pony never had to be rebuilt and was still in good running order when I helped clean out his estate in the late ‘90s. We would never run the pony flat out like many people do. You kind of learn how long to let it crank to where just a whiff of ether will make it take off saving a lot of running on the pony. I know many people will argue against ether but I’m going by what I experienced. He would start the D7 the same way. He never experienced a problem with the use of a little ether and the pony motors on both never needed rebuilding.
I understand keeping the stack no higher than the ROPS so you don’t tear it off in branches. The one on my TD9 is short but the problem is if you are working into a breeze the exhaust comes back under the ROPS making operating quite unpleasant. Ideally maybe find pipe to make it as high as the ROPS and build a guard for it. Just a suggestion. No matter what have fun with it!
My Great Grandfather Dwight Garrett actually was the inventor of this and many other log skidders, as well as many other items for home use. It really is nice that people still use these machines, and still update them and keep them working, That would have made him so happy! It's just what he would have wanted. these machines really were his pride and joy, and the Garrett Enumclaw CO. (The company he founded) was absolutely booming during the time this machine was made. To this day the building where all the parts were stored still stands, And now my family is debating what to do with the old property and parts. when looking through the parts, it's really amazing, whats in there, old parts from the 60's and 70's from German and Swiss companies, and some old motor parts from John Deere, most off them never used and brand new in the box . Ideally, it would be nice if we could find a market for people that need replacement parts to keep these old machines going, but The market seems to be pretty small unfortunately, especially when we have two full semi truck trailers full of parts... But what do you think?
That is so cool!!!! I would set up an eBay/Facebook/ Amazon store. eBay for random people, Facebook to post on logging related sites, and Amazon for the newer generation like myself.
The trailer is definitely starting to look like something and even have a welder, although it might need some attention in order to work for your needs. You will make it happen, I'll bet on that.
I’m sure it will need some tlc. Most everything I buy needs some sort of work to get it functional. Kinda like what you bring home as well haha. I hope you are doing well!!!
Honestly no. I want to get a large set of tanks for my house and a small portable set I can put in the back of my pickup. I do have a small plasma cutter I should be able to run off of the welder outlet.
Pulled in there w the wife about about 2018 to look at it. Wife also concerned about just snooping around, but we are guys, that's what we do Four drum Mustang. They also made a bunch of 3 drum rigs just like this one.
That pin broke because the hook didnt check how the Shackle was suspended after tightline. Shackle got stretched and pin broke. Current riggin slinger for w&z btw
You got a fire fighting rig there. You might consider carrying a couple 100 foot bundles of one inch forestry hose with the inexpensive plastic adjustible fog/straight streem nozzles. If you get into a situation where you need to advance your hose line out away from the trailer, the one inch forestry line is much easier to advance and handle than stretching out and dragging the heavy booster line. Nothing wrong with the booster line, it's just a lot harder to be mobile with and a lot more tiring over time than working with the forestry hose. That is quite a nice unit and is capable of fighting a lot more fire than many might realize. I like it. Also, if you had a tank fill female connection with fire service compatible threads, that trailer would work nicely as a stand alone unit. Forestry or fire service tenders could pump directly to you and keep the tank filled. The inlet should also be valved so you can control situations where a tender might overfill the tank and also to prevent water being lost from you tank back into the tenders line. As a retired fire company officer, my imagination gets wound up a bit when I see the potential of that rig.
I will save everything you suggested in my phone. I’m glad you enjoyed the video. I will be upgrading it in the near future to accept the one inch forestry hose and to tag off another rig. I appreciate your input and in the future will be adding them in. Hopefully I never have to use it 😉😉
Thanks again my friend! I do have a leak at the bottom of the tank I will need to find….. but it’s tiny…. Like a drip every five seconds currently….. I’ll just keep an eye on the water level for now and next spring pull the tank off and patch it 😒… dang metal tanks.
