What makes me like Andrew is the guy has numerous $50,000-$100,000 rigs but he drives a truck that’s beat up worse than my WORK truck. He’s doing exactly what us good ole boys would do if we had any money at all. Very envious of him that’s for sure. I bet it makes all those 12 hour editing sessions worth it. He’s that guy everybody out in the country talks about that drives an old beat up truck and wears overalls that has an incredible amount of money 😂
Andrew, it's easy to make a two stick control by using a couple of small u-joints and rerouting some of the hydraulic lines. And putting the clam open and close on a foot peddle. Then the sticks act like your excavator controls.
Yup. I'd use quality parts for it tho. Rerouted controls are only as good as the feel they get and sometimes people skimp on parts aaand it absolutely sucks as a result. Steering components from the most popular (local) vehicle will work for this application on account of being quality (by way of having to be quality under law since steering components) and cheap because they're for a popular vehicle, hence common and abundant since everyone stocks said parts.
Multiple levers is no big deal at all. After just a little while it becomes second nature. Then you stop thinking about what lever to use and just do it. I say, do not convert it. If you want to change it into two cross pattern levers and one more make sure what functions you can use at the same time. Sometimes oil can flow in the wrong direction under load. A bigger problem might be the slow speed.
Well, given we are currently in a deep freeze and covered in snow here in the north east which covers Andrew’s corner of the world my guess would be this was summer ‘22.
Once he runs those controls for a while it’ll get a whole lot faster. He is just used to running joystick equipment. Placement of the machine for loading and unloading will make it easier also. It’s all just experience with that piece of equipment.
A 5 stick prentice was my most favorite machine I loaded logs with. Not everyone can do it and damn fewer can do it smooth….highest compliment I got was from a truck driver that said I was one of the ‘damn few’😂 keep at it! You will get the hang of it
Except knowing AC, he's had this video chillin on the SD card for 1.5 years or so, & the right time for him to edit masterfully as he does his way, & out to us 😊🤣👍
@@proven6270 haha right? Who knows. I think since Sam is in it, this is summer 2022,however. @cerebralailment has some much more timely released vids that give clues to actual Timeline. Pretty cool.
That's like a skidder and used in place of a skidder. It's used to get timber out of the brush to the landing where it's transferred to a log truck. They are designed for a 1000 foot trips. They are extremely productive
@@jasonh4167 pretty much but most skidders can't haul the same load. Faller bunches down the trees and piles them then this thing loads up runs it to the landing and is unloaded by the loader on the landing it's faster and the loader operator sorts the logs then loads the log trucks usually hiway trucks
Captain Slogger oooh i just noticed something, you can now use the grabber to break the beading on any of your difficult tyres when you need to change and work on punctures - good idea
Andrew, I nominate you for a full professorship at the school of hard knocks. Your work ethics is outstanding and your persistence is exemplary. We all enjoy when you “Camarata” a challenging project. Stay safe, millions appreciate you.
Andrew i love your videos i like the fact that you show us the whole video from the beginning of the job to the end of the job long videos are the best Guy San Diego
Andrew must have a treasure trove of videos to choose from. We go from current winter Montana snowmobiling trip to older new machine purchase in the summer (Sam videoing). Love this channel.
I ran across this video just now today and thought that I had missed it a long time ago, and this was hard for me to believe. Then as you worked with it, it appeared to be cumbersome to operate. Slow driving and confusing with the sticks operating the back boom. Then you got out and you handled the logs with the small excavator instead. What a difference.
Well done Marty, my older brother is just like you , he enjoys old Equipment and restoring them. Right now he's restoring old gardener tractors, he's has a slue of them. Enjoy your videos.
Around here they use big tractors conected to 4 wheel drive logging trailers with a similar crane on, that way they have the power and weight of a big tractor and the speed to move the load. Valtra tractors being one of the most popular choices. Some have the crane mounted on the tractor so they can load/unload trucks so makes them dual purpose.
Not my favorite video…then I realize how arrogant that position is (to always expect greatness). So in retrospect, thank you for being real (not protecting idealists like me from legitimate tries that were not automatic winners) and allowing us to see that sometimes it is better to try new stuff so that ….now you know [that one] wasn’t better than the tools you already have.
The truck looks awesome on my new 10'x25' projector screen. I was standing in the Dining room when you swung the boom around and said " There goes the bar". The clarity in this video is remarkable !
wow...love that machine, does not look like it has many hours on it...i have a forestry company here in nova scotia canada and every time I watch your videos it reminds me of the countryside here...good work, always look forward to the next video
Love the drone shots with separate audio- adds a really cool perspective I don't see anyone else doing Have you thought of fabricating a trailer with log bunks to move logs around? That would be a very interesting welding project
I drive forwarders (mainly John Deere nowdays) for a living and must say that technology has advanced looong ways since these things were brand spanking new.😀
I don’t blame you Andrew…. I instantly thought that thing was terribly slow. It’s probably nice when you don’t have roads and you are deep in the woods but even loading it seems slow too. But they do have their purpose when you can’t have extra equipment in the woods to load it. Good call on using the LMTV or even your haul truck.
You are a natural Andrew. Your videos are informative, visually appealing and dare I say entertaining. Hollywood has it all wrong. Be a STORY teller. Nothing more. Nothing less. And so may I suggest if this excavating and heavy machinery gig should fail (I know, not likely), filmmaking can easily be your next venture. EVERY you tuber can take your videos as examples of how they should make video. If they did, I would once and for all kill my cable TV sub. Thank you Andrew, for giving so much of yourself.
Must have been spring/early summer. Sam with long hair. Nice to see her back in a video. Need to practice with the claw machine at the arcade. AC toys for the win!
If you check those fuel filters on that for water in the fuel filters.& Then add in some of that sta bil fuel treatment stabilizer for diesel engines you might be surprised after running it for A little while. I'd work on fixing that over heating issues first thing though before trying that also Andrew. It has fuel injector cleaner in it to along with it blocks out.& Controls the moisture from getting inside of your fuel tanks from the outside air pressure.& Temperatures to like in the extremely cold weather to.
Glad i saw this. I was thinking of getting a used forwarder/loader but i got a log trailer with loader to attach to any fast tractor. Its a lot larger and difficult to move in tight areas but in comparison it is a lot faster at loading. If a wheel loader could pull a trailer i'd just use that.
Suggestion 4 ya Andrew. Maybe make a hydraulic slid out axle rack on the back. That extends out 6 or 8 feet for those longer logs this would also help spread the load. Since the wheel base is so close together.👀 Plus a bigger radiator wouldn't hurt.🤔👍👍
Yep Andrew, that's a proud old JD. A real beauty. But I believe it might belong in the category of a couple proud old machines I've purchased over the years. Those are the ones my wife says, as she's walking away, "You can leave the keys in it. Nobody's going to steal it." That said, have fun in your old JD and your videos are fabulous!!!!
Designed for short trips with BIG logs to reduce loading and unloading time I would think. Thanks for the aerial shots so nice to see all the green again.
I’d love to own an old log truck with grapple loader. There’s a ton of them around me for sale that aren’t really “road worthy” but they’d be great yard trucks around a big property like yours.
@@AndrewCamarata I’ve gotta move my 40’ shipping container on my property in a few days. I looked back to a few of your older videos to see how you’ve best moved them around. I had called a few places they all quoted me $1500-1800 to drag the thing 500ft. I can rent a D3 dozer for $425 a day I couldn’t believe those prices. Looks like I’ll be renting the dozer for a day. Thanks for all the videos!
I understand the learning curve with this one for sure. We have a grapple truck at work that I'm trying to learn on in my spare time and it's going to take a little doing haha
Those machines are pretty awesome i've seen them on another channel. They are very slow especially on a mountain that you have. I have seen them be used in a small residential area after the trees have been cut and they have smaller logs and not working on mountains
As soon as I saw the shot of the forwarder coming up the hill with the 2 dogs laying down watching & waiting I thought that's the sort of framing Sam used to do.......!!!
Kinda surprised you bought that JD TimberJack - usually these are the machines you use when you don't have great roads, can't get excavators in/out quickly enough but they load slower than an excavator, they drive slower than a dump truck and can't dump the load (you have to pick off the bundles) but you need them when you need them in certain situations. They are not great at any one thing, but they can do it all - just painfully slowly. They have their place I guess. Curious to see how much you use this Andrew. Especially since you have all that other equipment and have multiple excavators so they could hypothetically work on both ends (load point and unload point). Either way, have fun with it. That's what toys are for !!!! Love your videos - keep them coming !!!!
ye hell probably sell it soon if not already done, if then not loosing much money, and with some experiences richer, and fun and video etc i think i made my point
@@iffykidmn8170 This unit is actually a Timberjack/John Deere C50 ..... the green paint/yellow stripe, Deere logo and C50 designation indicate that quite clearly. Either way - It's really not important to the point I made anyways.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@ezm6153 Could very well be but it looks an awful lot like the Tree Farmer I ran back in the 80/90s , AC even refers to it as being the same in the description.🤔
Looks like a waste of money on this one Andrew. So sorry you and Sam didn’t work out. You’re a great guy and a very hard worker. Just need to sell some of that old equipment and get a few in better shape. Great job Andrew!
Andrew I have been watching guys since September operate a very similar piece of equipment picking up hurricane debris, down here in Florida. It doesn't look easy. But I promise you will get faster.
@@Bulldog532 An extended log bunk does not make it a forwarder, I ran one of these back in the mid 80s early 90s as well as Franklin, Iron Mule and Timberjack.
Привет Андрей, смотрю тебя на протяжении пол года,у нас тут тревоги и ракетные обстрелы, а твои видео поднимают настроение, я сам водитель буса ,и технику люблю разную, какие вы там молодцы, что-то строите, ломаете ,пилите , хочется поработать, но то тут с этой войной ни работы ни жизни нет, желаю удачи .
@@KVD_1 я в 2009-2010 поработал у вас на севере Когалым, Пурпе на самосвале, и что,в конце кинули на деньги, так что скажу словами ПУ.....😂 КТО ОБЪЗЫВАЕТСЯ, ТОТ ТАК И НАЗЫВАЕТСЯ. ТАК ЧТО РАБОТАТЬ ,ЭТО НЕ ВОРОВАТЬ , В ОТЛИЧИИ ОТ ВАШЕЙ КОМПАШКИ.
I’ve been a subscriber for years and I love when I hit the comments my boy Andrew is still commenting back with people I’ll never forget the concrete apron video I said that ain’t holding up he comments said he will do a update video in a year and he did concrete wasn’t broken I’ve watched every video since
