"Just roll with it" even if it includes two recovery wreckers to make it possible. Happy Thanksgiving to you and the kiddos John!! Glad no one was injured during the fiasco!!
"Worst day logging ever"... Hey man, all your people went home alive with all their body parts. There's an awful lot of loggers out there who's worst day didn't end nearly as well. It sucks that your equipment got damaged but congratulations on having a pretty good worst day. Thanks for posting this. You help people out too by showing good decision making. First impulse "I can fix this" - deeper thought and consideration says, "I should probably get some expert help". Again, kudos.
Bummer John...😕 So glad nobody was hurt! This day and job will always be remembered...Alot of damage on the Old Girl for just a quick look over. I am assuming there will be more unseen issues. Keep the chin up and enjoy your Thanksgiving!
It worked out in the end,glad you went with the wrecker guys ,hope the slasher can be fixed quickly ,from the items you mentioned almost all seemed to be fixable with new parts and some hydraulic jacks,except your counter weight that seems to be the most difficult to replace.
that will buff right out. glad everyone was ok, thought maybe something was up, in the last video caught a brief second of a wrecker going by. that was a good job of recovery.
I like your videos but it’s tough to hit the like button on this one. Glad no one was hurt and steel can be repaired or replaced. Happy thanksgiving. 🇺🇸
Sorry you're having a such a tough past few days. Makes for good youtube content though! Hopefully yall will get things in order and next week will roll on without issue.
You are not having much luck on those 2 job are you, I wouldn't buy a Lotto ticket at the moment the way your lucks going, the main thing is no one was injured and we all learn from these thing, stay safe John and crew and have a great Thanksgiving with your families come back refreshed and ready to do battle.
She must have been carrying some speed when she went in. That's a lot of bent metal. Good call for the wreckers, they have a lot of positions to pick from.
Glad everyone is ok. Maybe a little ego/ pride is damaged but with some minor ok maybe major adjustments it'll be rollin in no time. Just need the BFH John.
Glad no one was hurt I remember a video not to long ago you were in the barco wile the skidder was towing you imagine if you were in it that would have been a bad day happy Thanksgiving
I am glad no one got hurt. But I bet that operator had to dig some seat cushion out of his hind parts when he got home. What a ride! I hope you get another machine, by the time you put the money in that one you will find it would have been cheaper to find one ready to go. And you will still have an old loader/ slasher.
Dam buddy, Thank goodness you weren't ridding in it when it happened. And Thank goodness Nobody else got hurt. Maybe she will have to just get retired. Take care and good luck!!😀😀 Your friend Al.
The 2 skidders was a good idea BUT that's EXACTLY what rotators are made for. Nobody was seriously hurt and metal can be bent back. Just cover the turbo exhaust and it might be a good thing to think about running an air line so you could use the brakes on the carrier. Pump it up off the grinder compressor so you could put a little drag on the down hill grades. Might work. Just go get GOOMER HUGGED and remember how yall are BLESSED tomorrow. GBWYall from Us Tarheels! And Bobby Goodson has a NEW one!
Them old barkos. Were top heavy for sure. I remember back in 90 's. Pulling. Stumpjumpers just down normal roads. Behind the road horse. And damm think would make nervous it would rock and tip all over the place. Never mind on icy hill towing with grapple. That. Sucks.
@m9 ovich True and maybe not. I've got a pal in Tenn. that has a 70 ton that re-rails cars. They're amazing. I thought one might be because of where the loader was with a compound lift but maybe not.
Ow John, Even though, da ole Barko, "took er in da shorts" alittle bit, she survived, to slash another day. A. Hope U and your family have a nice Thanksgiving.
a little bit of oil makes a big mess. I saw some bent parts but no leaking motor oil or coolant. Exhaust stack. Cast Iron is cantankerous to weld even if the parts got found in the ditch. But thats a good excuse to look in the cold iron pile to see if there is a spare in the back row . Good thing you chose to video going the other direction. might have been a short bumpy ride a different kind of leaking fluids in the cab
Time to call the insurance company and make a claim. That is a whole lot of twisted metal. I am sure it could be repaired, but this may be the time to think replacement. Best Wishes
You will resurrect that, it’s all steel. We crashed a tractor once. Was a very high hour tractor but it landed on it roof smashed it completely. Cab was hard got and expensive. And the tractor didn’t deserve it. We just straightened it with pulling chains and stuck glass back into it
Oh boy, now I see why you said you had to tell yourself to just keep rolling.... that’s one heck of a way to just keep rolling! Haha! But no, seriously. Glad nobody got hurt and y’all recovered it ok. She might be a little worse for wear, but nobody got hurt.
I’ve never flipped one but the last job I had my equipment on I was riding in a 240b tigercat across an amateur built pipe crossing. It had a curve to it and my ex skidded man who was also the one who built it dragged me across it and almost threw me into the river. I had one tire still on the bridge which is what kept me from going in. Then when I pulled out of the same job it almost turned the machine and my Mack truck over. That’s when we fired that guy.
The best part of that deal was luckily nobody was killed or badly hurt . Those guys on the wreckers were real good to get that out. That frames going to take some real work to twist back, you've got to go way past straight the opposite way to even get it to sit right. Then kind of de stress it so it don't gradually creep back, or just start again building a new frame. With the issues she's had recently and now this major accident, I'd be thinking Insurance if it's covered and bye bye . They might write it off depending how much it would cost to fix it right for an old machine anyway. It's not funny this happening, but Jewish lightening came up last week to get rid of it, maybe the lord does work in mysterious ways after all. Maybe Mike could get the phone number from Wade where he got the feller buncher from, that was a nice looking machine he drove past in the yard on the way to look at his . Thanks for the video hopefully you and the crew stay safe the rest of the week, after this.
I would call for some chains. A set of double diamonds would have worked wonders on those skidders. No sliding, come right out of the ditch, pulled the chipper with just one. Expensive but maybe less than an upset crane.
That machine that's mounted on the trailer is inherently unstable !.... Not surprised that it went off the road.... 90% of the weight is behind the centre line of the bogie. Who built that thing like that !??
