Love the ole timber jacks

@thelankylogger

6 ай бұрын

They are a great machine! Thanks

Wonderful video. Love your honesty. Many others would try to hide this incident, but you are so down to earth. Thanks for sharing. Stay safe

@thelankylogger

3 ай бұрын

This is all parts of working in the woods. You can have all the experience on the world and these things will still happen. Thank you.

I never got to run them as much as I wanted to and the ones I did were not near this new. I started out on my first day not understanding a tiller steering system, heading down the gravel road to save some time of course. Meet one of the trucks coming in so just bumped that tiller to go off to the edge where we could pass easy enough...... I just wish that you could of seen my face as it turned all right. OH YEAH.. I left that road at about fifteen miles an hour and it wasn't cause I was ready or anything.... Nope, they really turn fast when trucking down the road. So I made a cartoon exit stage right, and launched it into about twenty feet of pond water right next to our haul road! Who really knows just how fast I was traveling but guarantied, Ah Captain.... I was a given her all she had/ LOL. Star Trek I think that quote came from. I know that I had to swim to get to shore, get in with the truck driver and go see the boss. He just laughs at me which really hurt my young boy trying to wear mens pants. I had to walk the dozer down, string out my own chokers and then yank it out. I had moments of wishing I was somewhere else by then. I had to walk that TD 25 out of the road and on a part of the side hill to reach out to get it. I did get the skidder out okay and all but my troubles had just really started!!!!!~ Damn can't a man catch a break??? I had parked the biggest and baddest dozer around on not so good of hillside. I had just removed the choker bell loose and seen or watched in disbelief as that muddy clay allowed the dozer to slide back and take a good portion of that muddy sidehill with it. My heart sank as low as one young boy could do. I jumped into the water and got to that dozer and shut it off before it also went out of site. This happened in that grand year of nineteen sixty three and I was just sixteen and hadn't got drafted quite yet. Let me know if ya want to hear that story. Any who, .... I just walked up to the landing as the skidder still needed the water drained out of everything. My boss seen me walking and I guess my face said it all. My boss who turned out to be one of the best friends I have ever had and another story here too as he was later my father in law. We had a old Loraine shovel, ya know with a dipper stick on it. He just circled the crew up and said boys.... "This kid has had one hell of a day!" Glenn, the boss says to one of those guys, take my rig to town and buy a few boxes of beer! WE are going swimming. I walked that old dipper down to my catastrophe and started digging up the road so we could drain the pond. It took almost eight hours to get all of the water low enough and then drain the water out of it so it could start again. So yes, a man can see the bottom of the machine he is operating but when this type of "Ah S**t" happens.... it makes for a long ago memory that ya never forget

@thelankylogger

8 ай бұрын

Yes. You can’t take your eyes off the road for two seconds. The steering is so fast when travelling the road. Thanks

Good to see someone from NS, from shelburne county here!

@thelankylogger

4 ай бұрын

Yes. Thanks!

@fabiancanada8876

4 ай бұрын

Everything started in Shelburne for us! We used to have a property in the woods there on the Roseway River. Had a great time there and people were really nice. You have some nice white pine down that way! We eventually sold the property and moved to Truro. However, we visited the old property last fall with the children and went on a canoe trip on the Roseway River, it was great!

Been there a couple times, maybe more than a couple lol. I hate that feeling when you realize they aren’t going to stop.

@thelankylogger

8 ай бұрын

Just hang on and shut her down as she’s going over. Hahaha

Well that sucks !!!! Be safe , and see you guys soon !!!

@thelankylogger

8 ай бұрын

Yes. See you soon!

John Deere 540A will turn over in level ground two never ran a John Deere never wanted to but I have run a timberjack they're held operate and do it right

Don't know if its true or not,but my uncle ran Tjack and Tree Farmer porters all his life and he said he always kept a grab full of wood ,let it swing from behind ,helped with balance he claimed.As you said,as long as there are no personal injuries, it happens

@thelankylogger

8 ай бұрын

Unfortunately part of the job.

Really missing the Log Dogs in this one :(

@thelankylogger

8 ай бұрын

Soon!

It'll happen every time you disrespect one of those skidders they're dangerous their hard work and they don't play

@thelankylogger

6 ай бұрын

You are correct! Thanks

Wow! I hate when that happens!!

@thelankylogger

8 ай бұрын

Never a good time!

Done it again huh you ever did me like didn't learn nothing the first time

@thelankylogger

6 ай бұрын

That’s logging!

Been there done it a few times

@thelankylogger

7 ай бұрын

Yes. It is part of the job. Haha