Rustic logging… building trails and cable skidding.
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 พ.ย. 2022
- Back in British Columbia giving my father and uncle a hand to build some trails and put wood in the landing for a few days, spent a few hours with the Herman Nelson getting the TD20B up and running…. She was chilly 😁
Hey, do me a favour and hit that subscribe button PLEASE, im Almost half way to Monetization and that means more $$$$ to travel and make these kinda videos!!!
#logging #clark #skidder #chainsaw #td20b #cableskidder #forestry #bucking #falling
My father was a cutter and a skidder operator for Kimberly-Clark. I remember walking in to his little skid shack for a three man crew and having a toasted sandwich on the little wood stove set up they had,the smells of tree sap,fresh cut wood, and sweat.The sound of the timberjack in the distance pulling its next hitch and chainsaw rpm’s screaming.Cherished memories for sure,years passed and I now own two of my own line skidders .Clark 664B and a timberjack 230D I run them on my 45 acre property once and awhile the sounds could be heard across my little town,,takes me back to a time when I was young and men were men…Hats off boys, RESPECT!!!
Much thanks 👍
Stay safe out there 😁
I had similar setup with little shack,C5 tree farmer,my slasher man told me to try toasting my cold salmon sandwiches on my little stove,were they ever good.The sound of a 353 or 453 jimmy in the bush can’t be beat.I logged all the wood and the slasher owner operator did the rest,he also bought all the spruce for his sawmill,the poplar went to LP,and I took the birch home for my firewood business,even had a train car load of poplar peelers for the plywood mill,when I paid the landowner for the wood I took out he said it almost paid for the quarter section .
518 cat cable I had for years loved it back in the day
How I started out
Skiddin was the best job I ever had. I miss those years so bad. Enjoy it while you can.
I'm so awestruck to see this Clark skidder in such good condition. I'm pretty fond of the Clark skidders 664,665,666,667&668- they were all here in Guyana , South America. However, the logs here were not like those firs... that generation of trees are no more! In the dense tropical rainforests we have greenheart, purpleheart, mora, cedar, tauroniro, shibidan...to name a few - they are huge and dense woods. The purplehearts that I saw personally back in the 80s were approximately 5 feet in diameter. It would take two 668 or two Timberjacks 550 to move one log. Obviously,it's rare to find those sizes of trees anymore but coming back to the skidders I would never trade any of the new model skidders for those first generation Clarks and Timberjacks. My father was the mechanic for them. Not everyone could handle a two stroke 6V 53 Series Detroit Diesel engine . He was the chief surgeon for them(sorry to sound immodest but that can be verified!). I saw my father taking the skidders apart and did some precision machining work around the articulation joints where he had machined from scratch the thrust bearings for the joint s. He did it both for a Clark 667, a Timberjack 550 and a Case 770 Skid King. That company he worked for had 6-Timberjack 550s, 1-Tj 550B 2- Clark 666s, 1-667, 1-668, 2-770 Case SK. Anyway, keep it up.
Thanks for sharing, skidding logs are some of my best memories. My dad had a small operation and I grew up in the industry.
Got a lot of hours in one just like that, that had a screaming Detroit in it.
Always loved the skidders for their ultra tough looks and sheer usability.this vid shows them earning their keep,in their tough environments .great film.keep warm!
I drove 664, 666, & 668, in New Zealand back in the 1970s. Great fun keeping those hydraulics up on the mountains, while hauling 5-8 logs around a mountain side, 2 stroke screamers. Loved my time on these little beasties. Thanks for the memories.
Triple 6 Clark was one dam good rig.
The Clark skidder was a powerful and with a set bears paws made a lot of traction
A lot of folks underestimate the pulling power of Clark skidders. I had a 664B and loved it. And they are quite comfortable really 🤗
They were the best in their day
I run a 66 tree farmer c5 up and down the mountain on my channel, I know the feeling well. Good stuff
Good job guys. Keep the videos coming for sure.
I had one and really liked it. My preferred skidder.
Brings back memories from back in the day.... thanks for posting.
I just bought an old 664d with a cummins. Nothing near the skidder as that beast but it suits my needs in Maine.
i think you fellas are having way to much fun ! nice old iron !!!!
Haha yeah we sure are…. They do this full time, I actually take holidays from my regular job to go give them a hand 😁👍
That looks an awful lot like my old 668C.
Really luke the knuckleboom , a good set up, you will make it , wood'er !
Ah, the flashbacks....
In early 80s, I'd launch my tanker at Loring at 0700, hit the chow hall and head to Moosleuk to go fish Moosleuk Stream and Ragged Pond. I always stopped to watch. And in late May when driving through Pinkhams camp at Moosleuk, all the 664s were lined up on one side of the yard and all the 440s on the other side. Like military formations. Those small machines pulled out great big spruce and firs and cedars and the other species and left little footprint. Today's massive forestry equipment are cutting pecker poles that yield one or two 2X4s and where they rut, the ruts are massively deep and wide. Back then, many a man with a 664/440 could make a good living on a 4 day week. Today, forestry can't find enough young men willing to work like these men did. Too many are too fat and too soft with no mechanical skills. And you don't see any coding jobs up here in Aroostook. Thanks for the flashbacks!
Hannington brothers cut out the wytopitlock area , hanesville woods , Bouchard was cleaning up Brownsville, ooh boy the good times had back In the day, I left the northeast in 81 , went to Midwest to cut verneer, I just do residential removal these days , good times in Maine, loved it !
I used to run an operation much like that in my younger days. Now I'm retired, got a short wood skidder, & just mess around cutting a few saw logs.
Nice timber!
Thanks for watching 👍
Would love to have that old Cat!
She’s pretty loud in person with a straight 5” pipe off of the turbo 😁👍
I'm at the age now where I need heat and a/c. Afternoon naps are becoming a favorite.
Been there lol
Nice old Clark! Those were much more enjoyable to operate with a Cummins in them rather than the old screaming Jimmy.. those Jimmy’s were workhorses though!
They just never really quit…. Until they do… then you put in a Cummins 😁
Lol seen that open cab.. get all hot hooking up chokers and get back on the tractor and freeze to death lol
I remember those days.
I loved it. I would do it for free just to do it. I guess yu had to be there.
Dats real loggers no ac or heat just open cab pullin cable an chokers 😊
What a beauty of a skidder?
Been there done that for 30 years
Very cool greetings from Austria 👌😊
Thanks for watching 👍
Man you guys have some tidy well maintained sweet sounding older equipment! Reminds me of my our old timberjack 240E’s we used to run and the D7G
Yeah my dad and uncle keep up on the maintenance and repairs, can’t make money if your always stopping to fix neglect 👍
Wish I had a choker man back then,100+ times up and down the C 5 was a workout,never mind pulling out the mainline,I would back the drag of spruce into a bluff of poplar and it would clean the spruce limbs off pretty good,even better when there was a big pile off spruce limbs to help.
That's awesome running equipment your using there fire sure. I like that winch hauler bulldozer.& Drag 🪵 log drag chains attachments setup for it to. It's A very cool setup no doubt about that one.
Running the good old iron ! The price of fuel for pulling and trucking make it rough though. 😁
One mean machine.
I used to own a 666c, good old skidders, but I don't mis the screaming Jimmy 😁
The 5.9 Cummins is nicer to run in my opinion 👍
Thanks for watching!
Wow I know this is an older video but I like it where was this taken at what state was this in you guys did a very nice job
The video was taken in the Okanagan, That’s southern British Columbia Canada eh 👍
We just go out there and do it.
huh aint no coputahs on them mochines i like it !!!!
There were many winter days I could only dream the 7 wouldn't start.
I don’t mind falling timber in the winter because I stay pretty warm moving around but I’d be happy if I never had to sit in an open cab machine ever again… especially on select jobs where the trees are always dropping snow on you if you touch them
That was fun and your other content looks worth a view (& a subscribe)
Haha thanks for watching 👍😎
Clark 668C ???
I ran 664 I don’t like it no power I ran a 666 I like it much better more power and much more quieter and I ran the 667 and I like it better but the Clark skitter we’re more tipper then the John Deere, but the Clark was a stronger skitter. It was built like a rock.
Wheres the wood haha
Is that a damn Detroit engine? Or some sort of 2 stroke diesel?
Yeah it’s got a 6V53 Detroit in it…. Even with plugs and muffs you are deaf and shaking at the end of the day 🤣
Was this the Clark that was on the fb Clark page with the 6v53 that was swapped into it?
Nope, this is an original 6V53 machine.
@@PuskwaskaOutdoors no kidding, I have a triple 6 Clark with a 453 Detroit in it. What model is that?
@@zackleo47 the machine in the video is a 668, I also used to have a tree farmer with a 3-53…. I’ve not a big Detroit fan personally but they are impressive in both noise and fuel consumption 🤣👍
@@PuskwaskaOutdoors I’ve watched your videos a few times. Im in Maine, I’m guessing your in Canada?
@@zackleo47
You betcha, I’m in northern Alberta, the logging is done with my father in southern British Columbia.
What years the skidder?
Can’t remember off the top of my head…. But I think it’s from the mid 1970’s.
hummmm 6v53 i hear perhaps ????
Yup 😁
I hear a Detroit
Good news, your hearing is perfect 👍
It has a 6V53 under the hood 😁
@@PuskwaskaOutdoors you know how you check the oil on on a Detroit?
@@Joelontugs
Same as a 3406 Cat, if there’s a puddle where you park it’s got lots…. If it’s dry you’d better add a couple jugs 😁🤣
A lot of rpms for a diesel.
It’s a V6 Detroit…. They love to scream
@@PuskwaskaOutdoors Thanks , and love it too . Greats from the Netherlands !
Millions of viewers 👍 I feel like that sometimes too. This is a good video. I'll subscribe to your channel and add one more to your viewers.
Much appreciated 👍
Thank you 😁
Whos on the dozer? And how long has he been logging? Just wondering. I logged for 11 years in washington state in the 90s. Ran dozers and a clark 668 just like that one. In fact i looked to see if it was the same one. Saw in other vidoe jow he said you bought it and fixed it up. The one i ran, i had made some steel square tubing and flat plate stops where the bump pads are for turning , in the center and our steps were some inch and a half steel cable with knobs welded on for climbing up. Heck of a machine but very dangerous. The brakes sucked. You would lose the brakes if you were on a hill going up or down. Ours was a screamer also. Had a big v8 cummins or detroit. I just remember it was a v8 . Nice video love the snow. I loved working in the mountains on days like that. Snow sun chill in the air. But not freezing to death.
That’s my father, lemme see here… he is in his early 70’s, been working the the bush since the late 70’s or early 80’s… so he’s been at er a while…
This 668 I believe came from down at the coast somewhere, there are still some hiding in the woods that pop up here an there in good shape…. Steering stops on this one we’re repaired long ago with some 2” thick solid steel plates, brake system was butchered by deleting the mid brake but also rebuilding the transmission output wet brake, pretty steep where we work so brakes aren’t optional 🤣… haven’t had a failure “yet” but one of my relatives took a backwards ride down a cut block in a 668F that ended his logging career….
@@PuskwaskaOutdoors OK, just wondering. One of the comments one one video mentions someone's just down for the weekend helping uncle or dad get some wood out. And thought its good to see young people working and getting on equipment and learning skills out in the woods building roads and skidding logs.
Nice to be working with family like that also.
I worked in walla Walla Washington area. Blue mountains area. Great job to have. Sorry to hear about the person who was injured. We had a few accidents during the time I worked there. Fallers hurt by trees and a truck driver who lost his life coming down a steep grade and rolled his log truck over the edge after losing his brakes. They say he was too high geared and rode his brakes till they failed. Anyway thanks for responding and stay safe. And need more logging videos. From the comments it looks like there's alot of oldtimers and retired guys who long for the good old days . And enjoy these small reminders of way back when .
@billtmarchi4320
It’s actually me who was visiting them, I have a full time career as a heavy duty mechanic BUT I go visit for a week or two every year and fall trees for them or help patch up their old iron…. It’s about a 14-16hr drive for me to get down to them, I’m way up in Alberta Canada!! And they are in the southern part of British Columbia.
I grew up pulling cable behind cats, cutting cedar shake blocks, selling firewood when things were tight… even had my own logging thing for a while till the market went sour and was forced to give up a way of life for a “career”…. Still kinda mad about it all when I think about it too much…. I miss loggin… but I’ve got other hobbies now that scratch the itch I guess.
Thanks for watching 👍
@@PuskwaskaOutdoors ya that's why I had to move on. Couldn't make a living. It got to where I was or we were layer off b and shut down 6 months a year. Due to different things. Like weather or the market or who was in charge in govt. I quit and moved on to more permanent and guarenteed forms of employment. But can't help but miss the freedom of working outside in the hills and mountains. And the ever changing weather or the terrain or the challenges of the job.
@@John-mp1rr I worked around walla Walla Washington area mostly. J-har logging. In the 1990s to 2001. Loved Washington and really liked the challenges of logging. Logging wasn't mundane or boring doing the something every day. Always something new. And the crazy people you met. It Was quite different from what I grew up in.