The forestry and logging pictures thread

[JimBear]

lotta machinery sunk in alberta muskeg
some get left there
was only witness to one - 235, sunk up to seat n goin down more everytime it tryed to move
somethin like that, done once motor gets in it

2 8s n winch truck were not nuff to pull it out

Nothing like burying $250k in the ground for future generations to find…

 

[rocketnorton]

it's n. of ft mckay, ab
piles of dead ev's in "salvage" yards will be easier for them to find

 

[NWWrench]

Happy Monday fellas.

 

[K Mueller]

Some photos my old man sent me. He has a bunch of stuff from the 80s and 90s I’d like to covert to digital at some point.

 

[HYPERSAWS]

That's awesome great picture's

 

[HYPERSAWS]

Last week I came across this little fawn in my strip.
Mama deer got her after I left. I saw the fawn today with her up on the top of the strip

 

[Funky sawman]

Last week I came across this little fawn in my strip.
Mama deer got her after I left. I saw the fawn today with her up on the top of the strip View attachment 381156View attachment 381157View attachment 381158

Nice layout, I bet the hookers fight over who skids you're strip!!!

 

[ajschainsaws]

Ford County highland bear

 

[ajschainsaws]

Muskeg on fire duty around 1980

 

[ajschainsaws]

 

[Maintenance Chief]

Muskeg on fire duty around 1980

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I want!

 

[ajschainsaws]

I want!

Yes handy machine made in Canada

 

[HYPERSAWS]

Nice layout, I bet the hookers fight over who skids you're strip!!!

Sometimes I get to set chokers in my strip I fell I really enjoy that

 

[Funky sawman]

Sometimes I get to set chokers in my strip I fell I really enjoy that

Best way to learn felling for a yarder is set chokers for your strip!!

 

[ajschainsaws]

The 1st processor used over here 1985

and the komatsu forwarder being used where those Cats and droit’s where ploughing many moons ago

 

[ajschainsaws]

1980 MF 1200 converted

V8 Dodge 1969

 

[SOS Ridgerider]

Ford County highland bear
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Those Ford County’s were popular for logging back home too.
The County was a British conversion of the regular Ford tractors, to have 4 equal size wheels, wasn’t it?

 

[ajschainsaws]

Those Ford County’s were popular for logging back home too.
The County was a British conversion of the regular Ford tractors, to have 4 equal size wheels, wasn’t it?

yes it was they also done a few conversions for international harvester as well
they had the trademark twin propshafts to the front wheel assist so when the diff lock was pushed down
the front wheels both locked like the back wheels
it was a dream for us kids too see these huge tractors doing there stuff

 

[SOS Ridgerider]

yes it was they also done a few conversions for international harvester as well
they had the trademark twin propshafts to the front wheel assist so when the diff lock was pushed down
the front wheels both locked like the back wheels
it was a dream for us kids too see these huge tractors doing there stuff

Very cool. I didn’t know that. Thanks Andrew!

 

[ajschainsaws]

Very cool. I didn’t know that. Thanks Andrew!

pleasure Sondre , they went through a decade or so when nobody wanted them in the forest they became dinasours
With t(e new harvesters and forwarders but now everyone wants them
heres a 1474 county based on the Ford 9700 chassis which sold a couple of years ago

Used County 1474 sells for £196,000 in ‘spectacular’ auction - Farmers Weekly

A second-hand 1983 County 1474 tractor with an estimated sale price of £60,000-£70,000 has sold for £196,000 at a major farm auction in Essex. More than

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