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Skidders- Tracks ot Tires, Lines or Grapples- Lets see what you've got!
- Thread starter Contract Logger
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RonG
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That must be an old machine,looks like she is dripping a little.LOL.Thanks for the great pictures.Ron G
Cool pictures for sure, If I pulled up to a farmers place around here with that first picture with the big grapple skidder they would eather fall over with a heart attack or run for a shot gun to run me off. When it drys up here I will have to take some pictures of my equipment and e-mail them to one of you guys to post. Not the newest machines but there all paid for 
Iron Art
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Drifter, If you have any more pictures of that Tigercat 630D from other angles I would like to see them. Presently I'm working on drawings to build a 1/16 scale model set up for swamp logging and need a couple more pics. Thanks, Fred
Sorry thats the only picture I have. The tigercats were up against John Deere's in a demo and they contractor ended up buying the 848H's. If I remember I will stop in Wajax's yard in Edmonton next time I am there, might be awhile though.
Iron Art
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Drifter, Thanks, in the mean time I'll keep up the quest. Fred
tree farmer
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tree farmer
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Garrett 30A with Esco 215 swinger
This 1969 machine was a Weyco R&D machine. Had a hitch added for a trailer and weighed about 25000 lbs. Very slow hydralics, because someone had placed a filter/screen (since removed)between oil tank and the pump causing cavitation and a starved pump. The first picture shows the wider 28.1x26 tires on the rear of the machine which we filled with fluid. It's power source is a english built 180 hp 504 cummins. Garretts had machinery drivelines and ujoints which allowed for sharper/tighter hinge steering. The drawback was a weak drive train, you could break a driveline on "demand" with tree length wood. With the 23.1x26 tires, the machine was only 9 feet wide. You could select thin big wood in tight places if you could stay upright. Used it for a dozen years first pic 1989, other pictures 1982.
It also had a gearmatic 19 who's line came out of a fairlead mounted in the main boom. You can see it above the hitch in the first and last picture. Took the winch off because we never used it, being a mdl. 19 therefore it rarely would work. Much better vision without it. The Gearmatic 190 was a kick-ass winch, we had three of them. One on a Cat 528 and two on CanCar C7s.
This 1969 machine was a Weyco R&D machine. Had a hitch added for a trailer and weighed about 25000 lbs. Very slow hydralics, because someone had placed a filter/screen (since removed)between oil tank and the pump causing cavitation and a starved pump. The first picture shows the wider 28.1x26 tires on the rear of the machine which we filled with fluid. It's power source is a english built 180 hp 504 cummins. Garretts had machinery drivelines and ujoints which allowed for sharper/tighter hinge steering. The drawback was a weak drive train, you could break a driveline on "demand" with tree length wood. With the 23.1x26 tires, the machine was only 9 feet wide. You could select thin big wood in tight places if you could stay upright. Used it for a dozen years first pic 1989, other pictures 1982.
It also had a gearmatic 19 who's line came out of a fairlead mounted in the main boom. You can see it above the hitch in the first and last picture. Took the winch off because we never used it, being a mdl. 19 therefore it rarely would work. Much better vision without it. The Gearmatic 190 was a kick-ass winch, we had three of them. One on a Cat 528 and two on CanCar C7s.
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tree farmer
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The wider tires and greater weight on the back end made for a lower center of gravity, therefore I kept all four wheels on the ground a greater percentage of the time.
loggers son
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been waiting for this one, I grew up with clark 668b & 668c line skidders, but what with families being what they are i don't have any photos,if any one has some to post here it would be greatly appreciated.
cheers trev
cheers trev
tree farmer
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Welcome to the forum. Have not seen a 668 line machine in years. There is a 668 with a Esco 215 swinger nearby though. It like the Garrett 30A from above was a Weyco machine from the early 70's. I will track it down and post some pictures. What I would like to see are some pictures of a Clark 880 old growth/Redwood log skidder. It contained the drivetrain of a Michigan 475 front end loader, powered by an 8V-71 jimmy. I have heard of at least 3 machines, one in N. California and the others in Maine. In the Maine they added additional cooling for the torque converter and PS transmission so they could scarify hardwood timberland for replanting. The additional cooling radiator was mounted above the winch on the back unit.
2004F550
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here you go tree farmer ---- a one off " Garrett Timber Cruiser" built before the skidders I think, all I know for sure time wise,is that is my dad on the machine,and he quit Garrett by 1962,to go into business for himself. 
isx525
isx525
tree farmer
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Sweet! Like most early skidders it lacked ground clearance and needed way bigger tires for flotation. The wheel steer axle joints would have been a serious weakness. If you take this axle wheel steer concept and make it hydrostatic drive then combine it with hinge steering, you would have the premise of a 1997 Morgan SX-70 log skidder. The Morgan senses wheel steering angles and modulates wheel speeds to reduce soil disturbance while turning.
Contract Logger
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Garrett Timber Cruiser today
I havent had much time to look at the HEF lately as I have been doing alot of traveling as I always do in the winter. I just sat down today in Juneau and looked at the new posts and WOW there's the 'Timber Cruiser'.
I rescued this thing from a scrapper 2 years ago when a contractor brought a barge load of building materials and a concrete batch plant into a small Native Village on an island about 75 air miles West of Petersburg Alaska. It had been abandoned in the Village along with a couple of Euclid trucks and an LS-98TL which I also got but havent moved.
They shipped out a bunch of cannery equipment and car bodies as a backhaul to Seattle for the barge and this thing was going to get cut up and go on that barge.
If you guys want this thing to resore we can land it in Seattle for about $7,000.00 pretty easily. I'll have to have a project barge pick it up and move it to Ketchikan where it can catch a mainline barge to Seattle. The whole thing is easy, just expensive.
Let me know- you can have her.
Here are some pics I just took in late September 2010.
It needs alot of work, neither engine is running.
I havent had much time to look at the HEF lately as I have been doing alot of traveling as I always do in the winter. I just sat down today in Juneau and looked at the new posts and WOW there's the 'Timber Cruiser'.
I rescued this thing from a scrapper 2 years ago when a contractor brought a barge load of building materials and a concrete batch plant into a small Native Village on an island about 75 air miles West of Petersburg Alaska. It had been abandoned in the Village along with a couple of Euclid trucks and an LS-98TL which I also got but havent moved.
They shipped out a bunch of cannery equipment and car bodies as a backhaul to Seattle for the barge and this thing was going to get cut up and go on that barge.
If you guys want this thing to resore we can land it in Seattle for about $7,000.00 pretty easily. I'll have to have a project barge pick it up and move it to Ketchikan where it can catch a mainline barge to Seattle. The whole thing is easy, just expensive.
Let me know- you can have her.
Here are some pics I just took in late September 2010.
It needs alot of work, neither engine is running.
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