Official "Yank'" Picture Thread

[tommer9]

That old Deere is doing sterling work. Love the sprung tines on the loader.

[MasterBlaster]

Wow, that sling is looking scarey!

[Shansen]

That old Deere is doing sterling work. Love the sprung tines on the loader.

 

They were free, they were almost the shape I wanted, and they are made from spring steel. They seem to work pretty good. If the wood is small we still have to load the bucket by hand, but on large logs (18") it will grab them. It will also grab brush, which we do occasionally. The down side is that it gives the unit the apperance of being made from junk. Which it kind of was but you just don't want it to look that way. The tractor, the pickup, and the trailer I put together with minimal expense, the bucket and chipper, not so much.

A little history on the tractor. It was my father's and he was looking to get rid of it but the motor was on it's last legs and would probably cost about 3-5K to rebuild. And with a 25 year old rig that was just too much money, so he gave it to me. The motor lasted about a year and a half and I was wondering what I'm going to do now. It sat around for about 6 months and then a mechanic friend of my cousin's said that he had done a CARB replacement on a john deere pump motor for a guy I know and so he had the scrap motor that had been replaced by a govt program to replace older diesel motors with newer ones that have less emissions. They are supposed to destroy the old motors by breaking the block with a sledge hammer but they had neglected to do that and instead gave it to me. I then bought the loader for a thousand and modified it to work on there.

[Shansen]

Here is a dead Maple tree from earlier in the week.

[Stephen Blair]

i want a boom truck, nice one shansen. great pics as usual mate

[BrendonV]

Took down a good sized White Oak this morning. That's a 28" bar on a 460 on the stump.

 

 

Youtube vid of dropping a couple tops.

 

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[Shansen]

Here are a few pictures from some storm jobs we had a while back. The first one I quoted but never got the job. Second one was a Modesto Ash that we took down the next week. The rest of the pictures were at the same house and we took down the split tree and some other stuff also.

[David Humphries]

Great shots, SH

 

Looks like you could almost winch the fierst one back and anchor it down

 

The tripple split on the 4th shot is an impressive failure.

 

What was the storm, looks like a hurricane?

 

 

 

 

Thanks for posting

 

 

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[Shansen]

The storm was actually a reminant of typhoon Melor that hit the Philipines and Japan about a week before. Part of it got up in the jet stream and came all the way across the Pacific Ocean and hammered us. I had no idea they could even do that. The winds were about 30 mph from the south with gusts up to 50 mph and we got 2" of rain. It lasted about 24 hours. We normally get some of these storms in the winter but by then the trees are dormant and it doesn't do much to them.

Edited October 31, 2009 by Shansen
I looked up the name of the typhoon

[scotspine1]

Wow.......seen similar sights here after storms, but never seen the turf looking like a carpet!

 

great pic, thanks for posting.