the 'todays job' thread

[IronMike]

https://youtu.be/zMmTjlNfsCE

Edited May 12, 2020 by IronMike

[spuddog0507]

On 04/05/2020 at 18:01, swinny said:

Do you not think nostalgia plays a part with these older tractors though.... Surely there's some good better (newer) tractors out there that will.make life easier on site etc.

 

Should we be afraid of all these electrics and fancy transmissions? (I say yes but I await to hear what you.lot say lol )

I think Countys say it all about forestry tractors, used from the early 60s and still used widely today, Why well the first ones to be used widely where the Major based super 4 and super 6, then they moved on to the ford 5000 based units and continuing the super 4 and super 6 models then as things progressed the tractors got better power and better cabs, probably the 3 models used most in forestry where the 1124 1164 and the 1174, Ok there is no creature comforts in em but they have a lot going for them, first of all the major based ones where built on a back end that was like a lot of things of that era very drastically over engineered, after all nearly all the tractor pulling lads use major back ends putting 1000s of hp through em, then came the 5000 based units, some with a 4 pot engine like the 774 and 974 but the 6 pot engined 1164 and 1174 where by far the better forestry tractor, circa 120hp Ok its not massive hp but its how that hp is distributed to get the traction down, only driven a 1174 and it was a very impressive machine we moved 1000s of tonnes of shit with one towing a 20 tonne dump trailer, Ok it was not a tractor to drive many miles on the road but very impressive off road, so why County,s simple, reliable, well built,very robust, good reliable old school gearbox, good to work on and best of all no complicated electrics to go wrong, One guy i know had a 1164 that he bought in 1975 ran it with a igland double drum winch on it and then later fitted a cab mounted crane, this tractor worked in forestry from 1975 - 2014 and hardly let him down, fitted 2 new front hubs when one colapsed and apart from 2 hydraulic pumps,3 starter motors and a altinator, that was it and as he said it would all ways start even when it was covered in a foot of snow, since he sold it he has tried to buy it back every other week but to no avail,

[Mick Dempsey]

5 hours ago, spuddog0507 said:

I think Countys say it all about forestry tractors, used from the early 60s and still used widely today, Why well the first ones to be used widely where the Major based super 4 and super 6, then they moved on to the ford 5000 based units and continuing the super 4 and super 6 models then as things progressed the tractors got better power and better cabs, probably the 3 models used most in forestry where the 1124 1164 and the 1174, Ok there is no creature comforts in em but they have a lot going for them, first of all the major based ones where built on a back end that was like a lot of things of that era very drastically over engineered, after all nearly all the tractor pulling lads use major back ends putting 1000s of hp through em, then came the 5000 based units, some with a 4 pot engine like the 774 and 974 but the 6 pot engined 1164 and 1174 where by far the better forestry tractor, circa 120hp Ok its not massive hp but its how that hp is distributed to get the traction down, only driven a 1174 and it was a very impressive machine we moved 1000s of tonnes of shit with one towing a 20 tonne dump trailer, Ok it was not a tractor to drive many miles on the road but very impressive off road, so why County,s simple, reliable, well built,very robust, good reliable old school gearbox, good to work on and best of all no complicated electrics to go wrong, One guy i know had a 1164 that he bought in 1975 ran it with a igland double drum winch on it and then later fitted a cab mounted crane, this tractor worked in forestry from 1975 - 2014 and hardly let him down, fitted 2 new front hubs when one colapsed and apart from 2 hydraulic pumps,3 starter motors and a altinator, that was it and as he said it would all ways start even when it was covered in a foot of snow, since he sold it he has tried to buy it back every other week but to no avail,

Not that I know anything about tractors, but I love the bit about the guy constantly trying to buy his tractor back.

[arboriculturist]

11 hours ago, bigtreedon said:

Drltreecare.co.uk my new website done buy the boss

That has got to be one of the easiest Website to navigate and points of contact spot on - All credit to Steve !

[Rough Hewn]

Drltreecare.co.uk my new website done buy the boss [emoji4]

Pretty effing slick Don!
Steve that's a cracking job mate.
The write ups superb too.
Hat off gentlemen [emoji106][emoji106][emoji106][emoji106][emoji106]

[Rough Hewn]

Go on Steve, pm me a price for a site like that[emoji106]

[arboriculturist]

46 minutes ago, Rough Hewn said:

Go on Steve, pm me a price for a site like that

I suspect Steve will be getting a lot of PM's after people view that site - Tree Surgeons - all that is needed is a straightforward site just like that - the layperson is not interested in the finer points of the art. Remember, statistically, the attention span is circa 3 seconds when someone lands on a site / post / etc. 

[spuddog0507]

4 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Not that I know anything about tractors, but I love the bit about the guy constantly trying to buy his tractor back.

Reason why he keeps trying to buy it back Mick, is the tractor they replaced it with was a Valtra not new at the time about 3 yr old, it lost drive one day dragging some big Oak and Beech stems up out of a river bottom, the engineer who came out to it said it was a workshop job, John had to go and borrow his old county back to drag the Valtra up to the top of the hill ready to load on a wagon, John who now late 60s swore by his 1164 and when he got the invoice for repair to valtra it was circa 8k and he said the County 1164 including purchase cost and repairs over near 40 yrs had not cost him that much, still a very sore point with John this and all he ever says is all that money for a fucking radio, heater and a bit of glass in cab,

[bigtreedon]

Few pics of a storm damaged oak we did

[Mick Dempsey]

Getting it done Don.

 

Pissed down all day here, so refitted the rebalanced flywheel shaft to the Forst, hopefully it’ll stop shaking itself to death every week.

 

Proper work tomorrow.