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We Bought A Unit At Storage Auction Toolbox Leads To Storage Nightmare & Bustin' Open Sentry Safe
12 units were up for auction that day. I passed on 11 of them. A toolbox suckers me into bidding on one of them. It turns out to be a total bust. We do end up finding a locked sentry safe. I bust it open at the end of the video. Spoiler Alert.... Really nothing of value inside.
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Solar Eclipse 2024 From Montgomery, Vermont
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This is just a quick vid of the solar eclipse from a hilltop in Montgomery Vermont. The video quality really isn't too good. I debated on even posting it at all. Gopro camera's are not good for this sort of filming. Plus I didn't have the right lense for the job. The old speedglass welding helmet just didn't cut it.
Skidder Moving Day, First Look At The New Logging Job
Просмотров 3,7 тыс.7 месяцев назад
Moving The Skidder to the new job.
Road Trip To Millinocket Maine, The Golden Road, And Great Northern Paper
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In this video I make a trip to Millinocket Maine to pick up some stuff I bought at an auction. I visit the "ruins" of the once mighty Great Northern Paper. Also I drive the 96 miles of the Golden Road from Millinocket to the Canada border. I shot the drive on the Golden Road in time lapse. Its the last portion of the video. Mostly all you can see is trees.... Who would have thought... A road th...
The Auction Strikes Back, Pettibone Telehandler A Bad Buy? Broken Log Loader & Seneca Falls Lathe
Просмотров 2,7 тыс.8 месяцев назад
I think I made a bad buy at the auction. Removing broken flywheel bolts from crankshaft of John Deere 6414T in the old hood log loader. A few rants and some photos of a pine tree sitting on the flattened cab of my old freightliner. And last but not least an antique lathe finds its way into the back of my truck.
A Trip To Tunbridge World Fair 2023 An Old Tyme Fair In Tunbridge, Vermont
Просмотров 27310 месяцев назад
In this video we visit the tunbridge fair on a nice sunny day in September 2023. Some footage of various exhibits and the antique tractor pulls.
Goodbye My Friend... Wolfie The Great Goes To The Rainbow Bridge .. We Sure Do Miss Him
Просмотров 56511 месяцев назад
A Tribute To Our Wolfie. The Greatest Alaskan Malamute that has ever lived. June 2011 - May 2, 2023.
The Poor Man's Firewood Processor, Cutting, Splitting, & Loading With An Old Logsplitter & Conveyor
Просмотров 1,3 тыс.11 месяцев назад
I put the old American Logsplitter that I rebuilt in the last video to the test splitting my winters wood.
Can I Get More Speed Out Of This 1980's American WoodSplitter, Hopping Up An Old Logsplitter
Просмотров 96111 месяцев назад
Time is money, and money makes the world go 'round. Im doing a total rebuild on this old tired American logsplitter from the '80's. Trying to speed up the cycle time so I can get more production. Ran into all kinds of problems along the way. Went over buget and it took way longer than it should have. But I got it done.
7-12-23 One Day Later -- The Aftermath
Просмотров 235Год назад
In this video we go back to some of the places that were flooded yesterday. Also we check out a covered bridge I was unable to get to yesterday. Still can't get to the wrong way bridge because of continued flooding...
Can't Get There From Here -- Flooding In Northern Vermont
Просмотров 250Год назад
It rained for 2 days straight. So I go for a tour around my local area here in Northern Vermont to check out a few brooks and rivers. Had to take the long way around due to a number of road closures. We had some flooding but nowhere near as bad as our neighbors in Southern Vermont.
Torching & Welding Rusty Lift Gate On International Box Truck -- Going On An Auction Run
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Bought a bunch of crapola on an online auction... Story of my life... Anyway Now I have to fix the liftgate on my box truck before I have to head out. Torching, Hammering, and Welding... Some of my favorite things!
I Finally Get The Bridge Panels Up The Trail -- John Deere Skidder Pulling Bridge Mats Uphill
Просмотров 6 тыс.Год назад
The bridge panels finally make it up to the bridge.
Old Smokey International Paystar 5000 Hydraulic Hose Repair & Moving Wood Around The Landing
Просмотров 1,7 тыс.Год назад
In this video I fix the hydraulic hose I blew on the last video. Hopefully I fix it so it won't happen again (That hose Anyway). Other hoses look like they have seen better days. Some more moving wood around the landing...
Mud Season Begins -- Building Waterbars With Skidder And Old Smokey Hydraulic Hose Fail
Просмотров 17 тыс.Год назад
I put in some waterbars to stop the water from running down the skid road. Then use Old Smokey to move red pine logs on the landing. Progress grinds to a halt when Old Smokey blows a hydraulic hose. Removing the hose turns into quite a project.
Changing The Harmonic Balancer On 2013 Jeep Wrangler -- A Ford Diesel Truck Guy Working On A Jeep...
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Changing The Harmonic Balancer On 2013 Jeep Wrangler A Ford Diesel Truck Guy Working On A Jeep...
John Deere Skidder, Cutting Hardwood, Snapped The Cable & Hammerlock Fail -- Logging At Its Finest
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John Deere Skidder, Cutting Hardwood, Snapped The Cable & Hammerlock Fail Logging At Its Finest
This Tree Might Be The Biggest Pine I Have Ever Cut -- Winter Logging
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This Tree Might Be The Biggest Pine I Have Ever Cut Winter Logging
Finding Chaga On A Yellow Birch, Changing The Oil On The Skidder And Walk Around -- Logging Misc
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Finding Chaga On A Yellow Birch, Changing The Oil On The Skidder And Walk Around Logging Misc
Old Smokey 1977 International Paystar 5000 Moving Logs Around The Landing
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Old Smokey 1977 International Paystar 5000 Moving Logs Around The Landing
John Deere Skidder VS Gigantic Maple Tree & Broken Chain Fail -- Winter Logging At Its Finest
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John Deere Skidder VS Gigantic Maple Tree & Broken Chain Fail Winter Logging At Its Finest
Winter Logging Burning Daylight And Diesel, 2-6-2023 Is In The Books
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Winter Logging Burning Daylight And Diesel, 2-6-2023 Is In The Books
Alaskan Malamute, Precious, Out For A Sunday Stroll
Просмотров 98Год назад
Alaskan Malamute, Precious, Out For A Sunday Stroll
Planing Hard Maple Boards On An Old 24 Inch Square Head Planer
Просмотров 220Год назад
Planing Hard Maple Boards On An Old 24 Inch Square Head Planer
Disturbing The Peace, Big Ash Tree Going Down
Просмотров 359Год назад
Disturbing The Peace, Big Ash Tree Going Down
I used to watch American loggers the Peliters they used to drive those roads
That was a great show. I miss it.
My Dad hauled wood most of my life on the Golden road now my Grandson is a Raft Guide on the same river you're following The Penobscot
Should have found a local to take a ride with you up the Golden rd 😊 coulda got all kinds of info..back history and cool stuff people here are pretty good and we love our area
I am hoping to make it back up there this fall. I’d like to check out some of the roads that branch off of the golden Road. Plus id like to see more logging. The guy that used to run my skidder grew up there. Some of his family still live there. He would tell me stories about logging up there staying in logging camps. Stacking 4 ft wood along the river then the scaler from Great Northern would come scale the piles and they would push them into the river when the Ice went out. I sure would have liked to see all the pulp floating down river….
Hey, I collect older money. I'll trade for the 2 $5s. I have some really interesting antiques I can trade.
We spent the 1 from the 80’s and sold the other one for $10. I will keep you in mind if I come across any more old bills in my travels. 👍👍
Dah Savot .
What is that accent?
Im in Vermont
@@TimberKing thanks. Sounded like a combination Massachusetts and Maine.
In the early 1950s I worked for Whiting Corporation in Harvey, Illinois. Whiting was (and still is) a heavy industrial equipment manufacturer. In those days, we built large bridge cranes, electric arc furnaces, rail yard handling and moving equipment, and paper pulp washing machines. I remember working on one being built for the Great Northern Paper Company, East Millinocket Maine. I remember that particular order because my family were originally from New Hampshire, and there was almost no heavy industry in the southern New Hampshire area where we lived. After Amoskeag Mills in Manchester went out of business in the 20s I think, about the only thing around our area were small farms, except for textile and other industry in northern Massachusetts. Seen lots of changes in my 89 years.
I have seen some Whiting bridge cranes in my travels. Im glad to hear they are still in business. Im in Vermont. We had what they called “precision valley” here in southern VT. Some of the more notable ones were Fellows Gear Shaper, Jones And Lampson, Bryant Chucking. They are long gone. We don’t have any industry here either.
@@TimberKing Yeah - I was in Chicago Heights over 20 years ago for my 50th high school reunion, and one of the guys mentioned that Whiting was still building cranes, but the plant had relocated to Monee, Illinois. The entire southern Cook County area where we lived is largely abandoned now and what remains is full of crime and destruction.
GP took over GNP in a hostile takeover and drove it in the ground to save their own paper mill is basically what happened.
Check out shredding paper by micheal Hilliard. It’s all about the rise and fall of the paper industries here in Maine. I found it after looking on,one for info about sapppi (SD Warren) in Westbrook shutting down there last machine.
I will have to check that out. We used to cut hardwood pulp and send it up to sappi. there were a couple of yards over here that would buy for them. Sappi paid better and was much easier to deal with than IP Ticonderoga. I got quite a bit of info about Great Northern from this article. damnyankee.com/great-northern-paper/ check it out it is a pretty good read.
That hard hat was Gibby Rossignol of East Millinocket.
WOW some dude will seduce all the ladies with that Deluxe Hugh Hefner Combo Fireplace Bar Stereo System !!!
Where have you been all winter? No logging, no lot to log, and crappy winter to boot. Good luck guy stay cool summer sucks I'll take 20 below any day to 90 and humid.
Winter here was a bust. I bought a job with a whole bunch of Hard Maple sawlogs and some good firewood. Job was winter only and it had a large up-front payment & cash bond so for what little winter we had I was trying to pull as much wood as possible in order to recoup some of my investment. I didn't have time to shoot any videos. I have to finish that job this coming winter. So far I havent found any summer work, but to be honest I haven't looked that hard either. You are right about 20 below being much better than 80 and humid!
Being from maine liked your golden road video i am a john deere fan except for the skidders the fuel pump in a very shitty location so I grew up to Timber Jack lol
I like the stability of a Timberjack., but you just can’t beat the John Deere powershift 8 speed transmission. Also im not used to the lever steer on some TJ skidders.
25:30 what song were you playing
Most domestic engines the crank pulley is pressed on, where allot of Japanese cars it just slides on like in the video. Wanted to just double check before i pry too much on this crank pulley I'm doing
That’s a lot of space to hold your own trucking school CDL
That was a great intro. Labor unions and Maine regulations are parasitic. This is a great place, though. It is no longer about the mill. It is about what is real - Katahdin and all that surrounds.
The collapse of the Great Northern was caused by several fronts. The Golden Road was one of them. It got the name because it cost GNP a million dollars an hour to build. They had to build it because Government regulations banned river drives. Then, different regulations made it hard for them to do business. The company that bought them was from Georgia, not Connecticut. They did a hostile takeover by buying up GNP stocks. The new owner then set out to destroy the competition. They started out by selling the dams and Hydro electric buildings. Now GNP had to buy premium price for power. Then they sold off the land. Later they shuttered and stripped the Millinocket Mill. The East Millinocket Mill was repeatedly bought and sold by "Investment companies" Who pillaged the Retirement funds of the employees. The last company was the cruelest of all. They shuttered the Mill after they met the 7 million dollar grant requirements, then started to tear down the building for scrap metal .
Went to Great Northern Paper Co. Mill in the mid 70’s!!! No one in hell would have guessed it would ever close! Everyone in town was somehow involved directly or indirectly with the Mill!!! So So sad!!! The same with East Millinocket. Everyone in town involved in their!!!!!
LOVED the background music!!! Great video!!!
@@walterlamb4756 Thank You. Glad you enjoyed it.
What size socket for the pulley?
I used an 1-1/8” socket to remove the bolt.
The pavement after able bridge is such a pile. the dirt is a far better ride lol. Washboard pavement and craters thru to dirt.
I thought about taking the state highway instead of the golden road, but it had always been a goal of mine to drive the entire golden road. Like you said the paved part was actually rougher than the dirt!
I lived here since 87. I jumped right into lumber.. it quickly died off by age 19, around 1990. I did not understand until zooming out on a forestry map on the interent decades later. that couple million acres is not as big as it seems. not to mention, once old growth is cut, it never returns as old growth again.. it's like watching it kill itself to midgetness. My dad just retired from trucking, lumber from hubert, LP etc. after 45 years. did potatoes to florida a lot too.
It does seem as though logging is on a decline. We do not have any paper mills here in Vermont that use pulpwood or chips. The only one I know of recycles cardboard. I think I missed the golden years of logging….
I had to laugh when you mentioned Connecticut. Years ago I was at a plant to pick up a load of paper rolls. After several hours the shipping manager came out asking drivers for volunteers to abandon the load so they could at least ship one full load. They'd run out of pulp and said it was going to be a few days before they had anything ready again... go figure.
How about respect gates and no trespassing signs. Hallowed ground for many of us. Get out and stay out. You have no idea the history. Respect.
Kind of like the Respect with which the place has been treated up till now. Looks like they went in and ripped out everything of value with no regard to anything that was left behind. Look at that one nice building. They just tore the back off of it. Probably to get some large machine out of it to sell off to China. Your hallowed ground is a pile of rubble. Get over it. Its done and gone just like many other industries in this country.
Who is doing the music? I want it 👍
Great Video Thanks for recording that.
They toyed with folks in Millinocket with "plans to reopen the mill" for decades; hell, my grandfather worked in the Millinocket mill for 40+ years, had a heart attack and died there, still doing shift work in his 60s. Tough life... still have a few cousins up there but most moved south to Portland when stuff started going downhill in the late 70s - early 80s... last I heard, folks from Boston, etc, were picking up houses for $30k just as some place to park their snowmobiles for the winter.... shame really. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
U got one of the better videos I’ve seen far as how dark it got here n West Virginia it’s got dim bit nothing like the darkness u got
Thanks 👍
Is there anyway to extend the ramp make it longer
I thought about doing that, but I don’t know how the arms underneath that support it all would handle the extra stress. some of the ones that are much longer have chains that support the end.
Nice pull, I make similiar content with tree felling and skidding. Im in an old tree farmer doing mitigation work at my place.
Thanks. I will check it out. 👍
I made a hinged piece at the base of my belt to keep the junk from falling in there ,hinged so when the lugs come around it raises up to let them pass.
A small plastic wedge would save you from a pinched saw.
I have used a wedge to get my saw unstuck in the past. I usually carry a couple on the skidder but I don’t think I had one at that time.
Beautiful country vermont It's beautiful great videos
I work 30 years with my family in maine for pell and pell fort kent, Gérald pelletier millinoket and Fernand madden howland maine, there was a good time 😅
The Great Northern from day one was only in Maine temporarily , to liquidate the millions of acres of softwood forest and then get out it made massive profits achieved it’s objective and got out and it was owned by a parent company in one of the lake states
So wrong. Great northern paper was the largest paper company in the world, starting in 1900. They only started to fail when unions and a second owner,Nekoosa, began the demise,along with overseas competitors. Paper use did diminish, and union wages finished off the company.
I nearly spit my coffee out laughing when you said "it wasn't that rusty when I put it there." Oh can I relate!! I, too, love auctions and have stuff I had a good idea for at one point! Maybe we should trade our stuff so it feels new again...hahaha!!
Wish I was closer. I’d bring a thermos of coffee over…
Why isn't your hearing protection on?
Love the Trump flag.
Where abouts in Vermont are you from
Up in Franklin County. The Northwest corner of the state close to the Canada border.
Nice I'm logging in Peru Vermont
You got it right people today. It's strange when I was a kid. You went to school if there were 6 inches of snow or even more now. If you get 2 inches, they close to schools. As far as a plug, I think Southern Vermont got most of it. Good video, though. Love Good logging videos
I wonder if the Pellitiers trucks made that good of time up thru there grossing 150 to 200 thousand?
I wish I had seen some of those trucks hauling wood. Ill bet the road is far less bumpy in the winter and they can really fly.
Been a hard go up here in central Maine needs to freeze and stay that way
Sure does. Hopefully this week it will stay cold.
Looks like the weather is the same as the adirondacks nothing is freezing up. Is that road a snowmobile trail? Good luck, but the season got a late start and probably an early finish.
the beginning of the road is a snowmobile trail. It continues up through the orange gate. Sure is a late start, but hopefully not an early finish.
Hey partner, some good looking skidders
Id take that yella birch top and drag it up and down ya road. Then pray for cold weather
Well no snow in the south of France but it's wet in the mud looks like you have your work cutout there I hope the weather gets better soon for you
Were going backwards here in central N.Y...14 this morning maybe make some money soon..keep up the good work 👍👍
Thanks, you too!
Hi, looks like some hilly terrain, is this near Montgomery? I started this past weekend tracking the skid road in prep for the cold week coming up to hopefully freeze in!
The job is over by Richmond / Huntington. It is kind of hilly, but the job is a series of large patch cuts and the foresters have located them mostly on flat benches so hopefully the wood will come out fast. Trucking will probably be the problem….