Yup my Dad and me called it the three mile echo cause you could here someone pulling a skid of wood back to their landing from 3 miles away if they were running a Detroit in their skidder back in the day. We could also tell how much wood a guy was piling on his landing by how many skid's he could do in an afternoon lol!
Glad there's a new generation that's still into some of this old school stuff like yourself. Most of it is going away fast along with the old guy's that ran these machine's that built what we take for granted now; thanks for showing interest in it and the comment.
I might have missed a few smaller points here or there on these machine's but non the less I have a soft spot for these old wood donkeys along with some of the Clark rangers and international payloggers. Anyways come back and check out the channel will have some new videos over the winter of this machine working, take care.
Just subscribed brother when I started out operating equipment most stuff was Detroit's dump trucks loaders ole allis Chalmers had Detroit's ole Euclid ty for the memories miss sitting on them seats all three of my girls operated heavy equipment glad they got out of it but they still miss it also ty again I'm ole Florida boy didn't have to mess with snow lmbo
I don't much care for pushing around frozen water aka snow but us folk's up here in Canada and the northern state area's just have to deal with it, after a couple hour's of sitting on a open cab machine in sub zero temp's and your butt's half numb from the cold I start wishing I was in Florida to LOL!! Thanks for watching the kind word's and dropping a sub much appreciated.
Great video. Well I've never seen a TJ 450. What we had here in Guyana 🇬🇾 was TJ 550s and a 550B fitted with 6V53 Detroit Diesel, Gearmatic 190 winch. Clark transmission. Man the sound was like music to ears . My dad was the respected mechanic behind them. He did some magic with these skidders.
450's and 380's are the most common here I only know of a couple 550's in my neck of the wood's. The TJ ''B'' and ''C'' series almost all had Cummins 5.9's in them here along with the Clark 32000 4 speed transmission. My old girl has the Clark 28000 3 speed job.
@@StuInTheSticks Great 👍. I just don't know why there aren't that much videos out on the TJ 550s. Was it such a rare machine in the US? The timber company my worked for had 6- 550s and later a 550B. They had a 4 great Clark Rangers too: 668, 667, 666,664. The 667 had a Cummins engine. Please another video of your 450 like a walk around with the engine idling and accelerating... though unpleasant to some it's like music to me. Thanks again. Care her.
@@tickedoffsheikh8587 TJ 550's where to big a machine in my local area and in many other's they where built for a very specific market and that was mostly what we call the west coast or pacific west coast of Canada and the US it's were they have really big timber. The TJ 550 and the Clark 668 fit right in and that's where you found them. In the rest of north America the TJ 230 240 and Clark ranger 664 666 along with the tree farmer C5D's and John Deere 540 ruled the wood's as nimble cable/line machine's used by hand cutter's most often a two man crew and one smaller skidder. The TJ 380 450 480 and Clark 667 and later G67 along with John Deere 640 740 where mostly grapple machine's but a few were set up as cable or both, but logging here moved away from hand cutting and went full mechanical harvesting thus big grapple skidder's made a comeback and now dominate the market. Mostly by John Deere and Tigercat; but in the early day's around here the 550's and 668's where rare big machine's that didn't fit in at the time. Now you know, stay tuned I will have other video's in the future of the screamin' demon just not right away you'll have to wait and see what I get into lol! Take care.
Yes that's how their made to run what I was trying to say is they don't like to be lugged down to far in the rpm's for any length of time got to keep them up there singing, hence why we all know and love these old two strokers as screamin' demon's
Well if you take and add up all the 2 strokes I own in total from chainsaws to dirt bikes and yes a Detroit or two then I'm one noisy bugger. No small wonder the concerned Karen's in my area hold me in such high regard, okay that last one not so much but everything else is 100% true lol!!
I think so to lol! Your ol TJ forwarder look's pretty good as well wouldn't mind having one of those someday handy to have around. Thanks for checking out my video and stopping by the comment's section.
Side benefit is when your as deaf as a fence post you can just shrug and tell your wife "what was that never heard you" great built in excuse lol! I'll take the wimp road and use hearing protection over having my head feal like it's going to buzz itself off my pillow 9 hours later :)
Interesting side note the 453's run a few hundred rpm's faster than the 353's and are better balanced ie run smoother overall than the 353's. A well known Detroit dealer in my area told my dad this year's ago they said on average they had to rebuild twice as many 353's as 453's just because the 353 was a bit off in harmonic balance due to it being a 3 cylinder; they said it was a fact by sales number's not bs. the 353 when running has a more raspy sound to it for sure. I'm happy with my strait pipe on my 453 for now, if I used it more then I would probably put a can on otherwise how else would I piss off all the concerned Karen's in my neighbourhood LOL!!!
For those that have never run a two stroke Detroit word's cannot describe the feeling, it's fun for the first little while then these engines just plain wear you out from the constant reverberation's that rattle every inch of your body. I still love running the ol girl though, not to many of these left anymore.
Yup and probably 10,000+ other application's around the world you still find them powering thing's you never thought you'd ever see them in. Detroit two stroke's where some of the most prolific engine's ever made.
Lol there is a old 78’Ford F-350 service truck up here for sale cheap with a 4-53N in it but dropped a valve for $1,100 OBO whatch ya think should guy grab it up for 950
I really don't know what to tell on that one so many other things could have gone wrong when that happens. what I do know is if any other part of that engine went out of time ie the gear train set by way of a broken tooth or more (and there's quit a few timing gears that make those engines what they are) there can be a lot of other damage as well to the the blower box part's and so on. You have to buy with the mindset that your buying it as a part's unit and price it accordingly to your local market, not through rose colored glasses of what it could be or what the seller is trying to make it out to be. At least that's how I bought most of my "vintage" equipment over the year's, sometimes I've gotten lucky if you can call it that sometimes not so much. I've gotten burnt myself a time or two, did I learn my lesson no not really lol! @@kalvinlabuik3366
Love that sound coming through the woods!
Yup my Dad and me called it the three mile echo cause you could here someone pulling a skid of wood back to their landing from 3 miles away if they were running a Detroit in their skidder back in the day. We could also tell how much wood a guy was piling on his landing by how many skid's he could do in an afternoon lol!
Keep'r scream'n Jimmy!!!!!
Love the 2 stroke Scream'n Jimmy!!!!
Thanks for checking out the video and dropping by the comments section.
As a 17 year old, these big old machines are just pure AWESOMENESS!
Glad there's a new generation that's still into some of this old school stuff like yourself. Most of it is going away fast along with the old guy's that ran these machine's that built what we take for granted now; thanks for showing interest in it and the comment.
@@StuInTheSticks Of course man! The raw power and sound of it all, it's all just 👌
Hey Stu,
Great video on the Timberjack, thanks for sharing your knowledge of them. Very informative.
Stay safe
I might have missed a few smaller points here or there on these machine's but non the less I have a soft spot for these old wood donkeys along with some of the Clark rangers and international payloggers. Anyways come back and check out the channel will have some new videos over the winter of this machine working, take care.
Just subscribed brother when I started out operating equipment most stuff was Detroit's dump trucks loaders ole allis Chalmers had Detroit's ole Euclid ty for the memories miss sitting on them seats all three of my girls operated heavy equipment glad they got out of it but they still miss it also ty again I'm ole Florida boy didn't have to mess with snow lmbo
I don't much care for pushing around frozen water aka snow but us folk's up here in Canada and the northern state area's just have to deal with it, after a couple hour's of sitting on a open cab machine in sub zero temp's and your butt's half numb from the cold I start wishing I was in Florida to LOL!! Thanks for watching the kind word's and dropping a sub much appreciated.
Great video. Well I've never seen a TJ 450. What we had here in Guyana 🇬🇾 was TJ 550s and a 550B fitted with 6V53 Detroit Diesel, Gearmatic 190 winch. Clark transmission. Man the sound was like music to ears . My dad was the respected mechanic behind them. He did some magic with these skidders.
450's and 380's are the most common here I only know of a couple 550's in my neck of the wood's. The TJ ''B'' and ''C'' series almost all had Cummins 5.9's in them here along with the Clark 32000 4 speed transmission. My old girl has the Clark 28000 3 speed job.
@@StuInTheSticks Great 👍. I just don't know why there aren't that much videos out on the TJ 550s. Was it such a rare machine in the US? The timber company my worked for had 6- 550s and later a 550B. They had a 4 great Clark Rangers too: 668, 667, 666,664. The 667 had a Cummins engine. Please another video of your 450 like a walk around with the engine idling and accelerating... though unpleasant to some it's like music to me. Thanks again. Care her.
@@tickedoffsheikh8587 TJ 550's where to big a machine in my local area and in many other's they where built for a very specific market and that was mostly what we call the west coast or pacific west coast of Canada and the US it's were they have really big timber. The TJ 550 and the Clark 668 fit right in and that's where you found them. In the rest of north America the TJ 230 240 and Clark ranger 664 666 along with the tree farmer C5D's and John Deere 540 ruled the wood's as nimble cable/line machine's used by hand cutter's most often a two man crew and one smaller skidder. The TJ 380 450 480 and Clark 667 and later G67 along with John Deere 640 740 where mostly grapple machine's but a few were set up as cable or both, but logging here moved away from hand cutting and went full mechanical harvesting thus big grapple skidder's made a comeback and now dominate the market. Mostly by John Deere and Tigercat; but in the early day's around here the 550's and 668's where rare big machine's that didn't fit in at the time. Now you know, stay tuned I will have other video's in the future of the screamin' demon just not right away you'll have to wait and see what I get into lol! Take care.
We called it Keeping that rubberband tight, ran a 671 for years also used rottella straight 40 also great video brings back memories
Glad you enjoyed the video and stopping by to comment thanks
Jimmy’s were built to run wide open all the time. I used to run a 8v71 “screaming jimmy”
Yes that's how their made to run what I was trying to say is they don't like to be lugged down to far in the rpm's for any length of time got to keep them up there singing, hence why we all know and love these old two strokers as screamin' demon's
Remember the noise from a 2 cycle motorcycle, now scale it up to 3474cc and that’s what you get with a 4i53
Well if you take and add up all the 2 strokes I own in total from chainsaws to dirt bikes and yes a Detroit or two then I'm one noisy bugger. No small wonder the concerned Karen's in my area hold me in such high regard, okay that last one not so much but everything else is 100% true lol!!
Nice old skidder!
I think so to lol! Your ol TJ forwarder look's pretty good as well wouldn't mind having one of those someday handy to have around. Thanks for checking out my video and stopping by the comment's section.
no don't be a whimp I never used hearing protection with Scream Jimmys I loved that scream
Side benefit is when your as deaf as a fence post you can just shrug and tell your wife "what was that never heard you" great built in excuse lol! I'll take the wimp road and use hearing protection over having my head feal like it's going to buzz itself off my pillow 9 hours later :)
Nice machine! As you know the 353’s are higher pitched screamers😏. Go factory spark arrest or muffler and it won’t be quite as bone chilling.
Interesting side note the 453's run a few hundred rpm's faster than the 353's and are better balanced ie run smoother overall than the 353's. A well known Detroit dealer in my area told my dad this year's ago they said on average they had to rebuild twice as many 353's as 453's just because the 353 was a bit off in harmonic balance due to it being a 3 cylinder; they said it was a fact by sales number's not bs. the 353 when running has a more raspy sound to it for sure. I'm happy with my strait pipe on my 453 for now, if I used it more then I would probably put a can on otherwise how else would I piss off all the concerned Karen's in my neighbourhood LOL!!!
Fantastic!
Glad you like it!
Ewes, youse, use, yuze?
What are you saying?
Edited to add: that machine is a beauty!
I used to run a terex cable dozer w a 6 cylinder Detroit and that thing rumbled your chest the whole time it was running
For those that have never run a two stroke Detroit word's cannot describe the feeling, it's fun for the first little while then these engines just plain wear you out from the constant reverberation's that rattle every inch of your body. I still love running the ol girl though, not to many of these left anymore.
Detroit your right keep it to the rug with your heal . Drive it like you hate it buddy . 😊
Only the concerned Karen's in my town hate the ol' girl cause she's loud and proud lol! Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
cant here you
Sorry what where you saying? can't make out... Oh wait I was running a strait piped two stroke Detroit LoL!!
same GM Detroit as a Cockshutt 1950 tractor
Yup and probably 10,000+ other application's around the world you still find them powering thing's you never thought you'd ever see them in. Detroit two stroke's where some of the most prolific engine's ever made.
Lol there is a old 78’Ford F-350 service truck up here for sale cheap with a 4-53N in it but dropped a valve for $1,100 OBO whatch ya think should guy grab it up for 950
I really don't know what to tell on that one so many other things could have gone wrong when that happens. what I do know is if any other part of that engine went out of time ie the gear train set by way of a broken tooth or more (and there's quit a few timing gears that make those engines what they are) there can be a lot of other damage as well to the the blower box part's and so on. You have to buy with the mindset that your buying it as a part's unit and price it accordingly to your local market, not through rose colored glasses of what it could be or what the seller is trying to make it out to be. At least that's how I bought most of my "vintage" equipment over the year's, sometimes I've gotten lucky if you can call it that sometimes not so much. I've gotten burnt myself a time or two, did I learn my lesson no not really lol! @@kalvinlabuik3366
i think that is how a TIMBERJACK should sound reather it has a 353 or 453 detroit in her