Look great Furpo new paint is always nice.. The one I've been driving is due 5 years now #S5130 All you need now is a topping line winch and the Kobalt rigging control valve.
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Most of the time guys will try to burn them or just let them rot down. Personally on our place we try to do as much as possible mechanical planting, most company ground I’ve been on in NW Oregon is all hand planted through all the slash.Saw my first thunderbird! It looked like a 942 or that size. Just outside of Eatonville WA heading towards Rainer. Didn’t have time to stop had the whole family in the car. It was loading a shovel side on the side of the road. Big machine!
Not really a thunderbird question. But their were quite a few slash piles that we passed that looked like they were a few years old. What is the standard protocol for slash piles? Leave em burn em chip em? What is the replanting process like these days?
Have really been enjoying following the history of these machines.
(Ken) Huffman Logging Fortuna Ca bought out Mckenzie in 1990 and got the Tsy255 s-5074,838 on carrier s-8310 and Tmy70 t-7046, quit contract logging in 1995, believe machines went to Worldwide Equipment in Eugene.TY 90 enquiry
Regrettably Johno I didn't take the opportunity to note any such info on the day. Provided it was new and working back from the build records it might be Y9067 but I'm not sure if 9067 was a trailor mount. Otherwise I think it would have to be a used 90. On the plus side, from the recent discussions, there would be a good chance that the rubber 255 in the shot is one and same as in log Frog's recent 857 post. I have S5090 with a Pierce Undercarriage (not a T/Bird as I mistakenly wrote, post 853) The problem with my old workshop records is that they are on very fine printed deteriorating fax paper and the notes are in a kind of brief shorthand. The only hint I have as to which 255 was on a T/Bird rubber mount as in Torkell's post, is S5074. It has SP by it in the notes. Does this sound right. It was the first 255 built and sold to Red McKenzie.
Only thing I’ve found so far is that it was built in nainamo oct 1992 and sold to Weyco cosmopolis division.I am looking for info on a Thunderbird swing yarder model 155 serial number 5115 please.
Thank you.
Sorry I’ve never worked around one not sure that’d be a question for Russ Smith at Modern. Do you want his #Ok, that's what I needed!
Were the 155's good for grapple yarding?
Hallback,there is a fellow on here running Thunderbird here on the island. Murk 100. If he sees this he will reply. Watch to see what happensI have Russ's number. Thank you though.