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hiluxman
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skadill why whould they have a processer on a machine that small
BDFT
Senior Member
It probably works good in the small bug killed pine. Of which we still have millions and millions of cubic meters left to log.
kiwi450x
Well-Known Member
Yep, you got me csquared, the 6255 is looking at us now a couple of kms away.
kiwi450x
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Guilty as charged...
log frog
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Princeton B.C.
On a recent trip to Princeton, csquared showed me around and took me up to look at his operation. Kiwi450x, he may only be 21, but he's probably put in more hours operating, than you and I together! Rumour has it, his momma gave birth to him in the cab, and they didn't let him out till his 21st! Looking at the room in that Canadian cab, it would't suprise me.
As you can see, he likes em green. Yup, thats 2 bunchers in this photo.
On a recent trip to Princeton, csquared showed me around and took me up to look at his operation. Kiwi450x, he may only be 21, but he's probably put in more hours operating, than you and I together! Rumour has it, his momma gave birth to him in the cab, and they didn't let him out till his 21st! Looking at the room in that Canadian cab, it would't suprise me.
As you can see, he likes em green. Yup, thats 2 bunchers in this photo.
kiwi450x
Well-Known Member
Yep, it looks like he's picked up the odd thing here and there... I wasn't gonna bring his mom into it though, that's dangerous territory!!!!!! LOL!!!
The green machines hold some appeal for me too but I'd probably struggle to get away from yellow these days. For the back up as much as anything else. (Here, anyway...)
I could be talked into one of those Canadian rear entry cabs too. I've never tried one but the idea intrigues me...
The green machines hold some appeal for me too but I'd probably struggle to get away from yellow these days. For the back up as much as anything else. (Here, anyway...)
I could be talked into one of those Canadian rear entry cabs too. I've never tried one but the idea intrigues me...
log frog
Well-Known Member
I like the idea of those rear entry cabs too, they sure are roomy. No more crushing your sandwiches under the seat!
John C.
Senior Member
There rear entries are nice for the operators but add too much cost to the life cycle cost of the machines from what I've seen. All the electronics get moved around and sometimes the things that keep them intact don't get the same attention to detail that the factory does on standard machines. Harness connectors, loom routing and even things like the capacity of the air conditioning become intolerable problems. We had to double the capacity of the A/C systems and put tinting on all the windows, which brought some issues with safety people at times. I've had connectors disturbed and not making full contact in the connectors and some even had wires getting pulled out because there wasn't enough slack when tilting the cab. I had one machine where the loom got loose and when the cab was tilted back down it cut the loom at the riser and frame.
The other issue I've seen is the extra weight on the slewing bearing. I've changed half a dozen where the balls have made impressions on the race and begun busting out the case hardening. You see the shiny particles in the grease at the bearing halves.
Around here the Weyerhaeuser camps all required them except one manager at White River. He asked a basic question, "just how many lost time accidents have occurred from entry and egress from the side door cabs." When they looked at the records, there were none. That was the end of the rear entry for them. I haven't seen a new machine with a rear entry around here in more than five years.
Love the photos, keep them coming!
The other issue I've seen is the extra weight on the slewing bearing. I've changed half a dozen where the balls have made impressions on the race and begun busting out the case hardening. You see the shiny particles in the grease at the bearing halves.
Around here the Weyerhaeuser camps all required them except one manager at White River. He asked a basic question, "just how many lost time accidents have occurred from entry and egress from the side door cabs." When they looked at the records, there were none. That was the end of the rear entry for them. I haven't seen a new machine with a rear entry around here in more than five years.
Love the photos, keep them coming!
log frog
Well-Known Member
Thanks John C, that's puts things in balance for me. Stands to reason that there would be more pressure on the slew bearing, there must be a lot of extra weight up there.
Went for a ride with Csquared's daddy, shifting machines. Love that clam!
Went for a ride with Csquared's daddy, shifting machines. Love that clam!
haha I'm not sure how to take that log frog...?? ill take it as a compliment? i figured you couldn't hold your silence and you would chime in eventually after seeing all that pretty green gear... one would look good in the fleet especially when goughs come out to do the next huei pump!
few random shots of other contractors gear
new 635d and 325d fm decking near kelowna bc.
deere 3554 road builder with a clam
deere 2954 decking for skidders near kelowna
few random shots of other contractors gear
new 635d and 325d fm decking near kelowna bc.
deere 3554 road builder with a clam
deere 2954 decking for skidders near kelowna
knock on wood.. we have never had a problem directly related to rear entry cabs. We had a few leaking pilot hoses on a 322c but we have that on our excavators as well. We traded a undersized 210lc-3 hyundai off at over 20 000 hours of hard use( was the only loader for a long time doing somedays loading 35 trucks aday) and the swing bearing was finally due so we traded it off. Now with purpose build machines with rear entry coming factory direct as well as oversized swing gear, those problems are gone. Sure hyundai and volvo don't have factory rear entrys, but wayco manufacturing does all the rear entry cabs for those machines in western canada and they do a dam good job. hard to tell its not factory. ill get a picture from the doghouse johnc. everything is very tidy in them now. a lot tidier than 10 years ago.
1999 210LC-3.traded in last year and recently sold in rb chilliwack. headed back to the woods near 100 mile house.
2004 322C FM
1999 210LC-3.traded in last year and recently sold in rb chilliwack. headed back to the woods near 100 mile house.
2004 322C FM
1998 Deere 200LC conversion with waratah 20t. The machine i learned on. sitting at our shop, maybe making its way back to the bush soon. 17 700 hours currently
2000 Deere 200LC with 620 waratah warrior. One of the first models out of the DHSP shop in Langley B.C. They sure have gone along ways in 10 years! traded off 2 years ago..whereabouts unknown
2005 Volvo 210BF with an early 622B. Good machine for their time. the early 622b's where prone to cracks and had all types of reinforcement pieces that where to be welded on. Sold and working in port mcneil or campbel river maybe.
2008 Hitachi ZX200F with 622B. recently sold, working in the okanagan.
2000 Deere 200LC with 620 waratah warrior. One of the first models out of the DHSP shop in Langley B.C. They sure have gone along ways in 10 years! traded off 2 years ago..whereabouts unknown
2005 Volvo 210BF with an early 622B. Good machine for their time. the early 622b's where prone to cracks and had all types of reinforcement pieces that where to be welded on. Sold and working in port mcneil or campbel river maybe.
2008 Hitachi ZX200F with 622B. recently sold, working in the okanagan.
hiluxman
Well-Known Member
Do the machines come with those custom cabs from the factory or do they take them off brand new
skadill
Senior Member
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log frog
Well-Known Member
330b
Cat 330B, 24000hrs, still looking good.
Cat 330B, 24000hrs, still looking good.
JTL
Senior Member
^^One owner, one, mabey two different operators in this machines entire life.^^ Otherwise, how else can you expalin such a sweet looking shovel after that many ticks on the clock?!
KW850&T800H
COPPA
There are two of these units with 20KM of me in northern Alberta.
Here's an unloader I found a few days ago in Athabasca. I don't know much about it other than it is massive! It seems to grab a whole truckload of logs and takes it to the stack under it or puts it right in the chipper. Not sure if it still exists as there was a fire just breaking out at the pulp mill it was at when we left