Found a old tiller today for free

[Car Doc]

That would be a cheap and easy solution hope it works out!

 

[Johndeere3720]

Yes, that sounds like a good deal. Your tiller will be pretty slick when its all done and on your Yanmar.:thumbsup:

 

[Roonabeck]

...your tiller is in much better shape than mine was.

Was that in a fire? It's still attached to the 3ph of something with only rims, but no tires...

 

[Johndeere3720]

Was that in a fire? It's still attached to the 3ph of something with only rims, but no tires...

The tiller was on what was a JD 4100 gear drive. I was the last one to drive that tractor too. :ashamed: I almost parked it in the other barn too. Sad, but it happens. It was a really weird feeling walking around a barn full of stuff that is burnt and piled all over the place. This does show how much plastic Deere put on their tractors in 1999, I bet there would be less tractor there if it were a newer one. I did manage to salvage a few parts, i got the bucket, the ROPS, the grill guard, and the tiller.

 

[Brake Weight]

Similar: Before the era of OSHA - something I used to see locally was hay bale tossers made from differentials. The operator sat up on a seat like a backhoe. A laborer on the ground would set hooks on a bale, the operator would stomp on a brake remaining on one end of the differential, and a cable wound around the other end would toss the bale up on the haywagon for a laborer there to stack neatly. Fun to watch, and obviously the operator needed great skill to use this efficiently and safely.

Does anyone have a photo of one of these?

Have you ever watched a poorboy operation gathering pulp wood? Same type setup except the operator has to feather the brake in order for the other man to spot and land the 6-8' chunk of pine. Thing of beauty, or a nightmare.

 

[California]

Could be the same thing.

I last saw one of the bale lifters around 1970 and didn't really understand how it worked. I kinda remember an arm that raised too, something like a boom pole on a pivot or a giant fishing rod. The rear axle with differential as the foundation for that monster was unmistakable, and the automotive brake, but I don't remember the rest of the details. At any rate it looked hazardous as heck. What you describe, raising heavy logs, sounds even worse. Does anybody still use those?

 

[winston1]

Here you go. Does this look like hard work? Tom's Gallery :: The Pulp wood Truck

 

[clemsonfor]

Here you go. Does this look like hard work? Tom's Gallery :: The Pulp wood Truck

Yea those were the trucks of the 60's -80s. Loaded 5ft shortwood sideways. There was a guy that may still be around that used a similar 1ton 70s truck when i first stated my career. Only about 7-8 yrs ago. He had what was an old Coke dilivery truck with the box off and standards put up. His had a PTO box that you shifted it on inside the cab with the shifter i think, like all those old trucks with pto's. His truck may have been like a 2 ton or so, but only single axle. His setup was similar to the pics accept he loaded longways as no one takes shortwood around here since the early 90's i think. But he had a boom that would swing and a seat he sat on and there was a winch that ran off that pto. The swing and winch were both controlled by levers. They would pull cable and choke logs pulll them in with the winch, then move the choker to the middle, kind of, then lift it onto the truck front then back of log!

 

[clemsonfor]

Here you go. Does this look like hard work? Tom's Gallery :: The Pulp wood Truck

I thought those pics looked familiar, i had seen them about 7 years ago. I was wondering if that was "Tom" from the forestryforum, located in Florida. He is one of the regulars over on that board that i use to frequent more often.

 

[Brake Weight]

Here you go. Does this look like hard work? Tom's Gallery :: The Pulp wood Truck

That's it. Simple, hardworking, and honest folks. I live about 10 miles from where the eye of Katrina passed in Mississippi. Although 1.5 hours north of the coast, off of HWY 98, I was the only on that could get off our road for days(Toyota 4x4). There were too many trees and not enough man power. Two old gents, just like the one pictured, and a few nephew/cousins came though with a pair of chainsaws and a knuckle boom in lead. They cleared about 2 miles of pine and oak on my road in less than an hour. Naturally keeping the good heart cuts, but nobody cared. It wasn't payment enough.