Preventing tractor back flip

[RoyJackson]

More like, "in." I don't feel a day over 80. And what's this about smoking pot? Before the nukes were silenced, and before the spy satellites, we had a mission. If I told you what that mission was, I'd have to kill you. Well, maybe if you put the bamboo splinters under my fingernails, I would tell.

Subs still have a mission, but even when I was in (69-77 active duty), there weren't many diesel boats still in active service.

 

[xtn]

Short Game's mission...

Determine if a sub can do a backflip if pulling from below the prop.

 

[Short Game]

The first time I walked down the dock at Ballast Point in '65, there was a crap-load of diesel boats tied up to the two tenders. I hadn't been to Sub School. One day they called everyone in Shop 67 in and asked if anyone wanted to go on the boats? Two of us were ignorant enough to raise our hands. A week later I was headed to Westpac and an education on Murphy's Laws. But at least I wasn't a skimmer anymore.

 

[Short Game]

Short Game's mission...

Determine if a sub can do a backflip if pulling from below the prop.

Good laugh on that one!

 

[SPYDERLK]

Nothing "magical" about it....for MOST of us anyway....and not that difficult to understand provided one's head is not buried in the sand.

Irony ...

 

[IronHog]

Well, for me it must have been a flourishing science today, even if it wuz some poor production. I dragged out two skinny 90 foot alders and bucked them into 12' 6"s, and lifted them on my bucking forks and made them into 15 inch pieces. I prefer the fat trees, but the power company dropped these and a few others with my permission because they threatened their power line. I dragged them uphill by the receiver hitch in the middle of my box blade and I didn't even flip over backwards.

I'm sure many people drag trees around from time to time with their tractors.

I'm talking more like 2 log truck loads per day vs two trees. Think minimum of 5 tons/hour production. During the 60's and 70's many a big logging crew around here would run 4-5 specially modified two wheel drive logging tractors.
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Get a 65 foot pine at about 2500 lbs on your three point and hit a stump with the butt in 4th gear at 2000RPM. The front tires go real high....real fast. But you'd need to keep the throttle pegged to take it on over IMO.

 

[Short Game]

I do maybe up to a bit over 15 cords each year. Nuff loggin' fer me.

Durn pecker poles, anyway. The two trees are all split and in the cart. Not even half a cord.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Irony ...

More like iron headed.....

......Speaking of those who still think it's impossible to backflip a tractor in "ordinary circumstances"......Because it's NOT impossible at all.....

 

[IronHog]

I do maybe up to a bit over 15 cords each year. Nuff loggin' fer me.

Durn pecker poles, anyway. The two trees are all split and in the cart. Not even half a cord.

Wood heat is the best!

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The tractor we run had the crank broke logging in the 70's when still new, and the lift arms were broke and shortened at one time too................aaaand it has over a full turn of slack in the front steering from hitting stumps......but the industrial front end is tough enough to take hundreds of violent landings from wheelies and hits from running into things.

Don't try this at home folks.

 

[SPYDERLK]

More like iron headed.....

......Speaking of those who still think it's impossible to backflip a tractor in "ordinary circumstances"......Because it's NOT impossible at all.....

Agreed, since you cant even see that nobody has said that.