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starting a skidder

D

Dune Country

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During my short stint logging, when the landing was real cold the crummie and skidder had hose adapters. Plug the crummie into the skidder and it would circulate the warm water from the crummie through the skidder, warm it up making it easier to start.
Anyone had experience with this?
AE
 
I have heard of that a long time ago, in Wisconsin. They used
hydraulic couplers for that. I don?t know what a crummie is,
though. I think they used one of their pickups.
 
Hi, I mentioned the skidder coolant hoses in this post. I have heard of this coolant connection back in the 1960/70s. In the mid 1960s we had some very cold winters in our area like -30F to -35F for a week or
two. Never did see the actual skidder and don't remember the make. In our area back in the 1960/70s there were Tree Farmer, Timber Jack, JD, and Hough were the common skidders.
Diesel in cold weather.
 
That was pretty common in N MN, safer than a propane tank heater, anyone use them? In later years the BIL installed
heaters that burned diesel to heat the coolant, and had an electric circulating pump. It heated the engine, the hydraulic
oil, and the cab. This is on Timberjack cut-to-length harvesters and a Rottne Forwarder. As the winters get shorter they
have to work every day, regardless how cold it is. Most winter logging is in frozen swamps where you cannot drive when
it's not frozen. Occasionally in real cold weather they would work shifts and run fewer machines 24 hours.
 
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