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Geo-TH,In

Geo-TH,In

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I used 8 inch channel this time. Hopefully I wouldn't bend them. The jaw has about 8000# of force, I think.
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I use the thumb mostly to lift logs.
Don't looky at my paint. Used old implement paint. Paint isn't much good for anything of importance.

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Sometimes I use it to grab a thumb full of brush. Other times I need some rear ballast.


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This tree went down because

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Of straight line winds, which I have too often.
See why I love trees?
 
Looks like a couple of nice logs for sawing into lumber, maybe next summer? I know a tractor club that would love to have some logs like that for it's sawmill. Our saw's carrage is a 12 footer, do you deliver? Wish you weren't so far away, I'd come and get them, if you have no use for them. I need a road trip, this setting around is getting old.
 
No delivery.
If I have hardwood logs I take them to a sawmill. He cuts them and gives me some of the wood.
This log is maple. My sawmill doesn't want it.

I have a guy in neighborhood that has an outside furnace. So now any junk trees, I call him. Load logs on his dump truck and we are both happy.

Some day I need to cut down a dying walnut tree. Last walnut I cut down was hollow inside. If the log is good, I'll send it to the sawmill. Branches will become firewood.
geo.
 
Sir George; That looks more like a BIG corniated toe that someone dropped a big block of wood on and it is bleeding red. Wink--------------Loren
 
I'll bet that maple would make the steam engine that we hook to our mill would it "growl" like the bigger burr oak logs we picked up from the James River bottom last year. Burr oak trees usually don't produce very big logs, but we got some that were about 18"-20" in diameter. They were tough to saw. Also had a crazy grain. They were probably more than 100 years old and had died due to flooding from a couple of years ago. The area where they grew is under water again.
 
I just recently put one on my mini Excavator I'm still defining it I need a longer cylinder so I can have more travel its homemade out of things I had laying around actually the thumb came off a large Excavator and it was a step to get up on it.
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I have 2 huge oak trees in yard. Most sawmills don't want yard trees

Someday they may find their way to sawmill that will pick them up. The rest will be someone's fire wood.
geo.
 
My first choice was green, green thumb. I didn't have any old green.
I did have this old IH red. Most of the red particles was stuck to the bottom of the can. I had to make thumb out of recycled metal and paint. geo.
 
Loren,
You don't know how close I came to dropping it on my foot. It was no simple task working by myself.
Geo.
 
Or next time you are in Terre Haute, stop by my new man cave near sky king airport.

We can social distance and chat too.

If you are a coffee man, I can move coffee pot to pole barn.
geo.
 
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