Posted by Zachary Hoyt on March 23, 2017 at 18:40:41 from (172.78.141.52):
I acquired this John Deere 40c crawler in May of 2015 in trade for a wood strip canoe I had built. I was building a bigger and more comfortable canoe at the time, and I saw the crawler on Craigslist, about 6 miles away, being offered for trade. I was also in the middle of building a barn at the time, so I didn't work on it at all till the following December. It ran but only the right track had power. I took off the loader assembly and hydraulic pump and homemade ROPS and replaced the left bull gear and worked on the left steering clutch with help from Lavoy and others at jdcrawlers.com. Last March I had the final drive and track back on and began to work on the winch, but again got distracted with things. Today I finally put it to work for the first time hauling out the butt log of an oak tree, 20" diameter at the top of the first 8' log. It did better than I had thought it might, even going up a grade in the woods. There was a bit of snow on the ground so the log didn't tear up the dirt. I have to make an idler to keep the chain tight on the old homemade winch and then I should be able to start using it to pull out logs and maybe keep the front end of the log up a bit. I had this log on a long chain because I didn't have a good place to hook it up, but once I get the cable and a choker back on the winch it'll be handier. I just wanted to see how well it would pull. Partway home the engine died but would restart after a minute and run briefly, so I figured it was a gas problem. I found out there's no flow out of the tank outlet, so I'll have to clean that out but for tonight I hooked it up with a temporary hose and tank hung off the air cleaner with a coat hanger wire. It looked pretty goofy but it got me home. I ran out of gas in the little tank behind the sugar house, but I was only about 100 feet from the sawmill building by that time so it wasn't such a long walk. I cut down the oak tree to get 4-8" diameter pieces from the top to inoculate with shiitake mushroom spawn, which has to be done at this time of year, and the bigger parts will get cut into boards at the sawmill and sold. It was a nice day in the woods and I figured I'd post some pictures. Zach
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