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    Mini skid idler bearing removal

    Another tip is to leave the castle nut lightly threaded on so it won’t go shooting across the shop floor.
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    Mini skid idler bearing removal

    Orrr thermic lance and melt the SOB (y). Probably the most gratifying and final solution.
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    Mini skid idler bearing removal

    Bearing puller, except it will be pushing on the shaft. Load up the puller good and tight and heat the housing and listen for banging, creeping, and popping then load up more pressure and reheat. I’m guessing it will need some good heat as it’s thick steel. Oxy:acetylene rosebud is your best bet...
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    Mini skid idler bearing removal

    Plus getting the new bearings and seals and looking at them might give you a clue as to how they come apart and go back in.
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    Mini skid idler bearing removal

    But relooking at your pics why is that metal disc split? Is there a special tool needed? Like an ultra duty snap ring pliers or something?
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    Mini skid idler bearing removal

    I’d probable destroy the rest of the bearing just leaving the outer race still stuck in the undercarriage. Then run a hot weld bead on the inside of the race heat shrinking it and it should come out easily with a punch and some tapping, not smashing, just a little happy tappy tap taps. I’ve...
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    Safety Incentive Program

    Personally if there was a crew member or members that regularly damaged shit they wouldn’t be around very long. IMO regular damage is just plain carelessness and a red flag for something worse. Now I know accidents happen in this business, it’s just the law of averages. But something gets...
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    Broke two rules and paid the price.

    Ouch!! Rule #3 never work when you are dog tired. Rest up heal up
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    Passing of Boomslang

    Well damn! Godspeed Boomslang!
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    OLDS-Overhead Lowering...

    Pics or it didn’t happen… I might have to deep dive that later.
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    Man flown after falling 40 feet while removing tree in Bull Valley, IL

    Hoping for a full recovery!
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    Rope grab recommendations for rigging

    Gibbs, tried and true, and bombproof. That’s my go to when using a 5:1.
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    Possible damage from impact of felling a large tree close to a house.

    A guy I subbed for told me a story of a company he was working for. It was a large tree and the log was left and needed to be felled parallel to the house. Spring time so the ground is usually well saturated and jelly like. So the tree came down and blew out the cement block basement wall from...
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    What has everyone used to pull small brush/trees?

    My answer is a hydro leak is an ‘if’ but applying herbicide is a ‘sure thing’.
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    Bid that tree!

    No, it’s Chris.
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    What has everyone used to pull small brush/trees?

    I just tore out an acre yesterday with the mini skid and a tooth bucket, 2.5 hours, pushed into a burn pile. Mostly buckthorn, honey suckle, and boxelder. Biggest boxelder was 4”ish. If they don’t push out clean you can beaver away with a tooth on the bucket.
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    Bid that tree!

    That’s pretty bad!
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    PNW laminated rot, overgrowth, hoarding, demo, GTG?

    It doesn’t take very long before nature takes over. I’ve got two harrow drags I found when I was clearing some of my land that used to be farm. So I put them off to the side and ten years later I have to cut them out of a walnut tree if I wanted to reuse them.
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    Bid that tree!

    I had one very similar to this. My buddies cousin bought a 880 (because it’s the biggest) and thought it made him super logger. I have a pic somewhere of the ‘attempt’. I just set a line and ripped it over but that’s the carved turkey stump.
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    Bid that tree!

    Price goes up because they now “compromised” the integrity of the tree.

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