Average daily operating cost of 40c

[Lavoy]

On a three roller, I would use a heavy sticky grease, any heat, and the corn head grease will run right out. Winter obviously better than summer, but still would use a heavy gun grease.
Lavoy

[townlineterry]

Here's a consideration nobody adressed. Operator fatiuge. A three roller is going to be a choppier ride than a 4 or 5 roller, 8-10 hours a dayis going to wear you out a lot faster than one with a smoother ride also harder to make a smoother road surfce.

That may not seem like much of factor but by then end of the day it will be.. I do pretty much the same work you are talking about and while everyone is different I try to limit my days spent logging to about six hours in the woods. 80% of logging accidents happen after the six hour period. So, when you find yourself doing stupid it is time to quit for the day.

Terry

[Stan Disbrow]

So, when you find yourself doing stupid it is time to quit for the day.

Terry

Hi,

I think that this is the best advice. Ever.

Stan

[Lavoy]

Yeah, but if that is the case, I would have to quit within the first 10 minutes of walking in the shop every day.
Lavoy

[Timberwolf13]

Yeah, but if that is the case, I would have to quit within the first 10 minutes of walking in the shop every day.
Lavoy

I 2nd that motion! Thats me in a nut shell. I'm not even gonna try and address my helper's sanity

Thanks for all the helpful input folks, greatly appreciated.
Got the 40c maintenance and tune up done. Other than some sludgy fluids and a missing or broke bolt here and there, all checked out good. Made a few adjustments and got er running smooth as glass. New filters and fluids and a cpl trips to the bolt bin accompanied by a lil heat from the torch and a few touch up welds here and there and that was it. Pretty tight lil machine it seems. 1st good luck I've had in a while.

[whiteclipse16]

Sounds like you're making progress Timerwolf.
I think you've got a good plan to do some work with the 40, but not make it you're sole go-to machine for the next 5 years lol.

[Paul Buhler]

Congratulations on getting your machine up to snuff.

Last piece of learned wisdom: "Load light and bind tight". This advise has served me well over the years. Whenever I tried to grab "just one more" stem. that's when the hitch would let go and I wound up with more work, or a loose stem would climb the track and get caught under a fender, or...
Best wishes for your new adventure. Paul

[Timberwolf13]

Appreciate all the help and support.

I actually got lucky. My dad and granddad apparently owned a few of these small crawlers back in the day. Since we share a garage, I had all the reference and help I could use. Maybe even too much from time to time,lol. I'm sure everybody has or knows the old school know it all type. But honestly, it worked out good and he was very helpful. Only cost me some brews and cost of ear plugs(for when the "help" just kept on rambling)

[Howard Yoder]

The biggest thing is if you see any sine of loose bolts stop right away and tighten especially around the final drives I learned the hard way had a 430 that noticed loose bolts and only had a few more logs to load thought I would wait tell got back home to tighten but by the time got the crawler on the trailer it had broke the clutch housing it was a good machine for a job that had only 1 or 2 truck loads because it was light enough to pull behind a load of logs the only problem was when there was just a little over a load then you didn't want to make another trip so there was more then once when I came back Dad would just shake his head and say you better be glad you didn't get pulled over