Harvester Heads Race in Hardwood (plus Finishing the Job)
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- John Deere processor (703) with Waratah harvester head (622b) versus a Valmet processor (415EX) with a Log Max harvester head (7000XT). Also Jaden brings his mig welder and repairs the ponsse forwarder.
Jaden is a top notch guy for sure. He has been welding our stuff for many years now. Always does fantastic work and is always the first one I would call for any welding I need done.
Right on. Handy to have a welder/fabricater like Jaden to repair broken machinery
Keep up the videos cool to see somebody else my age doing them
Thanks for commenting and like your channel
id love to make videos too but where I work my boss/cousin likes to keep stuff private I guess.
Nicely done, as always
I operate a Woodsman Pro 850 head and the first and most noticeable thing about the two heads on this video is the dangling hoses. On the Woodsman, the hoses all run through the centre of the Hangar and through Rotary Unions into the head. There are no dangling hoses to get caught and ripped off. You don’t have to lose time even thinking about the hoses.
I looked the Woodsman Pro 850 up and that looks like a great head! I like how it has been engineered. However it’s twice as heavy as the waratah 622b according the online specs (11603 lb vs 5,401 lb). I think it would be a struggle for the JD 703 to manage your Woodsman. But I bet it really rips through the timber.
622 is a really heavy head to begin with. I can't imagine something that weighs 11k. You'll loose more time lifting and swinging that around than "worrying" about hoses
Here in New Zealand, a 622 is considered a small head, too small for normal clearfell work. Our trees are fairly large, with 3 to 4 tonne average piece-size being common and up to 10 tonne not that unusual.
A Woodsman 850 is very popular here for it’s capability to handle large trees. Of course a large base machine is required to carry and drive the head. My carrier is a Cat 336, with head, guarding and ‘High and Wide’ track frame is around 52 tonnes all up. Increased fuel consumption, higher initial purchase price and greater difficulty in moving from forest to forest are some of the negatives of such large machines.
In operation it does not feel overly heavy or unwieldy and I can throw it around and pump up to 800 tonnes of wood through a day and not worry about anything breaking or, to get to the point of my original comment - not worry about hoses getting caught and ripped off.
I was a hand sawyer of huge timber in upper michigan for twenty years
Beautiful place up there!...I've never hand-cut timber but seems to me to be a dangerous and tough job. Hope things went well
If you're in a John Deere, you win before you even started.
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As a prior professional welder, id make sure the welder stays your friend lol. He didn’t weld those other “welds” that’s why they broke, and needed rewelded, probably a few times over. That weld should NOT break, the base metal will yes, (assuming wire strength is 70+) but dudes weld “in the field” which is usually just him saying his welds suck and he didn’t have all he needed…. This guy CLEANED the metal before applying the gussets and he can actually weld….anyways, nice machine lol
Ya he does a great job. Most times those "quick" welds just don't hold up.