Extracting a Timberjack from the _______!

 Lyle (Trapper) Roseen reports that he received a phone call from Kerby Eidsmoe on Saturday, November 29. Fortunately for Kerby, Trapper happened to be close to the phone.

“Kerby said that he’d gotten his Timberjack buried in some __________ the day before” Trapper says, “He asked me if he could haul my Skidder down and help pull him out.”

 The term Kerby used to name the substance his Timberjack was mired in is commonly described as the excrement from the Minnesota State Bird.

             Trapper assented, so Kerby brought over his truck and trailer to haul Trapper’s 440 John Deere cable skidder south. Trapper loaded it up and Kerby headed south with Trapper and son-in-law, Hasso, following.

             On the way to the logging site west of Winner Silo, Hasso noticed smoke coming from one of the trailer wheels so they flagged Kerby down.

             Sure enough, one of the wheel bearings had destroyed itself, so the 440 had to be unloaded and driven the rest of the way. Even empty, the trailer lost its wheel before they made it to to the site of the stuck Timberjack.

             When he saw the Timberjack, Trapper stated, “I thought we’d never get it out. The rear wheels were almost totally under water and the front tires were about half submerged. I figured it would be there until spring!”

             He continued, “I got in front of it and we hooked up. It was a tough pull. The rear tires on the Timberjack were almost bald. We broke three cables before we eventually pulled it to higher ground.”

             All’s well that ends well, maybe. Trapper took his trailer down to haul his 440 back the next day and found that Kerby’s brother Grant had the Timberjack torn apart.  

            Though they had cleaned most of the __________ off, a clod of _________ had been missed in the joints of the articulated skidder and had subsequently destroyed the driveshaft.

             Welcome to winter logging 2008-2009.