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Crazy obstacle. Suspension bridge made with cable, tires, coils, and rail road ties.[IMG][/IMG]

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My beautiful baby girl![IMG][/IMG]

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Good friend of mine's SAS'd SR5 4Runner. He was the guy that got me really into Toyota's years ago. Plus he has a yard full of part Toyota's!!! His truck has Marlin duals, custom bumpers, sliders(he built), homemade t-case cross member, and 6" All Pro springs all around. Bad a** truck![IMG][/IMG]

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Complete frame up on an 85 Toyota Truck I did years ago. POR 15 the whole frame axles, every thing 5.29 gears lockers, duals, everything. 22r with 38 dges Weber, old school Downey long tube header, W56C transmission. Was a good truck![IMG][/IMG]

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Other side of it.

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1987 Toyota plow truck. 31x10.5x15 BFG AT's. 32/36 Weber. Sno-Way snow plow, electric over hydro. My dad bought it new/used in 87. Still going. I give him a call to come plow me out. So thought I'd show off his truck too. He is also a big help when I need a hand with something.

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What I do for a living. Mosquitos were horrible! Swan lake area, Montana. Red Cedar. Nice ones, not to rotten. Sent the loads to Welco, in Naples Idaho. The other logs went to Stoltz in Kalispel Montana. Roughly $1000 for a 1000 board feet for the Cedar, and the rest was around $280 a thousand board feet. Some nice logs!

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Too big for the 28" bar, had to reach out to clear the undercut.

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Is it fairly appropriate to do a boring backcut in a leaning cedar? That's what it looks like you're doing there, anyhow.
Never cut much cedar, mostly pine in my experience. Not usually much need for that kind of technique in pine unless it's rotten in the middle and brittle on the outside with a decent lean.

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I'll do the bore in back cut if it is leaning, but some times I'll bore through the face and leave the post on either side of the back cut. Not too much Cedar around here either, that is why I have some photos of me cutting one down. Lot of pine, lodge pole, douglas fir, larch, are what I usually cut. But now I work for a company called Watershed Consulting and we do soils, riparian, and forest work. It is nice to have a change rather than cutting trees every day. One of my bosses also has a saw mill that I work at occasionally. I still end up doing all of the forest field tech. work though.

Philbert

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Glad you got Photobucket figured out - it can be buggy and use a lot of PC memory and just hang/crash. Hard to complain when it's free

Your trucks look great BTW, thanks for sharing all the (larger) photos!

Congratulations on the new kiddo too.

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Thanks and Thanks. I have to upload some pictures soon. I have a few new things I have done to the Runner!

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Tomorrow I will post pictures of what I have done. I installed some All-Pro 4" rear leaf springs! I also used 90-95 4Runner rear bump stops. Normally used for coils, but their bump is more progressive for softer impact even with leafs. I used some Marlin Crawler u-bolt flip plates. And some Sky-Manufacturing boomerang shackles. All of the bushings, spring hangers, and shackle hangers were purchased from All-Pro as well. I still have to mount the shocks some how. But like I said I promise to post pictures tomorrow. Thanks for all of the great input and advise from YotaTech and subscribers!