Alaska The last frontier

Atz Lee and wife of ten years, Jane, ride off into the future in a covered wagon pulled by a Allis Chalmers B.  How about that?      Saw it tonight on a rerun episode.

Now where are they gonna get fuel out in the Alaskan wilderness??

I saw that too. I like that show, Otto cracks me up. Lol

The show does have some nice scenery and it is nice to see an Allis tractor here and there, but other than that the show is laughable. Obviously the producers have to hype a lot of stuff to make it more interesting, but they could at least have advisors more versed in farming, driving tractors and hunting. The way they do things is entertaining to say the least. I really laughed when Atz Lee was trying to pull that log with the 5040 and had it hooked up high with the 3pt logging arch and was popping the clutch like crazy and popping wheelies...then later showing him pulling a much smaller log down the road. They are all hard on equipment...not true machine operators by far! They make is sound like they are going to starve if they don't shoot a bear for meat....but never talk about spending their winters at their homes in Hawaii. It was kind of funny that Atz Lee fell off a cliff the day before he was due in court on an illegal "hunting from an aircraft" charge. My buddy worked with Otto on the north slope of Alaska for awhile years ago...said he was a goof then! I guess we will see how many years they can milk it....

I've never heard of this show...Is it old/new?? 

Makes me cringe when I see them on a piece of equipment and I'd be damned if I would eat greasy, tough old bear if I had 30+ head of herfords

SHAMELESS wrote: yep...them shows all gotta puts drama into it! if they can milk it...then go for it, them city bot TV crews don't know no better!

Shameless they should hire you and me to go up there and set them straight LOL!

It probably helps that jewel the singer is otsze daughter.
Also one episode they were digging a new out house with a pick ax and shovel then set out house in place with a mini excavator. Double pfft.

Towards the beginning of this episode they were planning on using a Ford 8N or 9N to pull the covered wagon, but they said it would be too heavy. Something about being illegal to drive a vehicle over 1,000 lbs. across some of the land up there. So they weighed the A-C B and their scale said it was 995 lbs! That would be a super light B!   Norm's book says a B shipping weight is 2,060 lbs. Well at least they used the A-C.

if I leave this place, no matter where I move to, them 2 tractors is going with me...in town or not!

SHAMELESS wrote: i'm ready Eldon! i'd love to live up there a few years! hafta take the 180D and the 7010 tho! (and my crane).

It's all set up....Otto will pick everything up on his barge seaside in Seattle in a month. Gotta figure out what I want to take. I'm sure going to take that chunk of rr tye with the two nails in it soes I can shows em how to chop the head offn a chikn. See ya there.

Eldon...i'm gonna need about 5-6 semi's...gotta takes more of my treasures or the "stockholders" will steal it and give it all away while i'm gone!

you can have the pop machine...the jeep is going with along with YOU! we'll need a body guard!

Maybe we need to move this thread down to shops, varmints and trucks

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