Alaska The last frontier
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Topic: Alaska The last frontier
Posted By: Ken in Texas
Subject: Alaska The last frontier
Date Posted: 14 Feb 2016 at 10:07pm
| 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. |
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Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 14 Feb 2016 at 10:36pm
| wish I could watch that show again, can't after retiring from the job, as we could watch it (with no volume) at work. I loved seeing the scenery on that show! |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 14 Feb 2016 at 10:37pm
| Now where are they gonna get fuel out in the Alaskan wilderness?? |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 14 Feb 2016 at 10:39pm
| why...out of their 5 gallons cans Creston! duh! lol |
Posted By: KY poorboy
Date Posted: 14 Feb 2016 at 10:55pm
| I saw that too. I like that show, Otto cracks me up. Lol |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2016 at 2:01am
| hard to believe they can keep any cattle up there with all the bears and wolves around! |
Posted By: Eldon (WA)
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2016 at 12:22pm
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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.... ------------- ALLIS EXPRESS! This year: |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2016 at 12:55pm
| 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! |
Posted By: CrestonM
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2016 at 1:01pm
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I've never heard of this show...Is it old/new?? If it's got A-Cs in it, I guess I need to watch it.
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Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2016 at 1:09pm
| CRESTON....you gits back to yer school'in! it's a semi old show, been on a couple years anyways! you can still go in and see a cam on Otto's place. they puts a light out there so's you could see his wood shed at night. or if it might be snowing or the wind blowing....if you leave it on 24/7, you might see one of them gathering firewood outta the shed! Otto looks funny out there in his long johns! |
Posted By: EricPA
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2016 at 2:12pm
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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 ------------- Life is tough,but it's tougher when you're stupid. - John Wayne |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2016 at 3:10pm
Too bad he waited till he was out on the beach to use a crescent wrench
to get a spark plug out. I guess there has to be some added drama or
people wouldn't keep watching the show. Anyhow, it sounded like he got
it running on 3 again when he took off
------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: Eldon (WA)
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2016 at 3:17pm
Shameless they should hire you and me to go up there and set them straight LOL! ------------- ALLIS EXPRESS! This year: |
SHAMELESS wrote:Posted By: WC7610
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2016 at 5:17pm
Shameless they should hire you and me to go up there and set them straight LOL!
 ------------- Thanks Most Bad Government has grown out of Too Much Government- Thomas Jefferson |
Posted By: 7040
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2016 at 6:25pm
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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. |
Posted By: Allis180gas
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2016 at 7:21pm
| They have a couple different Allis'. I believe there is a 5050 fwd and a 5050 2 WD also |
Posted By: RickM(MO)
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2016 at 9:43pm
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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. ------------- Missouri Allis Chalmers Club Member; 1954 WD45 (NF), 611LTD & 811GT Lawn Tractors |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2016 at 9:57pm
| 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). |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2016 at 9:57pm
| if I leave this place, no matter where I move to, them 2 tractors is going with me...in town or not! |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2016 at 10:09pm
I think they rigged that in case some government official that didn't know any better, saw the show.  They just set the scale to read 0 at 1000 pounds.------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: Eldon (WA)
Date Posted: 15 Feb 2016 at 11:42pm
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. ------------- ALLIS EXPRESS! This year: |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 16 Feb 2016 at 1:20am
| me wonders if I can drive the 7010 to seattle in a month? lol I can haul the 180 behind it! let's see...200 miles a day or so.... |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 16 Feb 2016 at 1:21am
| 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! |
Posted By: dpower
Date Posted: 16 Feb 2016 at 3:49am
| can I keep the jeep and the like pop machine??? please |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 16 Feb 2016 at 6:32am
| you can have the pop machine...the jeep is going with along with YOU! we'll need a body guard! |
Posted By: Ken in Texas
Date Posted: 16 Feb 2016 at 7:52am
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Ya know what? I'm sure glad I started this thread. Or was it that old B that got this thread a-goin?
Can I go with you two guys? I'll have to leave the SFW CA here. The area up there except for the beach at low tide isn't flat enough to drive safe on a tricycle.
I always wanted to catch a halibut with Jane. But only if she leaves her pistol at home.
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Posted By: Ken in Texas
Date Posted: 16 Feb 2016 at 8:00am
| Maybe we need to move this thread down to shops, varmints and trucks |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 16 Feb 2016 at 10:22am
| i'l need driver to drive over weight trucks |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 16 Feb 2016 at 10:22am
| "drivers" |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 16 Feb 2016 at 10:31am
| I just checked their "live" cams t Ottos place, it's snowing like the dickens in the front yard, but not in the back yard! lol |
Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 16 Feb 2016 at 10:43am
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Atz and Jewel doing Yo! [TUBE]Id99RX2B5r0[/TUBE] ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: Eldon (WA)
Date Posted: 16 Feb 2016 at 10:44am
We're gonna need a bigger boat! ------------- ALLIS EXPRESS! This year: |
Posted By: BenGiBoy
Date Posted: 16 Feb 2016 at 1:37pm
Maybe ya'll could get an army cruiser to take you 'round, it could be a practice run for the newbies, what with shiftin' cargo and all, when Shameless takes the tractors for a spin, and the airplanes, and the ........ boy, I hope he doesn't find the cannons. Then you would have enough room for all you treasures.  ------------- '39 Model B Tractors are cheaper than girls, remember that! |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 16 Feb 2016 at 3:06pm
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Yes, It is quite a show. Love the views also watch a couple of other Alaskan shows. |
Posted By: WC7610
Date Posted: 16 Feb 2016 at 9:46pm
Shameless, better put straight #1 in the tractors- not just "winter blend"  ------------- Thanks Most Bad Government has grown out of Too Much Government- Thomas Jefferson |
Posted By: HaroldOmaha
Date Posted: 16 Feb 2016 at 10:18pm
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Earlier shows they had an Allis 170 setting in there bone yard. Disappeared in later shows.
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Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 16 Feb 2016 at 10:47pm
| there should be a lot of Allis stuff in Alaska, back in the 60's and 70's and clear into the early 80's, A/C had the only farm equipment dealership in the whole state, not sure what town it was in but it belonged to a either brother or brother in law of Leroy King that owned King Implement in Tekamah, Ne. there are other dealers there now, but not back then. back then people there were starving for farm equipment. I remember Mr. king buying up a lot of older equipment of all kinds and loading it all (stacking) on rail road cars in Blair, Ne. lots and lots of railroads cars. almost made a whole train from it. disks, and wagons, and plows, and HD's, and tractors, and harrows, and planters, anything that had to do with farming was loaded. new farm equipment taken by truck up there had a $2000. price added to each piece for shipping, no matter if it was new or used. they got past that high dollar amount going by train. he showed me pictures of farmers clearing land up there with 2 HD's and a long cable, they would drag that long cable over trees to knock them down, then push them up into piles to be cut for firewood and to be burned of the rest of it. said the trees rolled over easy as root systems never went in very deep. |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 16 Feb 2016 at 10:49pm
| I don't think AGCO has any dealerships up there now, mostly jd and Kabota, and a few other foreign makes. |
Posted By: macvette
Date Posted: 17 Feb 2016 at 9:46am
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Cool video, Charlie. Thanks for posting. you are a wealth of information! I, too, enjoy the show. Don't much care for how the equipment is treated, tho. Thanks for the background on AC in Alaska, Shameless. More interesting stuff that an old guy like me will probably forget, unfortunately!
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Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 17 Feb 2016 at 4:11pm
| I just listened to that vid...thanks...that was a good one! (gots to be careful and only wtch these vids when my monthly usage is bouts up!) lol |
Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 17 Feb 2016 at 6:48pm
| Eric...bear meat is very tender if cut right and cooked right, texture is just about like the tenderest cuts from any bovine. |
Posted By: 190xt
Date Posted: 17 Feb 2016 at 7:52pm
| I HEARD THERES A WALMART 20 MILES FROM THERE |
Posted By: EricPA
Date Posted: 17 Feb 2016 at 8:19pm
Yeah I've had black bear, it's okay my aunt roasted it forever it was tender but greasy even though it was roasted on a rack ------------- Life is tough,but it's tougher when you're stupid. - John Wayne |