Chris: Crawlers especially big ones should only tow heavy equipment. Young lad I had spreading manure, got 1066 down with duals just as frost was coming out. He wasn't down that bad, but he was on frozen soil. With water saturation in the soil above the frozen soil, may as well have been pure ice. 12 ton flotation manure spreader behind.
Since he was alone, forestry skidder was not near, he took the Cat D7 and two new 3/8" chains. He broke both chains, and what I had left was 4 push poles. The annoying part, he drove the D7 right past a 1" cable with tow hooks. I think he got so excited about getting a crack at driving the D7, all else was forgotten.
Hardest pull I ever made in my life was D7 down in a peat bog over it's tracks. We got a cable attached to it's drawbar. 200' away was a 6' embankment. I put the Deere down over that bank, with rear against bank. We put a 4' diameter yellow brich under the cable about 25' from the D7. That was designed to lift. Then we backed 1066 in front of Deere, drawbar over the logging blade, chained the two together. The front end will come up on those big skidders if pulling hard enough on winch, and back wheels can't slide.
I wouldn't let anyone else make this pull. I set the throttle about 1,200 rpm, started winching. It was damn uncomfortable listening to that cable wrap on the winch spool right behind me. Pulled the 7 out, 1" cable didn't break, however it wasn't worth a damn after that pull, almost like a long 1x4 board to handle, wouldn't wrap on winch spool unless it had load. The part of cable that was on spool during pull was almost like the coil spring of a 58 Buick. Two men couldn't pull it straight, and the straight part of cable was terrible if using fairleeds to hook up several logs not in a straight line. Needless to say the operator didn't tolerate te cable very long skidding logs.
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