Posted by Adirondack case guy on January 16, 2013 at 13:56:33 from (74.69.160.79):
I went out to my shop yesterday, and welded together this A Frame which bolts to a standard CatI cross drawbar. It is made from a peice of 3" channel, 2" angle iron, and some peices of pipe. Since we got the expected covering of snow last night, which covered the mud from the Jan. thaw, I went up to the sugar bush to skid out more firewood logs for the evaporators. I wanted to see how well the arch worked on my Kubota B2150 4wd. It met all my expectations and then some. I was a bit conserned about the front end lifting when the arch was way up. The only time the front even offer to raise was when I was bulling a log up over a stone ledge at one end of the woods. All I had to do was lower the arms and it settled rite back down. The choker ring is very handy also, allowing me drive the tractor up over the ledge and then snatch the log up over it. It not as handy as a winch would be, but this only cost me a dozen sticks of welding rod, couple of hrs, and some left over steel. To elaborate a bit; the short chain that is threaded through the top of the arch, with the clevis and choker ring, is fastened to the drawbar of the tractor, so when the arch is raised it retracts, about 16" and raises the but of the log if hooked short, or allows me to move forward , when lowered, with the tractor to get out of a hole I have chewed down in. I need to weld on some more 5/16 posts to hook my extra chains on though. They slip around the pipe that I welded at the top to carry them and drag on the ground Loren, the Acg
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