Re: Dragging logs

Posted by Hugh MacKay on January 15, 2006 at 03:38:46 from (216.208.58.145):

In Reply to: Dragging logs posted by KEH on January 14, 2006 at 17:44:02:

KEH: I draged many thousand board feet of logs over the years with Farmall 300 and later a 560D. Unlike you my logs were softwood spruce and fir. We pulled them tree length, yes many of them up to 60' and 70' long. Much lighter wood than your oak, yet we pulled as many as 10 trees at a time. My tractors were equiped with logging winches and cable collector slides, same as forestry skidders. My brother and I skidded as many as 50,000 to a 100,000 board feet every year, mostly on frozen ground. Yes I agree whole heartedly one had to be very careful.

By 1975 We were no longer operating the tractor ourselves and govt. workplase safety regulations were very unfavourable to this operation. We then went to a John Deere 540A forestry skidder. Having gone through this, one must ask himself why he risked doing it with a tractor.

If you must do this with a tractor get one of the 3 point logging winches, they give all the same protection as Fred's blade, plus the blade will ancohor the tractor on heavy pulls with the winch. When you drop that blade to do winching, unlike a drawbar pull causing front of tractor to lift, the winch with bottom blade cause the pull to lift on whole tractor rather than just the front. Also add ROPS protection with screening on back. I say ROPS with screening as my closest calls over the years have been flying wood from the skidding process. Make the seat belt a must.

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