Hello to all who replied. First I'd like to apologize for taking a couple of days to reply to your responses to my post, especially to everyone who replied so quickly.
I'll try to answer several questions with this post. I didn't cut up the tree. It was on a neighbors land which is next to my driveway and he had it cut down. Seemed like easy pickins at first, but like lots of projects, it got a little more involved as I began. Its an area that is really not very accessible on a tractor. There is a bit of a grade going down to the cut logs and there are too many other trees of varying sizes in the area which prevents me from just driving up to them. I kind of have to work with how the tree cutters left everything. I thought the fifty dollar 2500 # Harbor Freight winch sounded like a good idea, but the more I learn about electric winches the more I believe I'll keep using the chains to drag out the cut logs. Its not like there will be lots of other trees I will need to get, when this tree is gathered up the log gathering in that area will be done.
I'll try to answer several questions with this post. I didn't cut up the tree. It was on a neighbors land which is next to my driveway and he had it cut down. Seemed like easy pickins at first, but like lots of projects, it got a little more involved as I began. Its an area that is really not very accessible on a tractor. There is a bit of a grade going down to the cut logs and there are too many other trees of varying sizes in the area which prevents me from just driving up to them. I kind of have to work with how the tree cutters left everything. I thought the fifty dollar 2500 # Harbor Freight winch sounded like a good idea, but the more I learn about electric winches the more I believe I'll keep using the chains to drag out the cut logs. Its not like there will be lots of other trees I will need to get, when this tree is gathered up the log gathering in that area will be done.