Quickie log-drag, (paper-thin MIG weld)

[bcp]

Make something that will last, like these steel plate skids.

Timber Tuff Tools | Tough Tools for the Forest Industry!

ATV Log Skidder - Log Skidding Equipment - Log Sled, LLC

Bruce

 

[Sodo]

Bruce, as usual you come thru with great links! The biggest problem with using a car hood from american iron is that it's 4 feet square (or bigger) and you have to store it, move it around. I need it to be about 2 feet square and you're right it's easy to make (or buy). Thx for the examples!

I should have left that Hyundai hood where I found it and just bought a sheet of steel at that moment.

 

[Sodo]

Having a new-ish Kubota seems like such good eqpt to have around (even if it's compact,,,,)

1893 photo is humbling - nothing as small as 22". Could be a "joke" photo, with just 2 horses (instead of a team). Still hard to believe that could be moved with "straw".

 

[arrow]

Having a new-ish Kubota seems like such good eqpt to have around (even if it's compact,,,,)

1893 photo is humbling - nothing as small as 22". Could be a "joke" photo, with just 2 horses (instead of a team). Still hard to believe that could be moved with "straw".

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No, they'd use a couple of horses (four at the most) if the grade was accommodating. Loads like this were carried for short distances (quarter mile or less) until they were loaded into a near by river. Loggers back then would vie for world record hauls at the expense of the animals.

 

[dragoneggs]

holy cow! I hope they could stop the sled before it ran over the horses.

 

[CNC Dan]

holy cow! I hope they could stop the sled before it ran over the horses.

Would be like the Grinches dog Max, hauling the sled down the mountain to Whoville.

grinch sleigh - YouTube

 

[Big Barn]

Cool pic!

Terry

 

[BukitCase]

My grand dad was a logger back then - if the rest were as mean as that old bastard, they probably ate horse burgers and laughed about it afterward... Steve

 

[Reverser]

That's a cool picture, but I don't believe it was done with only two horses.
Babe the Blue OX could have done it, though.

 

[dragoneggs]

Let's do a little calculation... lot's of assumptions here but for fun...

2ft diameter by 16ft long Douglas fir fresh cut logs. 50cu.ft. x 38lb/cu.ft. = 1900lb... lets say 2000lb. (Oak or most other wet wood much heavier) x 50 logs = 100,000lbs.

Now the sled, let's assume wooden skis. Coefficient of sliding friction (let's forget about static friction) is .05 (wood on ice) so the pulling force is 100,000lb x .05 = 5000lb. This is where I get stuck because I am not a horse expert. Quickly looking around on the web for info I see that a horse might be able to pull half its weight if it is on large wheels. On a sled, no clue but even if it can pull more than its weight, I have a real hard time thinking it can pull 50 times its weight (assuming two horses at 1000lb each) on snow.

Looking forward to others numbers here

Me thinks Babe was not your normal size horse shown in pic! :laughing: