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[robpm]

Where can you buy one of these Tree Jack levers. I can only find the video and some pictures of it when I look on the web. Do you have some more information on it?

 

[Oldpath05]

I don't find that ironic at all. Heating your house with your own wood can save you $3000 or more per winter and a tractor can help you cut enough wood to heat several houses. So do you want to burn middle east oil and send your money up the chimney or make the payments on your tractor?
A cab, soft or hard, makes working in the woods a lot more comfortable and provides protection from hypothermia. A couple of cold days per year will pay for a soft cab and perhaps six to eight for a hard cab.
Yup I'm going to heat my house with wood but I'm not going to cut it with axe and bucksaw nor draw it to the house on a hand sled.

Every time I use my tractor in the winter, I wish I had a cab like yours with a heater in it, wither I'm plowing snow or cutting firewood, in my world a cab is sweet, even in the summer time I'd like a cab with AC.

My tractor has only a cage and it has two benefits, might be hard to believe, but one is even with just a cage it's enough to keep them blanking deerflies off me in the summertime when I'm yarding wood, but one of the biggest thing that my cage, (cab if your lucky) is good for, is keeping limbs from hitting me. I remember the first time I took my new tractor in the woods, a limb hit me in front, the ROPS caught the limb and slap me behind my head, several times, after a couple trips, and speaking tongues, I said enough of that, went to a steel shop and got a $ 100.00 worth of square tubing, heavy gage screen, hinges, and stared welding.

 

[Gordon Gould]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7oSrtKvWsk

SR

If it were me I would set a wedge in that backcut before I set the jack and started cranking. I would keep the wedge tight as I went. That's a bad place to be working if something slips and the tree tips back with extra momentum.

 

[Walkin Horse]

I wonder if one could be made out of a good quality trailer jack.

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[Sawyer Rob]

If it were me I would set a wedge in that backcut before I set the jack and started cranking. I would keep the wedge tight as I went. That's a bad place to be working if something slips and the tree tips back with extra momentum.

To use it "right" the jack is set in place, BEFORE you even start the back cut, and it has a claw on it that digs into the tree... They are very safe...

I bought mine from Norwood Industries, I have no idea if they even carry them any longer... All of them are made in Europe and are of TOP quality... They are NOT made from a converted anything or of cheapo parts...

SR

 

[Grateful11]

 

[bcp]

I've been collecting parts to make a tree jack similar to this, using a square heavy duty trailer tongue jack and perforated square tubing.

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Bruce

 

[Gordon Gould]

To use it "right" the jack is set in place, BEFORE you even start the back cut, and it has a claw on it that digs into the tree... They are very safe...

I bought mine from Norwood Industries, I have no idea if they even carry them any longer... All of them are made in Europe and are of TOP quality... They are NOT made from a converted anything or of cheapo parts...

SR

I am just saying if it were me I would use one of the standard techniques of cutting or boring the backcut so I could use a wedge to hold the tree from tipping back. I am comfortable with that. I don't imply the jack is junk. It is the tree's integrety and the ground I don't trust. I just didn't think it looked that safe a technique to trust my life on it. But again it is just me. No crticism of you or the jack is intended at all.

 

[Walkin Horse]

Well then I will just keep pushing them over with my backhoe. I have only dropped one on a powerline and I didn't have anything hooked to it.

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[Happy Gilmore]

Very nice, thorough post Sawyer Rob!