Skidding Winches

[Sawyer Rob]

Doesn't that tractor have any brakes??? They should have been set!

SR

 

[Jim Timber]

Doesn't that tractor have any brakes??? They should have been set!

SR

My thoughts too. Good way to send the machine into the great beyond (or at least ruin that cab some more).

 

[CDN Farm Boy]

This one is earning it's keep.

TREUIL TAJFUN 1 TONNES RADIOCOMMANDE FALARD - YouTube

It would be a better idea if he had the screen up to protect the back of his head if the cable broke

 

[CalG]

What is the best way to attach an "extension" to the haul line.

Say one is running 125 feet on a 225" capacity spool, and carrying a loose coil of wire rope another 150" long. The hitch to be brought in is on the far side of a wet spot (semi frozen, but unsure if it would hold)

Just put a choker chain between the end sliders?

Is there a better way?

 

[Gordon Gould]

What is the best way to attach an "extension" to the haul line.

Say one is running 125 feet on a 225" capacity spool, and carrying a loose coil of wire rope another 150" long. The hitch to be brought in is on the far side of a wet spot (semi frozen, but unsure if it would hold)

Just put a choker chain between the end sliders?

Is there a better way?

I don't know if there is a better way but that's what I would do. The only problem I see is when you winch in your 125' permanent line your tree is still 150' away at the end of the extension line. You can't reach it with the 125' line. You will need another extension over 25'. But you probably have figured that out already and have a 25 footer ready.

gg

 

[Oldpath05]

Video of a blade earning its cost.

And what looks like a couple more pulls on the same hill.

Izvlacenje Drva iz Sume IMT 539 i Tajfun Vitlo 6t - YouTube

Izvlacenje Drva iz Sume,IMT 539 i Tajfun Vitlo 6t, Tajfun seilwinde 6t - YouTube

Bruce

Where's the brakes and where's the BEEF? Example of people making do with what we have, I guess.

 

[Oldpath05]

This one is earning it's keep.

TREUIL TAJFUN 1 TONNES RADIOCOMMANDE FALARD - YouTube

It would be a better idea if he had the screen up to protect the back of his head if the cable broke

No ? about BEEF here, there's some power, my V3004 Fransgard winch would be lucky if it would pull one of those logs, it has somewhere around 6000 lbs. of pull.

 

[Oldpath05]

A thinning job I did last year with my winch. I put in a dead end tractor road last July while it was relatively dry. I thinned the area in the picture behind the tractor.

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I cut in late December after the ground was frozen.

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This is what it looks like now. I took this yesterday morning.

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gg

I was going to get some pics. of logs that my three point hitch wont pick up and you have them in your second picture. I bet you miss the snow already, with any luck you might have some Monday.

 

[CalG]

I don't know if there is a better way but that's what I would do. The only problem I see is when you winch in your 125' permanent line your tree is still 150' away at the end of the extension line. You can't reach it with the 125' line. You will need another extension over 25'. But you probably have figured that out already and have a 25 footer ready.

gg

OK

Of course the actual distances are arbitrary. but the linking mechanism remains.

There is always a length of chain at hand ;-)

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Maybe once you winch it closer, your tractor can pull it a bit closer yet, for a better second pull?

SR