Skidding winch-- to skid, or not to skid?

[CobyRupert]

OR you just grew up with a sheltered life! lol

It's a "common" word to those that have been around logging since we were young...

SR

Must be...
Or maybe because I was born after the invention of hydraulics..

...and here I thought I was worldly because I knew it was A Prentice loader and not an apprentice loader that replaced this technique.
...so when you were young and being trained to parbuckle, did they call you an apprentice loader? :laughing:

 

[MossRoad]

Actualy there is! The black lever disconect and your're free to roll it out!

I see yours is free wheeling. The company that makes my machine makes about 40 attachments. The winch they offer isn't true free wheeling, that I can see. Its power in and power out. And I imagine if you bypass the hydraulics, you could pull it out by hand, but it would be fighting the fluid inside the motor. Anyhow, I'm asking for more details in the Power Trac forum. Thanks again. :thumbsup:

 

[MossRoad]

Wow!
Thanks for the vocabulary lesson! I had to look up what parbuckling is. "To raise and lower with a parbuckle." I then had to look up parbuckle.
Talk about your 10 cent words! Here's yours for using it 2cents::2cents::2cents::2cents::2cents.

Peak usage of the word was around the year 1840. Man, you guys must be old!!
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First time I heard it was a few years ago watching people load logs onto trailers from the side. Next time I heard it, was that cruise ship that crashed. The Concordia. They used parbuckling to get it upright again.
The Parbuckling project – Concordia wreck removal project

 

[MossRoad]

Agreed. I was responding to those who said hydraulic winches are slow. That doesn't really matter for parbuckling. You don't want to go fast there anyway.

I was reading on some different drives for hydraulics winches. Worm drives were slower, but had the advantage of braking by design. They require a clutch to disengage. Then there was planetary drive, which is faster, but the load can freewheel, so they require a brake. There were some other types as well. Interesting reading.

 

[MossRoad]

OR you just grew up with a sheltered life! lol

It's a "common" word to those that have been around logging since we were young...

SR

I think you're confusing it with Swashbuckler....

 

[Sawyer Rob]

...so when you were young and being trained to parbuckle, did they call you an apprentice loader? :laughing:

Well, I didn't grow up in the city, so I was learning how to do things for MYSELF, like parbuckleing, at a pretty young age...

SR

 

[MossRoad]

Well, I didn't grow up in the city, so I was learning how to do things for MYSELF, like parbuckleing, at a pretty young age...

SR

...like saving our poop in a hole in a stinky wooden shed?

Very few people have heard the term "parbuckling" before this conversation.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

...like saving our poop in a hole in a stinky wooden shed?

Very few people have heard the term "parbuckling" before this conversation.

Maybe very few in YOUR world, but not where I live, or around anyone who has done much log/firewood work...

SR

 

[MossRoad]

Maybe very few in YOUR world, but not where I live, or around anyone who has done much log/firewood work...

SR

Well, lets take another poll like we did with transmission failures....

Who on TBN has ever used or heard the word "parbuckling" and knew what it meant before this year?

 

[roadhunter]

Not a term I have ever used or heard used. Sounds like a great way to impress the ladies at the pub bragging about doing a little parbuckling.