mx842
Platinum Member
- Joined
- Feb 26, 2011
- Messages
- 853
- Location
- Richmond Va
- Tractor
- Kubota L3301, PowerKing 2414, John Deere 316, Gravely ZT HD 52
For the past couple years I have been cleaning up a bunch of trees that got blown down in a storm we had. It was slow going at first because the way I was going at it. I was cutting it up in fire wood lengths right where it was at, then hauling it out in my little trailer and piling it up so it could dry. That was a pain and was taking way to long and I was afraid it would all be rotted away before I could get to it. I thought about cutting it up in log lengths that my little wheel horse could drag out of the woods but that too became a big hassle because the wheel horse didn't have enough ground clearance and stayed stuck a lot. Then I got my new 'old' tractor, a Power King 14/24 and even though that has less HP it would pull most of the logs around but it to would get hung up sometimes and also it was hard on the poor ol girl so I got to thinking.......I was watching some guys that were logging a patch of woods down the road and as I was watching this log skidder pulling these massive loads of logs up to the log deck to be stripped of their limbs and sawed up I got to thinking.:scratchchin:
I had this old roll around hydraulic motor lift that was sitting out back and not being used and I also had this 6000 lb axle that I got out from under an old straw blower that I scrapped awhile back and decided to marry them up. I played around with it for awhile trying to figure out the best way to make chicken soup out of chicken poop and finally came up with a working solution to my problem.
I bolted the lift to the axle, then added a hitch and before my eyes my, frankenlift/skidder was born. What a difference that thing made. Before I would have to cut logs only 6 to 8 feet long to keep from destroying my new toy. Now I can pull 12 to 16' logs out with little or no effort and it's a lot easier on my Power King when doing so. I don't know why I didn't think of this long ago because I have found all sorts of uses for this thing. It's slow but I can load logs with it and have even used it like a wrecker to haul equipment around the yard that wont start or is broken down in the woods. I know, I know she don't look like much but it really works well.
I had this old roll around hydraulic motor lift that was sitting out back and not being used and I also had this 6000 lb axle that I got out from under an old straw blower that I scrapped awhile back and decided to marry them up. I played around with it for awhile trying to figure out the best way to make chicken soup out of chicken poop and finally came up with a working solution to my problem.
I bolted the lift to the axle, then added a hitch and before my eyes my, frankenlift/skidder was born. What a difference that thing made. Before I would have to cut logs only 6 to 8 feet long to keep from destroying my new toy. Now I can pull 12 to 16' logs out with little or no effort and it's a lot easier on my Power King when doing so. I don't know why I didn't think of this long ago because I have found all sorts of uses for this thing. It's slow but I can load logs with it and have even used it like a wrecker to haul equipment around the yard that wont start or is broken down in the woods. I know, I know she don't look like much but it really works well.