OP
CDN Farm Boy
Veteran Member
Interesting... a couple posts I made earlier from my phone didn't show up here. Now to try to remember what I wrote :mur:
That $2200 Norse winch would be $3500 by the time I got it here. The cheapest winch I've found is $2900 with brand name ones starting at $3600. At this point, the grapple is the priority and the winch secondary. With using salvaged steel, I'll only be a few hundred into the grapple & frame including the hydraulics. While I want to plan for the winch, I'm not sure it will happen right now. I only cut enough to heat the house for the season right now and I can get the tractor to most of it.
I like the simplicity of just bolting on a hydraulic winch but the only one I've had any experience with was a MileMarker mounted on an F250 lowering my Toyota down a cliff. As ovrszd said, painfully slow. I figured the electronics of the Kubota wouldn't be up to the task of the Warn but it was worth asking since it's on my shelf. Love that thing, it's out-winched everything but an 8274. Considering my limited use of this, I don't see needing the production capability of 100-200 ft/min like most PTO skidding winches but I'm not willing to wait all day to pull one log either. That 60 ft/min of the 9500 seems about right but certainly not worth burning up an alternator or cooking a battery.
That $2200 Norse winch would be $3500 by the time I got it here. The cheapest winch I've found is $2900 with brand name ones starting at $3600. At this point, the grapple is the priority and the winch secondary. With using salvaged steel, I'll only be a few hundred into the grapple & frame including the hydraulics. While I want to plan for the winch, I'm not sure it will happen right now. I only cut enough to heat the house for the season right now and I can get the tractor to most of it.
I like the simplicity of just bolting on a hydraulic winch but the only one I've had any experience with was a MileMarker mounted on an F250 lowering my Toyota down a cliff. As ovrszd said, painfully slow. I figured the electronics of the Kubota wouldn't be up to the task of the Warn but it was worth asking since it's on my shelf. Love that thing, it's out-winched everything but an 8274. Considering my limited use of this, I don't see needing the production capability of 100-200 ft/min like most PTO skidding winches but I'm not willing to wait all day to pull one log either. That 60 ft/min of the 9500 seems about right but certainly not worth burning up an alternator or cooking a battery.