A great success!

[creekbend]

Well done.

 

[Tkblacktail]

Cheez you still don't have your baby back? They ever pin-point the problem?

An entirely-new HST is on the way; caught up in transit between "Mahindra" and the dealer. I have to order and wait for just about everything (out here at the end of the Luis & Clark Trail) except groceries & fuel.

Seeing your 3016 in action is awesome!

 

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An entirely-new HST is on the way; caught up in transit between "Mahindra" and the dealer. I have to order and wait for just about everything (out here at the end of the Luis & Clark Trail) except groceries & fuel.

Seeing your 3016 in action is awesome!

Well hopefully Trask this will be all water under the bridge for you and it will be like nothing happened. My dealer said if I ever had a catastrophic failure of my unit, he would supply me with a tractor to use in the interim. He's done that for years it seems. Hope I never have to find out. At any rate, I wish pictures like this had been available when i was thinking of getting the 3016 in the first place. I mean its nice to be pleasantly surprised (the whole time this thing kept pulling when I felt sure it would get hung up I kept saying "holy cripes, holy cripes". I just hooked up to the crown to see how far I'd get (thinking I'd go about 10') but when it pulled it all the way home with pieces of the crown snapping off when it met resistance as opposed to the tractor stopping, I was shocked and then I was shocked again when it actually picked up those stems you see in the pics to pile them. I would have felt more comfortable with the purchase had I'd known. At any rate, if anyone was thinking of a small tractor acting like a bigger tractor, this is a viable unit.

Thanks Creek. I love any kind of forestry pictures a lot of us do on this site. Wish there were more.

 

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Looking Good Arrow,

Is this on your property up the road? You're woods look very similar to mine.... so must be.

Batten down the hatches, we've got some snow on the way.

-J

Yup. 10" will be a cake walk for our stuff.

 

[Shift4200]

Well hopefully Trask this will be all water under the bridge for you and it will be like nothing happened. My dealer said if I ever had a catastrophic failure of my unit, he would supply me with a tractor to use in the interim. He's done that for years it seems. Hope I never have to find out. At any rate, I wish pictures like this had been available when i was thinking of getting the 3016 in the first place. I mean its nice to be pleasantly surprised (the whole time this thing kept pulling when I felt sure it would get hung up I kept saying "holy cripes, holy cripes". I just hooked up to the crown to see how far I'd get (thinking I'd go about 10') but when it pulled it all the way home with pieces of the crown snapping off when it met resistance as opposed to the tractor stopping, I was shocked and then I was shocked again when it actually picked up those stems you see in the pics to pile them. I would have felt more comfortable with the purchase had I'd known. At any rate, if anyone was thinking of a small tractor acting like a bigger tractor, this is a viable unit.

Thanks Creek. I love any kind of forestry pictures a lot of us do on this site. Wish there were more.

I can vouch for this, back in the day... when our Wheelhorse would go down Dubay would have a loaner at the house in no time. I know it's not as significant of a tractor as we're talking here, but its what we had. And Dubay made for dam sure we kept working while it was in the shop.

Yep... 10in. More of a good time than work if you ask me.

-J

 

[Tkblacktail]

Arrow,

Is that the final "resting place" for your rear wheel spacing?

I have the exact same set-up as you appear to have, but I'm kicking around the idea of swapping sides to end-up with the widest stance possible (keeping the tread-pattern proper) but I do not like the idea of having the valve-stems on the inside where I cannot watch out for them.

Some day, I plan to have the tires moved to the opposite rims so I can "have it all".

What are your thoughts/conclusions (if I may ask)?

 

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Arrow,

Is that the final "resting place" for your rear wheel spacing?

I have the exact same set-up as you appear to have, but I'm kicking around the idea of swapping sides to end-up with the widest stance possible (keeping the tread-pattern proper) but I do not like the idea of having the valve-stems on the inside where I cannot watch out for them.

Some day, I plan to have the tires moved to the opposite rims so I can "have it all".

What are your thoughts/conclusions (if I may ask)?

Trask my JD had its stems on the inside. Before I welded stem guards on the wheel, they were just as susceptible to damage as they were on the outside and as you say, they are more handily gotten to air wise while on the outside but rarely did I use them anyway with calcium in the tubes. I am not sure if this is the final "kick out" on these wheels. I do not think it is but I had them widened from where they were initially at the dealership. My thinking was that I did want a bit more stability a wider set up would give however I did not want them so wide that the tractor would become "clumsy" in the woods and not fit between tree trunks, rocks and ground obstructions. As Shift can attest since he lives a few miles up the road from me, these woods are tight. Not much maneuvering room. I had to find the blend between stability and motion adroitness to be able to dance amongst the trees and this seems a good compromise.

 

[Shift4200]

Trask my JD had its stems on the inside. Before I welded stem guards on the wheel, they were just as susceptible to damage as they were on the outside and as you say, they are more handily gotten to air wise while on the outside but rarely did I use them anyway with calcium in the tubes. I am not sure if this is the final "kick out" on these wheels. I do not think it is but I had them widened from where they were initially at the dealership. My thinking was that I did want a bit more stability a wider set up would give however I did not want them so wide that the tractor would become "clumsy" in the woods and not fit between tree trunks, rocks and ground obstructions. As Shift can attest since he lives a few miles up the road from me, these woods are tight. Not much maneuvering room. I had to find the blend between stability and motion adroitness to be able to dance amongst the trees and this seems a good compromise.

Tight? Ha... that's an understatement. I'm not sure how you're getting thru the woods with your rig at all, never mind after having widened the rear. I know with my Max I have to pick my lines carefully.

My lot is mostly white oak with mix of white pine. Perfect for white tails.... not to mention the white oaks are pin straight and perfect for climbing tree stands.

-J

 

[Tkblacktail]

Tight? Ha... that's an understatement. I'm not sure how you're getting thru the woods with your rig at all, never mind after having widened the rear. I know with my Max I have to pick my lines carefully.

My lot is mostly white oak with mix of white pine. Perfect for white tails.... not to mention the white oaks are pin straight and perfect for climbing tree stands.

-J

10-4 on the wheels,

My only time on the ground over there was on a family woodlot in Ohio (near Akron) where all life has evolved on top of ancient and unsorted glacial moraines; tight is a loose term for sure.

I hope to run some type of PTO winch before my trees are big enough to thin/log again. Now I run a high lead cable to get logs through my tight spots; nothing more than a 100' cable run-through a snatch block @ 10' high on one of my permanent trees.

Thanks for sharing all the info gents.

 

[alia176]

Thanks for the real account what the 3016 can do, the pics help out a ton. I'm going to look at a 3616 this week since the dealer doesn't have any 3016 in stock right now.