Best Log Skidding solution

[missesalot]

26” width the right cross bar length?

 

[atsah]

26 width the right cross bar length?

I would say no, it should be longer than that, 26 is for a SCUT.

On edit: 26 will work..

 

[WranglerX]

26 inch is category 1....

Dale

 

[Sawyer Rob]

If you can get right up to them, then a logging winch doesn't really do you any good. Those winches are great for getting logs to your tractor, but if there is no need for that, save your money..

This just isn't true...

What about when you are trying to pull a log up a hill when the ground is wet and the tractor is spinning and doesn't have enough traction?

You can let the winch line out while driving up that hill, and then winch the log up the hill to the tractor after you drive up there! Same for going through a bad spot in the woods.

I've winched cars out with mine, I used it to pull over stuck tree's AND hooked to a tree while cutting it, to make sure it goes where I want.

There's waaaaaay too many uses for a skidding winch to recount them all here!

SR

 

[atsah]

Dropping the hitch and pulling forward to get to better ground is a common occurrence for a skidder operator and works the same for a tractor winch. A lot of people have no idea what you’re talking about SR..

 

[arrow]

This just isn't true...

What about when you are trying to pull a log up a hill when the ground is wet and the tractor is spinning and doesn't have enough traction?

You can let the winch line out while driving up that hill, and then winch the log up the hill to the tractor after you drive up there! Same for going through a bad spot in the woods.

I've winched cars out with mine, I used it to pull over stuck tree's AND hooked to a tree while cutting it, to make sure it goes where I want.

There's waaaaaay too many uses for a skidding winch to recount them all here!

SR

I was out of professional logging by the time my company went to grapple skidders. I only used cable skidders and I agree, they were the handiest things when you lost forward traction. Release em out, get a foothold, reel back in.
We also used these winches to pull trees in a directive fall, pulling out another skidder and gathering and bunching crowns. We even used them to pull down sheds customers no longer wanted.

Never cottoned to grapple skidders and glad I never had to.
Now it seems to be all feller/buncher machines with entire trees going through a shredder.

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^^
It's all in the operator. The problem with cable skidders was that we would take the biggest, best trees and leave the crap for the next time. A harvester can take small, poor quality trees and leave the best to grow; or it can reach in pick one tree out of a bunch lift it and lay it in the trail, just like plucking a flower.
I have a job going right now where it's dense, small birch and poplar, except that the latter is already starting to die off. I told the operator to go down the old trails
and pick out the poplar where it's big enough, and stay out of the smaller trees. That will release the birch, and by next fall there will be new poplar sprouting from the roots. It should be good bird hunting in a few years. :thumbsup:

Chipping everything is a big waste; we sell for the highest product, whether it's sawlogs or pulpwood. Chips are for biomass boilers and is only the tops or really junk wood that otherwise would be left to take up growing space. Right now nobody here is even running a chipper, because there's no place to sell the chips.

 

[missesalot]

^^^^^
It's all in the operator. The problem with cable skidders was that we would take the biggest, best trees and leave the crap for the next time. A harvester can take small, poor quality trees and leave the best to grow; or it can reach in pick one tree out of a bunch lift it and lay it in the trail, just like plucking a flower.
I have a job going right now where it's dense, small birch and poplar, except that the latter is already starting to die off. I told the operator to go down the old trails
and pick out the poplar where it's big enough, and stay out of the smaller trees. That will release the birch, and by next fall there will be new poplar sprouting from the roots. It should be good bird hunting in a few years. :thumbsup:

Chipping everything is a big waste; we sell for the highest product, whether it's sawlogs or pulpwood. Chips are for biomass boilers and is only the tops or really junk wood that otherwise would be left to take up growing space. Right now nobody here is even running a chipper, because there's no place to sell the chips.

What kind of poplar?

 

[Jstpssng]

Mostly quaking aspen, (populus tremuloides).

 

[John_Mc]

This just isn't true...

What about when you are trying to pull a log up a hill when the ground is wet and the tractor is spinning and doesn't have enough traction?

You can let the winch line out while driving up that hill, and then winch the log up the hill to the tractor after you drive up there! Same for going through a bad spot in the woods.

I've winched cars out with mine, I used it to pull over stuck tree's AND hooked to a tree while cutting it, to make sure it goes where I want.

There's waaaaaay too many uses for a skidding winch to recount them all here!

SR

I own a winch, and love it. I use it in much the same way you do. After doing without for years, thinking I just could not justify it, now I wouldn稚 be without it.

However, I stand by the opinion I originally expressed. If he can drive right up to his logs, it is just not needed for the few logs he needs to move. If it痴 too wet, just wait for things to dry out or throw some poles or brush in the area.