Compact telehandler

[aczlan]

I guess my first concern was ground clearance.
How would one go about lifting and walking a hitch of stems out of the woods with such a conveyance?

Or I'm I asking too much of this magical machine?

Either you would pick them up and carry them on the forks on the front, back out pulling them from the forks on the front or get one with a three-point hitch and use the same setup as you would use on a tractor.

Aaron Z

 

[Xfaxman]

I guess my first concern was ground clearance.

Ground clearance has never stopped it. The bottom is steel and smooth. Driving over a big log, it slides with the front wheels in the air until the rears spin. Then extend the boom, it will teeter totter on the log, the back wheels will go up, the front wheels will come down and pull it off the log. I have done it many times.

How would one go about lifting and walking a hitch of stems out of the woods with such a conveyance?

Hook the chain to the grapple and back out while looking it the 7 inch monitor with the rear camera on.
This is when 4 wheel steering really helps.

Or I'm I asking too much of this magical machine?

Here is one way that I have removed dead tree trunks from the woods:

And a willow tree and a dead trunk:

 

[Xfaxman]

Found some pictures of moving a tree by the root ball:

 

[bindian]

I guess my first concern was ground clearance.
How would one go about lifting and walking a hitch of stems out of the woods with such a conveyance?

Or I'm I asking too much of this magical machine?

Stop where you are comfortable. Boom out until over the logs. Drop a chain around them and hook it to the back of the fork carriage. Boom in and back out. Once you start using a squirt boom, you find all kinds of jobs were you boom out then in.

I almost got room to sit under my Lull, if I duck my head.
hugs, Brandi

 

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Found some pictures of moving a tree by the root ball:

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Problem with getting trees out the forest this way is steering a 50' rigid conveyance thru the woods. Not gonna happen and believe me, you don't want to be looking at a screen to come out of the woods.
I don't see any rear winch attachment for telhandlers.
Perhaps the best way is to forward them out with a trailer attached to the back or maybe with a good size log arch that would take two or three stems.
These things must certainly have the capacity to pic up an 1800 lb stem and drop it on a trailer.
My woods would not even allow the trailer as there are no logging roads per se. Rocks and stick ups will await to tear into another set of tires that you don't have quite the control of as you do with the front tractor steering.
You need clearances for forwarder methods.
I do like them hands down better over a tractor though and if I had one, I'd figure out something to skid logs out. They are just too versatile a machine to pass up.

 

[Xfaxman]

Problem with getting trees out the forest this way is steering a 50' rigid conveyance thru the woods. Not gonna happen and believe me, you don't want to be looking at a screen to come out of the woods.
I don't see any rear winch attachment for telhandlers.
Perhaps the best way is to forward them out with a trailer attached to the back or maybe with a good size log arch that would take two or three stems.

The logging winch goes on the front: forestry winch for skid steer at DuckDuckGo

These things must certainly have the capacity to pic up an 1800 lb stem and drop it on a trailer.

Yep, mine will lift over 6000 lbs.

My woods would not even allow the trailer as there are no logging roads per se. Rocks and stick ups will await to tear into another set of tires that you don't have quite the control of as you do with the front tractor steering.

I don't understand that statement. My V417 has 2 wheel front steering just like a tractor.

Flip the switch to 4 wheel steering and the rear steers opposite of the front, the rear tires travel around a sharp turn in the tracks that the front tires made.

Flip the switch to crab steer and the front and rear steer the same angle so it moves sideways like a crab.

You need clearances for forwarder methods.
I do like them hands down better over a tractor though and if I had one, I'd figure out something to skid logs out. They are just too versatile a machine to pass up.

Right, it is the most versatile machine I have ever had.
That is why Bobcat calls it a Versahandler.

Post pictures here when you get one

 

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The logging winch goes on the front: forestry winch for skid steer at DuckDuckGo
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I don't understand that statement. My V417 has 2 wheel front steering just like a tractor.

Talking about the trailer. Not the telehandler. Everything seems to attach to the front end of these machines. Is there one where the seat swivels so "backing out" becomes the same as steering forward?

 

[Xfaxman]

Talking about the trailer. Not the telehandler. Everything seems to attach to the front end of these machines. Is there one where the seat swivels so "backing out" becomes the same as steering forward?

No but you can back the trailer while going forward:

Or you can pull the trailer and drive forward:

 

[devriescharles]

No action shots yet but here is a quick photo of the new to me V417 after unloading it from the trailer. Thanks for all your help Xfaxman you are a wealth of information!!!

 

[Xfaxman]

You're welcome, glad to help.

Your picture reminded me that this was the first thing I ever had with a rain wiper on the roof!

And this is the view of the tree puller through the FOPS roof. The glass is on top of the metal: