I have had more blow downs across my trails this year than any other I can remember. I removed this smallish 5 stemmed branchy white pine top yesterday with my FrostBite grapple.
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Since I'm an old guy just out to have fun I decided to mount my camera on the front cross bar of the ROPS with a birds eye view. It would have worked good except the tractor vibration affected the camera and drove it wild in spots. So it's a little hard to watch. Since I have no pics I put it here anyway. It's like all my work - I try to keep it from getting exciting. While playing pick-up sticks with all those branches I tipped up a pretty good rock which became in the way. So I plucked it out and you can see it roll down the hill at about 11:00 minutes. It left quite a crater in the middle of the trail.
Here is the stuff I moved.
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The video - It is what it is.
When I was done with the grapple I used the butt plate on my winch like a dozer blade to scrape up enough dirt to fill the hole. Then I used it again to back drag the area to even it off.
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