How do you skid logs with your tractor..pics?

[flaming-ace]

have never used a skidder although we have just bought a MF 1500, which has already broke lol

We normally use a forwarding trailer to move trees or just drag them out with our fordson major and winch, sometimes even the crane. Heres some pics i'll upload some more soon.

 

[drivadesl]

F-Ace, those are a couple of grizzled and tough old looking machines right there. What year is the crane?

 

[flaming-ace]

F-Ace, those are a couple of grizzled and tough old looking machines right there. What year is the crane?

i actually have no idea, its just old, probably the 50's i'll have to check. Its still goes really well though, the other day we started it up for the first time in months, just hooked a battery up and used a bit of easy start spray, and it started first time. The cab and the wooden back work are the only bits that make it look in bad shape, everything else is fine on it. Although the fuel tank leaks so we have a drum on the passenger seat ha, here

 

[ctadds]

Anyone ever try one of these?

Northern Industrial ATV Log Skid Arch and Holder | Log Skidding | Northern Tool + Equipment

It looks pretty swift, but I'm still not completely clear on how it works. The description says that it draws the log up as you move forward, but it seems to me that it might not be completely stable once drawn up.

Craig

 

[svon89]

I built something similar. Used all scrap materials, and had the 12v winch. Probably had $100 into it, with the battery.
It will pull a lot behind a small 4 wheeler, would work great behind a tractor.
Now I can't find the picture. But if you check out this site, it gives you a good idea.

|| Nichols Trailers of Wilton, Maine || Welcome! ||

If I can find a picture, I will post it.

 

[atgreene]

Here's a pic of mine. I'm doing a 25 acre lot on the side of a mountain. Kubota 4150 with a Farmi 501 winch. Tire chains on all 4 wheels and forks on the loader. Excavator at the landing to load and stack logs.

 

[Dead Horse]

Lug Nut, that is a great idea. The majority of the trees i need to move are lodge pole pine, which would easily fit under the BB.

Marcus

On a pretty good sized tractor (Heston 90 100 DT), I had a piece of half inch L channel welded to one inch rod with holes drilled in the ends for link pins. fit that into the lower links. the bar has 4 chain hooks welded to it. I can chain up four logs, raise the lift to get the buts off the ground and off to the log yard I go.

 

[teach]

I just came up with this skidding hitch. Works great on my B7500!
Teach

 

[Stampeder]

MarcusCarr:
I live in East Texas pine belt. I have 60 foot and better pine trees with trunks up to 20 inches in diameter.
I use my 50 hp Montana tractor with a receiver hitch adapter on my three point hitch. It has a special little shackle mount I bought off the web and to that I connect a pair of logging tongs that I bought from Northern Tool. Best setup I"ve ever used. I drop the tongs down over the end of the log, give them a little kick to set them and when I lift the TPH it picks the end of the log right up. I can drag it just about anywhere. This way I don't have to lift the log off the ground to get a chain around it. I can drive straight ahead with it dragging behind. I have pulled some very big logs this way. I'll post some pictures of the rig over the next couple days. BTW I got all the information for this rig from this site.

Oh and Curly:
I grew up 200 miles north of Duluth and the pictures bring back rememberances of my youth. Not too much changed in the bush from the turn of the century through the 50's. A lot of camps used horses in the bush and I remember rivers full of logs waiting to float down to the paper mills in Thunder Bay. I remember the huge log booms out in Lake Superior.
The log cabins the loggers lived in during the winter cutting season hadn't changed much either. By the way they only got to bath once a week so they didn't have to worry about socializing....heck most of them you couldn't get within a block of......

Cheers.
Glenn.

 

[rdbrumfield]

I most likely posted this in here somewhere. I built one of these several years ago for my 336D yanmar. Of course it was much larger.

The principle is the same and it worked well then and does now. As you can see it doubles for a trailer and an arch and doesn't cost a fortune.

As far as getting logs without getting off the tractor, well convenience costs money. They have hyd grapples that hook to the 3pt that are in the thousands.

for those that have seen these pics bear with me.