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

[corelokt308win]

Take a look at my pics in the iseki forum. The rear hitch and skidding chains are very handy. I have a 2 inch square piece of heavy wall steel, and attached to it with a clevis are two short 3/8ths chains with clevis hooks on the end and swivels in between. For skidding chains I use two 3/8th's tow chains with a loggers slipper link on one end and a hook on the other. The slipper links have an opening that you twist the chain through, and then it tightens like a choker collar on a dog, and the log dosn't slip. Sounds harder than it is. Works great. Using the longer rear 2 inch bar lets me raise the butt of the log when I need to for skidding.

 

[D7E]

LOGGING ARCH draft horse log skidder cart forecart - (eBay item 180160935564 end time Sep-28-07 18:45:00 PDT)

..Ha.HA ..i see we're talking a different scale ,I'll put that one behind my kids quad ...Cheers.?

 

[elalexander]

I hooked the logs in the pics the way johnk did. It is a pain to get a chain under some of the big logs. I have tongs from Northern Hyd. now. That will make hooking up a lot quicker.

 

[Rara Avis]

..Ha.HA ..i see we're talking a different scale ,I'll put that one behind my kids quad ...Cheers.?

Paul Buffalo Biography -- Tim Roufs -- University of Minnesota Duluth

Check out the pictures towards the end of the article...And you'll see REAL HP...

The Horses PULLING those HUGE PILES are how may Grandfather funded his farm in North Dakota by logging in Minnesota each winter...

 

[D7E]

Paul Buffalo Biography -- Tim Roufs -- University of Minnesota Duluth

Check out the pictures towards the end of the article...And you'll see REAL HP...

The Horses PULLING those HUGE PILES are how may Grandfather funded his farm in North Dakota by logging in Minnesota each winter...

Sorry was too quick looking at them .....?

 

[curly]

Paul Buffalo Biography -- Tim Roufs -- University of Minnesota Duluth

Check out the pictures towards the end of the article...And you'll see REAL HP...

The Horses PULLING those HUGE PILES are how may Grandfather funded his farm in North Dakota by logging in Minnesota each winter...

I showed that link to my wife last night. She home schools our 9 year old daughter. She spent most of today on the link as a home school assignment...said they both loved it.

 

[Rara Avis]

I showed that link to my wife last night. She home schools our 9 year old daughter. She spent most of today on the link as a home school assignment...said they both loved it.

Has your wife used the following series?
Amazon.com: What Your Sixth Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good Sixth-Grade Education (Core Knowledge Series : Resource Books for Grades One Through Six,): Books: E.D. Jr Hirsch

 

[curly]

Has your wife used the following series?
Amazon.com: What Your Sixth Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good Sixth-Grade Education (Core Knowledge Series : Resource Books for Grades One Through Six,): Books: E.D. Jr Hirsch

Don't think she uses those, but I'll ask

 

[nhnegineer]

Please check out junkyard_projects : Junkyard Do-It-Yourself Projects

Some of us have made a DIY Skidder and the shop drawings are available.

 

[Oldmax]

I kind of cheat . I use a 350 B to pull logs in . Just use chains get off and hook up. pull logs to spliter . The first picture is of set up to split wood . The second is picture of hole set up and housing for two weeks on farm to get in fire wood for winter . The third is the results, a winters supply of fire wood the stack is 40' long 5' high two deep with about 16' in third row for fireplace.