Im not looking to move the logs around when they are on the bckhoe. Just wanna lift them up to cut. I will post some more picture this week. That was was partialy hollow. I picked up some bigger one solid no problem. Ill post pictures next ones i hook up. In the meanwhile anyone have a thumb hooked up to a sub compact loader?
Picking up logs, grapple or thumb? Advice please.
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Your tractor is NOT going to lift a solid log that size. Even the strongest compact tractor isn't going to lift that log. If you run across a log that big of a denser species most utility tractors aren't going to lift it. You better trade up tractor or lower your expectations.
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I made a fixed thumb by drilling one hole in two rippers from my box blade.
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Get some duct tape and carefully tape the thumb on your dominant hand to the palm of that hand.
See how long you can go before you take the tape off.
A backhoe without a thumb is like a hand without a thumb.
Can you see my avatar to the left?
And get a grapple also.
See how long you can go before you take the tape off.
A backhoe without a thumb is like a hand without a thumb.
Can you see my avatar to the left?
And get a grapple also.
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Based on the information I've gathered from the previous post I believed you wanted to lift logs the size of the one on my forklift pictured above.
Sorry for any confusion i wasnt basing it off of your logs. Please read my first post with the pictures, i am wondering if a backhoe thumb Could grab those logs in those pictures? Hold it securely while it is in the air just like in those pictures while i cut it with my chainsaw.
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You're probably going to loose some lift capacity with the thumb, but you could always resort back to chaining the biggest logs, or cut them in half first. I've never found a log my backhoe couldn't lift. Some of them had to be pretty short though. dde04
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Ooklaa, here is from your opening post too:
"Ok well my firewood is in a good spot so I don't have to move it around d far. I hook a chain to a log and drag it like 30 feet to my cutting area. Now I want to pic up the log about chest height so I can cut it "
You posted you wanted the logs at chest high height . . Which I replied seemed like a considerable amount of lifting capacity required for the log sizes you had shown. I'd guess a fair number of readers have the opinion from your different statements that lifting the logs upward was very much a part of your desire . . . and makes it hard to imagine the amount of lifting power required.
Maybe you should re-state your actual size/capacity needs:
A. log diameter
B. log length at that diameter
C. consider the quality of the wood . . Hollow or solid and is it junk wood or decent quality firewood.
This last fall with my gc1715 and bucket on my fel, I hauled 24 inch diameter oak and 6 foot of that was a heavy lift to get up to put on a 2 foot high trailer floor.
I sense you are thinking in terms of maximum lifts where every hose and cylinder is challenged. An 8 foot log at 24 inch diameter in old dried box elder may be half the weight of the same size log in a solid maple as an example. And lifting it to chest height would mean 28 to 30 inches off the ground on a short man and 3 feet of the ground on a larger man.
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I have a Bro-Tek bolt-on thumb on my 2310 which I use for holding logs up for cutting. The BH can definitely lift a lot of weight, to the point that you'd better make sure the stabilizer feet are down or it can easily tip the tractor over.
On the occasion where I have a log that's too heavy to hold up with the BH, I use the FEL to lift it a bit and put a small log section under the larger log to get it off the ground for cutting. Eventually, it'll get light enough that the BH/thumb can lift it.
One other thing I like about the BH/thumb combo is that I can swing the BH left/right to pull logs out after I've cut some off.
But yes, there's definitely a limit to what a SCUT or CUT can lift. (Hey-- if the logs get that big, call in the pros!)
On the occasion where I have a log that's too heavy to hold up with the BH, I use the FEL to lift it a bit and put a small log section under the larger log to get it off the ground for cutting. Eventually, it'll get light enough that the BH/thumb can lift it.
One other thing I like about the BH/thumb combo is that I can swing the BH left/right to pull logs out after I've cut some off.
But yes, there's definitely a limit to what a SCUT or CUT can lift. (Hey-- if the logs get that big, call in the pros!)