PULLING

ovrszd · Nov 30, 2011

Gordon Gould said:
To bad you don't have snow. You can skid your logs right to the shed or the landing and keep them clean.

Cool picture!!!! Love your chains!!! Hate cutting wood in the snow!!! :laughing:

knightrider955 · Nov 30, 2011

For pulling I use a 20 foot long chain. I back my tractor up as close as I can get to the log,put it in 3-HI and let her fly. Oh I also lock the rear diff too. Even with the FEL on it sometime it will lift the front a few feet. Thats what makes it fun!!! I dont pull from the 3 point though.

ovrszd · Dec 1, 2011

knightrider955 said:
For pulling I use a 20 foot long chain. I back my tractor up as close as I can get to the log,put it in 3-HI and let her fly. Oh I also lock the rear diff too. Even with the FEL on it sometime it will lift the front a few feet. Thats what makes it fun!!! I dont pull from the 3 point though.

Interesting. How do you get enough leverage to lift the front when pulling from the fixed drawbar???

Baby Grand · Dec 1, 2011

ovrszd said:
Cool picture!!!! Love your chains!!! Hate cutting wood in the snow!!! :laughing:

That's interesting - I always prefered cutting in the snow. No skeeters, no mud, the chaps don't make me sweat buckets and the woods filled with snow has a nice way of muffling the harsh note of the saw ...

hydro2 · Dec 1, 2011

Baby Grand said:
That's interesting - I always prefered cutting in the snow. No skeeters, no mud, the chaps don't make me sweat buckets and the woods filled with snow has a nice way of muffling the harsh note of the saw ...

I agree.

Short Game · Dec 2, 2011

I think I would prefer it not snow and deal with the downsides.

Gordon Gould · Dec 2, 2011

I'm with Baby Grand and hydro2 - until the snow gets about hip deep that is

Dead Horse · Dec 2, 2011

I log in the mountains........ on my 100+ acre farm there is nary a flat spot.

I try to be done logging by the time snow flies, for this reason. Traction.

Short Game · Dec 2, 2011

Dead Horse said:
I log in the mountains........ on my 100+ acre farm there is nary a flat spot.

I try to be done logging by the time snow flies, for this reason. Traction.

:thumbsup: I'm in hill land (probably would be called, "mountains," somewhere else) and sideways is no way to pull logs.

knightrider955 · Dec 3, 2011

ovrszd said:
Interesting. How do you get enough leverage to lift the front when pulling from the fixed drawbar???

Not really sure. It just..does it. Thats why I dont pull off the three point becouse she really stands up then. I dont think pulling off the drawbar matters because my brother used to pull the sled at the tractor pulls with our Oliver 77 and that thing would just about stand on end lol.