Questions on log slidding, check this out.

[MossRoad]

If you refuse to acknowledge that bad things can happen to you quicker than you can react, that's fine with me. I've met plenty of folks with missing fingers, one eye, missing limbs, diminished vision and hearing loss, to name a few, that will be happy to tell you that you are sadly mistaken.

 

[mboulais]

Why do so many threads about equipment and projects get hijacked in the name of safety? Everyone has different experience levels, comfort zones, concerns, etc... Too often these turn into an attempt to get the last word in on the safety side of a subject that started out completely in another direction. Always the one admonishing the virtues of safety refuses to let it go. There are many members in that category. If you don't like the safety of a practice, or machine start another thread in the safety forum and spare the rest of us.

Are there inherent dangers to skidding logs? yes, but they can be managed with all practices mentioned in here. Get over it and move on. I would use one of those log skidders if I was doing a lot of logging, not the biggest one though.

 

[johnk]

In the Real World people do take shortcuts. . Even in a Perfect world with NO shortcuts, accidents happen. Happen everyday. Depends on how you want to do things. By the book .....or common sense. I think by the book you'll have more problems than using common sense. If you have common sense means you have been there before and not scared to go there. If you don't experiment you won't learn. And learning doesn't mean disaster. Learning is making mistakes. Not making them again is knowledge... I don't live on the edge but if it works I do it! Hope I'm here to keep posting for a few more years.....I think complacency is the dangerous aspect of the action.....

 

[MossRoad]

Why do so many threads about equipment and projects get hijacked in the name of safety?

Because people with experience tell people without experience that it is O.K. to do something that runs counter to common sense.... ignore safety for convenience.

 

[mboulais]

Because people with experience tell people without experience that it is O.K. to do something that runs counter to common sense.... ignore safety for convenience.

This is a perfect example of the last word battle. I do not advocate ignoring safety for convience, and I don't think any of the other posters in this thread did. Safety involves more than following every little warning sticker on your tractor. I advocate using common sense, not blindly following the tractor's instruction manual and safety stickers. This is why I never look in the safety forum anymore.

So go ahead and reply one last time and I'll let you have the last word.

 

[MossRoad]

This is a perfect example of the last word battle. I do not advocate ignoring safety for convience, and I don't think any of the other posters in this thread did. Safety involves more than following every little warning sticker on your tractor. I advocate using common sense, not blindly following the tractor's instruction manual and safety stickers. This is why I never look in the safety forum anymore.

So go ahead and reply one last time and I'll let you have the last word.

Thanks.

 

[tlbuser]

After all of this discussion, guess it's time to scrap the homemade stuff and just buy something already made HUD-SON Tractor Skid Blade for Skidding Logs

Somebody else want to order one first so we know for sure which country it's made in?

Uh oh, a commercial off the shelf product and they raise the log end too! Oh well, maybe they don't know any better either.

 

[johnk]

Looks like a "mini" logging winch without the winch. Seems as though it'll work better than not having one. The only scary thing without protection in the rear is having it slam into the PTO shaft on a downhill skid as the end near the tractor is off the ground. That little plate would alleviate that problem. Happy Skidding!!!