Seeking Logging Plate & Winch

[Oldtoad]

Getting old, don't really want to do it but I need to get some logs out of the woods.
Kubota 43hp tractor.
Thinking a logging rig. Went on Craigslist, will keep looking...
Nothing below $3,000, which seems high and beyond my budget.
Any suggestions?

 

[newbury]

A LOT depends on your terrain.
I use chains if I have to drag over hard surfaces, rope if I'm not concerned.
But I'm in Mississippi, only slight slopes.
How many are "some"?
The main things are:
Your physical condition
The terrain
The size of your wallet in $$
The amount of time you can spend "working around"
My M4700 will haul most of my logs (~ 3,000 lbs) with a chain and maybe a skid plate.
A rope is not good to to drag across pavement.

 

[Oldtoad]

A LOT depends on your terrain.
I use chains if I have to drag over hard surfaces, rope if I'm not concerned.
But I'm in Mississippi, only slight slopes.
How many are "some"?
The main things are:
Your physical condition
The terrain
The size of your wallet in $$
The amount of time you can spend "working around"
My M4700 will haul most of my logs (~ 3,000 lbs) with a chain and maybe a skid plate.
A rope is not good to to drag across pavement.

Rocks and hills, whips and chains required. The project is to make game trails and food plots.
I try to go away for the winter but with the open borders and all will probably stay home in Maine.
Once the snow gets too deep, everything stops.
If I make it a challenge and a exercise goal, can do if I get a helper. Think I found one today.
Newbury, going to sell some junk and buy one, after I get a snow plow while also watching for a log winch. Thanks, great help.

 

[ericm979]

A new forestry winch sized for your tractor is in the $3700-5000 range. There may be used ones where you are but they're probably not much cheaper. They seem to hold their value well.

You can get a 65' cable sold as a replacement for a truck winch from HF, some clamps and a ferule to make a loop and use that to get more reach with your tractor. It's a cheap way to get a cable that long with a fitting on one end. Or buy a longer cable and the fittings for both ends. The problem with using chains or cables is that the tractor has to travel the same distance as you need to pull the log. If your woods are steep or thick that can be tough.

 

[old and tired]

I would love a logging winch but they are pretty expensive. Look at buying a new one, if you can finance it, even better; then after you are done getting those trees, you should be able to sell it at a high price (hopefully).

Nothing in the rental department up there??? Or Find a friend that owns one? Hire a logger with one to do the work?

Personally, I have had many trees go down in my woods... they are food for insects (wood borers at what not).

 

[Oldtoad]

Renting, a good idea. Credit buying, those days are over. Buy and resell, that might work but I move so slow...
When we home schooled the kids operated a firewood business.
Had a 4 wheeler, log arch, wood splitter, chain saws and trailer, the good old days.
We had loggers in for a couple of months a few years ago, still lots of trees only good for firewood.
Hard to find workers, lots of jobs growing dope here..

 

[Jstpssng]

I have never seen one of them for rent. I have bought and sold (2) used units over the years but they were in pretty rough shape.
If you start looking for used in Uncle Henry's and on Craigslist; I suggest that you also buy a lottery ticket every week. The odds of finding a clean used winch are only slightly better.

Buying new and selling it when you are done seems like the best bet. I've done the "dragging out with a chain" before, it's OK if all that you are bringing out is a few trees but it's slow and can be hazardous, especially if you have any hills.

 

[Oldtoad]

No time left for injuries.
Every time I buy a lottery ticket I worry about destroying my life and then regret the waste of money. It has been many years.
I should be checking Uncle Henry's. Thanks,

 

[Gee Ray]

This was posted this week on another thread. https://www.portablewinch.com/products/pcw3000-gas-powered-pulling-winch-gx35 Depending on how many trees you want to pull.

 

[JJT]

"Getting old, don't really want to do it" I'm in the same boat, just bite the bullet and hire it out.