Talk to oldpath, jsspssing, rustyiron, Gordon Gould or sawyer rob in “tractor and wood show your pics”. They use logging winches that I want. I watched my father and uncles use timberjacks or skidders, forwarders, j5s etc and you can pretty well crash through the brush and stumps right to the wood. I have a skidded but family issues I don稚 use it. I do use j5s often. Really durable for wood collecting. But a tractor doesn稚 have a chassis, which scares me, and no protection at all. To me, to be a good woods rig, there shouldn稚 be anything to hook brush or sticks. But a tractor has lots. But they can carry wood out. Many people here use snowmobile primarily and atv. If you had a winch though, you can concentrate on cleaning one main trail. Cutting the stumps down as low as possible. Remove brush and debris from the trail. I even filled holes and hollows in with slivers of wood to level the path out. My little tractor is so short that if the ground is really uneven one out of 4 tires could come off the ground. I feel that must put put torque on the front axle mount or center of the tractor on the casting as thereç—´ no chassis. Or at least thatç—´ what I envision. The other boys would maybe know better. With a nice clean trail, skid plate and winch, you could drive in, park and winch all the wood around back to you. Then carry it back howvever you feel is best, wagons, trailers, skidding etc. I don稚 like skidding so much as it muds the wood up and dulls the chainsaw. Once this garage gets built I hope to make a nice trailer. I壇 winch the wood to me after taking time on the main trail, either cut up stove length there or 4 foot to carry out to the landing. Here we have so many soft spots and so much underbrush you have to take time to make a good trail. And a winch would allow you you reach wood without driving over unknown ground ( not the main trail) and reaching wood you couldn稚 drive to anyway. Saving the tractor. The little tractor is 4x4 and only 5 feet wide so if many collect wood with atvs, the tractor should work. Just nice to know that a skid plate is getting the sticks or scratches and not the tractor. I知 also nervous of getting the tractor stuck badly too as I知 not sure what I would hook to to pull being thereç—´ no chassis. A winch again would help that.
