Updated Chainsaw Mounts

[MossRoad]

I'm a good one for burying chains. The only way I remember is when I go to leave, drive the tractor onto the trailer, and go to chain it down.... where'd that go? :confused3:

Wonder where in the day I buried it, then get a stick and start poking the sand!

 

[cqaigy2]

I'm a good one for burying chains. The only way I remember is when I go to leave, drive the tractor onto the trailer, and go to chain it down.... where'd that go? :confused3:

Wonder where in the day I buried it, then get a stick and start poking the sand!

Yep, found one of my logging chains when raking the gravel drive with my blanket harrow.

 

[EddieWalker]

I put everything on the floor around me, and it's a PIA. 9 times out of ten, I'll go get the Mule so I can haul everything I need in it's bed. Sometimes when clearing trees, I just have to cut them up into smaller pieces to get them to the burn pile, or to the firewood pile. That's when I have the chainsaw sitting on the floor along with a gas can, oil and my safety gear. Since most of the time I'm just going back and forth, I'm not wearing my goggles, gloves or hearing protection. I hate running out of gas, but would hate having to drive back to the shop to refuel my chainsaw even more.

 

[MossRoad]

There's no floor to speak of on a Power Trak. Just foot wells. You kind of wear the thing....

 

[woodlandfarms]

You kinda wear the thing, priceless. I know I do, but it usually a thin film of oil and diesel exhaust.

 

[MossRoad]

Ahh.... the picture above.... 14 years ago, proud new owner... kids were 9 and 4. I was 205... :laughing:

 

[SpringHollow]

When doing serious firewood etc, I pull a trailer behind the PT with saws, oil/gas, chains etc. When pulling logs out, i have a train of the PT, hay wagon, small trailer and swinging mini hoe on the front- works well.

Ken

 

[EddieWalker]

I didn't realize there was no extra space.

 

[woodlandfarms]

Oh eddie, the PT is a fantastic machine, it really is, but there are these bizarre short comings that, well, leave all PT owners scratching their heads. I would say the biggest issue is that PT is a relatively small company, we can all get on the phone and speak with the guy who welded our tub or dropped in the engine, it is kinda cool to hear someone say "Oh, I built that". But we have a laundry list of cool and reasonable updates that PT chooses to ignore. Its an odd thing. But then again, we all think we have the most versatile machine on the forum, and that PT is a leader and not a follower.

 

[MossRoad]

And don't forget.... they close for deer season!

 

[woodlandfarms]

Not that anyone cares. This is about an hours worth of work. My morning excercise. Alders are a weed tree (although the evolution of a forest is really fascinating and the trees actually have a purpose) What is crazy is that they are way way taller than when I first bought the property, and way way taller than I can handle.

Anyway, lop a group down, grapple them to the burn pile. I have like 6 burn piles going at the moment. Will have 8 by spring.

 

[ernemats]

Carl what are you planning to do with the land after you get it all cleared? It looks like you will be busy for awhile . I am attaching pictures of my chain saw mount. I have basically the same on my pt 422, at times I have thought about making them larger. The ones I have work ok for my smaller chain saws.

 

[hslogger]

I would also be interested in you Alder take down motivation. Are you going to replant with fir, Western Red Cedar, spruce? or make it into meadow or ?
Does DNR in Washington state offer you any woodland assistance?

 

[woodlandfarms]

HS. Probably stupidity on the Alders, I guess if I left them alone they might have some timber value. Motivation is to either increase meadow size (no, we don't have livestock so....) and help baby cedars and first get better traction. The wife and I like the look of Maple and Cedar better than alder.

I will have to check on DNR. Never thought of looking into what they offered. Our property (40 acres), we put into Forestry when we bought it. We are now out of the tax burden should we change back to anything else.

What I was told is that alders offer great protection to baby fir trees, deer get blocked out on chomping on the fire and alders provide protection and because they are such a brittle tree and always delimbing, they provide a lot of nutrients to the ground.