Citydude
Elite Member
Good question. You can load a trailer with your tractor. Is the unloading the reason you would want the trailer mounted grapple? Buy a dump trailer. Save yourself some money.
Sounds like what I have been doing for the past twenty years.
When I was young and agile I used an electric 8000lb winch on the 3pth to bring them out to where a 20' chain would grab them, then forked them onto an old trailer (with bolsters)..a lot of climbing around.
Now I have a set of tire chains (4) on " John" and a helper with a chain saw and energy. We skid a lot more logs out to a landing than I ever did when I could walk....Ours is hilly hardwood bush.
Each year we burn 12 bush cord plus sell about two truck loads of basswood/poplar pulp....