Snow Winching in the snow

[Boondox]

This Farmi winch is rapidly becoming my favorite implement of all time. The tiny pines planted as a windbreak by my wife's grandmother lo those many years ago have, in recent years, become towering behemoths threatening to crush my workshop and garage beneath their mass should they ever fall. There just didn't seem to be any way to bring them down safely...until the winch.

Spent this afternoon in a snowstorm setting the choker chains about twenty feet off the ground, taking tension on the line, notching tree after leaning tree and making partial back cuts...then winching the tree over so it fell exactly where I wanted it without doing any damage to the structures or other desirable trees!

This winch is just too cool for words! /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

Pete

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[ejb]

Nice...have any pictures? I am just beginning to look around and see what my options are and what to look for and how much I might need to pay. I have a lot of areas that I need to thin out cordwood, but can't see a way to get my JD5410 close enough to just drag out. A winch just might do it for me./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Boondox]

The Wife took a few digital images, but hasn't downloaded them yet. I'll eventually sweet talk her into forking over the .jpg files. Chocolate might be called for.

Pete

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[woodstock]

<font color=blue>Chocolate might be called for.</font color=blue>

Trying to fatten her up are you.

<font color=red>Winnipeg, Manitoba</font color=red>

2001 BX2200 (50 hrs)

 

[Boondox]

Stephan -- Glad to see you've stuck with the goose...so far! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Pete

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[hayden]

Pete,

You're having way too much fun.

 

[Boondox]

You ought to come up here next year when the world turns green again! Everything's white now, and most likely will stay that way till late April or early May. 16 degrees outside. Guess I ought to put my hiking shorts and sandals away. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif

Thanks a million for the demo on your hill. I was able to buy with a heck of a lot more confidence having seen the winch in action.

Pete

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[Youare]

I have done the same thing many times with my winch. Just make sure you put the chain up high enough in the tree, 20 feet should be enough. Many dozer and skidder operators have had trees come back over on them because they pushed the bottom of the tree off the stump trying to push it over. You could possibly do the same thing with the winch if the chain was too low.

I find it much safer to pull those hard to cut trees over with the winch than to let gravity takes it's course.


Randy

 

[hayden]

I'll take you up on the offer - maybe even before spring. I like winter.

By the way, don't let the snow stop your winching. As I recall you have a killer set of chains. 5" shouldn't slow you down.

 

[Boondox]

What slows me down is the cold! /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif Sure is hard swapping out implements in the heart of winter! I prefer to get set for winter during t-shirt weather...when it's still in the twenties or higher.

Pete

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