Your opinion please?
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Taylortractornut
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Andy Ive built a few from old golfcart rear ends. espescially those old worm gear type because they don unwind when you are skiddin and have the brake on the opaside side of the drum locked. Im making a post driver the same way now. I usually just fbuild a brake band to go arond the rims/drum.
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Deerlope:
Looks like my 5030 without a cab. Why don't you weld some angled V shaped spikes to the bottom feet of your attachment. If you angle them rearward, the force of the pull will embed them into the ground, the harder the pull, the better penetration.
On the blower subject, I see why I like the cab, can't beat it for blowing snow. Can't beat it in the summer heat either.
Looks like my 5030 without a cab. Why don't you weld some angled V shaped spikes to the bottom feet of your attachment. If you angle them rearward, the force of the pull will embed them into the ground, the harder the pull, the better penetration.
On the blower subject, I see why I like the cab, can't beat it for blowing snow. Can't beat it in the summer heat either.
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Deerlope,
Love those chains... /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
Love those chains... /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif
I just thought that a blade with a 50 drg digging angle would offer more resistance also I could use it to push the logs up in a pile. I love those chains also. Only had to use 4x4 once this year and that was when skidding an 18 inch x 50' tree with all the branches still on it.
wroughtn_harv
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That picture brought back some memories. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Some years ago a bud was removing glue down carpet during a building renovation. He came to me and asked if I coul come up with something to help make the job easier. The way he explained it to me his crew of laborers were wore slick by lunch. It seemed they would each take a piece of carpet and pull it up six inches across at a time. It was all grunt.
Your winch shield looked a lot like the one I made for my solution to his problem.
It looked a little like a dolly ( hand truck). But what would be the handles was actually the base that was put down on the carpet at one side of the room. It had four feet to rest on made up of carpet stretcher pad's teeth.
The guard that protected everyone from the teeth was removed prior to placing down. It fit into slots and was pinned to protect the operator who sat on a chair facing the far wall. He sat behind the guard on a chair attached to the handle shaped bottom with the teeth for feet.
He operated a remote control for the hundred and ten volt winch. The cable was freewheeled out to the far side of the room. Probably the hardest thing to design for this rig was the slip lock grip to grab the carpet.
They would cut the carpet into a three feet wide strip. The end was cut to a point and the slip lock grip installed onto the pointed end of the carpet.
The operator then winched the carpet to himself. When it got there he moved over three feet and they started all over again. Turning the device ninety degrees allowed them to remove the piece they'd used to rest the contraption on while doing the bulk of it.
I don't know if they've ever had a piece of carpet break while using the winch. But I made the guard the same reasons you made yours.
Some years ago a bud was removing glue down carpet during a building renovation. He came to me and asked if I coul come up with something to help make the job easier. The way he explained it to me his crew of laborers were wore slick by lunch. It seemed they would each take a piece of carpet and pull it up six inches across at a time. It was all grunt.
Your winch shield looked a lot like the one I made for my solution to his problem.
It looked a little like a dolly ( hand truck). But what would be the handles was actually the base that was put down on the carpet at one side of the room. It had four feet to rest on made up of carpet stretcher pad's teeth.
The guard that protected everyone from the teeth was removed prior to placing down. It fit into slots and was pinned to protect the operator who sat on a chair facing the far wall. He sat behind the guard on a chair attached to the handle shaped bottom with the teeth for feet.
He operated a remote control for the hundred and ten volt winch. The cable was freewheeled out to the far side of the room. Probably the hardest thing to design for this rig was the slip lock grip to grab the carpet.
They would cut the carpet into a three feet wide strip. The end was cut to a point and the slip lock grip installed onto the pointed end of the carpet.
The operator then winched the carpet to himself. When it got there he moved over three feet and they started all over again. Turning the device ninety degrees allowed them to remove the piece they'd used to rest the contraption on while doing the bulk of it.
I don't know if they've ever had a piece of carpet break while using the winch. But I made the guard the same reasons you made yours.
cmsedore
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That winch set-up looks great. Speaking from my own experience, I'd make sure your frame is adequately strong before making the tractor too immovable.
I adapted a dozer winch to be PTO powered (for size reference, it came with 100+' of 5/8" cable). After pulling out many thornapple trees with it (sometimes 2-4 at a time), I was pulling one group of trees out while braced against an immovable object. It bent my welded-up frame (essentially the equivalent of 3"x3"x 1/4" angle) like nothing was there /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif. I subsequently rebuilt the frame with 3"x3" 3/8" angle and extra bracing and have not had a problem, but I also try to make sure that the tractor can slide if it needs to. It doesn't take but a second or so to twist the frame out of shape. Of course, having a 20,000lb winch on a CUT is probably not the greatest idea /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif.
-Chris
I adapted a dozer winch to be PTO powered (for size reference, it came with 100+' of 5/8" cable). After pulling out many thornapple trees with it (sometimes 2-4 at a time), I was pulling one group of trees out while braced against an immovable object. It bent my welded-up frame (essentially the equivalent of 3"x3"x 1/4" angle) like nothing was there /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif. I subsequently rebuilt the frame with 3"x3" 3/8" angle and extra bracing and have not had a problem, but I also try to make sure that the tractor can slide if it needs to. It doesn't take but a second or so to twist the frame out of shape. Of course, having a 20,000lb winch on a CUT is probably not the greatest idea /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif.
-Chris
I like that design. I don't skid logs, but I do pull things, like dead vehicles, up onto trailers. I could rig a winch for the trailers, but the tractor-mounted winch makes sense to me because it can be used for other things. Add a hitch receiver to the bottom of your frame, and it would be perfect for my use. Thanks...
