Skidder Accesories and Add-ons

[056 kid]

Originally Posted by Curlycherry1

I gotta say I have worked around some of those skidder-man-lifts and I really never understood the idea of taking a good skidder frame and mounting that on it. I have never heard of them being used in really rough terrain. They were always used in tree farms which were nice flat as a pancake hunks of land with no wet spots at all. There are plenty of other 4WD or even crawler frames that could be used to serve as a support and those frames would be a lot cheaper. That just seemed like skidder abuse to me.

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[Industry]

Originally Posted by Curlycherry1

I gotta say I have worked around some of those skidder-man-lifts and I really never understood the idea of taking a good skidder frame and mounting that on it. I have never heard of them being used in really rough terrain. They were always used in tree farms which were nice flat as a pancake hunks of land with no wet spots at all. There are plenty of other 4WD or even crawler frames that could be used to serve as a support and those frames would be a lot cheaper. That just seemed like skidder abuse to me.

I've used mine in some pretty nasty ROWs, but you definitely have to know your machine. if you don't you WILL have it on it's roof. It's WAY more top heavy than a normal cable rigged machine. I'm told they are only slightly more tippy than a grapple rig when you have to keep your load up high for some reason. I had some fun with mine.