Hydraulic winch

[PurdueJoe]

If things ever pick up or I sell a job that can pay for it I'm thinking about building a Hydraulic winch for the front of my mini or full size skid steer. I figured about $1500 into one. How many of you guys use them? The old company I use to work for had two one like the one I want to build and another mounted on the chipper. I looked at it like 4x4 or or a hand gun. Maybe something you don't need most of the time but when you need it you're glad you have it.

 

[tree md]

I don't have one but have used them on chippers before. Almost a must have if your doing a lot of crane work. You can butt hitch large limbs or even whole trees with the cable and pull them in tandem with the crane and lower them right into the feed shoot. I think it would be really handy to have one on a skid.

I used to call the pulp wood guys out on some of my larger jobs when I had a lot of pines and they would use a PTO winch and cable to skid logs to the truck. Those guys were masters at skidding logs around obstacles and getting them to the truck. I have seen them set up blocks, bring them around trees and skid them from the back to the front yard when they had no access. Only downfall is it can cause some ground damage so you can't skid the logs in every situation but it sure makes it nice in the areas that you can.

 

[tree MDS]

A friend of mine has a hyd. winch on the grapple on his skidsteer. The problem with his anyway, is that its rated at an incredible pull (12k or something), but its painfully slow - I mean real bad, to the point where he doesnt even use it.

One of the advantages a tractor has over the track machines and skids is the ability to take a pto farming winch on the three point hitch - much, much faster. The pull might be considerably less on paper, but trees pop right over stumps when they have some momentum.

 

[highpointtree]

A friend of mine has a hyd. winch on the grapple on his skidsteer. The problem with his anyway, is that its rated at an incredible pull (12k or something), but its painfully slow - I mean real bad, to the point where he doesnt even use it.

One of the advantages a tractor has over the track machines and skids is the ability to take a pto farming winch on the three point hitch - much, much faster. The pull might be considerably less on paper, but trees pop right over stumps when they have some momentum.

actually the pull on my farmi 501 is over 11,000 lb's... have it on a kubota L4400
IT KICK'S AZZ

 

[tree MDS]

actually the pull on my farmi 501 is over 11,000 lb's... have it on a kubota L4400
IT KICK'S AZZ

I've got a JD 4600. The dealer said for the size of my machine I should go with the smaller Farmi. I think its a JL 351P, I wanna say its only rated at right around 8k. It sure seems alot more than that though.

I know what you mean about the bigger ones being sick dog though: a couple summers ago one pulled out my 31000 pound all wheel drive bucket out of the mud - without even breathing hard the way it looked.

Do you use yours to pull trees over too? That works slick!

How many horse is the kubota??

 

[PurdueJoe]

Yeah the one that fits on the mini that I've seen work is PAINFULLY slow. I'll have look into if I can retro fit a tractor type skidder.

 

[highpointtree]

I've got a JD 4600. The dealer said for the size of my machine I should go with the smaller Farmi. I think its a JL 351P, I wanna say its only rated at right around 8k. It sure seems alot more than that though.

I know what you mean about the bigger ones being sick dog though: a couple summers ago one pulled out my 31000 pound all wheel drive bucket out of the mud - without even breathing hard the way it looked.

Do you use yours to pull trees over too? That works slick!

How many horse is the kubota??

the kubota is 44 hp and I think 34 or 35 at the pto. the reason I went a little big was cause I watched a couple youtube vid's and most people run these winches just above idle to half throttle. size wise it fit the machine well annd it's a couple hundred lighter than the wally xp90.. I personally think the winches are flexable on what tractor and hp you can go with. I actually got a great price from a place in iowa and they are 4 times furthe than the place in NY. Shipping was about $180.00. as long as you use the lower pully they are stable..