Iron Horse - Anybody got one?
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tophopper
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I bought a used Dingo last year, best investment ive made yet. doesnt do real well in rough terrain though, in those cases Ill use my atv. the dingo is nice because you can not only forward brush and logs but you can load a truck with it. i have a skidding grapple attachment and it is awesome for moving bruch and feeding the chipper, I just use forks to load logs on the truck. I will try to get a pic of it in action (with the grapple)over the next few days and post it. The best thing about is it will fit thru a 38" gate
It gets used almost daily, now my atv sits mostly ( 2 years old and only 125 miles on it ) still looks brand new.
i figure the dingo saves hours compared to how we used to do it.
It gets used almost daily, now my atv sits mostly ( 2 years old and only 125 miles on it
) still looks brand new. i figure the dingo saves hours compared to how we used to do it.
Newfie
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I looked into the ironhorse a couple of years ago, when I was just a firewood woodtick. $10,500 seemed like a lot of cake for something that goes only as fast as I walk. It was faster to cut 4 foot logs and load my pick-up, even though more physical labor was involved.
In my mind, investing in a piece of equipment has to have a two pronged payback. It has to make the work easier and faster. It's the only way that kind of cash outlay would make sense to me.
I would put that kind of money toward a piece of equipment that could do more than drag some brush and pecker poles.
In my mind, investing in a piece of equipment has to have a two pronged payback. It has to make the work easier and faster. It's the only way that kind of cash outlay would make sense to me.
I would put that kind of money toward a piece of equipment that could do more than drag some brush and pecker poles.
Agree with previous pix of small crawler -- IMHO a used 12,000 # track 4:1 loader at $3K (assuming mechanical aptitude to keep it running) is an infinetly better deal, anything smaller can be moved by hand or winch on 4x4 pickup.
Burnham
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No way a horse puts down less damage than the tracks of the Iron Horse...1000 lbs.+ divided by 4 hooves of perhaps 25 square inches each is 10 lbs. per square inch ground pressure...and the horse doesn't stay on all fours, it's pushing off only 1 or 2 hooves at a time. So the horse loads at 20 to 40 lbs. per sq. in., not counting the load it's hauling, which usually is skidded, not rolled. I think that tracked baby puts down waaaay less than that...maybe 10 or 20 percent of the horse. Anyone who has worked with horse logging will know that they can dig up the ground pretty badly, especially if it's wet.
But unknowing customers may still like the idea of it and that might make a good selling point . The problem will come when they see their pretty lawn full of deep divots afterwards.
But unknowing customers may still like the idea of it and that might make a good selling point
. The problem will come when they see their pretty lawn full of deep divots afterwards.
Mange
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There are some places where it is the only way to get out anything at all.
For ex. moist woods with a lot off big stones, where machines sink, if they come throu, perfekt with one of thease.
Horses is often used too, but if you cut the rubber you replace it, if you break a leg on the horse...........
My grand father tought me when I was a little one, how he did.
He had wood shoes for the horse so it would not sink at all, and it worked great.
Mange
For ex. moist woods with a lot off big stones, where machines sink, if they come throu, perfekt with one of thease.
Horses is often used too, but if you cut the rubber you replace it, if you break a leg on the horse...........
My grand father tought me when I was a little one, how he did.
He had wood shoes for the horse so it would not sink at all, and it worked great.
Mange
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