Skidding logs (Tractor talk)

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What do you all use to skid logs with? If you've got pictures I'd like to see them.
Currently I'm using a 1970's Wheel Horse C-120 12 hp Tractor, My step dad's
trading some work on a rototiller for an old 11hp Speedex Tractor.
They have great low range pull and on our steep hill will work great. We can't afford a new compact tractor so we do what we can.
 
Depends on size

I use the WD-45 in my avatar for the bigger stuff. For the stuff up to around 14" I have a 15hp Hinomoto compact that works great.
Mike
 
I use a 30 horse

Long 4x4 with brand new tires and fluid in the rears. Even with the differential lock engaged I have some difficulty pulling up some of the larger tops.
Granted, If I limb them down to firewood size limbs first they will pull a lot easier.
I just do not see how a garden tractor will pull much of a log. let alone a top.
 
He has a real garden tractor...with a real 12 HP cast iron engine and a cast iron rear end.....otherwise he would not be pulling much more than a kiddy wagon
 
I miss wrote that, I don't skid logs with the but sections of logs. cut it into manageable sections and
I have trails leveled out across the face of the hill. Once I get it on the trail it's easy.
The trails are only as wide as the scraper blade on my Wheel Horse.
12hp cast Iron engine, cast iron 8 speed hi low transmission will do a lot of work.
 
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ERICJEEPER,
You would probably be AMAZED at what a REAL garden tractor will do if you know how to hook your load so it puts weight on the rear tires when you pull!
Mike
 
I use this:
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Sam
 
I have a 17hp JD LT-180 lawn mower. I have some grade to my property in places and asked the JD dealer if it was ok to put some chevron type tractor tires on the rear. He told me those turf saver tired were supposed to slip and if I put the high traction tires on, it would force the hydrostatic transmission to pull and would eventually mess the tranny up. IIRC $2300 for the tranny.

Ian
 
The LT-180

Is sold in Home Depot for a reason.....it is NOT a REAL garden tractor......no one is currently making a real one and it doesn't look like anyone will anytime soon
 
This is my newly aquired, long awaited grapple bucket, maybe a IH 560 tractor if i can find a damn motor for it:cheers:
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This is what I use when I'm sleeping:clap:
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tractors

Tractors.....lets see....I use my John Deere 2440 which is 60hp, and I use my Ford 1510 4X4, 30hp, both diesel. I use the 2440 logging, the for is a small sawlog tractor. I have pulled a 30ft log 22" at butt, 20" at tip cherry with the 2440, and it didn't even lug down. For a tractor that thing is a monster. I also use my buddy's skidder on big jobs. I also help him out when he needs me.:greenchainsaw: :cheers:
 
Is sold in Home Depot for a reason.....it is NOT a REAL garden tractor......no one is currently making a real one and it doesn't look like anyone will anytime soon

The LT series is not available at the box stores. It's the 'L' series that you see there. When I bought mine, the dealer told me it was a step up from them. Dang thing cost me $3500.

What I wish I had was one of the little JD 2304 tractors with a belly mower.

Ian
 
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The LT series is not available at the box stores. It's the 'L' series that you see there. When I bought mine, the dealer told me it was a step up from them.

Ian

LT stands for Lawn Tractor.....which means in reality Light Tractor....

I am not poo pooing you at all but the tractor is basically the same as the L series but costs more and has some slightly better internals.

They are Scotts tractors......and I do not care for them as a whole much but relative to shat else is available they hold their own I guess.
 
......no one is currently making a real one and it doesn't look like anyone will anytime soon

They probably won't either, why would some buy a utility tractor if there garden tractor will hold up to abuse. I think a guy is better off buying a old 50-60's farm tractor for 2000.00. You can find them reasonably, and more capable than a high end garden tractor will ever be. They're lawnmowers now not Garden tractors.:cheers:
 
They probably won't either, why would some buy a utility tractor if there garden tractor will hold up to abuse. I think a guy is better off buying a old 50-60's farm tractor for 2000.00. You can find them reasonably, and more capable than a high end garden tractor will ever be. They're lawnmowers now not Garden tractors.:cheers:

Yah......I do rebuild some....but most of the scrap rats around here have picked the area clean now a days
 
Yah......I do rebuild some....but most of the scrap rats around here have picked the area clean now a days

Yeah that is happening around here also, I have a IH 560 that needs a motor, someone stopped and asked if they could buy it for scraping out, I was kinda insulted, haha
 
LT stands for Lawn Tractor.....which means in reality Light Tractor....

I am not poo pooing you at all but the tractor is basically the same as the L series but costs more and has some slightly better internals.

They are Scotts tractors......and I do not care for them as a whole much but relative to shat else is available they hold their own I guess.

Go ahead and poo poo it... I do. LOL It's a step up from the Murray 11hp mower I had before tho. I don't call it a tractor. I call it a lawn mower. To call it a tractor is an insult to real tractors. :)

Ian
 

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