Finally got back to it. This is the first pull, uphill a good bit and fairly large.
Shea
Skidding winch for the tractor
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Finally got back to it. This is the first pull, uphill a good bit and fairly large.
Shea
The second stick from that same tree. Nothing like standing dead. The top is going to be pulled tomorrow from the bottom.
Shea
That sure saves a lot of work hauling rounds.
That's some nice looking wood there.
This one I just dropped. Easier pull with the pulley to get it where I wanted.
Shea
Standing oak, alive but rot had set in through the base. Landowner gave permission to cut it down. So far, most of this wood wouldn't have been cut without the winch. It has been priceless to get the wood to a convenient spot to start the processing.
@farmer steve , have you looked at the winch you mentioned? I promise, just as I was told, these things are valuable beyond their cost.
Shea
For the purpose of scale the saw is a 440 MAGNUM w/24" bar....yes MAGNUM!!!
hi Shea. never got to look at it but it is sthil there. just have to make time. i know i "need" a winch". getting tired of draggin with chains and not being able to get that wood thats just outta reach. love that dead standing oak.
You for sure "need" ithi Shea. never got to look at it but it is sthil there. just have to make time. i know i "need" a winch". getting tired of draggin with chains and not being able to get that wood thats just outta reach. love that dead standing oak.
.Snob wood lol.
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I'm getting lazy. Very little hopping on and off to hook up chains in the future I hope. Might mount a small winch on it for the ones that are a little far for the chain. Very few hills where I cut so I can usually back right up to them.
That sure ain't a winch, but when you can back right up to it, that is all you would need. What size bolts did you use for the pivot points on the jaws? I like it a lot. Where I hope to cut next that would be handy.
Shea
Just a few pics from an hour or so of pulling. We've picked just about everything we can. Now we have to cut it all up and haul it out. That's my 10yr old son Fisher pulling cable and operating the winch. These pulls aren't very heavy and good ways for him to learn.Shea
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Morewood, the pins on the jaws are just 1" cold rolled steel. I'll see how they wear and if a problem I will have the guy would plasma cut the jaws turn me some up out of something better. I just used a 5/8" bolt for the chain connection and after only a couple hours of playing around it is already worn pretty good. Will try a grade 8 next. My brother in law has a winch and loved using it where he was cutting, steep hill. I do most of my cutting on pretty flat ground so this should work better for me. Your land there is definitely different that the bush here.
Hi, my name is Brett, it's been many weeks sinch my last pull with winch.
I hope I'm posting this in the right thread
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I hope I'm posting this in the right thread
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I skidded out some BIG logs yesterday, here's two of them.
I skidded this beech without cutting the logs out of it, It was all a son of a beech to get out too!!! I had to snatch block/double line it to get it up out of a deep ravine/soft spot...
Here's the top to it,
This one was a bit easier to get/skid, so I did cut the logs out, 17 footers,
SR
I skidded this beech without cutting the logs out of it, It was all a son of a beech to get out too!!! I had to snatch block/double line it to get it up out of a deep ravine/soft spot...
Here's the top to it,
This one was a bit easier to get/skid, so I did cut the logs out, 17 footers,
SR
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Anyway, once out of the woods, I got everything loaded, here's the front wagon load,
and with three big logs on the back running gear, I knew I'd never be able to pull either one up "sugar sand hill, so I left them hooked together, and winched the loads up the hill,
And snaked through the woods on out to the road,
SR
and with three big logs on the back running gear, I knew I'd never be able to pull either one up "sugar sand hill, so I left them hooked together, and winched the loads up the hill,
And snaked through the woods on out to the road,
SR
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Nice load SR. You plan to mill that beech.
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Yup, there's Beech, White Pine and Cherry, all headed to my BSM, the rest will be firewood...
SR
SR
No big tree winching for me .
Just blocks .
Just blocks .
Those are some nice loads, respectively. On Saturday I assumed I was done cutting trees and was widening the path to get to where I had cut up all the logs I had pulled. That wasn't as easy as I hoped. As I was trimming and cutting some small stuff down I looked up in the canopy and guess what......dead trees are easier to spot. Four oaks of various size up to approx. 20" beautifully dead and ready to come down. This week I'll go in and get them down, pull them to a flat spot and cut away, pics will follow. This is killing my timeline to get back closer to the house, but easy wood is easy wood. Did I mention just down the road from there a sign has been put up "free wood". You gotta love this.
Shea
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