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postrip
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Stage 1 of Colorado upgrade complete!
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KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
Looking for a reality check please fellas, if you'd be so kind.
Am trying to find a way of affording a very small mobile yarder. Something like this would be nice but beyond the budget and somewhat overkill for my needs:
I've a tractor skidding winch already and am thinking of lining up another, something like this, that can be radio operated:
I'm wondering if I should be even thinking about building some sort of fold-down tower I can partially fix to the tractor winch body and have myself a wee small/thinning high-lead operation.
Do you guys think it is a possible plan worth running passed an engineer to see if a suitable tower could be sorted for such a winch?
I doubt I'll have the $ for much more than this sort of set-up (double drum would be great but noCanAfford), as my plans include radio remotes for the winch, tractor, and the big expense of radio chokers which don't even come with a jar of Vaseline.
Am trying to find a way of affording a very small mobile yarder. Something like this would be nice but beyond the budget and somewhat overkill for my needs:
I've a tractor skidding winch already and am thinking of lining up another, something like this, that can be radio operated:
I'm wondering if I should be even thinking about building some sort of fold-down tower I can partially fix to the tractor winch body and have myself a wee small/thinning high-lead operation.
Do you guys think it is a possible plan worth running passed an engineer to see if a suitable tower could be sorted for such a winch?
I doubt I'll have the $ for much more than this sort of set-up (double drum would be great but noCanAfford), as my plans include radio remotes for the winch, tractor, and the big expense of radio chokers which don't even come with a jar of Vaseline.
lumberjackau
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Have got, thanks, the fun bit like Rick eluded to is the odd sizing bit, and trying to get the right heat range also. then finding the little bugger. ah the joys of modifying gear (worse yet sorting out what others have started)Might help with plug selection:
chippy
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Back in the big smoke again building another shed..
Drilling a few more post holes today
Drilling a few more post holes today
Rudolf73
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Looking for a reality check please fellas, if you'd be so kind.
Am trying to find a way of affording a very small mobile yarder. Something like this would be nice but beyond the budget and somewhat overkill for my needs:
I've a tractor skidding winch already and am thinking of lining up another, something like this, that can be radio operated:
I'm wondering if I should be even thinking about building some sort of fold-down tower I can partially fix to the tractor winch body and have myself a wee small/thinning high-lead operation.
Do you guys think it is a possible plan worth running passed an engineer to see if a suitable tower could be sorted for such a winch?
I doubt I'll have the $ for much more than this sort of set-up (double drum would be great but noCanAfford), as my plans include radio remotes for the winch, tractor, and the big expense of radio chokers which don't even come with a jar of Vaseline.
Should be able to build a detachable frame for your skidding winch with maybe a 3-4m tower and snatch block at the top. Then just anchor your tower to the front of your tractor to get some triangulation happening and you should be good to go.
farmerward
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Looks good, Have the boys in blue picked on the partially obscured indicators yet?
Thansk
postrip
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All good!, it has indicator & park light in bottom front of bar.
It's 100% engineered & ADR compliant, made sure of that before purchasing
VinceGU05
PSA vitim.
Do they specify a weight for those bars? They look bloody heavy. Front end drop much? Bloody roo proof tho!![emoji106]
deye223
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simple you wont get it .
they are shifty c$#@% ....... now they say 12 months from when big ears banned it since he done a deal with senator david leyonhjelm
but you see we have an election in between now and then and if big ears gets in he has 4 years for you and us to forget about him making
it a permanent ban by just banning it or reclassifying it as a cat C.
you see if a 5 shot leaver is ok then why wait for 12 months HMMMMM i smell a whopping great pile of bull chit
postrip
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I ain't been right through the specs Vince, but around 90kg I believe 4 the bar alone.
Protection was what I wanted, travelling to all the race calendar I follow.
I reckon headlight aim won't alter to much, with all those Huskies locked in the back
98% of the km travelled, is in the bush, with prob 60% of that dusk till daylight hrs.
My biggest concern is side clearance or (rake) at the front outer edges.... There'll be no steep gully/ creek crossings anymore I feel.
I should look @ replacing them boring steel rims as well lol!
chippy
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Your going to go round the first corner and think WTF, I'm sure it handled better than this.
That a lot of weight to have out the front.....will make the arse end lighter too if you ain't carrying a load....
But it will have a tighter turning circle, especially in the wet and mud
2strokenut
One nut loose
i dont recon it would change much he did say about 90kg thats stuff all
chippy
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Yeah I s'pose.
I don't know what the bar weighs on the cruiser but I do remember the first corner I went around I thought, ****, that stuffed the cornering....I don't think about it anymore once you get used to it.
ausneil 1
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Mums shopping rig, for serious car park navigation on pension day.
Lovely set up Jason, a lot of those have been set up on cruisers and such over the years and they are just the ticket.
My bull bars were never strong enough to stop big roo's doing damage however I couldn't come the price of those, you can so good for you.
Your right about driving dusk and dawn,,,,, it can be a lottery sometimes.
My latest Triton has a factory bar that is a poor excuse for anything except it looks like it may stop something.
Oh and good morning folks on this fine clear cool morning, work time so have a good day.
chippy
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I'm guessing you got that because your wife wants to drive it?
postrip
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Lmao, this is funny 
tdi-rick
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It'll be noticeable, you can't get it any further forward of the axle centerline so it makes a huge difference (it's called 'polar moment of inertia') but you'll soon forget what it used to be like.
It's no different to those of us that have, say, an ARB or TJM bar and Warn type low mount winch.
All up that weighs 90+kg.
It's just one of the compromises we make, trade one thing for another.
A decent bar I'd just so needed in the bush, and it always amused me when city based 4x4 drivers would say "been driving 20 years in the country and never hit a roo, so a bull bar is just a macho affectation" and I didn't have enough fingers and toes to count the number of roo strikes I'd had in the preceding six months.
But apparently that was impossible as I only lived 4.5 hours from Sydney and there weren't that many roos and wallabies (let alone stray stock) running around, or I was just an idiot that drove too fast.
I'd then have to patiently explain most of the strikes I had was when traveling at less than 50km/h because the roos were that thick, that often they'd run into the side of the Landy or Patrol.
No Fecking idea.
