Suggestion for timber forwarding on steep slope

[_tc]

yes mate all serious, i have sent you an email but will call tomorrow to discuss.

Is the job in devon or cornwall?

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

yes mate all serious, i have sent you an email but will call tomorrow to discuss.

Is the job in devon or cornwall?

 

Gotya, job is same as Noss one (stumps)... (devon). will check email...

[LR90]

TimberCutterDartmoor

 

i also have a ransome MG5 and have toyed with the idear of using it in the woods. was thinking of making up a pto powered winch on the back and some spades. have taken ours to show and have driven around the off road corses only problem is when you hit a log and it justs starts to clime vertical and then you come back to earth with a crash. to make it more stable you could increase the track width by turning the wheels round

also did you manage to get the mag as i would also be intrested in getting a copy to see the artical.

 

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

think it was _tc wanting the mag...

[_tc]

The nice people at the smallwoods mag are sending me a copy.......free of charge too.

[_tc]

LR90 can you tell me more about your ransome? how long have you had it and what have you run off the pto ?

Mine belonged to my late father and he passed away when i was 12. it was then that i stripped the engine for some reason and never put it back together. SOme 20 years later i had her restored by a chap in the area who has done a few ransomes and ploughs with one too.

The original diesel engine was rash after my delicate touch all those years ago. incidently it was made by Stihl.

anyway, i now have the petrol engine on in its place. i am dying to use her for work etc. i did have a chipper stuck in a chaps rambling garden which we wheeled in by hand but had to use the ransome to recover.

 

Bloody fun little machines.

I will dig out a pic of her pre resto.

Ed.

[_tc]

[RichardT]

There's one of the old James Jones compact crawler skidders for sale in Tractor & Machinery, very handy but seller seems to want 'collector's item' money.

[Saw-sick Steve]

[quote name=

The original diesel engine was rash after my delicate touch all those years ago. incidently it was made by Stihl.

 

Ed.[/quote]

 

Stihl or Still ? The latter still make diesel forklifts, and possibly marine diesels at some time. If it is one made by the Garden Machinery people I'd be intrigued as I haven't come across one before.

[_tc]

defo stihl. i will try and find a picture or more info about the engine.