Rotate freely or hydraulic log grab

[woody paul]

38 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Smart work.

 

Don’t you find those tyres a bit vulnerable under load in a woodland?

Same ply rated as agri tread for that machine. But need good driving skills as like on ice when it's a bit wet. Used more for garden work then forestry but when needs must it gets used, have been quoted about £100 a corner for agri grip tyres and wheels. 

[Mick Dempsey]

I love my agri treads, great grip and use rubber road plates across lawns.

[monkeybusiness]

1 hour ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I love my agri treads, great grip and use rubber road plates across lawns.

The Avant we use is on Agri tread and makes zero mess on lawns - it is like some sort of magic, I really don’t understand how it doesn’t tear the place up!

[woody paul]

17 minutes ago, monkeybusiness said:

The Avant we use is on Agri tread and makes zero mess on lawns - it is like some sort of magic, I really don’t understand how it doesn’t tear the place up!

 

2 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I love my agri treads, great grip and use rubber road plates across lawns.

Are they agri or Skid there is a lot of difference in the mess they make. 

[Mick Dempsey]

These.

[monkeybusiness]

19 minutes ago, woody paul said:

 

Are they agri or Skid there is a lot of difference in the mess they make. 

Dunno - skinny bar-grips. Look like wide tractor tyres to me.

[woody paul]

Skid has wide cleats 

[monkeybusiness]

Just now, woody paul said:

Skid has wide cleats 

Agri then 

[Al Cormack]

I would say just buy the best you can , so that would be a hydraulic one, if you bought a freely rotating one i can safely say you will think its ok at the start but it wont be long before you realise its just a pain in the arse when you have to keep jumping on and off to rotate the manual one to the right position, then when you are coming through a tight space and you have a log bigger/wider than machine you will need to get off the machine and buy the time you get back in the seat Jim McGravity will of interfeared and the log will be back in the same position, to just push a button is much easier and far more productive and less stressful, just buy the fully rotating hydraulic grab, you wont regret it, was there not one for sale on here around or just after christmas or i could of seen it on fleebay or some where seem to remember it was around the 2k mark and looked as if it had hardly been used,

Have you actually used a free rotating log grab?
What you say is the exact opposite of what I have found when using mine.
A heal plate stops the log swinging around when you pick it up, so always keeps it in line with the avant.
With a bit of practice you can swing the grab and catch it on the log to rotate it in the right direction for picking up.

[spuddog0507]

46 minutes ago, Al Cormack said:

 

Have you actually used a free rotating log grab?
What you say is the exact opposite of what I have found when using mine.
A heal plate stops the log swinging around when you pick it up, so always keeps it in line with the avant.
With a bit of practice you can swing the grab and catch it on the log to rotate it in the right direction for picking up.

 

 

Not for a week or two like 35yr since i last had any thing to do with one and at the time it just seemed to be a waste of time/diesel/machine hrs for us, watched a lad on a Avant moving timber about 12 month ago with a free rotating grab and he made it look a very difficult but there again its like a lot of other things , operator expieriance , what he moved in a afternoon i could of moved in a 1-2hrs tops with our forwarder, But we are in to production and tonnage not just moving a lone tree from a domestic job, I was all ways told to buy the best bit of kit/machienery you could to do the job and that seems to work for us, i have had cheap kit that are supposed to be up to and do the job but it never seems to have worked for me,