Homemade forwarder

[Mr. Ed]

Anyone seen anything like this? Take a 2wd tractor, remove the front axle, do something clever with the transmission so’s you can steer it, and join it to a trailer. 
 

seen in a Swedish small ad. Maybe it’s a thing there. 
 

Edited January 12 by Mr. Ed

[Steve Bullman]

But why???

[peds]

Why bake bread when you can buy it?

 

Why carve your own wooden spoon when you can buy them?

 

Why knit your own scarf when you can buy them?

 

Why make your own barbecue out of an oil drum when you can just buy a Weber or something? 

 

Daft question. 

[Mr. Ed]

22 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

But why???

because he could? If it’s enough reason for dogs to lick their elbows … yours for 15k

[Stubby]

You sure its not designed as such from the get go ?

[josharb87]

Seen quite a few, normally with a Volvo BM (Swedish brand in Sweden I guess) 

 

 

why? Better maneuverability than a tractor and trailer would be my guess 

[Stere]

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[s o c]

When I started at production cutting in the late 80s ,there were all manner of contraptions extracting timber.

One guy built a little forwarder based on a Zetor with front axle removed, the trailer section had a Zetor rear axle driven by the pto ground drive.

the final drives in those old Zetors (and David Browns) could be rotated to give super ground clearance.

It weighed very little and could travel on very soft ground.

He had a little hiiab crane on it that had a fair few leaks ,so he would run  it on burnt oil.

Seems hard to believe now that you could not get in trouble for spewing burnt oil all over a forest !

 

[sime42]

 

A Doe Triple-D.

[Will C]

1 hour ago, sime42 said:

 

A Doe Triple-D.

That brings back memories, had many hours ploughing with a triple d, hell of a machine. 
 

I remember the local drainage contractors used to use tractors with no front axle with a swan neck driven trailer to move the stone when I was a kid in the fens both in the 80s