Iron horse on ebay

[Quickthorn]

So you did get an Ironhorse in the end?! Happy with it?

On the one I used there was an "arm" on the winch of about a metre or so as a sort of crane (original part) that is very helpfull when loading logs... makes it selfloading and can lift logs from the side of the ironhorse an onto the bed.

 

Yes, it's good on skidding big stuff like in the photos, and it's very good on hills and soft ground. With a trailer, it's good with anything you can hand load.

 

I've got that crane thing, though, and I've never got that to work the way I thought it would.

 

As a money making thing, the biggest problem is the financial climate, with very little money out there for the sort of stuff I do..plus Alstor owners who will work for peanuts.

[Xerxses]

 

I've got that crane thing, though, and I've never got that to work the way I thought it would.

 

Whats your problem with it?

[Xerxses]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpCFE5UjCw0&NR=1]Iron Horse Introduction - YouTube[/ame]

[delabodge]

Iron Horse Introduction - YouTube

 

so how many arb talkers use them? yes its handy,,,but how often do you use it?

[Quickthorn]

Whats your problem with it?

 

I'm finding that the end of the log often doesn't go under that horizontal bar on its own, so it takes a lot of adjustment to get it right, and it ends up quicker to lift the log on with log tongs. Might be lack of experience with it

[Matthew Storrs]

so how many arb talkers use them? yes its handy,,,but how often do you use it?

 

I agree, handy yes for the right job, but i have a mini digger with a small grapple and i reckon i could get it almost anywhere and it will do a lot more stuff for similar money. but then iv never used the horse.

[Quickthorn]

I agree, handy yes for the right job, but i have a mini digger with a small grapple and i reckon i could get it almost anywhere and it will do a lot more stuff for similar money. but then iv never used the horse.

 

Getting there and back's one thing, but it's the state in which the site's left that can make the difference on some jobs. Of course, if low impact's not important, you've got a wider choice of what you can use. You're right, it needs the right job.

[Matthew Storrs]

yes and at least theres no chance of tipping it over on steep ground by the looks of it.

[Xerxses]

I'm finding that the end of the log often doesn't go under that horizontal bar on its own, so it takes a lot of adjustment to get it right, and it ends up quicker to lift the log on with log tongs. Might be lack of experience with it

 

Not sure what you mean... but what I always did was to put the wire quite close to the butt, winch it in and drop it on the bed and either winch in more if it was small stuff and/or move the wire further down the trunk (the length of the distance between the mesh and the wheel on the crane) and then lift again and thus positioning it right between the loadingbars and close enough to the mesh, if you get what I mean:confused1:

 

 

Ah, do you mean loading from the side? I loded from the bottom of it as I found it to be faster, as above. I only used it on bigger stuff never on thinnings and such.

[Paul Smith]

Quickthorne, is yours a 5 or 9 hp? Where did you get it and how much?

The one advertised is an older model as it has a straight throttle handle so you can't fold it over and ride it.