Forwarders on peat.

[nooie]

Hola all. Iwould like to find out if a small forwarder would be the best machine for taking wood to the road on deep peat ground. Over the years I've used quads and an Argo for hauling fencing materials all over the area and find its too wet and slippery to be hauling antyhing over a couple of hundred kilos. Does anyone have an idea what a smallish forwarder (a load of 4 tonnes or so) would be like on uneven peat ground. There are no really steep slopes and the farthest haul would be about a mile.

[nathan 338]

You can put low pressure band tracks on an altor which will bring the ground psi to approx 1.25. Payload max is 2 tonne, but it will move alot in a day with the right opeartor

[Brushcutter]

Some band tracks will take the ground pressure right down. The Altor with band tracks front and rear would be your best bet.

 

There are some special bog working forwarders but they're huge about 20 tonne empty! But they have dual wheels taking them to 16 wheels and then have masive band tracks around them. Or they're just tracked entirely.

[Stu]

This is what you need we but the tracks on the other day, front ones are new

[renewablejohn]

Stu

 

How do you steer that forwarder with band tracks on. Do you just use the brake pedal to lock whichever rear wheel.

[fergusonforestry]

Stu

 

How do you steer that forwarder with band tracks on. Do you just use the brake pedal to lock whichever rear wheel.

 

forwarders are articulated like dumpers

 

 

be carefull on peat i know a guy who lost a brand new excavator sank that quick he had to get out the roof hatch!!

[Brushcutter]

Stu

 

How do you steer that forwarder with band tracks on. Do you just use the brake pedal to lock whichever rear wheel.

 

They steer in the middle.

 

This is even better than the 1470 on tracks. It's brand new i went to see it the other week on a bog working demo here in Finland.

[Highland Forestry]

Hola all. Iwould like to find out if a small forwarder would be the best machine for taking wood to the road on deep peat ground. Over the years I've used quads and an Argo for hauling fencing materials all over the area and find its too wet and slippery to be hauling antyhing over a couple of hundred kilos. Does anyone have an idea what a smallish forwarder (a load of 4 tonnes or so) would be like on uneven peat ground. There are no really steep slopes and the farthest haul would be about a mile.

 

You need something with very wide bogmaster type tracks.. and even then if it's very wet and soft you will still be in trouble.

 

You could try looking for something like an old pisten bully and tow a small trailer with it, or try a tracked dumper.

[Stu]

Stu

 

How do you steer that forwarder with band tracks on. Do you just use the brake pedal to lock whichever rear wheel.

 

Like the others said it's pivet steered with a ram pushing and pulling the cab to the left or right.

 

That's a pretty cool machine brushcutter, I still think I'd have tracks though the ones on the 1470 ATM are more for traction but you can get tracks with hardly any gap between the plates on the tracks which are the ones for flotation

[Brushcutter]

I've got the same tracks on the Caribou except the spikes are worn. It nearly went over the other night coming down a snowy hill.

 

Could you use an digger with bog tracks on to skid the timber out?