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Oh yes

I forgot!

How big a digger will I need when I get bogged:blushing:

 

The first thing you need to address is getting the situation stabilised - you describe your ground as rank peat which I interpret to mean deep and soft.

 

Better not to bog in the first place so I would start off with a light load and make sure I can release the load immediately - so I would not attempt to tow with chains but would have a winch and tow on the winch brake. If you start to chew through the skin then open the brake and get the tractor up onto the skin again. If I am going to be travelling the same ground repeatedly then I will sned the trees where I want the brash even if that means skidding them there.

 

I would have some suitable timber lengths pre-cut and positioned as best possible so I do not have to go hunting after the tractor breaks through, also have some suitable rope to secure them to the tracks so as to get them under the tractor.

 

If you think you may need a digger then you need a set of bogmats for the digger, ready for the digger to pick up at the start of the peat.

 

You need a fueled and sharp chainsaw in the tractor so that you can drop trees and get brash under the tractor at the first sign of bother.

 

Attach a towing strop to the tractor before going on to the moss and leave it there and make sure you have a means to connect to the digger available before you start.

 

When we take a digger on to this ground we do not allow the digger to touch the peat, the digger travels on brash - period. If that means felling a complete rack of trees to make the brash then so be it.

 

When you get the digger to the bogged tractor don't push a bad position- if it will not come out readily then dig the ground away at the front of the tractor and place tiimber at the same level as the tracks, you may have to dig all around the tractor and lead the water away to get the suction broken.

 

Do not try to tow by tracking the digger - use the digger arm as much as possible and track as little as you can, you have already proved that the ground in that area is weak.

 

Have fun!!!!!:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin:

 

Cheers

mac

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Thanks Mac

All good stuff

Been there & had some of it done to me already:blushing:

Experience costs:lol:

Or as someone else said: you always gain the necessary experience ..........................................................................................but only after you really needed it:001_rolleyes:

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