Skidding with tracked chipper

[doobin]

not production i suppose but we do sell the wood on in 7.6 foot lengths and the amount we take out doing boundaryt clearance is too much to cut and stack for habitat.

we've never stretched tracks and they are well used.. some chippers can be fitted with a winch,, there is another idea for you.

 

Make sure you change the track drive oil regularly. Same as a digger.

 

I learnt from my old boss- I remember the mechanic telling him that if he'd changed the oil in the tracks, the £2.5k repair wouldn't be neccessary!

 

That stuck with me and I always do mine every 150 hours as I do a lot of tracking.

 

I wouldn't use it unless I had to, not built for it.

[Chris Sheppard]

not production i suppose but we do sell the wood on in 7.6 foot lengths and the amount we take out doing boundaryt clearance is too much to cut and stack for habitat.

we've never stretched tracks and they are well used.. some chippers can be fitted with a winch,, there is another idea for you.

 

I'd be fairly sure the winch on the TW150 that I work with is faster/more powerful than most winches normally found bolted to a tracked chipper and even then it's only ever used for skidding when really necessary.

 

For anything other than an odd stick or two then, IMO, there's far better machines to use for the job.

[treedweller]

Isn't the iron horse not just a tracked barrow with a winch instead of a skip? As stated above if it's on the job anyway do it. If your looking into moving into small scale extraction buy a cheap quad and make a log arch. Proberly put the two together for a grand off the bay.