skidding logs with tractor?

[Ty Unnos]

How about a skidding plate?

 

FXP Skidding Plate - Wallenstein

 

Like a winch - but without the winch.

[Ty Unnos]

Or even more simple - just an a-frame with hook;

 

Heavy Duty Three Point Tractor Trailer Hitch | eBay

[Ryan]

These are the type of things I am interested in, simple but effective.Is the key to skidding getting the butt of the logs off the ground to prevent them from damaging both log and ground?

[Wood wasp]

Ryan

 

If you're going to be extracting 12,000 stems speaking from personal experience you can forget skidding, particularly without a purpose built skidder or double drum winch on forestry guarded tractor.

 

You start tracking back and forth over a field with a few stems making a mess then you'll soon see what I mean. And if your tractor isn't guarded you'll have branches pulling pipes off engine and poking into every nook and cranny before you know it.

 

Get yourself a good second hand trailer and crane (look for cracks, oil leaks, dropping, play in bushes/slew, valve block play, smoothness to work), then spend a few quid getting your current tractor guarded underneath and engine/radiator. Even if just a hobby getting decent gear will save you a huge amount of heartbreak!

 

Good luck

David

[Joy Yeomans]

you ll end up using that much derv you say time isnt an issue..

it wont have to be... also artic driver will want them in a neat stack so he can grab grab fulls at a time and not strewn over 100 yards which you arent going to get skidding out.. have a go if you want and then let us know how many swear words the artic driver uses when he comes to collect. lol

sorry but get in soneone its what forestry contractors are here for

joy

 

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[ChissayLuke]

Have a look at logsled.com

A USA company, but I am getting something very similar fabricated in UK to tow behind a quad.

Seems to do the job without making a mess of either the wood or the terrain.

 

Best.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

We are winching and skidding at the moment (see pic from today) and then converting before forwarding - the ground is too side-sloped to convert in the cover and forward out. About 450 ton of it is being skidded; it's not that bad and in this job is the best solution by far. Important imo is to skid full length - not less and certainly not short pieces - the butt can dig in and the whole stick pole-vault over forwards onto the tractor! It's true that the wood gets dirtied by skidding and chain sharpening becomes twice as regular; I tried MC chain but couldn't be arsed with it in the end.

[Ryan]

Thanks timber cutter. Thats the kind of operation im interested in. I was intending skidding in 16ft lengths as that length suits most of the timber skellys round here. As for having timber strewn over 100 yards I intend using the front loader with a grab to tidy them up. I am staring to make one like this

[Joy Yeomans]

fair enough

 

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[fergusonforestry]

re: your grab these pics of ours any help?