Sexy sexy sexy (but expensive)toy

[difflock]

Ah nivver even know they existed!

A Cat Challenger based bit of Kit I suspect

The "Combat Engineer Tractor" was more my vintage.

Some o them for sale as well.

Without the solid rocket propelled Anchor for the winch rope unfortunately.

Werry werry handy for winching oneself up a hostile held riverbank.

[Stu]

There was a article in the forestry journal a while ago with the exact same machine I think following a small harvester think it was owned by a small tree firm.

[Ollie]

Thats an Oxtrac. A friend had one of these, very good for small scale thinning extraction, he used a small forwarder trailer with it. He did a tree surgery job with me once we towed the chipper to the bottom of the garden and pulled a bunch of Leylandii down in no time. However it didn't really work out quick enough for most of the the forestry work he did and he used to hire in a tractor

 

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[Ollie]

Also think he only paid about that much for it new

 

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[treedave]

Yep they're pricey and not perfect.

Weak points - track stretch / maintenance,thin winch cable for power of machineleand easy to pull a track of when screwing round on the spot.

Strong points - can operate in places that similar size/power tractors would die in, go to/from site behind pick up, very low ground pressure (sub 7 psi )

hydraulic outlets running at 50 L per min / 180 bar, runs on less than 30L fuel for 8hrs on the clock,

 

 

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