New Alpine and Timber Trailer

[Charlieh]

grapple skidding tongs on alpines aren't hugely slower than a forwarding trailer especially on runs >350mtrs they are also a lot more manoeuvrable in early thinnings and if the cutting and timber is presented really well you can shift some material in a day. We skid larger timber and then process it on the rides or in thinnings we cut to 3mtrs and grab bundles. I would love a forwarding trailer but at the moment its far quicker to use the alpine to get the timber to where a bigger forwarding unit to get to and do the final extraction rather than trying to do it all with a smaller machine

[richy_B]

grapple skidding tongs on alpines aren't hugely slower than a forwarding trailer especially on runs >350mtrs they are also a lot more manoeuvrable in early thinnings and if the cutting and timber is presented really well you can shift some material in a day. We skid larger timber and then process it on the rides or in thinnings we cut to 3mtrs and grab bundles. I would love a forwarding trailer but at the moment its far quicker to use the alpine to get the timber to where a bigger forwarding unit to get to and do the final extraction rather than trying to do it all with a smaller machine

 

What grapple do you use? I currently am use a uniforest 35e to winch and skid larger logs but have considered a skidding grapple.

[brownoak]

loft tongs on a holder

[Charlieh]

I use an IED solutions (Ed is a member on here as IED solutions) skidding frame with a 0.2cu mtr farma grab fitted

[openspaceman]

loft tongs on a holder

 

Yours is a better picture but here are mine snapped from an old album soon after we put JHB tongs on the Holder and before I stuck a County weight on the front.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[silky fox]

Great pictures! 1970's?

[openspaceman]

Great pictures! 1970's?

 

I'd guess 1984, I probably still have the invoice for the tongs, it was just after I had them re bushed and a hydraulic rotator put on.

[silky fox]

Fantastic pictures OSM! What sort of weight could you shift?

[openspaceman]

Fantastic pictures OSM! What sort of weight could you shift?

 

I'd guess around 2 tonne on the flat, still could if I put it back together, thing is forwarding took over and the ability to fit down a 5ft rack wasn't of much interest to most landowners willing to go for 2 rows to get the bigger machines down,

 

on a short run, as in the pictures, I could tush 50 loads in a day but the converting slowed things down. In those days we might cut 10 different specs to maximise yield.,

[silky fox]

That's some production!