what logs have you been chopping today!

[swinny]

Do all of you bother with the bigger diameter stuff?

 

Too labour intensive for my liking?

[gdh]

Finally cutting some straight wood with nice beech coming in.

 

Also decided to prune a low tree on the way back.

[rowan lee]

Deep into the boggy wildness pulling out some storm damaged beech. Too good to leave behind. Drag was 500m through some rather wet hollows requiring all the extra rubber on the old girl.

[daveatdave]

nice to see the old girl still earning a living 

[skc101fc]

Have you dualed the fronts as well or gone for wide profile? Never seen dual fronts.

[rowan lee]

Duals, cheaper option, plus easy to undo as it makes steering a pig especially with the front weights. Generally a smaller diameter tyre is used on non-power assist tractors I believe so you don't get the extra drag when steering but do get the lift required when you start to cut the ground. I tried 13" wheels from a berlingo van but fiddly to bolt on and off.

[gdh]

Almost at the end of our nice straight beech, it might blunt chains fast but I'm going to miss it when we get back on bendy oak and alder.

[MattyF]

How do you find farmer trailer set up gdh, how does the crane handle?

[gdh]

2 hours ago, MattyF said:

How do you find farmer trailer set up gdh, how does the crane handle?

Mixed feelings, a lot of good features and much cheaper than a farma but a few drawbacks.

 

The electric controls are really nice and being an 8.5m there's plenty of reach. In all honesty I don't think the build quality is the same as a farmi though (or at least our old one) - there's a lot of flex/bounce in the crane and chassis. 

 

The extendable rear bolster is useful but realistically it's for long logs as you can't double stack anything over 10ft.

 

It's also surprisingly narrow, that's obviously good on smaller tractors but personally I would rather load wider than higher. Or both and get more on. 

 

That's come across a bit negative, I would still recommend it as a decent mid range trailer, especially given some other makes are 45k plus for the equivalent which I couldn't justify. 

[MattyF]

Thanks for the brief re view
Seriously looking at a new trailer or maybe just a new crane the 360 is turning in to a bit of a nightmare ... trailer is great and perfect for what it’s used for mostly thinning it’s just let down by the crane ... replaced the PTO pump which I only put on in last September last night , started it up and it snapped the chain and has bent the valtras out shaft .. not happy back on the valmet at least the 4 m Douglas is a joy to process ! Apart from my sun shade shitting it self in the breeze the day should get should get better !