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You could always build your own like these enterprising Swiss chaps... Galerie - Kategorie: Ueberrollbügel - Bild: Ueberrollbügel
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If that Holder is the one Bell Tractors were selling a while ago, someone's put a lot of work in on it, well done whoever.
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The thing that worried me a bit when I demo'd a small artic. alpine here was the long front overhang, on stumpy ditched clearfell I was constantly adjusting track. A bigger/higher machine and guarding would help. Riko are advertising a 90hp Pasquali with guarding, presumably v. similar. That Woody looks nice, you can spec them up with loader, linkage, PTO etc. Pricey I imagine. Another, more basic skidder from the Balkans I came across : http://hittner.hr/forest-tractors/
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Nice DB, not many 996 4wds around. I had the same Jones guarding on my Mog, anyone know how many they converted, or whether they just sold aftermarket kits?
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I bet you wouldn't sell / get one £5k now though....
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Plenty of Mogs used as skidders in Germany, both fixed winch and hitch-mounted. Search Youtube for Unimog & Forst / Wald. Somebody (Werner?) even produced a dedicated machine with fixed axles and pivot steering. My old 900 with crawler box would pull anything and coped well with stumps mud & ditches, at least until a bit of brash broke the air line to the lockers, then it just sat and span wheels. So yes, belly guarding or at least rerouted services would help... Don't forget how tiny the round cabs are though.
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I dug up the quotes I got last yr for similar work, the other was similar: "as a general rule you can mulch around 1ha per day for around £1500.00 per ha. if you want full root removal with excavator then this can come down to around 1acre per day..." I watched his big Fendt with a Gutzwiller head on it, it did pull in and shred smaller stumps pretty well, hence the query about tree size. We just want pasture, so buried stumps aren't a big problem, but a graveyard is a bit different. For cost reasons I think we're reverting to dig, stack and torch....
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How old are the trees? The big mulchers will go down a fair way given time and diesel.
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That's Scottish Native Woodlands' machine, a couple of months ago they were talking about hiring it out, presumably their plans have changed. I think they were getting an Alstor 8x8 too, possibly they can't justify running both. How does the Vimek keep the front 4 wheels on the ground, does the back axle oscillate?
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From the album: misc
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Completely different back end on MB Tracs (as you can see on the pics of the one they appear to have taken this one off...) so you'd have a fair bit of fabrication to do. The Ebay PUH still needs the 3PL lift arms. Does your machine have lift arm brackets on the axle, and/or the 3 hole implement brackets outboard of the pto shaft? If so a simple fixed hitch could be fairly easily made up & attached there. Fun getting the trailer on & off though.
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Witham sold a few of these a couple of years back, fetched around £2k. Ex bomb disposal I believe.
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Couple more of CSF (smallest, S series): with linkage and spool in use, and bracken bashing with small flail. I've put wider tyres and spacers on for grip and better stability on sideslopes etc., but it's still very handy in tight spaces.
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From the album: CSF Multione S20D / Goldoni Star 70
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From the album: CSF Multione S20D / Goldoni Star 70
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I see they also do a multipurpose backhoe/crane job, like the old Mcconnel powerarms, do you know anything about those?
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Good idea. A bit off-topic, but is there a way of doing this other than fitting a proper 3rd service, ie simply (cheaply..) diverting the dump/crowd circuit?
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I used one of the Japas for a while with my little JD 1140 and a borrowed MF3090, pretty much limited to skidding or lifting small bundles with the former even with a full set of wafers up front. Very solid, apart from the optional slewing ram which had been rewelded twice (same problem on one recently seen on ebay). BGU (German) do a range of these, including a hybrid crane: ::: BGU-Maschinen ::: Südharzer Maschinenbau GmbH ::: Plenty on ebay.de, don't know if anyone imports them.
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If you're stuck for anything nearer you can dump it in my wood, unless you mean 3 days worth flat out with a 24" Bandit. About 25 mins past Dunbar, or over the top if you're on the Gifford side.
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btw Riko were at the Highland Show with a JMS skidding arch, £745 list with a turntable and chain up to £1230 with elec winch & grab.
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my m8 has a quad timber trailer for about 750 Any idea on type/capacity etc?
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Dean, I'm very happy to read anybody's opinion on either the query I raised, or on tenuously related questions of industrial history. If responding to an offered opinion with a degree of skepticism or puzzlement counts as 'attitude' that's a pity.
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"there was one on ebay today" A black one? That looked quite tidy, I thought it had a couple of days still to run... "Hi try these" Thanks I'll give them a call. "Why the attitude ??" That's not how it looks from here Dean, I didn't start the detour into the murky waters of British industrial decline.
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"why not look at building youre own" Thought about that, I could cannibalise a fair bit from around the farm, but for a tandem bogie, backbone/bolster setup it starts looking a bit time consuming, or pricey if the admittedly excellent local metal shop gets involved. I may spring for a basic trailer and bodge up my own wire loader. It's interesting that this small scale stuff is so scarce here compared to the continent, the tradition of actively managing farm woodlands seems much stronger elsewhere.
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"you should be able to work that one out quite easily" Yes, I had. "you get what you pay for" Well, sometimes. Opinions vary, as with recent debate hereabouts on the value for money, or not, of premium chipper brands. 'try "cheap foreign" ' I should maybe wait 'til they're pricier then, like Honda cars or Kubota tractors.
