Compact telehandler

[aczlan]

I guess my first concern was ground clearance.
How would one go about lifting and walking a hitch of stems out of the woods with such a conveyance?

Or I'm I asking too much of this magical machine?

Either you would pick them up and carry them on the forks on the front, back out pulling them from the forks on the front or get one with a three-point hitch and use the same setup as you would use on a tractor.

Aaron Z

 

[Xfaxman]

I guess my first concern was ground clearance.

Ground clearance has never stopped it. The bottom is steel and smooth. Driving over a big log, it slides with the front wheels in the air until the rears spin. Then extend the boom, it will teeter totter on the log, the back wheels will go up, the front wheels will come down and pull it off the log. I have done it many times.

How would one go about lifting and walking a hitch of stems out of the woods with such a conveyance?

Hook the chain to the grapple and back out while looking it the 7 inch monitor with the rear camera on.
This is when 4 wheel steering really helps.

Or I'm I asking too much of this magical machine?

Here is one way that I have removed dead tree trunks from the woods:

And a willow tree and a dead trunk:

 

[Xfaxman]

Found some pictures of moving a tree by the root ball:

 

[bindian]

I guess my first concern was ground clearance.
How would one go about lifting and walking a hitch of stems out of the woods with such a conveyance?

Or I'm I asking too much of this magical machine?

Stop where you are comfortable. Boom out until over the logs. Drop a chain around them and hook it to the back of the fork carriage. Boom in and back out. Once you start using a squirt boom, you find all kinds of jobs were you boom out then in.

I almost got room to sit under my Lull, if I duck my head.
hugs, Brandi

 

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Found some pictures of moving a tree by the root ball:

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Problem with getting trees out the forest this way is steering a 50' rigid conveyance thru the woods. Not gonna happen and believe me, you don't want to be looking at a screen to come out of the woods.
I don't see any rear winch attachment for telhandlers.
Perhaps the best way is to forward them out with a trailer attached to the back or maybe with a good size log arch that would take two or three stems.
These things must certainly have the capacity to pic up an 1800 lb stem and drop it on a trailer.
My woods would not even allow the trailer as there are no logging roads per se. Rocks and stick ups will await to tear into another set of tires that you don't have quite the control of as you do with the front tractor steering.
You need clearances for forwarder methods.
I do like them hands down better over a tractor though and if I had one, I'd figure out something to skid logs out. They are just too versatile a machine to pass up.

 

[Xfaxman]

Problem with getting trees out the forest this way is steering a 50' rigid conveyance thru the woods. Not gonna happen and believe me, you don't want to be looking at a screen to come out of the woods.
I don't see any rear winch attachment for telhandlers.
Perhaps the best way is to forward them out with a trailer attached to the back or maybe with a good size log arch that would take two or three stems.

The logging winch goes on the front: forestry winch for skid steer at DuckDuckGo

These things must certainly have the capacity to pic up an 1800 lb stem and drop it on a trailer.

Yep, mine will lift over 6000 lbs.

My woods would not even allow the trailer as there are no logging roads per se. Rocks and stick ups will await to tear into another set of tires that you don't have quite the control of as you do with the front tractor steering.

I don't understand that statement. My V417 has 2 wheel front steering just like a tractor.

Flip the switch to 4 wheel steering and the rear steers opposite of the front, the rear tires travel around a sharp turn in the tracks that the front tires made.

Flip the switch to crab steer and the front and rear steer the same angle so it moves sideways like a crab.

You need clearances for forwarder methods.
I do like them hands down better over a tractor though and if I had one, I'd figure out something to skid logs out. They are just too versatile a machine to pass up.

Right, it is the most versatile machine I have ever had.
That is why Bobcat calls it a Versahandler.

Post pictures here when you get one

 

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The logging winch goes on the front: forestry winch for skid steer at DuckDuckGo
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I don't understand that statement. My V417 has 2 wheel front steering just like a tractor.

Talking about the trailer. Not the telehandler. Everything seems to attach to the front end of these machines. Is there one where the seat swivels so "backing out" becomes the same as steering forward?

 

[Xfaxman]

Talking about the trailer. Not the telehandler. Everything seems to attach to the front end of these machines. Is there one where the seat swivels so "backing out" becomes the same as steering forward?

No but you can back the trailer while going forward:

Or you can pull the trailer and drive forward:

 

[devriescharles]

No action shots yet but here is a quick photo of the new to me V417 after unloading it from the trailer. Thanks for all your help Xfaxman you are a wealth of information!!!

 

[Xfaxman]

You're welcome, glad to help.

Your picture reminded me that this was the first thing I ever had with a rain wiper on the roof!

And this is the view of the tree puller through the FOPS roof. The glass is on top of the metal:

 

[Xfaxman]

From my flip phone camera down on the seat, looking through the roof

 

[icnu]

Can someone tell me/show me where the zerk is for greasing the boom? Its my first time hitting the zerks and i left paperwork/manual at home 4 hrs away-mowing and moving stones for stone wall in am-thanks!

 

[Xfaxman]

No zerk. Extend the boom all the way. Put grease on the the slide areas top, bottom and both sides.

 

[ArmyDoc]

As Xfaxman said, no zerk for the boom slide itself. There is a zirk on the pivot at the base of the boom though. You have to lift the boom all the way up and look at the base of it to see it. You really should put the brace on before crawling in there to access it...

 

[Xfaxman]

Your V519 is a little different, but don't see the zerk you referred to:

The new V417 IPB shows zerks on the wear pads that mine does not have zerks on.

 

[ArmyDoc]

Your V519 is a little different, but don't see the zerk you referred to. The new V417 IPB shows zerks on the wear pads that mine does not have zerks on

It would be the drawing that shows the hydraulic ram, I bet. It's on the pin / pivot the hydraulic ram braces against under the boom, and I think there's one on the pin that the ram pushes against too, but can't remember for sure. Greasing the boom it self is just as you describe. Run it out, put some on each of the areas where the pads run, then run it back. I usually do the back part and let is squish it out to the end rather than the whole lenght, otherwise too much swept off. If I'm feeling really industrious, I'll pull the boom in while the bucket is pushing against the ground once, rather than just with the bucket floating in the air, because that sepparates some of the pads from the boom on the bottom side.

 

[icnu]

Thanks! My 417 does not have pad zerks either. Not knowing, and in a hurry, i just greased the boom by hand, but thinking “this cant be right”. I just turned 50 of my hrs on it-and boom was getting dry. Generally how often are yall greasing your boom?-just eyeballing it? just got home and couldnt find anything as i scanned the manual i use

 

[icnu]

Motion impaired

 

[icnu]

All I could think about was Xfaxmans posts on this thread, But unfortunately, I could not get her out. Tried all the tricks, which got me dug deeper-user error im sure-I don’t know if you can see it on these pictures because I think it actually went deeper after I took these, but it was deep enough where i could not open the door-Had to have my friends track loader pull me out.

 

[icnu]

Got her cleaned up and mowed the pear orchard[

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