Sawyer Rob
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Pallet fork advice
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Tigershark
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Just wanted to say thanks for all the advice . I bought the Titans quick attach and it arrived yesterday, I'm sure the FedEx person had a bad day taking them off the truck. Luckily my son came home for the weekend from college and helped me load it in my truck last night, took it out to the farm assembled in under two minutes minutes then mounted on the tractor. If it will dry out a little I can put it to the test. What a great deal for the $$$
Thanks again!!
Thanks again!!
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Congrats on the new attachment!!! Can't get enough of those!!!
Without pics this might be a stupid alternative. Maybe throw a chain around the stump end of the log and pull the entire tree to the burn pile, cut it up, push onto the pile with the FEL bucket?
Hauling on forks will create a trail of debris that you will have to deal with.
Without pics this might be a stupid alternative. Maybe throw a chain around the stump end of the log and pull the entire tree to the burn pile, cut it up, push onto the pile with the FEL bucket?
Hauling on forks will create a trail of debris that you will have to deal with.
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Tigershark
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I bought the forks to lift the down trees up in sections so they were easier to cut up with the chainsaw and then transport the large sections because the FEL doesn't pick up cut up trees easily
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Congrats on the new attachment!!! Can't get enough of those!!!
Without pics this might be a stupid alternative. Maybe throw a chain around the stump end of the log and pull the entire tree to the burn pile, cut it up, push onto the pile with the FEL bucket?
Hauling on forks will create a trail of debris that you will have to deal with.
But pulling log with end of log or the tops leaves skid trails. This may be good or bad. Jon
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You know, if you have a lot of limbs to move, you could probably make your own version of debris forks, by adding a few 2x6 tines (if you don't have any spare angle iron around). It would be easy and cheap ....
Kind of like these tines ...
Kind of like these tines ...
DieselBound
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The concerns about tearing up ground by dragging logs was mentioned. If this is a concern then I'd also point out that putting a bunch of weight on the front loader can also result in tearing up the ground, and if the ground is really soft you can end up getting stuck. I'm pretty well familiar with all of this, having lots of very soft ground.
Back "in the day" I used to heap bunches of debris on a truck hood and drag. The hood would help minimize impact on the ground: and it did better at containing loose stuff- sometimes I'd have to strap.
Not a viable solution for shuttling logs, but I have done a lot of moving of pallet stuff with a 3pt pallet fork strapped into the loader bucket of my B7800: I chain the top link pin to grab hook in the middle of my loader bucket; the heal of the forks rest on the edge of the bucket (have tooth bar, so well-reinforced there). Works fine as long as you go forward and don't try any rapid turning; reversing or tilting the bucket down presents problems with the forks slipping off- as long as one knows these limitations and works with them then it's not a bad solution.
Back "in the day" I used to heap bunches of debris on a truck hood and drag. The hood would help minimize impact on the ground: and it did better at containing loose stuff- sometimes I'd have to strap.
Not a viable solution for shuttling logs, but I have done a lot of moving of pallet stuff with a 3pt pallet fork strapped into the loader bucket of my B7800: I chain the top link pin to grab hook in the middle of my loader bucket; the heal of the forks rest on the edge of the bucket (have tooth bar, so well-reinforced there). Works fine as long as you go forward and don't try any rapid turning; reversing or tilting the bucket down presents problems with the forks slipping off- as long as one knows these limitations and works with them then it's not a bad solution.