Road building with a Dozer track Drag behind the skidder!

[airbiscuit]

That thing does a pretty good job.

 

[jimmysisson]

Pretty good job of what?? Why not just drive over the scrub instead of digging up the surface? I admit to not listening, only watching...
Jim

 

[EddieWalker]

You have to skip to the 4 minute mark to see anything, and then it's a bit disappointing. The beam bounces around too much to move any dirt, and quickly gets branches caught under it that keep it from moving any dirt. I'm at a loss as to why anybody would do this.

 

[airbiscuit]

I dunno. If you've ever tried to make a road through a logging area, there's lots of roots and trash. To me, this thing meanders around all that stuff and has enough weight to make a decent roughed in road after only a couple passes.

 

[Thomas]

Like the build but the use for not so,log landing smooth rough areas should work.

 

[Taylortractornut]

When I was in my 20's I worked for a guy that had a clearing outfit. We had dozer rail/ chain new ground harrows made for cleaning up behind the rake tractors. New ground ag harrows were a frame lifted by the three point hitch of a tractor. Under it were 2 heavy mill chains with horizontal bars between the chains with teeth welded onto the bottom. In new groun you drug them till they loaded up with sticks and roots then you lifted it and cleaned it out. The big ones we built had a beam across the front middle and rear of a set of D7 chains with staggered teeth welded to the beams. One the smooth beam on back and one with all three beams toothed with a trailed tire drag. To pull them we had the tongue chain hooked to the skidder cable. When it loaded up you'd winch it up the the arch where most stuff fell out then dropped it and released the winch drum and drove off and cut back around. It would flip the drag on its back off the roots and slash. When clear you cut back the other way and flip it onto the teeth and go again the farmers and tree planters loved them.

 

[roadhunter]

Get R done. Might not be pretty but is certainly defines the paths and knocks down some of the foliage.

 

[Cord]

It does a decent job of clearing a path, but I wouldn't call that a road. One rain storm and you'll have a mud hole. Gotta luv the Detroit.

 

[4570Man]

From what I gathered he intends to snowmobile on the trail. I don't know why he wouldn't just use the front blade though.

 

[crazyal]

I would call it a crude trail more than a road. Around here doing something like that would only invite erosion. It might be good for a year or two but after that good luck.