Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[whitepine2]

Think about that.... carrying a log like that in the front down a public road... it would block both lanes, wouldn't it?

Na,I do it all the time!

 

[LD48750]

That log, at 20 + feet long was too wide for the road and on top of that, it weighed over 3000 pounds...

It was just faster/easier to pull it home...

SR

Good excuse to get a BIGGER tractor??

 

[arrow]

The tie rods on the Kubota tractors I have seen are ahead of the front axle but well above the front axle. My thinking is if you want a skidder then buy a skidder.

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Of course I'd want a skidder. Used to drive em. The tractor will have to do as I cannot afford a skidder and buying a used (read "used up") skidder is like buying a tumor that was removed from someone else.

I've under armored my tractor but I still bent the tie rod that is "above and behind" the front axle. There are woods and then there are woods and rocks and stick ups and no "roads" to consider. Any tractor that lives at my house best be able to stand up to how I have to use it. And although I think Kubota makes some of the best machines, An L3000 something Kubota at my place would have been a weekly tie rod fix without fabrication of some sort.

 

[Creamer]

That log, at 20 + feet long was too wide for the road and on top of that, it weighed over 3000 pounds...

It was just faster/easier to pull it home...

SR

My little Junior will handle this one what's your tractor's excuse.

 

[Agvg]

Some are more for the forrest than others:

Forest

 

[Sawyer Rob]

My little Junior will handle this one what's your tractor's excuse.

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NO Question about it, next new tractor I buy, I'm trading down to a compact tractor to get some REAL muscle!!

I may even get one with the whiner transmission??

SR

 

[Agvg]

Extreme forestry tractors compilation (2) - VALTRA part1 - YouTube

 

[Jstpssng]

Extreme forestry tractors compilation (2) - VALTRA part1 - YouTube

Chains would have helped in some of those situations. By our standards though, I would have sent them home. In the last one, he probably would have been told to take his machine with him.
This Best of Logging 217 Compilation - YouTube is the next step up, f you have a million or so to spend.

 

[Oldpath05]

I spent yesterday cleaning up the last two storms, and part of today refilling my wood box. I wanted to work on the load of spruce I'm cutting; but between the snow on the trees and the knee deep stuff on the ground it didn't happen. Right now there's too much on the ground for my tractor to go anyways except on my existing trails or within winching distance from the plowed road; plus I won't be able to get a truck here to haul it until the ice on the road subsides.

Let me know when you want to work on a load of cedar. Two weeks ago had a ft of snow so now figuring on around 10" more, should be a blast.

 

[whitepine2]

My little Junior will handle this one what's your tractor's excuse.

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You keep doing this and you will have tractor that bends in the middle and I don't mean atricuted eather.