Skidders- Tracks ot Tires, Lines or Grapples- Lets see what you've got!

[overworked]

Here's some close ups lol

I don't see a spark arrester on the exhaust.

 

[Plebeian]

Could have done with one of these today.
http://youtu.be/Febwm-b4ybo John Deere 850 with pto winch

You would get fit if you were hooking up the logs and climbing up & down to drive this Cat D8L with log winch (18 850 hours)
http://images.trademe.co.nz/photoserver/59/226351259_full.jpg

 

[chrisD6C]

Hey all I'm so happy Iv found this forum. Yes I am 26 years young so just a young buck but I got to say Iv learned so much about the timber industry reading and studying all your posts and conversations. I thought I had I good base of knowledge from logging most my life and listened to and bumped elbows with the old salty redwood loggers at our bar in my home town of LaHonda Ca but I was mistaken got that good old green horn feeling back hahaha. Thank you so much y'all.

 

[chrisD6C]

I found this beautiful machine on line (I hope it's ok to post.) my question is how come I haven't seen vary many Morgan Silva Com 360 or Syncro Track grapple skidders on the job? Is there a design flaw

 

[chrisD6C]

 

[chrisD6C]

Is there any way to put a swing grapple or any type of grapple for that matter on the back of a CAT track clam bucket loader?

 

[Plebeian]

Is there any way to put a swing grapple or any type of grapple for that matter on the back of a CAT track clam bucket loader?

It is difficult enough putting a winch on a medium size rear engined steel track loader.
http://www.alliedsystems.com/PDF/winchlines31.1.pdf
http://www.alliedsystems.com/winch/options.html (A logging arch on the winch to lift the butts and electronic chokers would at least the one end of the turn 'stay in the cab')

(I assume you are not referring to a compact track loader that can have a log grapple on the front)
http://www.iowafarmequipment.com/fae-skid-steer-log-grapple.html

 

[hvy 1ton]

I've seen a 955L with a esco grapple on the back. Too bad i'll never find that video again.

 

[chrisD6C]

thanks for the info guys and links

 

[skadill]

1976 Massey Ferguson Skidder

I guess like John Deere,they were going cover it from farm to forest.Borrowed net pic.I've never seen one or heard of anyone that has seen an actual one.Case built one too(post #101 on page 7).

 

[MutsMachines]

Deere 748 G II

 

[BDFT]

Don't you guys break a lot of wood skidding over the pile like that?

 

[MutsMachines]

no its fine it helps take a lot of the branches off for the limber we practice running over trees for that reason. any that are broken are not wasted and still cut to length to be hauled to the mill.

 

[tree farmer]

It is nice to see my skidder posted. The Morgans were and are fairly hi-tech. The wheel steer in addition to the hinge steer with individual hydrostatic wheel drive makes them nimble for 43000 pounds. The Treetow swing boom is way stronger than any esco 215 ever dreamed of being. I have posted on my utube channel FarmerOfTrees a video of the original Morgan Silvacom fixedboom winch machine working on Forest Service ground up by Mt. Hood. Fish habitat improvement not logging was performed on March 13. It was a whopper of a stick we moved into the Salmon River. Here is the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6Jdjf9pwLw

 

[Old tractor]

Here's some close ups lol

Good looking

 

[Old tractor]

Don't get why the loggers just live there machinery be hind . And stupid teens **** with it to no reason behind it .

 

[SPMiller]

Future of deere skidders.

 

[Mike L]

spmiller, did deere do away with the steering wheel? I used to run a 96 648g and I always had my right hand on the steering wheel and the left switched between the shifter, grapple control and the handle on the door. it would seem that with 2 joysticks that you'd be forced to wear the safety harness to keep from bouncing around like a pinball.

 

[old-iron-habit]

Nice looking machine. Does the seat and controls spin 180 degrees to back up like Tigercat has done. Then you don't have to turn the machine around to go back for the next jag. Caterpillar went to joystick steering in its huge 994D front end loader in late 1998. Not sure if they are still building them that way but they were well received. Is the JD transmission shifter in the steering joystick?

 

[dirty4fun]

Good looking what happens when a mouse chews through a couple wires and it shorts out the circuit board?