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That little boy is still at it, we've just scaled up a bit.

Absolutely, a skidder is so heavy its like a compactor, the ground is getting compressed beneath it and the contact patch of those big tires is so large that a huge amount of ground has to give way for wheelspin. A garden tractor is just way too light for summer chains, and the contact patch...

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I built ringshank chains from scratch out of cold roll straight rods on various dies i built, huge amount of work but hey, gnarly chains for ultra traction right?! Fail. Tried one chain and one lug at same time.. The chain tire crippled my machine.. Couldnt even drive up hills that i could...

Dang thats awesome. How bad did it wheelie? Have any trouble lifting the butts or was the winch height sufficient? Whatd you run out of first, power, traction or front ballast? I hear ya on the money, im always in the poorhouse, medical and food for kids today is like payin a mortgage when...

btw you aint gonna need an arch, that brute has plenty of lift. i bet that setup now will get the butts as high as a d3 with an arch.

sorry about your gram. machine came out excellent. i highly suggest a pair of $60 harbor freight remote control winches, one at each corner behind the saws. theyre cheap, fairly quick and hearty enough to grab substantial stuff. use the slowpoke winch for a mainline to transfer onto from...

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skidders use some pretty huge stuff and wheelies arent so uncommon. long as you set'r down easy not too bad.

yes.. be an H6 or 7 pretty soon. maybe also articulating 4wd.. dunno yet

Heres a great vid to illustrate bad pulley placement. If the arch was 2 feet forward right over the axle, the load wouldnt be able to wheelie the machine because the leverage ratio of the fulcrum would be drastically less. And further still with grapple he could just grab a ballast log...

if u arent pulling from above the height of the rear then u cant lift the log. youre just dragging it in the dirt and now gonna wreck saw chain and bar back home. dont bother skidding if u dont intend to get them out of the dirt. the natural layout of a mower prevents good winch location for...

well im sure i aint the only one who wants to see it dragging cords soon, but i know dodges ...youll be broke for a long time! i suspect if you get the ballast, traction and winch details right (read high lift angle) that the vermeer will pull a hitch comparable to a 350 dozer with a low...

the purists can sit at home cutting their lawn with cuticle scissors between uploading hubcap pics on WFM and MTF while us men go get the work done. mine was scrapped and i rescued it, the tin and pto coupler went off to restore other machines so my penance has been done. i forgot to stress...

always fill your tires first thing. next see if it wheelies or spins. if it spins add chains, if it wheelies add weight. cement is the cheapest.

youre machine is capable of being a much, much more potent skidder than most people think. im confident i could get that unit dragging three buttlogs at a time, 20”x20' or so. couple rules, fill the tires with used antifreeze after straining through a tee shirt and testing/adding concentrate...

betcha i can drag them to the truck faster than you can wrestle them in. Deere 140 skidding a full hitch uphill.: deere 140 skidding: keep in mind theyre pines. those two with the beer i can do on flat ground but not uphill yet. without diff lock, you need cutting brakes...

is there something funky about the crank seal on the clutch side of a 351? i put the thing together thinking it had a seal holder on the outside, then thinking that i lost that, and now im thinking this has to come all the way back down so i can put the seal (that i dont have apparently, if...