Theres a good trail but with the trailer I cant makeit up cause of the mud and snow. Her stepdad always skidded it with a chain and the qaud. My qquestion is whats the best way to do that. Never done any form of skidding andnot sure where to hook up to the quad.
If the hill is that steep that you can't make it up with the trailer then how are you going to skid them out going up the same hill? Know your limits... Pulling up a steep hill could cause the front of the ATV to come over on you...
I shouldn’t say this because some say that the tank can explode so I don’t suggest trying this unless you are very careful. Before I start to drill or saw on the LP Tanks, I wash them out with soppy water and later put them in a small brush fire. I made two log skidder cones from the old style 20# LP tanks and they work great.
I don’t have them here at home or I’d take a picture of them. I took a small grinder and removed the guard around the shut off valve on top. Then I removed the valve.Next I drilled a hole in the lower side of the tank and cut around the lower sides with a jig saw. Because the top of the tank is round and the hole is in the center, I can put a strap or a choker cable through the top, run it around the log and hook this to my ATV…After I made the two from LP tanks, I started looking around at farm auctions and scrap yards for old well type pressure tanks or air compressor tanks with a round top so I could make a larger one.
When the snow is deep or the trail is muddy, we cut and stack our logs between two trees in the woods. By doing it this way, I can cut and buck when the woods are nasty and once things dry up we pull out the splitter and a trailer to the piles.We don’t skid out many logs with the ATV’s but when I do, I use one of the cones and then I only do it if the ground if frozen or real dry. I try not to get a lot of dirt on my logs.