stihlfanboy
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And what I have to work with. Ofcorues the tractor would be best but I dont think it would be fun taking that down there. 
atv skidding
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And what I have to work with. Ofcorues the tractor would be best but I dont think it would be fun taking that down there. 
Jim Timber
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You'd need to be spiderman to get anything off those cliffs. Must be close to the equator to have trees growing like that.
Those don't look steep at all. Log arch and an atv should do the trick nicely.
bowtechmadman
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Nice Tractor...I have a 1600 wish I had the 1700 since that has 4wd. Put a loader on that tractor and carry the rounds up in that. The front weight a loader provides would allow you to skid up that hill with your tractor.
stihlfanboy
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We talked about putting a loader on it but hes set on buying a skid steer insted even though I seen no need for one.
NSMaple1
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Skidded logs are hell on saw chains.
+1 on that. I usually only do it when there's a good snow on the ground. In this photo from last fall I was trying to beat the rain getting logs out of a swampy section.
I usually just lift the log off the ground a bit with the winch and drag 10-15 ft sections(depending how large they are) out in reverse. Quick and easy, but I'm on flat ground and only have to drag mine a short distance.
Sawyer Rob
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zogger
Tree Freak
It's hell on bandsaw bands too! But, I found a cure!
That cleans them right up!
SR
That's exactly what I was going to do with the four foot diameter oak stub in my yard, break out the pressure washer. That thing liked to kill a chain just making the bucking cuts. I have most of the bark axed off now, let it get rained on, but that didn't do it, so gonna try the pressure washer.
There's one obvious big bolt in it I will take out, then run the metal detector over it. It's an old yard tree, bound to be more metal in it.
Sawyer Rob
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"High volume" water really does a number on dirt and everything else stuck to, or in the bark!
SR
SR
This is true.
I've washed and milled stumps and a pressure washer was a good tool, but a 1 1/2" line running 100psi or more was a really fast way to clean a stump. Then move in with the pressure washer to blast out any leftover rocks or packed in clay, one last hit with the fire hose and they were as clean as you could get them, big stumps would be ready in a 1/2 hour or less. Just a pressure washer by itself could take several hours, but that still beat a garden hose.
Mr. HE
