farmyard wars log skidder..

[york]

I guess now,i have seen it all....please get that mess off your tractor,before the neighbors see it......

[beenthere]

zopi
I'm not insulted by your rigging, and glad you showed us your 'design'...shows you just don't sit around and complain...

Would like a pic of it in action 

Good thing I don't have a welder, or ther'd be a lot of junk things tacked together 'round here.   

Years ago I picked up what is left of a 3pt tool bar, minus any of the tools like cultivator shovels or spring tooth rippers attached. It is just the solid 3"x3" steel bar, about 7' long with the 3pt iron on it. Keep thinking there will be a use for it someday, but so far haven't had a brain drain that comes up with something I can use it for. (hmmm..I've been thinking of adding some weight to the rear of my broom tractor for brushing away snow...but that would mean cutting it up.....hmmm - maybe will happen).

[zopi]

for the record..it works fine..no more tendency to be tippy than pulling the plow with it...especially considering the use of belly chains to take most of the longitudinal strain.

I unloaded a 22"x 20 ft long white pine with no issue...it is a little light in the front as I knew
it would be, I have weights in the works.

consider...this tractor will never see the woods...it will never see a hill..it will never leave my yard, the intent of this thing is to easily unload logs and drag them to the mill...although the way i store my logs it will generally be easier to move the mill to the log..

I do things for a living that are much riskier, and much more difficult...getting shot at sucks.

rest assured, that I am not an inexperienced kid, despite my enthusiasm and yappy nature..I know very well my own limits and the limits of my equipment...

I have seen front end loaders on these tractors..and that scared me alot more than an attachment that will squat on a log  long before it takes the tractor over.

I do appreciate the concern, and I guess from another persons point of view I would say the same things...maybe a little differently..but the same gist.

I sure as hell would not let anyone else use it...but then the odds of anyone else driving my tractors is about the same as someone else riding my Harley...

and and I do not argue on the net.

If I have offended, then I apologize.

[stonebroke]

You might want to go to a tractor junkyard and buy actual tractor weights. They are designed to be put on and off by yourself and that way when you go not need them you can take them off so you can turn the tractor easier. Your right, this is not the most dangerous thing you do.

Stonebroke

[zopi]

I was planning actual tractor weights...cutting and welding large masses of metal is not in my
reach..

i'm actually planning to use my Oliver..it's got alot more weight forward and lower CG...

If the tractor can't handle it the 16k winch on the 400hp Dodge diesel can...

[boulderridge]

A neat little setup, but spooky real spooky.