Got a new job.

[Maineloggerkid]

If I can find a good one. I am gonna look around and find a skidder thats in good shape. If I find a good Timberjack, then that will work. I have always run Deere, but I envy the twitches that my buddy's timberjack 240B will haul.

[timberfaller390]

I believe you told me once " Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors skidder"

[Maineloggerkid]

My words come back to bite me  

Let me rephrase- I would like to be able to haul twitches of that caliber, as it would enable me to get more production.

[timberfaller390]

At least you can kinda clasify a TJ as a Deere

[Maineloggerkid]

I suppose..... that works for me

[Ironwood]

TJ's are generally lower to the ground eh?


Ironwood

[Maineloggerkid]

ya- but from what i've seen, that makes 'em real stable. At least thats what it looked like, but then again, I've only run Deeres.

[Corley5]

I've heard from more than one logger in this country that 440 JDs are the easiest skidder to turn over and old Franklins are the hardest.  I've never ran a JD or a Franklin but the TJs I've operated were very stable.  I ran an old C4 Tree Farmer a bit and it seemed tippier than it really was.

[Maineloggerkid]

John deeres do get tipppy at times. I had mine on 2 wheels a lot. Probably not good to admit , but I kinda got used to it and didn't even worry about it after a while. You can kinda feel wether its just up a little or if it is really gonna go over.

[Ironwood]

Man, I have had a JD 440 in a pretty interesting situation a few times here on my property. Then a friend who has a different 440 also bought a Franklin w/ a Detroit, man was that thing STABLE. I watched him one day while working it pretty good and he could have never done that work w/ his 440 (he even said so, several times)

 FYI Ironwood

[SwampDonkey]

We used an old used and abused Tree Farmer here. Dad got it third hand from mom's cousins. None of our woods was on a hillside. Nice flat ground.  Dad had a horse earlier,but you couldn't go to deep into the woods to yard. As you guessed it, he wasn't much for making roads in the woods, so needed a skidder to get back there. Then, there still were areas we never even went near. Couldn't use a horse to haul big hardwood any distance. A big maple was around 25 inches, the odd one up to 40, but rare. I know the adjacent lot was the same growth and they cut it out for field and got close to 40 cord per acre of hard maple mostly. Ash and yellow birch mixed in.  I seen all the logs in the marketing board wood yard. About the best soil you could ask for for growing anything. Now it's growing spuds.