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Hey Folks; Is it a good idea to be dragging logs with the draw bar on my Farmall "C" ? I've had good luck. Have not done any damage.But just started to wonder about this. Thanks in advance!!
 
Just be sure you are not dragging them over stumps or against trees that could cause the log to "whip" and tip the tractor over. Never hook a tractor to a tree that is cut but not fallen! You could wind up pulling the tree back over on top of you.
 
EDW: Care must be exercised pulling logs with a tractor, particularly light tractors like a SC. Problem is the log catching something on or just under soil surface. If going to fast it can flip the tractor. Secondly and this applies to short logs in particular, I have seen them dig in causing them to flip on tractor. Luckily the one I saw happen, landed on 560 axle between wheel and operator's platform. For that reason I prefer full length trees at least 20', longer is better.

Another thing you can do is what my dad called snouting the tree, and he did this in the days of horses to make it easier on the horse. With an axe or chain saw he'd put a taper on front end of log, front end being direction pulled. Just go right around tree, give it a sled runner effect. This I would do, particularly with a light tractor.

I've skidded hundreds of thousands of logs with horses, Farmalls 130, 300 and 560, then finally a Deere 540A forestry skidder. It never gets much safer, you just increase production to pay for the bigger machine.
 

You can move a lot of wood with a little tractor. Go slow and if the log doesn't move, STOP, and hook from a different direction.
 
Pulling logs with tractor can be dangerous as others have pointed out but I have pulled logs since I was 10/12 years old (now 72) and with luck and being carefull combined I have never had what I consider close call compare that to driving car/truck where I have had hundreds of close calls.
 
Pulling logs with tractor can be dangerous as others have pointed out but I have pulled logs since I was 10/12 years old (now 72) and with luck and being carefull combined I have never had what I consider close call compare that to driving car/truck where I have had hundreds of close calls.
 
(quoted from post at 19:54:49 09/28/08) Hey Folks; Is it a good idea to be dragging logs with the draw bar on my Farmall "C" ? I've had good luck. Have not done any damage.But just started to wonder about this. Thanks in advance!!
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The closest I ever came to being killed or seriously injured on a tractor was pulling logs with an M. It was about 50 years ago - 1957 or '58; I was 12 years old, on my uncle's farm in Laurens County, South Carolina, dragging logs up a steep hill from the creek bottom. (Narrow) front wheels on the M hit a rock hidden in the deep grass between the ruts. The M front started up and then sort of veered off to the right, slightly brushing the gate post as I drove on through. I was able to correct the steering enough that the back wheels barely cleared the post. No damage to the M.... I was too inexperienced to have even thought of stabbing the clutch. Luckily, the log I was dragging didn't hang on the same rock. I went right on, oblivious to how close I had come to meeting my maker. But, I never forgot it. Years later, I realized what a close call it was. Guess it just wasn't my time.... mike
 

When skidding logs I tend to choke em short to a fast hitch, 3 point or on the Super A the rockshaft arms and lift the end of the log off of the ground before dragging... Keeps them from digging in and or hitting anything hidden...
 
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