Adirondack case guy
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Here are some details about the skiding arch.
I started with a Cat-I cross drawbar. Cut and bolted a length of 3" channel to it. Welded two angle irons vertically to form the toplink mtg tower. Braced it with peices of 1" pipe. Just under the top link, I welded in a spacer from 2" pipe to form a slide for my choker chain to slide over as I raised and lowered the hitch. Built a bracket to slide on the tractor drawbar, that the end of the choker could attach to, and allowes the choker to extend and retract as the hitch is mover up and down. Took some more pipe and some tubing and formed the top of the arch to accept a HF 2500# remote controlled winch. The winch works great to snatch logs out to the woods roads without having to take the tractor off the road. Once the log is winched to the tractor, I rehook it to the choker to skid it. The blade simply slides into the receiver jaws on the arch, and I drop a pin in to hold it. When I want to hook to the splitter, I pop off the blade, back into the 3pt pins on the splitter, hook the top link arm on arch, and swap the electric leads to operate the winch on the ginpole that I built for the splitter. There is an older HF winch there. The remote controller is mounted perminently to the tractor. The ginpole works greaty to pull logs out of landing piles and lift big heavy blocks onto the splitter bed.
I am too old to work hard at cutting wood, so I build tools to make work easy and fun. Now if I could get the split wood to jump on the trailer, and then stack it's self, I'd have it made. HeHe.
Loren, the Acg.
I started with a Cat-I cross drawbar. Cut and bolted a length of 3" channel to it. Welded two angle irons vertically to form the toplink mtg tower. Braced it with peices of 1" pipe. Just under the top link, I welded in a spacer from 2" pipe to form a slide for my choker chain to slide over as I raised and lowered the hitch. Built a bracket to slide on the tractor drawbar, that the end of the choker could attach to, and allowes the choker to extend and retract as the hitch is mover up and down. Took some more pipe and some tubing and formed the top of the arch to accept a HF 2500# remote controlled winch. The winch works great to snatch logs out to the woods roads without having to take the tractor off the road. Once the log is winched to the tractor, I rehook it to the choker to skid it. The blade simply slides into the receiver jaws on the arch, and I drop a pin in to hold it. When I want to hook to the splitter, I pop off the blade, back into the 3pt pins on the splitter, hook the top link arm on arch, and swap the electric leads to operate the winch on the ginpole that I built for the splitter. There is an older HF winch there. The remote controller is mounted perminently to the tractor. The ginpole works greaty to pull logs out of landing piles and lift big heavy blocks onto the splitter bed.
I am too old to work hard at cutting wood, so I build tools to make work easy and fun. Now if I could get the split wood to jump on the trailer, and then stack it's self, I'd have it made. HeHe.
Loren, the Acg.