Lets see what you use as a log skidder

Peat · Jan 11, 2023

Was thinking of Adirondackcaseguy this weekend

Lets see a picture of what you use as a log skidder!

fastfarmall · Jan 11, 2023

I never cut down a tree, for logging, but that looks ideal, especially if its got a power shift!

Russ from MN · Jan 11, 2023

We use our JD 4600, it's a good little machine in the woods. My dad had a JD 440 skidder, one of the first JD's My BIL who was a professional logger his whole life, started with a Farmall A, went to Timberjack cut-to-length system in his last 10 years of operation.

RBnSC · Jan 11, 2023

We have one of those JD blades. Wore out a number of tractors. My brother still has it.
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M Nut · Jan 11, 2023

Don't have a photo handy, but we use a Timberjack 205 log skidder. It has the same diesel engine as a Fordson Super Major tractor. Used a farm tractor for many years before buying the skidder, and I sure have no regrets. It is so mush easier working in the woods with the skidder. Just hook up and go!

teddy52food · Jan 11, 2023

I used to have a sawmill. I refused to saw logs that were dragged in the dirt. Even for firewood it is very hard on chainsaws too.

Traditional Farmer · Jan 11, 2023

I sure wouldn't want to be cutting on that stick of wood after its been dragged down that gavel road

SkipperII · Jan 11, 2023

Used to use our little Case VAC tricycle. It was really nimble in the woods, hooked really short to the three point draw bar, it would lift the front of the log when you started pulling, gave it great traction. You had to be quick on the clutch in case the log hit a snag.

boler76 · Jan 11, 2023

No picture but made a 2 wheeled arch with a snatch block for winch cable and 3pth would lift it for backing up on my '56 JD 420

Ken Macfarlane · Jan 11, 2023

We had a big 501 or something farmi winch when we were logging a lot. Works amazing with the self releasing snatch block it had.

MARK ROBKE · Jan 11, 2023

I usually use my CIH 485 with front end loader on, and use a boom pole on the rear. I drag logs, about the size pictured or smaller, to a 'landing' where I cut them, and can haul the cut firewood out. Sometimes I use my IH 300 utility and the fast hitch drawbar. Due to my back issues, I don't do as much wood as I used to, but I kinda miss it. Mark.

Brendon-KS · Jan 11, 2023

Here's what I use for anything related to getting firewood out of the woods. Pulling the trees out, powering the splitter mounted to the front, and hauling the firewood home. In this picture it's loaded up with over a ton of hedge (osage orange).

rick n ohio · Jan 12, 2023

Here's mine a tajfun winch on a L4310 Kubota

rick n ohio · Jan 12, 2023

Another pic

DIM · Jan 12, 2023

I don't like to skid and get dirt in bark. I haul. Don't have big trees or big tractor. I get by with what I got

philcaseinWPA · Jan 12, 2023

The electric company replaced a bunch of poles along my land and just cut the old ones off and left them. It was all woodland and unusable. I asked what they were going to do with them.. They told me if I wanted them I could have them, Used a Case 630 and a log chain on the eagle hitch and dragged about 15 (1 at a time)up the road .6 miles to the farmstead. Was many years ago. Each pole was 20-25 foot long and in pretty good shape.

Davidj · Jan 12, 2023

Wallenstein fx 85 on the back of a 1959 Ferguson FE35. Good combination for the trees I cut which are mostly hardwoods 16" and under at the butt. Just got it a year ago last fall. Dunno how I got along without it. Used to use the back blade but this is way easier and faster.

OregonAaron · Jan 12, 2023

I just use my 40 year old ford truck. Wrap chain around the goose neck hitch. When I pull on it, it lifts the front of the log enough to drag it without problem. One of those 3 point units look pretty slick though!

MARK ROBKE · Jan 12, 2023

When I was a teenager, I 275 was being built, and taking 5 acres off the front of our farm, and all the barns and buildings, Dad was friends with guys who worked for the phone and electric companies. When they were moving and rerouting power lines, they put up new poles and left the old ones. I used the Ford 8n and 3pt drawbar to drag several poles back to our farm. We used those poles to build our 'new', salvaged barns. We also cut a lot of locust trees for fence posts but hauled those. Mark.

DanielW · Jan 12, 2023

Don't have a picture of it, but I have a winch I made one from an old percussion drilling winch - pretty much like winch in this video link, mounted to a heavy, homemade dual-axle trailer with a drop-down blade at the rear. Works from a Wisconsin 40 HP power unit and has one heck of a reduction (much slower than the one in the video), so it will pull just about anything. Very cumbersome though - for anything smaller than 30 diameter and easy to get to I'll just use the clam on a three point hitch. We borrow my cousin's Wallenstein FX90 sometimes. It's not as heavy-duty as the homemade one, but it's a lot more user-friendly

One of these days I'll get a skidder again - haven't had one around here since I was about 3 years old which is kind of stupid, really: I have 6 old circular sawmills, my father has a band mill, combined we have several hundred acres of bush (more than half of it hardwood), and we're still using my hokey, cobbled-together unit to skid logs. Too many things to spend money on...
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