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- From: lumensa@lub001.lamar.edu
- Newsgroups: misc.rural
- Subject: Re: Dragging Logs
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.215631.1901@lub001.lamar.edu>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 21:56:31 +1700
- References: <1992Dec28.203756.2596@nntp.nta.no>
- Organization: Lamar University - Beaumont
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- In article <1992Dec28.203756.2596@nntp.nta.no>, BARANSKI@veamf1.nusc.navy.mil (Jim Baranski) writes:
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- > What's the best method for dragging logs? Tractor? Horse? Other? What size
- > tactor would I need to drag logs? I don't currently have a tractor, and I
- > don't really want to spend a lot of money for a huge tractor, but if I can drag
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- I've skidded before with a Ford 2000-- doesn't take much *horsepower* so
- much as it does a good strong 3-point hitch, a good set of logging
- hooks, and good tires/traction. Someone mentioned tearing up the land
- with big tractors-- if you don't have enough lift on your hitch to get
- the weight off the forward end of the log, you won't go anywhere *or*
- you'll require a LOT of horsepower and traction to plow your rut. You
- can take a good set of hooks and a clevis (don't use a shackle) on your
- lift bar and back over the small end of a big log, drop your lift and
- hook the log and go without ever dismounting when you get good. I
- pulled logs 30-50 feet long and up to 28" but diameter with the 2000,
- but not in mud and not on ground rough enough that when your back end
- goes down, you don't have enough lift left to keep your butt out of the
- dirt.
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- I used mules too. But I doubt that you'd find any handy. I haven't
- seen a good logging team in this part of East Texas since log skidders
- became common 20 years ago.
-
- The cart mentioned in one of the postings above is your best bet if
- you're insistent on using the pickup. If you try to haul logs with a
- pickup, you'll destroy it. You can pull them short distances on even
- ground with a well balanced trailer without too much damage, but on
- rough ground, forget the pickup. Fashion the cart from drillstem in a
- U-shape with a wheel on both ends and a long lever on the top. Back it
- over the but of your log and fix the hooks or chain low; use the lever
- to raise the weight of the log up and then you can easily pull a log
- with a pickup. But be careful on rough ground.
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