SKIDDER LOG LOADER GRAPPLE

Treefarmer skidder, Garett, CANCAR, not timberjack or cat, logging and cutting trees, red pine in fact for our off grid log cabin build construction. Chainsaw, log grapple, skidder, winch, mud, trees, forest, the whole wilderness forest experience!

[@bartdaw6681]

That pine plantation is a real asset for you.

[@rollingupmysleeves]

I agree, I'm pretty grateful.

[@bartdaw6681]

@@rollingupmysleeves I would be as well. The person that planted it had some real foresight.

[@jarettd9841]

That looks fun! Jealous me haha. If you had a log grapple (pincher) attached to a chain and then to your quad. You can bring the logs closer and much quicker and easier to the trailer for pickup.

[@jarettd9841]

Not really much different than using the winch on the skidder haha

[@rollingupmysleeves]

I like that idea for sure...we will do that.

[@rollingupmysleeves]

It is actually - when the logs are flat on teh ground they are harder to get a choker on and hitching up five small logs actually take a lot of work. I like your original idea!

[@FeatherHorseforge]

I’ve seen some self loading trailers with a winch on the boom (an atv one should be big enough) then you winch the logs to the grapple.

[@rollingupmysleeves]

Yes very cool

[@Lex-Hawthorn]

sounds like a 2 stroke, Detroit possibly? nice and loud anyways.

[@rollingupmysleeves]

oh ya it is

[@derekbush8442]

Hey there! That looks like an awesome combination! Best of both worlds for sure!

[@rollingupmysleeves]

I think so too! Thanks for watching!

[@biggussd5473]

Very confused ? why wouldn't you just use the skidder for what it was intended. Skid the logs to the landing with the skidder that's why they call it a skidder. Get rid of the loader & trailer. That's why it has a winch and chokers it has enough power and traction to skid full tree length to the landing. Then cut them into what ever length you want.

[@rollingupmysleeves]

Hey thanks for asking, the road is covered in mud and its a very long ski back to the mill...so more efficient to cut and load and drag back 4 or 5 hitches all at once...especially with the cost of fuel. In the winter i skid all the way back as it is a lot faster. My next haul is about 1.5 to 2 miles back....definitely have to use the log loader to make that efficient. Thanks for watching.

[@oldstudbuck3583]

Nice setup

[@drragsdale]

My dad had a model 20 Garrett. Same engine. Love the sound of it!

[@cedricgates9976]

why dont you pull the trees over to you with the skidder winch then buck and load them? seems like that would be the easyest thing to do then you could cut a couple of rows away

[@rollingupmysleeves]

We figured just yarding up real close by is the best, it looks like there is room in there to move around but there really isnt. Thanks for watching!

[@brianbensinger6800]

Use your skidder to bunch a few skids together then you won't have to move your trailer so much.

[@rollingupmysleeves]

Yes we just started doing that.

[@stacyreid5077]

To bad y’all can’t move the grapple to the back of the trailer so you could pick up the logs from behind it

[@rollingupmysleeves]

I know eh - but then im limited to the length...I need 2 trailers!!

[@stacyreid5077]

@@rollingupmysleeves I got to thinking about that afterwards.

[@morgansword]

I am very sorry that hand to eye coordination is not a strong suit for you guys. I logged by myself for a few years same kind of setup. It took me a month to get it going smoothly but when I did, money days were very common. Your on nice flat ground. See I got excited when I spotted the old bus... thinking knock the front off an chop the top off an make a tow hitch on the parts left tucking the frame together so it would be a box on wheels or even sled form. It would probably hold a cord an a half or even more for firewood as I see a lot of it there. Not every tree is sound an makes better fire wood yet I have got a decent short log out of the middle of some dead timber. They are now getting four to five hundred a cord for firewood here in alaska... I really think you can pull it off with some practice

[@rollingupmysleeves]

lol ya it must run in the family! The controls are worn out and the levers actually cross over each other so I need to tidy things up - and I think the previous owner had some of the controls backwards - counterintuitive to what you think they should be. Oh well when the summer is done we should have a better grip on it. Thanks for watching!

[@morgansword]

@@rollingupmysleeves So what do you think about utilizing the old bus in the brush to make a box for firewood? I think those were made of a lot of aluminum so its a metal saw or hang each side or top in a manor that would let you rip through it to cut to size with cable. I have been hit as a kid with the straw line on a yarder for dragging logs out of the woods with... they had a main line, a haul back line to drag the rigging back out so you could set the chokers and then a drum that held a real small line that we could drag out easier to change roads on the mainline .. I witnessed a man get killed when the line come whipping out from where it was cywashed (line caught in the brush) and when it come tight would pick itself up and go slinging wire all over. when that line is tight like that, your either out of the bite of that line or dead!! Anywho, that old bus cut into a usable system to pitch wood into in anyway that you can an drag to the landing on a skid bottom or make it into a homebuilt trailer for out in the brush. A few years back I used one just for that for a very old guy who got around fairly good....the irony of it was.. he had worked really hard at a job all his life to make wages an feed his family. The woodcutting made him a well off rich man/LOL

[@rollingupmysleeves]

I like that idea! But... currently that is one of our deer blinds lol. Ill go take a video of that bus and we can take a good look at it - ive been trying to figure out what to do with it to be honest.

[@bigtlumber]

We have a lot in common. Wheels should be less resistance than dragging.

[@rollingupmysleeves]

yes for sure.

[@bigtlumber]

@@rollingupmysleeves Well you know it might be.. haha. Keep up the good work!

[@rodneydufrain3623]

Looks like you ain't gotta worry about mosquitoes.

[@rollingupmysleeves]

lol

[@richardbrowne1679]

What model Tree Farmer skidder is that?

[@rollingupmysleeves]

Pretty sure it's a C5B

[@paintendaveextremecollisio8057]

Great video 👍

[@rollingupmysleeves]

Thanks 👍