Love the vid!!! Not being a smart ass, but in the back of my mind, I was thinking that that tracked skidder isn’t as much of a skidder as it is a multi purpose dozer!! Lol 😝 Any way, great video!!!!
Tracked skidders began as predominantly D-6s and 7s with winches then eventually aftermarket grapples. But the machines were not engineered originally for a grapple like that and the stresses they produce. The D-4H and 5H TSKs were the first Cat tractors engineered specifically for production grapple skidding from the get go. The D-4H and 5H eventually morphed into the 517 and 527.
I am a huge fan of the 880 Clarks that Brochou and Brochou have in Stratton but this is something I havnt seen before, what makes these better or different than a D6 HT other than the center point and grapple ???
It doesnt seem to be muddy there by looking at the tires on the skidder. i was wondering why you bothered using the track skidder in that situation. seeings how the wheel skidder would be much more efficent.
great video. thanx so much for posting. im defintely subcribing. that is one muti-tasked machine. im thinking of getting my own logging company started one day and ill bet that machine is really handy to have around!!!!!!!!!!!!........
wow, very awsome machiens mike! and vid lol! just a quick question, how are they cutting the wood once it reaches the deck? processor, or like bucking it?
Nellson Stout not when you have to pull up the side of a hill in a pine patch and it's 85-90 with no wind,grapples are better along with the cable in case grapple goes down around quitting time,had my share on a 230 timberjack growing up
Trees? All I see them hauling is limb size stuff. 1 bole that might be considered a tree on a bad day. Might as well be hauling bales of hay. Great machines though if you had something for them to pull. WTF?
You can't beat the sound of those tracks moving at speed through the forest. Like some enormous insect speeding to devour its prey.
Great video really enjoyed it 🚜 thanks for sharing
That thing is freaking sweet!!
Love the vid!!! Not being a smart ass, but in the back of my mind, I was thinking that that tracked skidder isn’t as much of a skidder as it is a multi purpose dozer!! Lol 😝 Any way, great video!!!!
Tracked skidders began as predominantly D-6s and 7s with winches then eventually aftermarket grapples. But the machines were not engineered originally for a grapple like that and the stresses they produce. The D-4H and 5H TSKs were the first Cat tractors engineered specifically for production grapple skidding from the get go. The D-4H and 5H eventually morphed into the 517 and 527.
nice video i like all of the closeups you get of it
I am a huge fan of the 880 Clarks that Brochou and Brochou have in Stratton but this is something I havnt seen before, what makes these better or different than a D6 HT other than the center point and grapple ???
Very long, these tracked skidders are built to last. They have extreme durability and are preferred over the wheeled skidders.
WALL-E's big brother.
More like HAUL-Y
Great video! That 517 gets hauling without a turn on the back of it lol
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Awesome video and machines!
It doesnt seem to be muddy there by looking at the tires on the skidder. i was wondering why you bothered using the track skidder in that situation. seeings how the wheel skidder would be much more efficent.
awesome video!
Expensive firewood.
Great Video!
nice vid dude!
Awesome vid!!
Awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!r u gooing to post a nother snow dio again??? they where awsome!
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Thank you for subscribing, glad you enjoyed the video! Would be an interesting career for sure
awesome
good machine
so cool
Hey I think this is where rusty works.
Nice to see something other than deer skidders. Remember that sometimes big cats kill and eat poor little Deere
great video. thanx so much for posting. im defintely subcribing. that is one muti-tasked machine. im thinking of getting my own logging company started one day and ill bet that machine is really handy to have around!!!!!!!!!!!!........
Thanks! I might be being stupid here, but I don't get what your saying haha?
wow, very awsome machiens mike! and vid lol! just a quick question, how are they cutting the wood once it reaches the deck? processor, or like bucking it?
Thanks, I try!
Cool
I watched the video again. How do they make any money hauling small loads of basically branches? Is this all that is left in your forests?
Probably chipping it
Presumably they are used for pulp or chips.
West coast forests are still full of many large trees.
Hows it do on softer ground?
The problem with skidding with a dozer is simply wears out the undercarriage in no time.
They use it regardless, muddy or dry
Just saying without a load of logs on it, it goes fast haha
They look like busy little beavers r
+Sos1969 hahahaahaha i agree.
man i wish we had a dozer with a grapple save alot of cabling
stephenjray1988 but cabling is nice in steeper ground
Nellson Stout not when you have to pull up the side of a hill in a pine patch and it's 85-90 with no wind,grapples are better along with the cable in case grapple goes down around quitting time,had my share on a 230 timberjack growing up
some of the spots ive been in tracks would be about as useful as using a 81 yugo as a skidder lol
The places I'm in that's the only thing you'd even remotely have a chance of gettin in and out....
Ohh haha
buenaa wnn ke makinon wnn es pulentta wnn
Trees? All I see them hauling is limb size stuff. 1 bole that might be considered a tree on a bad day. Might as well be hauling bales of hay. Great machines though if you had something for them to pull. WTF?
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