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Looks good!
I really need to get some of those too. I've already distorted (bent) the top edge of my loader bucket by wrapping chain around the middle of the bucket to pull T-posts. Thanks @AdventureToolCompany for pointing these out and demonstrating them.
Better a tractor than a video game!
Just purchased 40 acres in Utah. Planning on buying a used skid loader and tractor with the mini excavator to help with preparing the home area and for hauling logs. A couple of years down the road still but I knew I had to come to mud and find out what kind I need to buy!
You said "hauling logs...." What kinds of logs are you moving, and on what terrain?
I ask because I've tried moving my house logs with a mini tractor. Then I bought a big, yellow machine to move them up my hill.
Someday maybe I'll buy a compact wheeled tractor (to be able to drive on snow and ice would be pretty nice), but all summer long I LOVE being able to haul 3+ yards of firewood in the bucket of my loader up and down my steep hillsides.
Love seeing the pics here guys!
Dan
PS--Ali: one of these days we'll get you guys up here. She can try driving something that's ALL mechanical, with pedals!
You said "hauling logs...." What kinds of logs are you moving, and on what terrain?
I ask because I've tried moving my house logs with a mini tractor. Then I bought a big, yellow machine to move them up my hill.
Someday maybe I'll buy a compact wheeled tractor (to be able to drive on snow and ice would be pretty nice), but all summer long I LOVE being able to haul 3+ yards of firewood in the bucket of my loader up and down my steep hillsides.
Love seeing the pics here guys!
Dan
PS--Ali: one of these days we'll get you guys up here. She can try driving something that's ALL mechanical, with pedals!
Same as what Paul mentioned above. Pines and Spruce. My plan is to build a 50x70 pole barn. Build a guest quarters inside of it while living out of my 80 series for a month or so. Once the guest quarters is built I will start building the 800ft2 house. I will be milling my own lumber from the trees I cut down. Mainly for the siding of the house. I don't know that I will be milling 2x6s...
I most likely will need an excavator to move the logs safely. I would think I can bundle 2-3 logs together and drag them with an excavator...
Living out of your 80! Cool, you need to post that process and experience. Good luck.
I will be milling my own lumber from the trees I cut down. Mainly for the siding of the house. I don't know that I will be milling 2x6s...
I most likely will need an excavator to move the logs safely. I would think I can bundle 2-3 logs together and drag them with an excavator...
Very good. Milling lumber is simply the best!
You can bundle a few of them together, and they'll skid just fine. But you definitely need something big to skid logs of any real size, at least if you've got some slope to deal with. That's why I didn't end up with a mini tractor, because we tried with a ~25HP tractor and it couldn't even get one of my small logs up to my homesite. That's the day I decided to buy something heavy and tracked.
@Godwin how does that chipper work off the PTO? What's the size of the mouth? can it chip 4" limbs?
Dan
Very good. Milling lumber is simply the best!
You can bundle a few of them together, and they'll skid just fine. But you definitely need something big to skid logs of any real size, at least if you've got some slope to deal with. That's why I didn't end up with a mini tractor, because we tried with a ~25HP tractor and it couldn't even get one of my small logs up to my homesite. That's the day I decided to buy something heavy and tracked.
@Godwin how does that chipper work off the PTO? What's the size of the mouth? can it chip 4" limbs?
Dan