Great score on that PTO skidding winch. You'll wonder how you ever lived with out it. A few self releasing snatch blocks, tree straps and a skidding nose cone (portable winch company out of Canada) and you'll have no trouble yarding out the most inaccessible logs from your property.
The fransgård is a brand from 1967 in Denmark and in 1978 they started to work together with professional loggers in Norway to produce loging winches so the winch is developed and produced in Denmark not Germany
It is crazy that I find it so satisfying to just watch someone grease the fittings on an implement! I am definitely not afraid of work, I can sit here and watch you do it all day!
A couple points to consider from a Farmi owner… Always keep some tension on the cable when you’re reeling it in. Loose loops will get bound up and it will be difficult to pull out. Also, the ropes have always felt like an accident waiting to happen. Loose ropes around a spinning pto? Be aware of what you’re doing and where those ropes are and avoid the urge to loop it around your hand for a better grip. Great piece of equipment but still a lot of work involved.
Good find Jason! Now you can tell your wife that you'll be spending you time in the wood with a wench that you paid good money for! 😉 And that's when the fight started. Looking forward to some good videos of log recoveries that would otherwise be left to rot. Great video thumbs up.
I had a winch like this, but it was a different make and it worked great. I managed a vineyard during the summer and cut cord wood in the winter. We had a 50hp four wheel drive tractor. You need to be aware of what you are doing. I had a guy working for me and he was skidding the logs out to a landing where we would cut them to length. He parked the tractor at an angle to the jag of logs, got off and tried to winch them in. Instead he rolled the tractor over on it's side. I was lucky he didn't get hurt and he didn't turn the tractor off. I unhitched the logs and hooked the cable to a large tree. With little effort I rolled the tractor back on it's wheels. He learned his lesson and never did that again.
As a retired forester in BC, I love your channel. Latest episode brought back memories of being on Crown Zellerbach's logging crews in the Kitimat Valley in a the early 1970's 😊. I knew that you knew how to log when you set your choker to roll the log. Stay safe.
What a great bit of kit, anything that makes logging easier is a real boon. Look forward to seeing in action and it works a treat. Good buy congratulations. Some lovely cedar logs, so a definite yes.
it’s always a bit of a gamble buying used equipment …I am just glad it’s worked out for you Jason ..can’t wait to see more of your machine in action and some milling on the sawmill 👍👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
NWS! I bought a brand new logging winch a few years ago and it was a huge game changer for firewood and mill logs. Def one of the best purchases for me ever. You got no snow! We have only a few inches of it here in VT and some ice, too. Sure is weird to see so much bare ground in February. Loved the vid! Be careful of that cable! -NES
I know that feeling - found second hand, 56hr working portable petrol capstan winch made in Canada - it will help me a lot, not only to pull logs from forest but to manage logs in front of my sawmill and will keep it above ground tanks to two part log trailer I made :)
Great job on the logging winch. I'm new at it and I'm sitting on 90 acres of forest. I have the cord version and you'll want to get the remote control addon if you find yourself walking back and forth to adjust the cable - If it isn't going to pull around a stump property etc.
You’re going to find yourself using it for all kinds of fun stuff. I once pulled the dent out of an old f150 with it. I used to use a farmi winch but have that back to the owner a few years ago and got a deal on almost the same winch you’ve got, just way way older. I am having a hard time getting it to pull anything more than small sticks of stove wood. Maybe that there is grease on the clutch. Have fun with that thing. It’s a blast.
Thank you, Bus! Your videos were the first time I had seen such a device. I never thought id be able to justify buying one but at $3,300, I couldn’t justify NOT buying it. While I’ve got you, BEAUTIFUL job on your pantry! It has to be so satisfying being able to work in your warm, beautiful home, putting the finishing touches on everything. Well done, sir!
WOW, what a great find! You're going to love that thing. I have one and it sure is a back saver. I had to shorten the PTO shaft too. Do you know what it is rated to pull? Looks pretty beefy.
What a great find . It will make your life a lot easier . Add a few more chokers and snatch blocks. Always enjoy watching you take a log and produce beautiful lumber.
When pulling try and set your tractor more inline with the pull. The winch is strong enough that if the log fetched up you can roll your tractor over. A snatch block and recovery straps can make a good method to redirect the cable if you need to. Also can chain the snatch block to the log and run the cable back to near the tractor to get 2X pulling power if needed.
at 3:41 looks like a nest behind that grill. very nice purchase. a game changer. much easier and safer then the last time you logged that hill. congrats.
Nice score! The winch is a game changer. I run the exact same one but considerably older and heavily used. Avoid excessive lube on the drive chain as it can run down and get onto the friction face of the clutch (its bonded to the driven sprocket and the cable spool has a machined face that acts as a pressure plate). They’re fantastic machines. Enjoy
Nice find. You never know what you might run across. you should make some kind of vertical stand for it so it more closely matches the height of the tractor attachment parts.
It's tweaking that thing hard pulling from the top pulley, prolly should thread it down through the mid pulley before you put a load on it. That will get the load on the center mass of the tractor plus it will increase the pull force like a snatch block. I've got an old school Elkem Formtec 3500 ( Norse) kinda like this one, they're pretty awesome once you get set up with chains. On mine you can't remove the cable from the lower pulley, I found that interesting on your design. Nice winch, did'nt hear what ya paid for it but it will be worth every penny with what you got going on.
I have to say, the whole time you were hooking up that three point hitch I was waiting for the calamity to start. You know, like when that plank hit you in the head, I was expecting something would happen any minute. That's the kind of stuff that usually happens to me working with a three point hitch. It never goes smooth
It's amazing to me how no one has the books on any equipment. I have the books for every piece of equipment i own.n they go w anything i sell.they also sell a cone to put over the cable then take the cable to the log to keep it from hanging up or digging into the ground.
One should be very careful using pto implements that came off a different brand tractor, if pto shaft is to long when raising up implement.......... When I first got my winch they said to put a little grease on chain, little is right, one day I put a little to much and I couldn't pull a feather. That clutch disk pad is right under chain, the extra grease got onto the pad and disk so I had to take it apart and heat the clutch disk pad and and brake clean disk/plate, not a easy job.........
I see you found a good log puller. The lower pully will help when you need a 3 way compound pull. Them fat long trees come up better with a compound pull.
@@gnillut I have a "Farm-1" log puller. after you have the log up to the top of the machine, You use chains to wrap the log to the chain rail. Then let off the cable tension . This way you save the cable end from extra stress.
@@badbadbob1 I have a 3 ton sandvik winch, that is pretty similar to the one in the video. If i have good traction on the snow, I fill the rail with 5 chains/logs, and then I keep 3-4 logs on chains on the winch wire hooked around the lower pully. If bad traction, I keep all the logs on the wire, so I can dump the load and climb the hill with the tractor, and then pull the logs back up to the tractor.
@NorthwestSawyer I run 4 on my 3 ton line. It will not pull in 5 girthy full trees, but when cleaning up smaller logs, it saves me 4 trips pulling out wire.
I have the exact same winch I run mine on a 40hp new Holland tractor, it is the single best purchase I have ever made, a total game changer. If someone was to take my skidding winch I would never cut wood again.
It is a quarter past midnight, and I am still wide awake. I took my meds, and I should be snoring so loud that I am frightening our new dog. And yet, here I am commenting on You Tube. Hope you sleep tonight.
The name 'Fransgård' is most likely Swedish with the 'å.' Translated it could mean either France Farm or Fran's Farm. There are quite a few things from the SW Germany that could also have French words mixed with German. My great, great grand father was born in a village on the southern Rhine River where it was small enough to throw rocks from Germany into France. Edit......I was wrong. This is actually a Danish company with a name spelled with the Swedish character 'å.' It might have been a Swedish company originally that was then purchased by a Danish group. This is not uncommon.
I stand corrected on the use of the 'å' in Danish and Norwegian (who use the same alphabet) All of my time has been spent learning Swedish. I'll check Wikipedia next time.
Great score on that PTO skidding winch. You'll wonder how you ever lived with out it. A few self releasing snatch blocks, tree straps and a skidding nose cone (portable winch company out of Canada) and you'll have no trouble yarding out the most inaccessible logs from your property.
I definitely need some accessories.
The fransgård is a brand from 1967 in Denmark and in 1978 they started to work together with professional loggers in Norway to produce loging winches so the winch is developed and produced in Denmark not Germany
That’s what I’m hearing. Thank you!👍🏻👍🏻
It is crazy that I find it so satisfying to just watch someone grease the fittings on an implement!
I am definitely not afraid of work, I can sit here and watch you do it all day!
I second that. (from my arm chair)
@@samhklm I had two cups of coffee watching all that 😂
I bet you didn’t even break a sweat!😂
I just so wish that I could do that work again. Now, all I can do is watch. My brain has me grabbing the saw and pulling cable right along with you.
That makes life a little easier for sure! Good find.
A couple points to consider from a Farmi owner… Always keep some tension on the cable when you’re reeling it in. Loose loops will get bound up and it will be difficult to pull out. Also, the ropes have always felt like an accident waiting to happen. Loose ropes around a spinning pto? Be aware of what you’re doing and where those ropes are and avoid the urge to loop it around your hand for a better grip. Great piece of equipment but still a lot of work involved.
All very good points!👍🏻👍🏻
Good find Jason! Now you can tell your wife that you'll be spending you time in the wood with a wench that you paid good money for! 😉 And that's when the fight started. Looking forward to some good videos of log recoveries that would otherwise be left to rot. Great video thumbs up.
Thank you! The only problem is… she paid for it!😂😂
I had a winch like this, but it was a different make and it worked great. I managed a vineyard during the summer and cut cord wood in the winter. We had a 50hp four wheel drive tractor. You need to be aware of what you are doing. I had a guy working for me and he was skidding the logs out to a landing where we would cut them to length. He parked the tractor at an angle to the jag of logs, got off and tried to winch them in. Instead he rolled the tractor over on it's side. I was lucky he didn't get hurt and he didn't turn the tractor off. I unhitched the logs and hooked the cable to a large tree. With little effort I rolled the tractor back on it's wheels. He learned his lesson and never did that again.
I’ve had mine on its side once… a long time ago. I’ll definitely be avoiding it😬
As a retired forester in BC, I love your channel. Latest episode brought back memories of being on Crown Zellerbach's logging crews in the Kitimat Valley in a the early 1970's 😊. I knew that you knew how to log when you set your choker to roll the log. Stay safe.
Thank you, Greg! I learned a thing or two in 30 years of earth-moving. 😉
What a great bit of kit, anything that makes logging easier is a real boon. Look forward to seeing in action and it works a treat. Good buy congratulations. Some lovely cedar logs, so a definite yes.
Thank you! This is going to make short work of a lot of work😉
Nice to see one in use in the states.
it’s always a bit of a gamble buying used equipment …I am just glad it’s worked out for you Jason ..can’t wait to see more of your machine in action and some milling on the sawmill 👍👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Thank you, Chris! I have a lot of both coming soon😉
NWS! I bought a brand new logging winch a few years ago and it was a huge game changer for firewood and mill logs. Def one of the best purchases for me ever.
You got no snow!
We have only a few inches of it here in VT and some ice, too. Sure is weird to see so much bare ground in February.
Loved the vid! Be careful of that cable!
-NES
Thank you! You spoke too soon! We got about two inches about an hour ago. First of the year.
I know that feeling - found second hand, 56hr working portable petrol capstan winch made in Canada - it will help me a lot, not only to pull logs from forest but to manage logs in front of my sawmill and will keep it above ground tanks to two part log trailer I made :)
Hey Jason, nice find!! Great video too! Let us know what the future plans are with all that cedar! Take care and cya on the next one!
Thank you! With spring coming, I’m sure the fence board orders will start up soon.
What a great find indeed. As we say around here, " now you're cookin'.'
More good and interesting video coming up, no doubt.
Good stuff Jason.
Thank you, Reg! We say, “now we’re logging”!😂
@@NorthwestSawyer 🤣
SWEET!❤ Free logs! A GRAND SLAM VIDEO! Happy for you!
Win, win, win!😉
Great job on the logging winch. I'm new at it and I'm sitting on 90 acres of forest. I have the cord version and you'll want to get the remote control addon if you find yourself walking back and forth to adjust the cable - If it isn't going to pull around a stump property etc.
I have no idea how much it costs but I’ll definitely be looking into it.
Awesome score from marketplace! Should really be an asset to your sawmill! Stay safe, and God bless
Thank you!
Nice find Jason! I have a Wallenstein and really like it. They make the job so much easier AND faster!
And safer, I think😉
Jason, only guess I have is the guy that sold it realized that it's still a lotta work to yard logs! Lol Great find!
😂 he had an old LT 40 and was using an excavator to move his logs.
Great find!
You’re going to find yourself using it for all kinds of fun stuff. I once pulled the dent out of an old f150 with it. I used to use a farmi winch but have that back to the owner a few years ago and got a deal on almost the same winch you’ve got, just way way older. I am having a hard time getting it to pull anything more than small sticks of stove wood. Maybe that there is grease on the clutch. Have fun with that thing. It’s a blast.
Thank you, Bus! Your videos were the first time I had seen such a device. I never thought id be able to justify buying one but at $3,300, I couldn’t justify NOT buying it. While I’ve got you, BEAUTIFUL job on your pantry! It has to be so satisfying being able to work in your warm, beautiful home, putting the finishing touches on everything. Well done, sir!
WOW, what a great find! You're going to love that thing. I have one and it sure is a back saver. I had to shorten the PTO shaft too. Do you know what it is rated to pull? Looks pretty beefy.
Thanks, John! It’s rated at 8,800lbs 3-5’ per second. It’s going to be a game changer for sure.
I really like your diverse content...but I came for the sawing...LOL.. everything is fine though...I have not missed a vid since I subbed.. 👍👍👍😎
Thank you! I’ll be sawing soon and often😉
What a great find . It will make your life a lot easier . Add a few more chokers and snatch blocks. Always enjoy watching you take a log and produce beautiful lumber.
Thank you! I definitely need some accessories.
Good find. 😊
When pulling try and set your tractor more inline with the pull. The winch is strong enough that if the log fetched up you can roll your tractor over. A snatch block and recovery straps can make a good method to redirect the cable if you need to. Also can chain the snatch block to the log and run the cable back to near the tractor to get 2X pulling power if needed.
A good snatch block and some chain chokers are on my list😉
Well, GOOD for you.... It is always nice when things turn out better than you hoped for. Good luck.
Thank you, Gary! So far, so good.
Another great video Jason .
Thank you!
That’s one sweet find Jason. I hope to get some of that cedar. I’ll be in touch.
I have a lot on the side of the road to still get too!
It is a good little winch. I sent you some pictures of my rig. Greetings from Norway. ☺ TK.
I got them! Thank you! They’re awesome 🤩
at 3:41 looks like a nest behind that grill. very nice purchase. a game changer. much easier and safer then the last time you logged that hill. congrats.
It kind of looked like a nest was drug out on the cable the first time I used it. 🤔
nice add to the yard equipment
Thank you!
Nice score! The winch is a game changer. I run the exact same one but considerably older and heavily used. Avoid excessive lube on the drive chain as it can run down and get onto the friction face of the clutch (its bonded to the driven sprocket and the cable spool has a machined face that acts as a pressure plate). They’re fantastic machines. Enjoy
Thank you! I’m glad to hear such good things about this unit.
Great video,I really like the new tool for skidding logs,makes life a bit easier😊
Thank you! I can’t wait to get to the rest of my logs.
Nice find
Very handy piece of equipment Jason, have seen it on Mike Morgan channel.
It’s going to be a great tool for sure!
Nice!!!
Great find and a great brand indeed!
Thank you!
@@NorthwestSawyer That's the brand that we are looking at buying! Great Video
@@ecossearthur you won’t be disappointed!
Very nice find Jason
Thank you!
Nice score👍👍 sometimes it just works out.
Sometimes 😉
Looking good
Thank you!
really good little toy ,good Find ,great Video
Thank you!
One man's "junk" is another man's good fortune. Wow , did you find a keeper!
Great video and a bit entertaining with the 'commercial' breaks. I like it.
Thank you!😉
Nice find. You never know what you might run across. you should make some kind of vertical stand for it so it more closely matches the height of the tractor attachment parts.
Thank you! Someone else mentioned that as well.
Nice find on the winch.
Thank you!
hi there good show ,good find , i but chain bar oil on chains like that wont dry as fast or fly off , best to all john
That’s a great idea! Thank you!
Cool tool.
Thanks, Jeff!
Nice score on the cedar logs !
Thanks 👍
You got good humor 😊
Nice segue on the pins.
🤓😂
Good score . Be careful side pulling , fast way to flip your tractor , I have a fx65 wallenstien it's awesome ,congrats
That’s what I’m reading. I definitely want to keep the rubber side down.
It's tweaking that thing hard pulling from the top pulley, prolly should thread it down through the mid pulley before you put a load on it. That will get the load on the center mass of the tractor plus it will increase the pull force like a snatch block. I've got an old school Elkem Formtec 3500 ( Norse) kinda like this one, they're pretty awesome once you get set up with chains. On mine you can't remove the cable from the lower pulley, I found that interesting on your design. Nice winch, did'nt hear what ya paid for it but it will be worth every penny with what you got going on.
Thank you! This was a steal at $3,300. I think they’re almost $5k new. I definitely need some accessories.
What a score. To say I'm jealous would be an understatement!
Thank you! I never thought I’d find a deal on one but now I don’t know how I went this long without one😂
Not German. Fransgård is a Danish company.
I wrote the same to him I have hade one for several years
Log yard winching videos rock!
Stay tuned!😉 if it ever stops raining, I’ll be making more😂
Great care you don't flip your tractor. Seem like you rolled it once already. nice looking winch, good luck.
That’s definitely not going to happen again😉
Nice to see that Fransgård, made in Denmark
The perfect new "toy". Going to cut you hauling time way down. Keep it up. Looking for the next ones.
Thank you! This will be much safer too, I think.
A hydraulic top link is one of the best additions i ever made to my tractor.
Nobody turns down free Cedar. Nice score! Nice winch too.
Especially me! I’m going to turn that cedar into $3,000 today. Stay tuned!
Glad they left a place to access the chain to lube it. 😊
It’s a pretty simple setup, really.
Nice score on the cedar logs
Right? I can afford free all day long😉
I have to say, the whole time you were hooking up that three point hitch I was waiting for the calamity to start. You know, like when that plank hit you in the head, I was expecting something would happen any minute. That's the kind of stuff that usually happens to me working with a three point hitch. It never goes smooth
Well, I wouldn’t exactly say it went smoothly 😂😂
Woohoo
Woohoo, indeed!
Be careful that your cable never drags on asphalt or concrete. Ellis
Will do!👍🏻👍🏻
It's amazing to me how no one has the books on any equipment. I have the books for every piece of equipment i own.n they go w anything i sell.they also sell a cone to put over the cable then take the cable to the log to keep it from hanging up or digging into the ground.
I put all my books in a cabinet when I get them. I think this guy got this unit as kind of a barn find deal. Probably not a lot of information for it.
That's gonna be handy...
Boy howdy!
I do not understand why these are so rare in the states. They are not that expensive. Yet, a chain to the hitch is preferred....
Sir you need a headache rack on your truck with light bar!
A wood stand keeps the unit from jumping around during connection. Bob in Nevada
I’ll have to come up with something like that. If I ever take it off again😂
Great tool for the job, pity the operater didn't think about his saftey while hitching it to the tractor.
One should be very careful using pto implements that came off a different brand tractor, if pto shaft is to long when raising up implement.......... When I first got my winch they said to put a little grease on chain, little is right, one day I put a little to much and I couldn't pull a feather. That clutch disk pad is right under chain, the extra grease got onto the pad and disk so I had to take it apart and heat the clutch disk pad and and brake clean disk/plate, not a easy job.........
Good to know, thanks! I haven’t looked into the mechanics of it yet. I definitely don’t want to lube the clutch.
I see you found a good log puller. The lower pully will help when you need a 3 way compound pull. Them fat long trees come up better with a compound pull.
I hear it’s also good for pulling from the side.
lower pully is also nice when leaving the logs on the winch line while driving. (lowers center of gravity so you dont tip so easy)
@@gnillut I have a "Farm-1" log puller. after you have the log up to the top of the machine, You use chains to wrap the log to the chain rail. Then let off the cable tension . This way you save the cable end from extra stress.
@@badbadbob1 I have a 3 ton sandvik winch, that is pretty similar to the one in the video. If i have good traction on the snow, I fill the rail with 5 chains/logs, and then I keep 3-4 logs on chains on the winch wire hooked around the lower pully. If bad traction, I keep all the logs on the wire, so I can dump the load and climb the hill with the tractor, and then pull the logs back up to the tractor.
Game changer,
Exactly!
Get some gliders for the winch line as well when you get the chains, so you can pull more logs in one pull.
Gliders! I’ve been trying to figure out what they were called. Thank you!
@NorthwestSawyer I run 4 on my 3 ton line. It will not pull in 5 girthy full trees, but when cleaning up smaller logs, it saves me 4 trips pulling out wire.
Was that your first time hooking anything to 3 point hitch?
Yes
You might like a man sized snack block.
They make them self releasing now.
That’s definitely on my list.
Congratulations, Jason. It looks like a winner. Did you really suck WD-40 back into the can lol?
Bill
Thank you, Bill! I’m going to need to work harder at finding these Easter eggs!😂😂😂
WD 40 also makes a sprayable lithium grease that is very good!
Sweeeeeeeeeeeet!
I have the exact same winch I run mine on a 40hp new Holland tractor, it is the single best purchase I have ever made, a total game changer. If someone was to take my skidding winch I would never cut wood again.
It’s so much more effective than a 12v winch!
Chocker chains on Amazon cheapest place might want to consider with rod to slide under logs easier
That’s what I’m thinking too.
All you would need is a good pair of horses and a strong hitch.
I have a Deere😂
@@NorthwestSawyer I see that. My dad had a buddy that used to log with horses. Pretty rough stuff.
@@archiehebron8944 those were the days of real loggers!
What a mess hooking that thing up to the three point. Seems very clumsy and unsafe.
You do understand the WD 40 is "Water Displacement formula 40" there is NO lubrication. in WD 40!
Someone better tell that to my rusty parts!😂
*- Jason, don't you just love it when things work out so well?*
Very much!😉
A cone added to the front of the log your pulling will prevent it from digging into the dirt saving your saw blades!
I need to look into getting one.
its probaly danish
Ahh man that thing makes short work!
I had no idea it would work so well.
@NorthwestSawyer very fast too! A game changer!
It is a quarter past midnight, and I am still wide awake. I took my meds, and I should be snoring so loud that I am frightening our new dog. And yet, here I am commenting on You Tube. Hope you sleep tonight.
I did, thank you! I’m too poor not to😂
I hope you got some sleep and your new dog didn’t run off😉
Hydraulic top link.
👋🏻
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What size jd u have?
4044r
Sweet it's not 140 or bigger excavator but I think it is just what you need until you get 1😊. Have fun be safe and before I forget COMMENT 😮.
I’ll be playing with a big excavator in a day or two! Stay tuned😉
Is it time to get a larger tractor👍👍👍
No need for that with this winch!😂
The name 'Fransgård' is most likely Swedish with the 'å.' Translated it could mean either France Farm or Fran's Farm. There are quite a few things from the SW Germany that could also have French words mixed with German. My great, great grand father was born in a village on the southern Rhine River where it was small enough to throw rocks from Germany into France.
Edit......I was wrong. This is actually a Danish company with a name spelled with the Swedish character 'å.' It might have been a Swedish company originally that was then purchased by a Danish group. This is not uncommon.
Fransgård Is made in Denmark 🇩🇰
Yes, that's what I said in my edit. @@sap3055
"å" is a character used in Danish, as well as Swedish and Norwegian. And Fransgård is a Danish company, from the very beginning
@@BMW_G81_M3 Tack. I stand corrected. I had not seen the 'å' used in anything other than Swedish. I should have used Wikipedia to go deeper.
I stand corrected on the use of the 'å' in Danish and Norwegian (who use the same alphabet) All of my time has been spent learning Swedish. I'll check Wikipedia next time.
Lower links holes should be Cat 2 - 32 mm
They are on the outside but cat1 on the inside.
i wish i could find a good deal like that
I recommend not sleeping well😂
you need to make a stand for it so it can't tip over on you when you put it on ore off
That’s definitely on my list.