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.
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!!!!!!!!!!!!........
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 ???
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?
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.
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?
Great video really enjoyed it 🚜 thanks for sharing
You can't beat the sound of those tracks moving at speed through the forest. Like some enormous insect speeding to devour its prey.
That thing is freaking sweet!!
nice video i like all of the closeups you get of it
Awesome video and machines!
Great video! That 517 gets hauling without a turn on the back of it lol
WALL-E's big brother.
More like HAUL-Y
awesome video!
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.
Great Video!
Very long, these tracked skidders are built to last. They have extreme durability and are preferred over the wheeled skidders.
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Awesome vid!!
nice vid dude!
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!!!!!!!!!!!!........
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Thank you for subscribing, glad you enjoyed the video! Would be an interesting career for sure
Expensive firewood.
good machine
awesome
so cool
Awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!r u gooing to post a nother snow dio again??? they where awsome!
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 ???
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?
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.
Just saying without a load of logs on it, it goes fast haha
Hey I think this is where rusty works.
Thanks, I try!
They use it regardless, muddy or dry
Nice to see something other than deer skidders. Remember that sometimes big cats kill and eat poor little Deere
Cool
Thanks! I might be being stupid here, but I don't get what your saying haha?
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.
The problem with skidding with a dozer is simply wears out the undercarriage in no time.
Hows it do on softer ground?
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
Ohh haha
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....
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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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