When Logging Gets Dangerous! Winching Huge Logs With a Tractor!
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Things get interesting in this one! Logging can be dangerous and in this video you can see why! The snow increased the level of difficulty while trying to winch the logs up the hill as well. We also review the winch and explain how to safely operate it! We hope you all enjoy the video, thank you for watching!
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Good video man, your dad is really good explaining mechanical things. As an equipment mechanic guys like him are the kind of guys that I like to talk to
Thank you Adam!
Suggestion. You can double your winching power (pull more or halve the required force?) by attaching a snatchblock (AMERICAN MADE for consistent metallurgy) to the chain wrapped around the log and running the winch line through it back to your tractor. Also, winch makers sell weighted blankets to drape over the winch lines as a potential dampening force if the winch line breaks. I carry two in my winching kit. They're not expensive. Cheers.
I grew up on a dairy farm in Northern Vermont many years ago so nice to see that you guys do things the way we used to do them keep up the good videos
I am a long-distance truck driver for almost 40 years now I would love to come and see your operation
Thank you Ed we are glad you like them!
Great video, really enjoyed seeing the Winch pull those huge logs and how it works. When you were pulling both logs going uphill the front wheels of the tractor came off the ground. That was hard work for both you and your dad but the dogs sure had a blast running along with you.
Thank you Ben!
I love your dad's witt and wisdom, "either the log is coming out, or the tractors going in" LOL, HAAAAAAAAAAAA ! Love It !
Lol thanks!
@@GierokFarms are
As I sit here with 9 fractures on my left leg and 3 on my right from doing this job I can really appreciate your winch haha... Thanks for the great video.
Get well soon! Thank you for watching!
You guys ever hear of the sweatshirt trick? I work for a rigging company and when the guys are winching something under a heavy load with a steel cable, they will throw a heavy moving blanket or a couple of sweatshirts over the cable. In the event the cable comes free or snaps the heavy blanket will absorb that shock and the cable will fall to the ground instead of whip lashing to the side. It does work pretty good, but I could see where it would be a little bit of a pain winching logs lol.
Never heard that but makes sense! Thanks for the tip!
i am 12, me and my grandpa go back and log with a 1989 ford 2120 tractor with a grab hook on a welded 3 point setup (my grandpa will limb the logs and i will pull them out) and we can pull stuff bigger than that but still, i have respect for the safety you are puting into it and from the angle you are pulling from
Very good comment young man
But b very careful working with trees and machinery
Your grandpa sounds like a great guy.
Have a good Christmas sir
Seamus from Ireland 😎
Thanks for taking the time to let us tag along.
Thanks for watching that's why we keep doing it!
Wow,that was amazing. It takes years experience to take on a job like what we just watched. That was one of the most dangerous 😳 things 😳 I have seen. And you two made it look easy. Anyone watching this and thinks 🤔 anyone without years of doing this can do it is dead wrong. Doing any logging in these conditions is not for beginners. Very well done video. I have to admit you two had me holding my breath a few times.Keep your videos coming. Just don't scare the heck out of us. Amazing skills. Thanks 😊.
Thank you Stan!
Great video guys, Teamwork,Tractor and winch getting it done. Have a great weekend 👍🏼🪵🚜🇺🇸
Thank you!
I really like that almost ASMR style intro. Got me hooked and now I’ve watched 20 or so videos in the last 2 days.
Thank you Parker we are glad you like them!
Enjoy your videos. I would have left one log chained to your 3 point and left one connected to your winch so you when you started to get stuck you could release the one and get to the top then winch the other one up the hill. I have a wallenstein FX85 winch on a 38hp ct335 bobcat tractor works great. Especially in hilly and swamp areas. Love your setup 👍
Thank you Kerry!
Kerry, yup that is how I pull out my logs. I have a uniforest 55H on a ‘72 5000 ford. The remote is really slick pulling out logs. I rarely get out of the seat when finagling logs out. Most of the time I leave all logs connected to cable so I can drop, move tractor, winch back in, drop, drive, winch, rinse and repeat until such time I can drive away with them on the blade. Not to mention nice to start pulling in logs while you’re right next to the log. Makes quick work if you need to rehook. Only downside…expensive. IIRC It was $2K extra.
Good work. Thanks for sharing your process. That winch looks really useful
excellent video on winching timber,been thinking if getting a winch,this is the best advice video i've seen.
Oh my god. I just realised those are the beautiful rolling fields that u cut your hay and silage from just a few weeks ago
Great video as always 😎
What a beautiful tractor and what a great sound! Cheers from Romania, Europe!
Welcome and thank you!
instead of un-hitching a log or 2 log at the bottom of the hill, put the cable back on the chokers and spool out 100-125 feet pulling the tractor ahead. Then plant the winch and winch them too you, and so on until your on flat. saves going back and forth and getting off the machine so many times loosing and re-hooking logs.
the winch will pull much more than the tractor has for "pulling traction" in the snow due to the blade dragging in.
Awesome looking set up! I've got a 4500 fransguard, for a little tractor compared to that monster.
Great video. We pull alot of saw logs out of the pasture edges in the fall or just after freezeup. Looks like I should invest in 1 of those winches. I'm surprised at how much snow you have compared to SE mn. We have bare ground here again.
Thank you Steve!
Thanks for explaining the winch. Loved seeing the dogz play and the jd work! Is there a video on how you made the chainsaw scabbard? Enjoyed everything you got a new subscriber.
Boy! What a beautiful farm. Treasure.
That is an amazing tractor and a great crane. what a terrific job. Thanks.
Thank you for watching!
Great video, see why you need the winch. You are all very careful. Thank you for sharing. John T.
Thanks again for watching!
Once again one farmer to another you do whatever needs done!
Thought they we’re brothers. Great video boys. 👍🏼🇺🇸
I really like that Winch. That seems like it would be great for pulling out stuck vehicles.
It probably would do a great good, thanks Greg!
Your John Deere is absolutely beautiful 🚜
If you used the 3point hitch to raise the end of the log, you could just tow the log by dragging with tractor , i've done it works great on this size log. No winch needed.
Thanks for the tip!
Watching that Deere ride on the rears brings back old memories. Way back a ways a logger on a nearby place decided to jump the fence and do logging on the old family farm. We found out after they had cut a LOT of trees. So we went into the log and firewood business to clear the tops and logs out. The skidder tractors were a TO-35 and a TO-20. We would back up, drop the 3 point, lift the logs up, block them and then back the three point drawbar under the log(s) and head on down the hill. The catch was coming up the other side, 90% of the time you were riding the rears and steering with the brakes pulling maple, oak, beech that were heavy...
It's a good time!
Great video, very helpful; getting ready to skid some big logs myself...pulling above the drawbar could pull the tractor over? Guessing that winch pully reduces the risk...do you think a log hook would help reduce the chance of the logs rolling sideways?
Never seen one of those winches in action. Pretty neat. I have those hooks on my chains as well. Love them
Thanks it's pretty nice!
Once again, a great video! Keep more videos coming!
Thank you!
Apparently there were a lot of Old Farmers trying to pull stumps out with their old Ford tractors and flipped over backwards and killed the operator!
I once knew a girl whose father died the same way!
It sure is dangerous!
Beautifull country! Great video!
Thank you!
Built a log lifter beam was 3x6" I beam for the 3 PT hitch and different sized log tongs for lifting firewood or short logs. Loaded three logs onto the 4 wheel trailer, something close to 24 " at the butt? Was with the Ford 3000 switched from 1st gear to 2nd so then the tires started to spin, so back to 1st gear. That was heavy.
Sounds like a sweet setup!
Love it when River supervises!
She is so funny!
super cool to see a norwegian-made winch! love the vid! if u guys ever want a new one i recomen Igland, its kinda the same but better:)
Thank you!
Awesome video! love the content! Those skidding winches are no joke! Its too wet up here in NH to do any woods logging now but glad you guys are still out there working!
Thank you Jay!
That's funny a NH guy ,I am also a Granite stater spending my first winter in Arizona love it my 5060 Kubota and my winch are sitting in the garage gathering dust, have pulled alot of firewood and pine logs out my wife says I am too old but I miss it I will let my family sell it when I am gone never could buy another one.
That was completely awesome although it was very dangerous what your dad did spin around on tractor coming down hill I held my breath GOD BLESS please stay safe 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻👍👍👍🙂🙂🙂
Thank you Earl God Bless!
Thanks for the video. 3 years ago my brother was skidding logs out of our woods on the farm and was killed. The tractor rolled over on him. Be careful!
Typically we skid with horses.
Where are you located?
I'm familiar with those lost chocker chains!!!
Paint em yellow or hi vis orange. They show up better when you kick around in the snow for them.
hi there good show . made my own winch . it works well but a bit slow some times but it pulls . john
Sounds like a cool winch!
A 4wd tractor is a good idea and it's alot safer it's been a long time since I traversed along a banking sideways like you were doing in a tractor but I can remember it being scary as hell, we just use the mannitou forklift for it now with a log grab and it make short work of clear felling 👍
Oh for sure!
FIrst time I ever seen one of the mechanical ones work, they bring a billion at sales here. I built one years ago but used a winch off a wrecker and pto drove it, but it was slow on 540, but worked well on a tractor with small 1000................Problem was most of the tractors we took to the woods were 540. Used it some, went over to the neighbors and never seen it again, probably still over there. Quit cutting wood so didn't need it anyhow. Was really nice though on our steep mountainsides where the only access was logging road cut in the sides ever 350 ft up the mountain, not really any other way to get to the logs easily.
Sounds like cool winch!
YOU ALL ARE A SUPER SMART BUNCH OF MEN.
Great video guys!!! Thank you
Thanks for watching!
I would ALWAYS pull through the lower pulley on that winch. For me the only function of that higher pulley is to provide a good way of feeding cable back onto the winch's cable spool. Pull from as low as you can! ALWAYS
Thanks Jim!
@@GierokFarms Your welcome, I grew up on a farm and pulling anything from a high point on a tractor was a big NO-NO. It was a rule to always pull from below the rear axle. Keep that front end on the ground. Maybe there is a reason to pull from that top pulley but I don't see it.
Jim I disagree. Low pulley is for angle pulls so one does not tip tractor sideways. Top pulley pulls easier and creates better “dig in” of the blade. I have a uniforest 55H. The Hydraulic is a sweet feature and very handy but expensive!
Thanks Garny!
@@InquisitiveSearcher gets the but of the log off the ground
How do you like those double ring tire chains? Do they hold up well and do pretty good in the mud?
Great video as always keep up the great work and mind yourself
Thank you John!
I have the original frangard winch thier tough for ur choker chains paint um hi vis orange dont loss as many
That sounds really cool!
Great video! Thanks for sharing! Where can I find those hooks for chains ? Thanks.
Thanks not sure, but they are nice!
I live in Wisconsin and work for John Deere, I’m a little biased but I enjoyed this video.
difficult working conditions. I noticed an interesting stand for chainsaws. is it handmade?
I noticed the stand as well. Would like to see it and the saws your running.
It is we will have a video about that this spring!
Using a steel wire rope on a winch is the most dangerous part of that job! I would gust use a chain short hitch to the towing link directly on the tractor. That way the chain would allow for turning clearance & also keep the chain around the log off the ground & not be worn down buy dragging on the ground! But that's just me. Good vid, keep up the good work & listen to your dad!
I had a fransguard winch and it gave me nothing but problems. Clutch was constantly falling out of adjustment.
Just curious that tractor doesn't have a differential lock? I believe he would have made it!! Just a thought. Great job you guys have some pretty big hills, beautiful country and lots of maple trees someone must be making syrup!!!
They say farming is the most dangerous job in the USA 👍 thanks guys
It can be thanks Keith!
VERY INTERESTING !!!!!😊😊
how did man ever get along without tractors
no kidding!
WOW great video
Thank you!
I think we need to take up a collection to buy your dad a new shirt.
lol
LOGGING is DANGEROUS ALL the TIME. - You only have to look at the number of men who get injured and killed EACH YEAR. That and being on the Flight Deck of an Aircraft Carrier are regarded as being the 2 most DANGEROUS JOBS in the World.
For sure have to watch yourself when logging!
On your chain alloy chain is the strongest and it comes black when new. It is used for slings used with overhead cranes or mobile cranes. Proof coil is the weaker chain with high test being middle grade used for transportation load retention and then alloy for lifting
Good video guys would u recommend the tractor winch?
Those choker chains you use are grade 120 hook 2 that's why they so strong I'm a logger in mountians of Virgina a jhon deer 648 cabel skidder I's a hell of a machine
How many acres are you farming?
Pretty good set up!
Great video always enjoy them
Me thinks pop is a logger at heart!
Thank you Wilber!
You guys sell many logs or just use for your own personal use? Is there good money in selling saw logs and do you take them to a mill?
You should never drag a tree tip first always by the but., u can get yourself in trouble on a cross slope
And with youre thumbnail that's exactly how I shattered my pelvis. The Massey I was on stood straight up and went over. I jumped before hand but the hood landed on my pelvis. I had most of the 8800# tractor on my belt.
BTW it was just a year ago and I am close to your age
That sounds terrible I hope you fully recovered!
I have a great respect for loggers. My father was killed when I was 12 in a logging accident. Very dangerous job.
How many saws do you have?
I live in Western Oregon where there are Forests.
HI guys new to the channel, where is the farm located?
Great video
Thank you John!
Not working?
Logging cinch hook…. Yes…!
Good stuff men,👍👍👍👍
Thanks James!
Good job👍
Fascinating!
How do you manage having a tractor without a cab .aren't you cold 🥶 driving it .
That day wasn't that bad!
The higher you mount the weight what you tow, the more chance to lift the front end. Mount not higher than the rear axle, or a little below if you can, will not lift the front of your tractor !
I have smaller Fransgard winch, in 15 years I never hoked chain in those lower notches and never will, and I'll never understand why people with modern tractors log without a FEL..........
I wish I had River’s energy and exuberance.
No kidding!
It need only another tractor in front for to help and mainly to safe... then it will be good!!!....
Mach mal die SPERRE für die Hinteraxe rein......
How come u guys don’t wear gloves
To tough ig lol we have gloves lol!
Nice
Just seeing a chainsaw made me think i was smelling 2 stroke smoke and chain oil.
Fruumoos
Why would you even try to pull the log by the futher end while beling in line with the log? Seems stupid as you drive the log into the ground
why not pull them with the tractor v? Seems like play time
👍👍
Does he ever wear gloves?
He must be hard as nails.
So strange to see the john deere of such size without a cabin. is that normal in the us. here in scandinavia (Norway) they all have cabins. cool that you have a Danish made vinch. i use the Norwegian made Igland vinch. its fairly the same type.
I've never heard of one of these winches. My family has burned wood for generations. We peel popple in the spring too. Sure looks to be a handy device. I'm going to have to look into this. Be safe out there ... Beware of widow makers!!
Thanks Anthony!
It's about time I get a comment out to Gierok Farms, I've been watching since you picked up the Oliver last year or so! You guys are the best, your dad is so matter of fact and down to earth with his wit and wisdom
! Hit the wrong spot, I'm not done yet! Been watching the UA-cam for a few years now on TV and follow quite a few channels but was always disappointed on not finding much in the line of dairy farms on the UA-cam in America's Dairyland, I'm in Sheboygan County on the east side of the state. I'm 63 and both my parents came off of dairy farms and that was the end of those farms! You guys are a breath of fresh air in this day and age of the mega farms! Be blessed as you endeavor on! God bless you all! Gotta love me some beef and cheese, it's the Real deal!
Think about setting your chain hooks so that the log rolls when you start to pull. With the butt flare,we would cut that off and and angle it so that it would not grab. Slight angle like a sleigh runner. We used a 30 hp with a Farm winch for more than 35 years.
Good call ,I do what you're saying about wrapping the chain around the log so when tension comes on it makes the log roll so its moving, keep the power on when you've got movement is half the battle