Mahindra 3550

I'll have to get one sooner or later. My in-laws gave me a gift certificate for $35 to the W.C.S. for my birthday a few weeks ago. I haven't used it yet. Sounds like a good thing to use it on.

 

Nice! I also saw some weld-on grab hooks in Canton store. Going to have to get a couple of those too. Here John

 

I talked to a guy in the back today that works for John who said he welded some on his drawbar, he likes them.

I guess with having a tractor, maybe I should buy a decent welder.

 

I was planning on welding to my front bucket for lifting.

 

They go together like ham & cheese!

 

Just catchin up here Gas, and really, at 13.5 hours your first ding. It happens to all of us.
What's you grapple loading technique? If you set your "forks" at about 45* and kinda roll your pile along while "rolling out" your forks to about vertical, you can really ball up a bunch of brush & debris for a tighter/fuller load. Just a thought before you start cutting & hacking on new grapple. I wonder if the "double lid" model has different dimensions/geometry? You seem to have a good relationship with your dealer if you were to trade in.

 

I missed the ding post, what happened?

 

Oh believe me, he dropped that topic like a hot tater 1 little pic and no details.

 

So did i?

 

Page 4, let's not make a big deal out of this, Poor Gas has prolly beat himself up enough.

 

What ding? I missed that too!

 

If your are going to be pulling from the drawbar put a clevis on the drawbar so the holes stay straight up. If you just wrap a chain around the drawbar it can rotate so the holes are pointing fowards and backwards and you will bend it.

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Why do you keep saying "our " tractor and "our" drawbar? Is this a joint owned machine?

 

I'm married so it's ours.

 

We bought a drawbar stabilizer, I'll get a picture after I put it on.

 

That will do the trick.

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Wow! I thought we had tough laws in this state (Oregon) regarding stream issues. It is an acceptable practice in our state to cross streams (intermittent), in a similar way as shown in that pic (minus the brush). Each case is situational. For skid roads, we often place logs in the stream at our crossing then remove then when done. This practice is seldom done on haul road crossings. We nearly always have to place a culvert in the stream on haul roads and again remove them when finished.

 

Our BMP regs are "voluntary" but the catch is no mill will let you haul into them with known offenses to them. And the catch is that they protect water quality most of which not doing it right will get you into clean water act violations....where again if your not doing proper harvest techniques you are no longer under a silvicultural exemption from.

I don't usually allow logs because there almost impossible to remove from a cut stream with a skidder which can't reach that far below its tires or the grapple can't fit into the creek cut to remove them. And like I said...the brush "placed into the stream, on purpose, and then not removed" is the problem.

Edit:
If I remember or have time I will try to take some pics of old stream crossings. I know where some haul roads are. Just trying to think about where some skidder bridges have been. And I currently don't have any skidder bridges in use now.

Here is another use of a truck bridge..this time just in a wet spot in the road. This is a totally different area from other pics. 100 miles away.

Timber is SC largest industry.

 

concretegrazer here is another pic. Again not a skidder crossing but a truck road.

I took this pic as I was trying to move a log that was diverting all the water to one side of the road and blew out the gravel some. This was after a several inch rain event. At the point this pic was taken there was over 400+ loads that crossed this creek crossing. This is what we call a low water crossing. This is a normal stream that flows all the time.