Yes, that would be the way to go, but this is a $1000 machine. Those track kits used go for $3000. A snowmobile would work now too. Even better than a tracked quad. The snowmobile doesn't work so well as soon as the snow melts though.
Just took the little guy out sledding for a bit and came in for some coffee and lunch hope to get that small pile stacked and then got my sights on half cord of silver maple needs split and stacking
Very cool. I'm a lineman and work side by side with our Asplundh guys quite often even have a few guys with us now who where tree guys before
The roads were iced to make it an easier pull for the horses. This particular load had to be broken free of the ice by multi team horses but once it was broke free, those two pulled it to its destination...
5 feet further down the road. Downhill. Lol That just goes to prove that a lot of things can be accomplished under the right circumstances.
Nice work Horkn , I'm not sure what we'll get for snow this week but if we get another 4 inches we'll take a short ride on the sleds. If we don't then it's back to getting some yellow birch or burn some junk wood in the outside fireplace.
We're supposed to get another 4" up north at the cabin where we have our sleds. If that happens, I'll be scheduling a to up north soon. According to John Dee, theres a chance of an inch of snow every ight for the next 2 days, and Tuesday night there's a probability of 4+" . The 5-10 day forecast shows 5-8" for that timeframe. So it could get really good really quick up where most ride in this state. Tuesday around here we're supposed to get another 3", so the trail I made with my atv and the tow sled are a nice base. There was still a few areas on my land that had a good amount of snow left even after our massive thaw. If I keep the trails groomed by packing them down with the ATV and towsled, I can access everything I have cut up, or need to cut down. Speaking with my cutting buddy, we have a lot to do wood wise on his dad's 24 acres which is 2 houses down from his house. There's years of dead standing elm and cherry that need to come down so he can open the trails up again. Since we both heat with wood, me more so than him, we both can get more wood out of this, as well as more morels since we will be able to get further on his land with the quad easily. A lot of it is smaller stuff, 6-10", but it all adds up. If we can get to the back end of his land, there's big old growth stuff. Beech, oak, maybe shag. Since that land is as close as it is, there's no need to haul the ATV by trailer, and we just drive down the road those couple hundred yards.
LOL, they still do that today at tractor and draft horse pulls they just use much safer weights on the sleds.
Nice, ya all the line guys out here are very helpfull. I love it and i get all the wood i can dream of.
Here's what I got done today. What a nice day to work in the woods. Here's the pile, shagbark, beech, and some sugar maple. This was mostly stuff I had cut up earlier in it like the winter, and stacked into piles at the base of trees. and here's the loaded trailer That's a heavy half cord of wood. It's so funny to see all these diesel full size pick up trucks in town getting out worked by an Audi wagon.
Your woods look a lot like mine here Horkn ... nice job... yup... there's nuthin quite like being down in the woods on a perfect winter day.
I got it all cut into 17" or shorter pieces at the house tonight. There's nothing like chainsawing after dark. Yes, I had a work light on, and I only ran the saw for 15 minutes ending at about 7pm. I had to get it done to get it under cover before tomorrow am when it will rain again.
