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 ???
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.
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?
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?
