I would try moving the skidder back about a foot or so. You would have a little less tongue weight and should still have room to set the grapple on the trailer. With a bumper pull trailer you have to load things just right.
Glad it worked out for you. with the two trailers, you have options for different situations and as you said having a backup is always a good thing....
Just subscribed to your channel I follow ol cotontop he's a good man looking forward to see how your operation works sweet trailer I'm just a little north of ya in New Hampshire hahaha take care Napa Mike
Great video ! You can always go to your local gravel quarry and scale her out to see where your weight is at . Play around with it see where she tows the best
I agree with the pintle verse gooseneck .I have both and they both have their place .I do favor the gooseneck some .for average tractor hauling.Both do well guess like you said whatever works for your own operation
I've heard good things about the 6.7 ford powerstrokes!!! What type of motor is in that John Deere 540b?? Those timberjacks had Detroits and they stream when they are in the woods my dad was pulling a cable plow with one and he told me they stream!!! Cool videos keep them up!!!
Excavating 320, I've had really good luck with my 6.7 powerstroke. Our 540Bs have a Deere 4 cylinder engine, very good little motors. thank you so much for following our channel!
bumpers need to be balanced more with load in my experience. My goose i run the skid up on, choke chains, done. No worry if a foot this way or that way. Hit centerline of trailer is all that matters. Either works though. And pintle you still have the bed for tools and supplies.
Man I like all your videos I think you got a cool setup and it works good for you. For what you do a feller buncher probably would not be worth spending the money?
farmallchris, I had a Feller Buncher for awhile and it just wasn't a good fit for our operation, especially since all we do now is very selective harvesting. Thank You so much for following our channel!
i rented a 16 f250 6.7 to go to a tractor show since my 97 chevy 2500 died. it didnt suspension wise handle my 9 ton equipment trl as well as the chevy did. fords built brake controller i dont like had run on 5 vs 2.5 in the stand alone brake controller. i just bought a 94 f350 7.3ps (119000) handles the trl a lot better than the 3/4 tons did at 13k trl weight. brake controller gotta swap out for my old chevies unit like it better than what came in the f350
I think that you have your skidder placed a little too far forward with too much weight on the back of your truck -this can make for steering too light and headlamps aiming too high and dazzling other road users. (You might find that there is a specified max weight load o the hitch stated by the manufacturer). hitching up can be real difficult unless your positioned straight ahead or lucky enough to have a rear view camera pointed at the hitch point.
Great video sir!, i bought myself a pintle hitch and on the pintle says 8tons, my question is, what is 8tons really mean? Could it mean "8,000+8,000=16,000 or 16,000 and a haugh", i sure appreciated
My best Freind Tuned his Powerstroke and i agree that thing was Quick , but he still needed it to pull a 20K 5th Wheel and he wound up blowing the motor a couple of times i’m pretty sure he didn’t Bullet Proof i’m not positive i run a 6.5 Turbo Deisel Duramax stock and it’s hanging in there at 125,000 plus miles it’s not fast and i let the Turbo take its time to do it’s job the negative is mine has 4:10s and the fuelmileage sucks at 65MPH although the Tourque is fine traditionally i pull way less than what the Truck is rated for like a 10,000 lb boat , and a Airstream (the Airstream is a joke hitched up that was just a happenstance Purchase as i was in the right place at the right time and i already had the Truck paid off for years i towed the opposite extreme with way too small Trucks to pull what i had somit was nice to have the Overkill on the Airstream i purposely fill water Tanks that are up front to put some weight on my rear Springs as it softens the ride a decent amount it’s a 3500 Dually Deisel
As long as you're within GVWR limit of your truck and the trailer, and granted your hitch receiver & hitch points are to spec for what you're hauling than I don't see a problem with any of this. Also you obviously have a CDL so the weight isn't an issue there either. If you don't already I would recommend that you run either airbags or heavy helper springs in your trucks suspension just to handle the weight easier and to help prevent the squatting from happening. If the F350 can handle it within spec than an F550 will be more than adequate for what you're doing, the larger 19.5" rims tires, bigger rear axle, larger axle ratio options, bigger braking power and stronger frame will immensely improve your rig.
Yeah buddy, run what you need to use and don't let anybody try to tell you different. What's working for Tim ain't gonna work for you or Wade and what works for you just won't cut it for Wade. Every area and style of logging needs different equipment set up in a totally different way. All the videos I've seen you upload show an organized, thoughtful methodology and the equipment you use lends itself well to what you're doing-up to and including that nice pintle trailer you just saddled up on here. Might take some playing around to find the sweet spot for those 540's to sit on that new trailer deck, but you'll have that figured out after a few trips down the road and it won't hardly give you a second thought after several moves to the next timber patch.
