That Ranger is in need of good mud tires. My (rural) Fire Department uses a 6x6 with mud tires, thing will drive through mud holes and shallow water like nothing and i've never seen it get stuck. And if it ever did, it could just winch itself out.
nice little set up with the grapple on the 307. My friend has his own scrap yard and we just picked up a Deeer 110 with an old rotobec log grapple. Makes pickin cars off of trailers easy.
I'm not a logger, I've never operated a track hoe and I don't have an ATV. To me it seemed y'all have a pretty good system worked out, using smaller equipment to stop from sinking deep in the muck getting impossibly stuck. Some tell u to use a 4x4 truck, but it seems with the weight of doing it would make huge ruts, getting everything else stuck too. That Polaris surprised the heck out of me. Having never used one it was impressive towing that big trailer, fully loaded through soupy mud. I'd have said not in a million years just by looking at it. I'm completely wrong.
Try an 8x8 or even 6x6 ARGO with tracks and you don't need the bridge etc.... We tow trailers with 30 bags of sand + trailer weight in swampy terrain in Costa Rica. NO other 4x4 or even bigger tracked vehicles could work there. They would get stuck. The ARGO is amazing at this. Just load it ebough for it to keep traction (and keep it from floating).
If you've got to take the Cat to do the job then you may as well use it to lift the ramps as well even if they are man handleable. I think I'd have taken a greener path than ploughing up the track still more though. Tires on the Polaris weren't up to much though.
as you see in wet conditions positiv is that it is small and fast max payload is 2 tons we need a whellloader or excavator to load and unload if you want then see my other vids... take care
stupid a lifted 4x4 with mud tires can go through that easier & tow a bigger trailer. Than that Polaris needs some better tires than are on it plus the guy driving it doesn't know about airing down his tires & not to rev the engine so much so it can get better traction. Plus the load on the trailer is to heavy for the Polaris.
Yeah man he's absolutely stupid...... You act like you do this every day paid through contracts. But, you're one of those "I think I know it all" Gumbas..
way too much weight for the polaris just get a cheap jeep 4x4 with a some all terrain radials. Mud tires are overrated if you ask me the big ass lugs just act like shovels if you breake traction they start digging you deeper and deeper just need some all terain radials.
A tractor would be better than a jeep a two wheel drive tractor something small like a massey ferguson 240 or john deere 4230 plenty of power to pull heavy loads. Its all about having the correct equipment to work with you cant do any thing if you dont have to right tools/equipment. the transmision on the polaris ranger is not made to handle heavy loads you wil burn it up in 7 days .
