loading logs

[MICKEY108]

has anyone loaded logs with a grapple skidder like on a gooseneck trailier

[log cutter]

Yes. But it was a swing grapple skidder.

[chevytaHOE5674]

Yes but you can't stack them so you are really limited in how much you can haul.

[MICKEY108]

thanks

[Taylortractornut]

WHen we had just gotten the  518 Cat at work to make a compactor out of I used it alot to load logs.       Id skid them  to the trailer and then  backed the the  tail plate over the butt of the logs and let the  arch down.    and picked the log up.    I just heeled them  up and backed  up to the rear of the trailer.       It worked good.

[tlandrum]

    Id skid them  to the trailer and then  backed the the  tail plate over the butt of the logs and let the  arch down.    and picked the log up.    I just heeled them  up and backed  up to the rear of the trailer.     

thats the method i use for building skidder bridges over creeks. i get logs long enough to go across the creek  and use the grapple to set them over the creek then after i have enough logs side by side i chain boom them together then get to skidden.