info and ideas on small hydraulic log loaders

[logman81]

Thanks, I don't think any hauling capability will be lost. I will just rest the stick boom on top of the tractor roll bar when hauling it. I to like the deck over better but I will build the base so it can be bolted and unbolted to diffrent trailers.

[bill m]

You will need to reinforce the front of your trailer before you mount a loader on there. The front of a trailer like that is not made to handle any kind of weight. I have repaired a few that were broken from having too much weight on the front.

[logman81]

I was planning on doing that any suggestions? I was thinking about using u channel of the same size and boxing the tonge in.

[bill m]

It needs to be reinforced from the hitch back to the middle of the axle.

[lumberjack48]

 you need something like this, real light, but does the job. You can build a cable loader out of a used rear end. I worked for a guy that had one mounted on the back of a little JD cat. He pulled a dray behind the cat. I'm trying to find a pic of one, real simple set up, but very efficient.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8Q_nXfjzW8&feature=related

[Ed_K]

 There's a couple on Richard's Machinery.com in the fowarder link.

[lumberjack48]

   Heres a pic of an cable jammer, they were used around here up to the 50's, 60's and early 70's on skidding equipment and trucks.                                 

  

  

 

[lumberjack48]

This is what my father and me used in the 60's, cat and knuckle boom dray like this. Everything was sawed up an piled in the woods by hand, strip cutting. I did a lot of strip cutting before buying a pole skidder in 68.



 

I ran in to this photo, reminded me of ,my uncle's Ole 1947 K-IH, he had a new 1959 tandem IH with a new hyd, cable Ramey loader he loaded with. I think its a little over loaded.


 

[snowstorm]

a 1010 john deere

[logman81]

Thanks for all the good info, but I'm going to have to put this on hold for a bit to fix my skidder.

[thecfarm]

Nice pictures lumberjack. Can you put them here too?

https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php/topic,13313.0.html

That red truck,'48 Ford? Seems like those poor old trucks were all over loaded.