John Deere 60 skids logs

well hi there i'm the owner of the channel i look a little rough right now i've been running a chainsaw about a month ago today we had a terrible storm blow through here worst storm we've had in the 42 years that we've lived along the wabsey river here in iowa and knocked down all kinds of trees uh out of the 130 acres of timber we figured we probably lost somewhere around a thousand trees and most of them will lay there and rot away but some of them we've got to get out of the way and that's what i'm working on today and i'm using the john deere 60 to skid trees that are hung up lodged in places that we don't like get them down to where we can safely work on them here's the john deere 60. uh this one was born in 1952 that's when i was born so a tractor 68 years old weighs about 5 500 pounds maybe a little bit heavier i've got a log chain there a nylon rope you got to be careful combining nylon and chain because if the chain breaks a length the nylon will act like a rubber band and throw the chain right back at yourself usually i just use the nylon alone just pulled this big old oak tree uh it was hanging over the edge of our access road uh it's probably i'm about two foot in diameter i'm piecing it up now um it was up there now here we have a nasty situation you can see this uh branch that's leaning kind of at a 45 degree angle and you can see if you look close it busted out of this tree right here broke our tree broke out the top of it broke out and it's uh disconnected up there lodged in the crotch of this little i think that's a hackberry tree about a six or eight inch hackberry so the thing for me to do is get the tractor over on the other side of this and grab this limb right here and jerk it out of there a few things about log chains the ends are usually terminated with two different types of hooks this is a grab hook right here and uh it's nice because you can hook it right back over another link like that and that's how a grab hook works the other end is called a slip hook and it's uh i don't have one with me with the chains that i've got but it's usually big and that way you can just hook it loosely over a chain and that way it'll choke down on things that you're trying to pull so i've got about a 24 foot lightweight chain it's i think maybe 5 16 diameter and this one here is 3 8 bigger heavier between the two of them i can get back quite a ways away from this limb which is what i want to safely do and so to rig the thing i'm going to take this chain and go around this branch twice if i go around it twice it'll firmly choke off and won't slip away and i can hook that grab hook over the top so that's my rigging there's two wraps on the tree and a grab hook from there i get over to this place i'll take my heavier chain and with this grab hook i can hook it right over the link of this lightweight chain like that and extend that out to the end of my tractor which i should have a clevis on the draw bar to hook to but i don't so just take a grab hook and hook that up to the draw bar so i've set the iphone in the limb of a little branch that's falling on the ground if the wind doesn't blow it off we'll be lucky [Applause] well last job of the morning is uh pulling this 12 inch hackberry loose it's lodged up in that tree uh really simple job this time i've got a double wrap of my 3 8 inch log chain down there and uh hooked it off as low as i could so actually when the tractor starts pulling it it'll actually try to pull the tree up out of the mud a little bit and it won't pull it out of the mud it'll at least lighten the drag on the tree and it'll come around real nice so i'll see if i can find a place to set the iphone to where you can see this happen so that's my day of log skidding with my old john deere 60. hope you see how good a tractor they really are just an awesome tractor

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Length: 8min 22sec (502 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 17 2020