I'll need six wire cable grabs and three garage door springs for an actual field test suckin 18 feet of 3/8ths winch cable.
May have to wear full coverage motoX helmet during testing!
Hillbilly logging at it's zaniest?
Jomo
Another perplexing problem specific to our industry, line take up speed.
Ideally you'd prefer a rapid enough take up of slack to slap the ground with the tree.
Closest I've gotten to that ideal's a big tracked skidsteer pulling 1:1.
Most of my pulling's been done with my tooltruck's 12 volt...
I've watched a third generation logger use what he called a box cut hinge to keep the trunk attached to the stump for as long as possible. It worked well and held until the trunk hit the ground on a fairly steep downhill slope. This pulling over an extremely fat but hollow triple leader Coulter...
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