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FWIW, the blue ones are “skidding” tongs, and are half(-ish) the price of “lifting” tongs. Everyone I ever knew using a cable loader used the skidding tongs. They’re not rated as high in capacity, but I wouldn’t stand under a log hanging in tongs regardless of the color or rating...😳

Regarding tongs, the 36” ones you linked are going to be huge. We never used bigger than 24”-25”. If the log was too big for them, we choked it on with the cable. My tongs are like these...

We were using it to crane limbs and tops. Back when I logged a little, I’ve fished chain under logs more than a few times. Usually a cable then though as most of my logging was done with a cable loader.

Carl had some of these to use with the Tree Mek....they worked quite well I thought.

I have two pair of Dixie 24" tongs from back when I had a log truck. Also have a pair of Dixie 20" tongs. When I cut down trees too big for the Gehl to handle with the grapple, I cut them in 24" blocks. The tongs will stretch to 25". I hook them face to face and lift them with the Gehl. I've...