davidwyby
Desert Beaver
I very much like mine. I’m kinda pissed I didn’t learn of them earlier in life. Can quickly and easily be jammed thru under a log. Spent a lot of time struggling with chains. Very handy even outside their intended uses. I’ve used them moving shipping containers, etc. Small thimble fits thru small openings. 7’ is perfect for up to about 2’ logs choked and lifted off the ground behind my Dodge tow boom. 50mph dirt road skidder. You know if you drag a dry log on pavement or hard dirt fast enough it will smoke and theoretically catch fire? 😆
I just got a 14’ for bigger logs and the deuce.
Anyway…I have often found that sometimes things used in one industry can be real handy in another, but people may not know of them. Tree guys are good with ropes and I have almost no rope skills, so maybe they don’t need them…but I have a buddy who has a 3/8”x20’ choker that he uses for limbs. Cuts the limbs off the tree, threads the cable through the first branch crotch of all the limbs, and sucks them all together into a bundle/drag away. I don’t have a chipper so I’m always looking for ways to handle branches. Itching for the opportunity to try my 14’ for it. I hope to take it one step further and put sides, or at least stakes on my trailer and I can winch the bundles directly into the trailer, and off the front to unload.
Also, they are cheap. 7’ $28
I have also used mine up in the bucket to wrap around a top, tree, or large limb to be pulled for redirect. I have a bunch of cable, tow straps, etc. from my other work, so I haven’t bothered to spend the $ on bull rope or learned to tie knots yet. I also am pulling with equipment heavy enough to break rope sometimes, and don’t always have an experienced groundy in the driver seat.
Anyway, just trying to make an effort to let tree guys know of a handy tool from the logging side.
Tip: grind the hairs off or they hurt!
I just got a 14’ for bigger logs and the deuce.
Anyway…I have often found that sometimes things used in one industry can be real handy in another, but people may not know of them. Tree guys are good with ropes and I have almost no rope skills, so maybe they don’t need them…but I have a buddy who has a 3/8”x20’ choker that he uses for limbs. Cuts the limbs off the tree, threads the cable through the first branch crotch of all the limbs, and sucks them all together into a bundle/drag away. I don’t have a chipper so I’m always looking for ways to handle branches. Itching for the opportunity to try my 14’ for it. I hope to take it one step further and put sides, or at least stakes on my trailer and I can winch the bundles directly into the trailer, and off the front to unload.
Also, they are cheap. 7’ $28
I have also used mine up in the bucket to wrap around a top, tree, or large limb to be pulled for redirect. I have a bunch of cable, tow straps, etc. from my other work, so I haven’t bothered to spend the $ on bull rope or learned to tie knots yet. I also am pulling with equipment heavy enough to break rope sometimes, and don’t always have an experienced groundy in the driver seat.
Anyway, just trying to make an effort to let tree guys know of a handy tool from the logging side.
Tip: grind the hairs off or they hurt!
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