Kubota Tractor for our Logging Operation

We've been using a neighbor's diminutive bulldozer for construction skid roads, and a borrowed Wading-place 2000 tractor for skidding logs. A 2wd tractor isn't in fact suitable for our precipitous terrain, and skidding logs with the dozer disturbs soils much more than we would of a piece.

So we went shopping for used 4wd tractors. The mental for our budget was a 30-40 HP diesel tractor with a front loader and a 3-sharp end hitch, in serviceable condition with less than 3,000 hours on it. Here in Washington those are sparse. Tractors we found were either high priced ($15k+) or tall hours (6,500+).


After a few weeks of trying, we checked into new tractors and found that they were not that much more dear. $15k gets you a definite new tractor with a agreement. $17k gets you a hydrostatic transmittal, sun shade, fag upgrade, packing in the rear tires, and surrender. Kubota was offering $0 down and 0% financing for 42 months. It doesn't get much easier.




PHOTO: We bought a Kubota L3400 (35 HP, 4wd) with a front loader. It's a puny farm tractor, very of the people with orchardists in this territory. My brother makes the tractor direct the eye even smaller than it is: He's 6'8" elevated without his hardhat.

The tractor has enough might for about 90% of our logs, and usually we can male the big logs that bring into being up the other 10%, or use a stop up and tackle, to create them skiddable. Its medium of vision weight is an outlet in the soft dry soils where we're laboring. The machine routinely loses drawing, but in 4wd with the differential fastening engaged, it's more credible to stall than to twist out all 4 tires.

We fasten 1 to 3 logs to the lift up bar using brief chains and snatch hooks, or sometimes a diminutive grapple. Lifting the bar raises the butts...

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