[AT] Tree pullin... :-)Charlie

[Michael P. Maynard]

I am in Marion, which is about 30 minutes east of Rochester...   near
Newark, Sodus, etc.

We are actually cutting them up, but yes, if they were fully lose from
the ground the winch/dozer would move them just fine.  I have mostly
used the dozer for 'logging' for firewood... have pulled quite large
trees with it... some in the 2' diameter range (of course I did
generally cut them to a shorter length somewhere around 20').  Dad has
also pushed over 1' diameter beach trees with it as well.  The TD6 is a
good general purpose dozer for the average use.  It's a little small for
some things, little big for others, but has a nice happy medium.  The
hard part is, it weighs 12000 pounds, which puts it in the realm of
needing a class a license to tow it anywhere here in NY, although it
hasn't stopped me yet.  I used to tow it with my 84 K2500 GMC, but now
have every intention of using the deuce to tow it.  Pickup was a little
light for stopping it in a hurry if needed... :-)  For the price I paid
for it, I would recommend getting one if you can at my price!! :-) I
only have $800 into it (minus the winch).  If you search the archives
you will see previous messages about when I brought it home.  I think
they would be near May 2002.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of carl gogol
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 7:03 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Tree pullin... :-)Charlie

Mike-
Thanks, but I wasn't aware that you were so close to me, where are you?
I
wouldn't have said anything about borrowing it if I had known that it
was
actually practical to mooch your machine for a while.  I was assuming
that
you were on the other side of the country, not around a corner.  Goes to
show I don't know the list that well.

I was wondering what happens after trees that size are down, can you
still
drag them with the winch and a TD-6?  Could you pull trees or limbs that
size up 4' or so of very steep creek bank?  or do you need a TD-20 to do
that kind of manhandling?
Carl Gogol
Manlius, NY
(2) AC D-14, AC 914H
Simplicity 3112 & 7116
Kubota F-2400

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael P. Maynard" <mmaynard at rochester.rr.com>
To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'"
<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 9:47 PM
Subject: RE: [AT] Tree pullin... :-)Charlie


> Carl, if I Had a legal way of towing it, that could almost be
> possible... you are only about an hour from me.
>
> Mike
>
>


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