Okay so its that long since I posted I'd forgotten my old username's password but anyway...
Got a bit of a logging job on and I'm wondering about getting a trackloader as a sort of "all in one" machine.
Some background: I've got some serious seat time in dozers, but none at all in trackloaders.
I've got two dozers: D8K which is way to big for this job, and a D31E-18 which I've currently got on the site and well... lets say it's struggling, and both the logs and hills are going to get a lot bigger before we're done.
I've got a (wheel) loader - early 966 class - with logging forks which mostly stays at home to unload trucks. Also a fair lump of a forklift that fills the gap when the loader is out of the yard, but it's a touch on the small size for doing that job as anything other then a stopgap..
Got a Clark 666B skidder. Good machine and it's doing okay on this site but it's going to struggle with the size of the hills as we get further into the job, and being a skidder it has trouble loading trucks. Many old stumps on the ground too and those tyres aren't cheap.
Jobs going to be ongoing for the next 5 years off and on, and I don't want to keep freighting machines back and forth every time the job goes from "off" to "on". A machine that could be left on site most the year would be handy.
So at the moment i'm thinking I need to ditch the smaller dozer and replace it with a D5. I'd also need another loader.
Or get a trackloader and fit it up with forks and a winch. Which would be okay except I know zip about trackloaders.
I'm thinking that the front mounted engine is probably better from a balance standpoint if the machine is going to be doing any serious winch and skid work, but how much more better is that likely to be? I can find a pretty decent 953/ 953B here easier then finding a pretty good 955L.
Which way would you go?
Got a bit of a logging job on and I'm wondering about getting a trackloader as a sort of "all in one" machine.
Some background: I've got some serious seat time in dozers, but none at all in trackloaders.
I've got two dozers: D8K which is way to big for this job, and a D31E-18 which I've currently got on the site and well... lets say it's struggling, and both the logs and hills are going to get a lot bigger before we're done.
I've got a (wheel) loader - early 966 class - with logging forks which mostly stays at home to unload trucks. Also a fair lump of a forklift that fills the gap when the loader is out of the yard, but it's a touch on the small size for doing that job as anything other then a stopgap..
Got a Clark 666B skidder. Good machine and it's doing okay on this site but it's going to struggle with the size of the hills as we get further into the job, and being a skidder it has trouble loading trucks. Many old stumps on the ground too and those tyres aren't cheap.
Jobs going to be ongoing for the next 5 years off and on, and I don't want to keep freighting machines back and forth every time the job goes from "off" to "on". A machine that could be left on site most the year would be handy.
So at the moment i'm thinking I need to ditch the smaller dozer and replace it with a D5. I'd also need another loader.
Or get a trackloader and fit it up with forks and a winch. Which would be okay except I know zip about trackloaders.
I'm thinking that the front mounted engine is probably better from a balance standpoint if the machine is going to be doing any serious winch and skid work, but how much more better is that likely to be? I can find a pretty decent 953/ 953B here easier then finding a pretty good 955L.
Which way would you go?
955L or 953?
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