Thread: How do you operate a skidder?

I can imagine the sinking feeling , doing a walk around that tractor and finding one of the inside tyres/tires flat .

Will they help?... I don't know... , but they're sure fun to watch... It's best to download and save... takes a while, but you can use Windows Media Player. The quality is a lot better, at least on my computer. I downloaded Tigercat's 2007 product line-up... Length: 11:20... (90 MB) It's a pretty interesting watch... some amazing equipment. My download speed was only 50 to 51 kb/second... as I said, it takes a while...

Quote: Originally Posted by Iron Horse I can imagine the sinking feeling , doing a walk around that tractor and finding one of the inside tyres/tires flat . That wasn't to bad.We cared the Tire Repairmans phone number with us.But it was no fun for him.That Machine run for a year like that with no flats. I think somebody told the Operator if he had a flat he had to fix it.

Quote: Originally Posted by Iron Horse First off , put your hands on the grab handles and get into cab . Then find key and turn it clockwise . Let go of key when you hear Broom Broom . Take left hand and move gear selector in desired direction . This could take a while Bellboy . All the info i gave you amounted to nothing ? It's a tractor for Gods sake , you have been posting a fair bit of advice for everyone else over some time on every...

Quote: Originally Posted by Iron Horse Unless all those videos show someone turning the key and working the pedals and levers and explaining what they all do , it aint going to help . Pure gold Iron Horse!!! Noone is going to hold your hand... if you've got the balls, get in it at lunch time (with your foremans OK) and haul a few to the dump. No piece of equipment has a passenger seat my friend.

Well...If I had more time I could answer more directly...But I thought those videos had some good info to start with... I will start with the first rule my Grandad told me about operating the skidder... Always keep your a** behind you when on a slope... I have never operated a Tigercat skidder but I think the rule would apply to that brand as well...

hmmm. unauthorized outlaw skidder racing. that sounds like a felony.

Bellboy, I find your Curiosity amusing, and humbling. I Suppose alot of us take it for granted, (the operation of equipment). I grew up around, and operating all sorts of equipment at a very young age. I think I was probaly about 10 years old when i started skidding Fire wood out with an Ford 8N, and manual log tongs on the 3 point draw bar. The first time i loaded a bunk of a forwarder (another type of a skidder) i was 11 or 12, my dad told...

Bell Im not familiar with the newer skidders except Wagner when I worked for Hydraulic Analysis in 2000 we built tandem pumps for their machines I saw one up close and it had a joy stick for the forward and revere and steering. It was all hydro static. I have operated a few older cats all 518 since then Ive used a 518 cat skidder/ Feller buncher converted into a landfill compactor. Its got a 2 speed shifter like a wheel loader on the shuttle...

John Deere Skidder Get in. Turn key till engine starts. Red button on the dash above your right knee is the park brake switch. It has to be off for the machine to move. Three leavers on your right hand side. Back most one is for your graple. Forward and back is for your boom left to right is for you arch. Buttons are for you graple close and open as well as for your grapple rotate. The lever that has no buttons is for your blade forward is...