Hydraulic-Powered "Log Puller"

Hydraulic-Powered "Log Puller" WOODLOT EQUIPMENT Miscellaneous 25-4-27 "After jumping on and off my tractor for 20 years to hook a chain up to logs, I decided to build a hydraulic-operated log puller. It lets me automatically clamp onto a log, drag it out of the woods, and drop it without ever getting off the tractor," says Larry Zenz, Parks, Ark. The log puller attaches to a 3-pt. mounted boom on back of Zenz's Deutz 4506 tractor. The puller consists of a pair of big steel "scissors action" tongs that are opened or closed by a 3-in. dia., 10-in. long cylinder. The unit is attached to a clevis that's free to pivot on the boom. To operate the log puller, Zens lowers the boom and retracts the cylinder to close the tongs over the log. Then he raises the boom to lift the log off the ground and drives ahead. "I use it to pull logs out of the woods to my sawmill," says Zenz. "The tongs open wide enough to grab logs up to 30 inches in diameter. I borrowed the idea from commercial units used by loggers. I used 1 1/2-in. dia., triple wall pipe to make the tongs and welded railroad spikes onto the end of each one. I used part of an old plow beam to make the boom and 3-in. channel iron to make the 3-pt. that supports it. A pair of 3/8-in. dia. chains connect the tongs to the 3-pt." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Larry Zenz, HC 60, Box 154, Parks, Ark. 72950.

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