new skidding cone

[Quebecnewf]

Here is a pic of a skidding cone i built this morning

Try it tomorrow

Any comments or questions

Quebecnewf

[Sprucegum]

  8) You should be able to find it in the snow anyway  :D
What kind of plastic is that
(my computer is talking French, everytime I hit the question mark I get É . What`s up with that, eh É)  ???  ???

[missourilogger]

what is a skidding cone?

[Quebecnewf]

The blue is a plastic barrel and the orange is a traffic cone

[Quebecnewf]

Google  "skidding cone"  and you will see

Quebecnewf

[sprucebunny]

Looks like it will work well  8)

[beenthere]

Do you wrap it on the log when ready to use it? or carry it wrapped and ready to slide on the log?

Does the rope/cable thread through the nose?

Your pic here.

[Quebecnewf]

It just slides on over the end of the log and keeps it from hanging up on stuff.

I will try it tomorrow weather permitting

Quebecnewf

[Tom]

I made on, more like a skid, that the towing line was put through a hole in the front and the skidhook, attached to the line, was hooked to the log.  As the log was pulled, it went up into the skidding cone untill if finally became wedged in there. The only tension was on the line and the skidhook.

[ErikC]

  At dad's place we were dragging some pretty good size pines down one of his roads. His tractor could drag them but was too light carry one end up. It was tearing up the road a little until we put an old hood from a car under the front of the logs. We never hurt the road one bit after that. Do the best you can with what you've got at the time
  Those blue barrels are tough, I bet that cone will hold up great. You've got me thinking I have a couple that just might get worked over in the next few days.....

[Kevin]

I was doing a little of that today!  ;D

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFx3gaBpVmQ&feature=channel_page

[Rocky_Ranger]

That's a new one on me, I thought it was one of them Texicans coming up with a new fashion statement for wearing in the woods..... :D

[Kevin]

I'm the poster boy for the Forestry Forum.  :D

[Paul_H]

Another forestryforum exclusive,eh?  :D

[firefighter]

I just purchased a portable capstan winch with the skidding cone and when I compare yours to the one I bought ,i think yours will get cought up on lots of things in the bush.my reason for this is that the red traffic cone part is very pointed .Let us know how it works . I have not recieved mine yet it should be here on monday or tuesday .

[Quebecnewf]

Kevin

What type of log were you winching how big and how heavy??

Firefighter

I can't understand your point you say that a pointy cone would hang up more easily please explain

Quebecnewf

[Kevin]

newf;
I was skidding logs that were 16' ft. in length, maybe 14-16" dbh.
You can double up on the logs too and skid two at a time, I was doing that with nine footers.
It was all cedar.

[Quebecnewf]

Tried out the new cone today. Worked like a dream here is one pic  having trouble posting

Quebecnewf

[SwampDonkey]

I see you put the cable through the cone, as without doing that it would rip off the logs in the brush and pole wood. The only one I saw used here was one that folks used with a portable winch since there was no lift on the log buts like behind a horse or like a skidding winch on a tractor.

[Tom]

This one operates pretty much the same as my skid sled worked.  Attaching the line to the logs and pulling the logs into the sled or cone is the way to go.  You don't have to pull on the cone, it is being pushed, and the line guides it. 

[SwampDonkey]

I meant skid sled when I said portable winch, the winch was on the sled. Back in the day, the local Forest Products Marketing Board used to loan one out to woodlot owners.

[chevytaHOE5674]

Looks good. Nothing beats being able to build stuff and save some cash.

[firefighter]

I saw your pictures its working  well ,I though with the pointed end it would get caught on thing in the bush easier ,guess I was wrong.

[Damocles]

I love it. I was thinking of adapting my old satellite dish that has been laying in the weeds for 3 years as a skidding sled, but this looks much better!