Dodge log skidder!

[dseabaugh]

Towed something a little different today. The neighbor had cut down a large dead oak tree and left the log in the road ditch. He and his father-in -law had spent two days cutting up the tree but the Kubota 4x4 tractor they had could not budge the log out of the ditch to work on. Today I was going down the road and decided to back my old dodge up to the log and see if it would pull it since my son and I used to drag tree tops out of the woods with the last truck I had. Log was red oak , 18 feet long , 27 inches on the butt end. I turned the drop hitch upside down so I could put more weight of the log on the truck, put it in 4x4 . . hooked up short and up the road I went. Couldn't believe I didn't spin out until I was well up into the field on soft dirt. Old truck sounded real good and made me proud Wife started laughing about what the neighbor was going to think when he got home By the way, his ford is in the shop with the transmission out. this transmission lasted 364 days ( 1 day short of a year) .

 

[rolltideram]

I tried the same thing a couple months ago with a little bigger log. That's when I foung out that on wet grass the Michelin M/S means "mighty slick". I hate street tires, why do they put them on a 4x4? rolltideram