|
A few weeks
ago we had a big wind storm. Some trees came down. Saturday, I
pulled one to my nephews house to cut and burn.
This was a
load. A real load. The tree diameter of the biggest section was
about 18" but it was 30' long. I had the tiller on the back of
the E12, and
put a light chain on the toolbar to the tree. On sod. Sure
enough, LL and she moved. Snapped the chain. Bigger chain.
Moved
again, but the front kept coming up (didn't have the weight box
handy) until the tiller was on the ground. I got my daughter (110 lb
?)
to sit on the
hood. I could almost steer. Once moving, L worked, but the belt
wanted to slip. LL is was, power-pulse to get it moving. I
pulled it
about 300 yards in sod on packed dirt. To give you an idea of the load, I
caught a 3" branch (probably weak) on a electric guy-wire
and it came
off LOOSENING THE WIRE without slowing me down. My daughter thought we
were bringing the whole electric line down
(it did
shake). I have moved heaver things, with the ET, but never so far.
The thermal lock never tripped. When I tried the 22" tree,
I
snapped my
heaver chain. I got out a log chain, and used a farm
tractor.
BTW, even
WITH weight in front, when you are pulling hard this thing isn't steering
much.
Larry
Elie
|