[Michel Boulay]

Forgot about those little trailers, first time I saw them, I thought it would be a nice little project to build, still thinking about it. Really like them,went on there web site and they don’t seem to load them up to much. Would like to see a load like you have on your scoot Carl plus a team pulling and see how it goes. I think your on to a great idea. Probably could have them made and be more versitile for your needs.:rolleyes:

Mike

[Michel Boulay]

Hi Carl,
I’ve got 12 kinds of log loaders, so you have quite a choice of loaders, plus 3 others from Irish that I don’t have.
JMS, Berfor, Couture, Hardy, Majaco, Patu Kesla, Renaud Gravel, Payeur, Wallenstein, Woody, Farmi, Nokka.

Needless to say you are thinking hard at how your going to put this on your dozer. I myself was trying to imagine how that would work, weight ratio to dozer frame capacity, how close it can be fixed to the dozer,transport mode when not in use etc….

I’ve talked to my friend who was rigging his dozer to put a back hoe on his, he realized that the back hoe was pretty heavy for the dozer and wasn’t comfortable with it so didn’t leave the back hoe on the dozer. Back hoe was pretty big off of a tractor back hoe from Dept. of Transport, not the smaller kind for compact tractors. So just to say probably the size will be a factor, weight on dozer in transport mode, probably not a factor in loader use with legs taking the weight.
We’ve got The Atlantic Farm Mechanization Show here the next three days, should be some loaders there I’ll have a look around and ask if they know anybody that have done such a hook up with there loader.
And for what its worth here are some pics of what my friend did on his dozer for hooking up. I didn’t see the end result of the back hoe hooked to the dozer, not much but could give some idea of what you could do. Not sure how to add pics so here goes.

Mike

[Michel Boulay]

Hi Carl,
I’ve got a friend that has a small dozer like that, International I think not sure, he was setting it up to hook a back hoe on it and had some sort of hook up that he made. I’ll try and get some pics for you and discuss with him what your planning to do. He’s a welder by profession and a jack of all trades. He copied some specs from another log loader and build his own, pics there to. Give me a couple a days I’ll get back to you.

Mike

[Michel Boulay]

Carl,
Glad your alright man, horses too. Never a good experience when things like that happen. Seems like when everything is going smooth with no worries there is always the unexpected that comes creeping on us. We always have to be ready for some sort of rodeo.
Take care.

Mike

[Michel Boulay]

Two sites with horse drawn forwarders, both are in the province of Québec. http://www.equipementswoody.com and
http://www.payeur.com I think the payeur model was shown at Draft animal field day couple of years back. The Woody site is in french and the payeur site in both english and french. Don’t know if there are any dealers in New-England. Would like to know how much they go for.

Mike

[Michel Boulay]

I don’t think I would call him an economist. 😡 I hope this isn’t what he educate his students to do.

Mike

[Michel Boulay]

We’re getting it now(New-Brunswick) pretty much for the day. Once done will get close to a foot. Nova Scotia will get more. Likewise here we pretty much lost most of it couple of weeks ago made for a lot of ice everywhere and bare fields, so this snow will make it safer to travel on. The high winds are the worst, hope the electricity doesn’t go out. But all in all just an other storm.

Be safe.
Mike

[Michel Boulay]

I’ll do that.

Mike

[Michel Boulay]

Erika NB for New-Brunswick.

NB axemen, we’re really close, I’ve got a percheron mare.
I’ll need to go visit Donald Richard for a part on my harness that is to small.
I’ll have to give him a call first, he’s maybe in Florida right now.

Mike

[Michel Boulay]

Hi NB axemen! Where about are you in NB. I’m in Bouctouche.

Mike

[Michel Boulay]

That’s a saying that I heard also that it was a natural wormer.

Mike

[Michel Boulay]

Carl did your build your cart?
Just thought about this, do you think that Dapnet members would be able to purchase Les’s plans through Dapnet? Would he
consider doing something like that? Just wondering.

Mike

[Michel Boulay]

Like Tim depends were it is. Could be large piles, small piles, burn piles….. Don’t masticate though.:) Scott what is masticate?

Mike

[Michel Boulay]

Andy can you compare January 2012 with July 2012. I come on the site every day mostly to have a look at what is going
on like all of you. But over the years have noticed that we are all less on the site in summer months, which would be normal
for everybody being busy at whatever we do in those months. Lets you wonder if all those 7000 visits are people with horses
and even drafts. We could also over analyse easily. But it is great to see the interest in the site and number of visits the site
can get in any given time.
Mike

[Michel Boulay]

This is a great excellent idea!
There are certainly some of you that are part of some sort of webinar site,
were good ideas on how to proceed can come from.
We already have some vids here which have help some of us. And the resource is right in front of us, everytime we go on DAP.

Mike

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