cub met its match???
Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2004 9:07 am
We recently had a tornado hit. I have been cutting up trees for over a month now to clean the yard up. I figured out the the cub does a pretty good job yanking limbs, stumps and logs around the yard. Over the weekend I pulled a large cherry and walnut stump. I also drug a cherry log 28" diameter at the base and 8 feet long with it, that was soaking wet from rain. Sunday I tried to pull the last log I had in the yard. It was a cedar log about 10 foot long and right around 32" through. I figured it would be no problem, after all its cedar, couldn't be as heavy as the cherry, i thought. My old lady laughed and said it wouldn't pull it. Well she was right, I got it a few inches and choked out. So I got on the horn and dad came over to pull it with his 140. He drug it through the yard and only had to use his brakes for motivation a couple of times. He got to the side of the barn with it, where I told him to go. He pulled in and realized I had parked a vehicle there that had a blown head gasket to the side where he planned to exit. Fence to the side, barn in front, a tree and broken vehicle to the other side and a log behind. He couldn't push it backwards with the 140. I didn't want to saw it because it was full of barbed wire. So I squeezed the cub in where the 140 wouldn't fit and hooked up one last time. I managed to drag the log about four feet to rescue dad's tractor.
As for pulling logs, Ellie does it on a regular basis and usually has no problems as you know from the cherry and walnut experience. The cedar log has me surprised as well....
