748E John Deere Grapple Skidder

A piece of equipment used in the logging industry to haul logs from the bush to the landing for further processing.
Another video of our skidder: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsQnRw23WCQ

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Skidder
• Machinery
• forestry
• logging
• John
• Deere
• landing
• logs
• timber

[stephenjray1988]

is their a 748 that has a continuous rotating grapple ?

[kansasa1]

@stephenjray1988 Yes it's the G series, no exterior hoses sticking out.

[ririshow]

All this for 3 pieces of wood!!! What a waste.

[kansasa1]

@ririshow My husband was fooling around in the backyard so I could shoot a quick video.

[HouseHoldWeapons]

i love when people fight on youtube! no offense its just like "The Jerry Springer Show!"  XD lol

[kansasa1]

I guess that makes me the host then? ;)

[bking188]

I have a really good question for you. Do you even have any clue about logging? A "bigger bucket"? To start with it is called a grapple.

And those are real machines. Boy are they fun to run!

[treeclimberdave]

uh, ive been running grapple cat and wheeled skidder in the woods for 15 years and no one calls them buckets. buckets are on excavators and backhoes fool. a comparable timberjack runs more like $300k, i dont think they even put the deere name on them anymore. and dodgeboy, youre 14. shut up.

[anapeg100]

@ririshow , I would think it obvious he was showing control? High lighting the machines ability as well as his own.

[DanJonesKing]

the first 20 seconds freaked the hell outta me ... its looks like a praying mantis head ...

[stephenjray1988]

@NUB420DUB yea we had a idiot running ours one time and for some reason the shocks were took of and the strap that keeps the door from going open all the way was off and the door came open and the front tire garbed it and ripped it off completely it took 2 hours to get it back strait and operating

[NUB420DUB]

@onieye what i need to know mostly onieye is are you hiring ? i have been on mostly flat groung i would sure like to experience what your talking about

[NUB420DUB]

@treeclimberdave now they are a deere with timberjack paint not much has changed ......... the deere still rules

[NUB420DUB]

@stephenjray1988 yes sir it will sure take one off in a hurry... throw it way up in the air

[NUB420DUB]

i put 5k hours on one just like that ........ working for a land clearing contractor in east Texas drag'n whole trees stump and all it is a hoss nothing compairs its the bull of the woods

[Mario77ful]

0:50 ahaha losing all the wood in his way :)))

[boardingpass04]

i hate these gear jammers ther such a rough riding machine

[Glmoon75]

@kansasa1 You have a beautiful back yard!