Hauling Inoperable Equipment and needing a winch?

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Buddy of mine has 2 like that. One tandem, one tridrive. Get jealous seeing all the videos he posts from the bush.

 

That’s a nice looking rig out.

 

First thing I thought when I looked at that is you’d have new bad words invented by the time you had a set of tire chains on that. Hope there’s some hinges somewhere or something.

 

I had a tridrive demonstrator for two weeks before I ordered my winch tractor. If you ever get one stuck you’ll need something big and yellow to get it out of where it quits. That much I can tell you. Tridrive didn’t make sense for me, my trucks are on the highway too much. I went 72” tandem.

 

Everyone runs tridrive out in these parts it seems. You can definitely get into places barefoot that a tandem would need chains for. But like you said, get powered out in diff deep mud and you'll need a Cat up front or a skidder in the back.

 

I had it out in the goo n.w. of Pierceland. It didn’t quit til it was at the depth parts start coming off when they put a cable on you. Steer was floating on the belly pan but the drives were right out of sight. I think the front of the trailer was all that was holding it up.

 

Nah, On a tri driver one set on the back is usually good enough.

 

You should see some of the places oil company engineers find for us to work in up here. A section where the winch cats and pipe layers are in right to the operators platform and the Foremosts are going out of sight they’ll be dragging your tridrive over stumps and boulders down in the goo same as everybody else. Right after they bring you the end of the cable with a Nodwell tractor. Shouldn’t be too hard to find something to hook it to if you can still see your headlights, but you might have to burrow a bit to find something that won’t come off. Up north sucks, you can go for days without standing on anything you don’t go up to your knees into.