[trooper Tdiesel]

ive had this wild idea floating around in my head ever since we got are parts skidder.
and i admit its waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay out there, but every one has there dreams right....

thus why i put it in the unicorn area

in short after we pull all the use full stuff off from it, the frame is no good to us, other than selling it to some one that needs one of the short frames. or my out side the box idea.....
where all are other skidders have the long frame.....its 5" longer for the reverser.

i guess i should say its a Garrett 15 log skidder....made back in the 50s and 60s real ol school
stock they came with a industrial 172ci gas or diesel ford engine. there around the 50hp mark or so and have plenty of power to run it.

the trouble is this thing would need to be able to go about 5 miles on a charge. 3.5 miles at the all out min....
each round trip out in the woods is about 1\2mile. there's no power out there other than what you take out there. so if it went flat you would need to take a genrater out there.


for a 10,000LB skidder pulling up to another 8,000LBs with the end of the log dragging i think that's going to take a ""lot"" of juice
how much JUICE would really be needed, ive yet to figure out.....
what i can tell you is the gas model can run a 8 hour day on less than one tank of gas, the tank is 11 or 12 gal tops.

also the steering is done with a hyd piston, the push blade is also hyd.
the cable winch is PTO off the trans no hyd on that its direct drive.
so i figure im looking at one or two more electric motors to run that stuff. those would be running at set speeds, no need for them to change rpms...

on a normal model there's a hyd pump that's 15 GPM 2,000psi at the very most, likely less. it runs the steering and the blade HYDs.
its articulated using one piston for steering (axils are stiff and it bends in the middle), and two pistons for the blade up and down.


under stand this is not a car or truck, this equipment lives 100% of its life off road. so aro is null and void since there geared for under 15 mph...service..




so any one have an idea as to how many bats i need.
or is the amount needed to pull a load far more then could be fit in to it? and still go at least 3.5 miles.....

i figure there's space for about 8+\- Prius bats or 25+\- car bats.




this is not one of are skidders but its a clone of it with nice paint.