Colfax Woodshop  today I'm gonna go over
the CTX 50 and how we're loading these
pretty big cedar logs on our mill oh
look at that right there it's a student
riding by on a unicycle that's pretty
cool
alright so stay tuned for a video update
on the CTX 50
okay Jonathan here so this is my Vermeer
CTX 50 mini skid steer with the grapple
log hook trying to pick up a cedar log I
don't know maybe 20 inches in diameter
the problem with my mill at the high
school is is I have this cage around it
so it's not that easy to get in ideally
I can lift it up lengthwise this way and
then go straight on and put on the mill
that's work pretty well but this log is
turned out to be just a little too heavy
for that so I'm actually just kind of
driving it and dragging it back out of
the way you can see it kind of skidding
up all the bark on there then I'm coming
off and this is a cool thing about this
for a mere grapple is there's a hook pin
there and I just rotated 90 degrees and
then lock it back into place so now that
I'm able to lock it at 90 L swinging
perpendicular to the log and I'm not
gonna be in the center I'm actually
trying to keep the butt end you know
shorter than the other end so I'll
probably be like two-thirds of the way
down here where I grab it and then
rather than use the end gate to get into
the mill I'll use a side gate there is
still a fair bit of jockeying if I made
that gate bigger it would actually solve
the problem
I guess step by step step by step so
here I'm grabbing it that grapples
beautiful interface is really nice super
easy to use I don't have many hours on
this thing but you can see now that I'm
perpendicular to it I'm able to pick
that thing up okay here I'm you know
coming around the other gate I'm just
kinda hard to figure out
there's a corner post there so now I'm
on the side gate you could tell with
that thing perpendicular to that to the
mini skid-steer it actually lifts it
easy I can lift it up a lot higher I
could just barely fit through that gate
the middle is down a little bit too far
to my left as I'm driving there so we're
trying to Aki it back and forth you see
that cedar slab we milled out just
leaning against the fence there if you
ever want to buy any lumber you come by
the high school and buy lumber from us
that's actually plain we planted on the
CNC router where you can see it on our
web page which is tree transformation
calm I still kind of have that log on
there I'm gonna jockey back and forth a
little bit and grab it further down and
keep working it down when I get it on
there pretty good and it works well so
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