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Originally Posted by finsruskw
That unit is WAAAY to much weight to be moving around with a Cub Cadet other than on flat, stable ground.
It's liable to get away from you, upset and then you will have a real situation.
I assume it's a rental piece?
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Yes, it's a "cherry picker". We had some big dead trees.
Getting up where we it was up a dirt ramp and past a couple trees to level ground - too tight for a pickup to get in.
So we ended up placing the Cub abut 40 feet away and pulling the machine up with my $50 HF winch. It worked a treat. Wish I had taken a photo.
The birds-eye photo is where we towed it out from. Used the tractor hitch and pulled while neighbor worked the trailer brake. The boards you see under the tractor is where the tongue-jack needed to be. We had to re-point it 60 degrees left to get it where the truck could hook up.
(Sorry the photos are not rotated. Not sure how to fix that.)
So yeah, I knew I did not have enough tractor, but we got it done, safely.