The hunt for tractor accesories has started well. My friend and Landrover guru Richard unearthed the remains of a transporter box from a scrap pile, the kind of thing that you used to see carrying a collie dog and a milk churn down the lane (at least we used to). At some point in its life it's rusted through and been modified to serve as a platform for carrying logs, which is exactly what I've been looking for to extract wood to my charcoal site during the winter from fallen trees on the commons.
Although it seemed a bit of a mess at first it didn't take long to tear out the badly rusted metal and weld up the broken angle irons. After a quick lick of red oxide primer, not quite good as new but certainly good enough to try out. 
It's already proving it's worth and more versatile than I expected. At the coppice group open day it suddenly occured to me that I can use it for more than just extracting as it turns out to be the perfect hydraulic platform for loading logs onto the chainsaw mill. It really cuts down the time needed to move and load logs onto the mil, something I used to have to do with a combination of capstan winch, hand winch and cant hook.
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