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We were definitely NOT loggers. Making that part up as we went along. If it was a game-changer mixup then we got lucky. We did a 2 week stint doing some pretty interesting jobs. Nobody got hurt until headed home. Stopped for gas about half way back and one of the guys opened the hatch on his...

That was a Stihl. Probably my 192

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OK...you gave me a reason for a derail. I worked Hurricane Katrina. We were tasked to take a big pine off a fellow's house...no cranes available. We had a winch and tractor (HO's tractor) and a lot of gear but needed a big block to make our plan work. Billy, my B-I-L (in the picture with the...

Yeah...posted before..sharing with our newbs to the House. I just snagged this info off Paul's thread about his Grove crane: This was a sandbag post by our (missing...and missed) Jay: and some picts of his early cribbing with the crane.... .

The tractor lifted the tree and the winch moved it off the house enough that the tractor could lower it...or vice versa. Anyway, it worked.:D The pucker factor was pretty high.

more...will try again...I tried to post some picts but the forum said it was a "duplicate" of a post...and 5 minutes something...

Good stuff, Grapple...thanks for sharing. Here is a big block (for me) that we used at Katrina. My brother in law (holding it for the picture) borrowed it from an oil rig company. We needed to run wire rope thru it to lift a tree off a house..no cranes available. Some pictures: