Manually Loading Wood

[brendonv]

Fortunately I am bless with hydro power, but I thought I would share this with others.

I worked for a guy yesterday, who has no lifting equipment.

To load wood he pulled out one of these. I gotta say it worked awesome. So awesome I might get one myself.

 

[RIVERRAT]

Roller work well. Explain exactly how he made use of them.

 

[brendonv]

He put it like a ramp to the back of the truck, then rolled the wood up. Need a picture?

 

[sotc]

Couple jacks at the far end to level it a bit...

 

[woodworkingboy]

Nice idea. There are actually a few people out there that use their heads

 

[MasterBlaster]

A mini loader sure is better. That could be the poor man's loader, I 'spect.

 

[brendonv]

It worked really really good. So much so I even pushed a few up myself.

I won't tell him the mini loader secret though, to close of competition.

 

[FJR]

What were you pushing the logs on to? Dump truck, pickup, trailer?

 

[brendonv]

Mason dump. Or whatever else you would want.

 

[PCTREE]

I remember years ago the guys I worked for bought a 2"x12" plank of white oak, the joy, being able to slide wood up instead of pick it up

 

[squisher]

Was it super sturdy seeming? If so how much did it weigh and where was it transported? Seems like it could be beat up by decent sized chunks of wood. Or atleast filth, rot, bark, sap, and whatnot could take it's toll?

 

[MasterBlaster]

We use those to unload truck delivery's.

 

[squisher]

Yah I'm guessing there's all different sizes, it just seems like in order to be heavy duty enough to have even manually carried rounds loaded onto it would be somewhat unwhieldly. I've loaded and, even sometimes still will if it's a smaller tree, alot of wood by hand and I can chuck on a good-sized round for certain.

 

[MasterBlaster]

They're all pretty much the same size. It's an interlocking thang...

 

[Page]

I never used one but it would have been nice today. did a pinoak removal and hand loaded everything into the truck. I'm in shape now and doing tree work helps keep me that way, but I suppose there will come a time when I'm not gonna want to pick that log up anymore. that's what people tell me anyway.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Used to slide/throw 75# cases of meat down to a cellar with one of those. Made it easier pulling back up the stairs as well. They take some weight.

 

[MasterBlaster]

The guy at the bottom was called "The Catcher."

No doubt.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Poor bastid

 

[arborworks1]

You know I haven't figured out why the forestry body manf. Never built a log loader like a woodsplitter has. Simple design. It could be quick detach and stored in a box out of site. Hydraulics are already present.

 

[MasterBlaster]

You make it sound so easy...

 

[arborworks1]

2pins at the top pivot. A pin on the bottom for the hydro cylinder. Quick connect for the hydro lines. Everything else stays on the detached frame. Done.

Place it in the middle of the back opening. Detached it's out of the way to dump.
If the cylinder would cycle quick enough you could actually load the truck extremely fast.

A slight downhill angle and you would be golden!!

 

[rskybiz]

Fine idea

 

[arborworks1]

If I didn't own 3 loaders. I'd build one...

 

[flushcut]

Before I got my mini I would borrow a friends skid steer for the bigger tree jobs and for the every day pine/spruce or smallish removal I used doug fir 2X10's with those aluminum ramp ends from Norther Tool. They worked well enough but it is hard to beat hydraulic power.

 

[PCTREE]

Arborworks years ago I had a design in my head for a motorized ball cart that had eyes on the ends of the handles that would clip into the truck bed and get hydraulicaly tipped to load. Probably 15 years ago-wonder if it would have sold...