How do you load wood?

[josharb87]

the other day i speedlined the brash and some chogs out of a pine with a tag line, could have gone straight into a trailer, then for the stem, felled it up the bank, tied off a rope into an oak behind, down to the landing to a pulley at the base of a birch and onto the van, slackened the rope, put a sling and pulley on the tipp and but of each log and a tag line, drove the van foward, tensioning the line and lifting the log, slowly released the tag line (wrapped round a tree) sending the log down. unfortunatly last log was a bit big and ended up pulling the anchor tree out of its shallow rocky roots. massive forces involved but it did save us a hell of a lot of time and no doubt back ache

 

we 5:1 or drag logs/trees/bundles of branches with pulleys, ropes, van setups all the time and deal with the stuff near as possible to the stack site/trailer/chipper to save handling

[FLASH90]

Have a winch fitted in the rear crossmember of my truck just pull everthing straight on, have a small A frame on the front of the trailer which I hook a snatch block to lift the rope up to get a good stack.

[mistahbenn]

Flash, fancy putting a pic on?

[FLASH90]

Set up as picture above will get some better pictures when next in use