does jack this have a name?

[arbmark]

I once worked with a guy who had a cool one-man lifting jack that he used for lifting large long logs, say about 2ft dia x 10ft long quite happily. It looked a bit like a hilift jack at first. It comprised of a pole with a foot and a drum cable winch at the top. The winch wound up a spike that you bash into the endgrain of the log. Once the log was raised, you could then tip the log off to the side and repeat this until you had it where you wanted.

Does anyone know what this is calld or where i can get one?!?!!

[Andy Collins]

Anything like this? Patent US4304394 - Log lifting device - Google Patents

[arbmark]

its good but its not right!!! Its on a single pole, ally i think.....the spike is attached to a collar that runs up and down the pole.....

cheers tho

[David Humphries]

Trewhella Monkey Jack perhaps

 

 

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[Andy Collins]

I reckon Daves nailed it with that pic

[arbmark]

hahar yes we are getting closer guys but it has a winch on top and the cable runs down to the spike and pulls it up with said spike in a log - usually the endgrain i guess - its not a cranking action, you wind the cable drum.......

[Charlieh]

sounds like your describing a stalpen jack, but they are designed for felling not moving?

[arbmark]

sounds like your describing a stalpen jack, but they are designed for felling not moving?

 

yea thats getting close with the winch handle at the top but it definitely has a cable and a spike collarded around the main pole.......

 

i cant believe he could have made it but it worked very well, as long as you kept your feet clear.....

[Gray git]

Its from logosol and design form lifting logs onto there mills like the m7 chainsawmills.

Its called the logosol timber jack can be used form pushing trees over as well as lifting on a spike but is over 200 quid I think.

Edited June 9, 2012 by Gray git

[Rebel_Commando]

Its from logosol and design form lifting logs onto there mills like the m7 chainsawmills.

Its called the logosol timber jack can be used form pushing trees over as well as lifting on a spike but is over 200 quid I think.

 

I'm sure I've seen the same thing but from a different mill manufacturer on a US site,think they were in the region of $180?