centering logs on the loader arms

[47sawdust]

I'm looking for an old thread that featured a way to center logs on the loading arms.It had a set of rollers to move a log back and forth to position it.Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,Mick

[Chuck White]

Mick, I'm not positive, but I think Peter Drouin made one.

Maybe PM him for further info!

[Crusarius]

Pretty sure I saw that mod in the sawmill mod thread.

[47sawdust]

Crusarius,Happy Birthday! You and Chuck were right on the money.It was Peter's creation and it was in the ''sawmill mods'' thread,post #774.
Thanks to Peter as well.
Best regards,Mick

[Peter Drouin]

 

[larrydown60]

I also saw it on the saw mill mods section

[Chuck White]

Just in case some of you don't understand this thread!

https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/22511/DSCN2410.JPG

The log is rolled onto the wheels, then it can easily be moved laterally!

[Crusarius]

Glad I could help. Thanx for the bday wishes.

[Peter Drouin]

 

  

  

 

I still have it and would use it if I didn't have John.


  

 


 
It did get hooked sometimes. :D :D

[bandmiller2]

A handy device but a handier one is careful loading on the deck. I make minor corrections on the deck with a peavey moving one end ahead of the other before I roll the log on the mill. Maybe a roller bolted to each lift arm would be handiest. Frank C.

[Sixacresand]

The roller deal would be very handy when the milled is setup next to a pile of uncentered logs.  I have drag them back or forth with a winch or come along, of course at an hourly rate.   

It always amazed me that a tractor with all hydraulics and power steering in the world, an customer/operator could not understand the need to center the logs. 

For myself, I bring logs to the mill with a log arch and center them with mill arms before I drop them.

[terrifictimbersllc]

Putting a single runner like a pole or 4x4 from the logs to the center of the loading arms can help make it easy to manually steer logs one way or the other.