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Or you can forgo moving the log at all if you can find a Peterson or Lucas mill operator locally. Assuming you want lumber.
This wasn't that big, only about 3' at the butt, but we needed the entire 60' stick up the hill in one piece on a relatively level roadbed to set up the chainsaw mill. We strapped the loader to a tree to secure the winch, ran through a snatchblock about center of the tree, wrapped it and came back across the road and secured the cable to a strap around a large tree. Hit the winch and parbuckled it right up the hill.If you have a trailer there alongside with ramps to get the log up over the wheels it'll climb right up and drop in the bed.
I ask, "why is it cut 13' long" ??A reason, or just happened? A good length for sawing and for lumber, IMO is 8'6". Easier to move the log, easier to stack the lumber for drying, and covers most uses for the lumber.
^^^^ What Don P said
If you have a trailer there alongside with ramps to get the log up over the wheels it'll climb right up and drop in the bed.
Black locust is a native species, not invasive.
I would not move it until you figure out what you are going to do with it.I have a couple similar sized red oak logs along my field. They will probably lay there and rot over the next couple decades.They are too heavy for me to move with the equipment I have, and too big for my sawmill.There is a Lucas swing mill in the for sale section...................
I move big logs all the time with a Tilt Deck Tow truck. I have customers like you that want to save their tree. . I have a local Towing Company that goes and gets the logs for me. He will load up to 3 logs. I have found a log he cant load yet. His winch is 20,000 lbs. One time he broke the cable on a log, he thanked me as he says better to break the cable on a log than a mercedes. Can you back a Truck up the end of the log? That will solve your problem, they hook their winch to the end, tilt the deck and drag the log up onto the deck. Its all about the Hydraulics, that is the number 1 thing I have learned here on the FF
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