Can a Jin pole be used to unload a log truck?

[Max sawdust]

Hey Mod, nice thread ;)
Did you read the tons of stuff stuff on the TF and log building section of the forum on gin poles deriks and so forth.  Lots of good info on FF on the subject.
It is my opinion that you should rig something up for your own trailer or require the seller unload the logs for you.  I get nervous at the thought of taking logs of some one else's trailer

Up nort Wisconsin, everyone who transports logs has a loader on the trailer.  See dozens in dozens as you drive down the highway.  It is a given that the truck will have a knucklboom on it :

Good luck, just my 2 cents..
Max

[mike_van]

Phil, your drawing might work, but it would have to be MASSIVE - You might be trying to pick a 20 ton load?  You can't do part of it, unless the truck moves out, you move the logs & he backs in again.  Kind of like the "high lead logging" with a spar tree in the pacific nw.   Way too much work just to feed a bandmill.

[fencerowphil (Phil L.)]

To:  Mike Van

I guess I got carried away watching the lifts which were
in the Modern Marvels episode where they lift the 280,000
pound locomotives and move them around.  It was on the
History Channel recently. ;D

If you look back up to responses 35 and 44, you will see
that I do realize that we are talking heavy duty stuff.   You are
right about the weight, but the point would be to get that load
off the log trailer . . .
Q U  I   C    K   !                   P R  O   N    T     O  !#35 describes the step by step off-load process.

True, it is overkill for a small scale mill, but if you had some
heavy duty steel to work with - just layin' around, so to speak -
you could get the job done.

Anybody got any 12"by16" I-beams with a 3/4" web and about
25' long?    Real cheap?  Delivered?  Otherwise, I'm just going to
have to have another dump truck load of logs brought in like I did last time!
:D
Phil L.

[KnotBB]

I've hired a dump truck to deliver logs.  No unloading problems that way

steve

[fencerowphil (Phil L.)]

Speaking of logs... I'm out!
:(
All I have left is some 46" dia. Pecan short stuff.

Now when did that Tree Trimmer with the self-loader
git to, anyway?

Phil L.

[Modat22]

Aye I think this is a bit to large a project for my little mill  :D  I have 5 acres I can use for a wood lot but my wife would totally skin me alive with a spoon if I built something like that over there. I don't have enough time to build it anyway, winters is awful close and I have to get sawing and stacking then building. The grapple operator said he'll be in the area for 2 weeks and would unload up to 2 truckloads for 100.00 erm cash. Thats cheaper than all the other options I've looked into, after he is gone I'll have to do something else.

Thanks for all the information, I've enjoyed reading everything here. I never expected to get such a response.

Sam

[fencerowphil (Phil L.)]

Gin Pole.  Huh.  I got curious. ???

http://www.tpub.com/content/construction/14251/css/14251_178.htm

If you go to this site page, at the top center, just above the body of the
text for the page,  you will see...

Back  Up  Next

Surfing around, you can learn more than you ever dreamed about Gin Poles,
including the fact that the chart for Pole size indicates lifting up to 40,000 pounds
with ONE POLE! 
Not me, folks, not me.

Gin Poles, Shears, and Tripods  all diagrammed and sketched with even the
recommended knots.  All sorts of anchoring, etc!  Sheesh!
:P
If we had only had the internet 40 years ago in the Boy Scouts of America!
Nah, I probably wulda' hurt masself.  Come to think of it..
I DID hurt masself! :D

Phil L.

[Modat22]

 ;D That is a good gin pole link. I love all the little smiley faces on the cartoon guys faces erecting the poles.

Thanks