Log Loading

[redhouse]

I am getting more and more people asking me to pick up logs in areas I can only get to with a pickup truck and trailer. Does anyone have any ideas on loading logs on a utility trailer? Winch? Mini Crane?

[Taylortractornut]

THe thing that drew me  here was the   Deadhead log loader.   Its a simple hinged a frame and winch set up that works wonders.

[Jeff]

Search the forum using the term: parbuckling

[redhouse]

Thank you guys for pointing me in the right direction!

[mad murdock]

Welcome redhouse, tell us a little about yerself.  You have come to a great place!

[thecfarm]

redhouse,welcome to the forum.I suppose you have a sawmill? What's all the logs being used for?

[Spalted Dog]

Welcome! 

There are tons of threads on this.  Many great ideas and solutions.  These guys have a lot of experience and are very creative.  I am sure that you will find something that will work for your application.   I would think that parbuckling or a deadheader would work well for you. 

[Magicman]

Welcome to the Forestry Forum, redhouse.  I load and haul a few.


 


 
Your search will find this subject addressed many times.

[redhouse]

I am a builder by trade, and my wife and I just purchased a small tract of land on Stillhouse Lake in Texas. Since the building crunch in 09' I started estimating for an Insurance Company rather than trying to stay afloat in the building industry. Well we decided to throw off the shackles of debt, sell off all the "Things We Had to Have" and never use, and build a small cabin on the lake. Owning a home free and clear, great views, and plenty of money in the bank sounded like a good plan. I decided after seeing a house a guy built to go natural which led me to this site and now I can't stop thinking logs. I saw three the State had downed to make room for a road widening already trimmed and cut. I mean they are everywhere. Two where just cut on my street in town and before they could saw them up I asked to take the main trunks and they said have at it man save us the backache and time. I got a 2100 husky, running on a panther 2 mill and already half my garage is stacked and stickered. Now with the drought we are having, they are now saying that 10% of Texas shade trees will not bounce back. So looks like I got in on it just in time. Past two days I have been running some 15" cedars that are on the land we bought that had either fallen over, the land has some steep slopes here and there, or that had to be cleared for the building site. I just wish someone had told me about this years ago, I don't think I will ever in my life walk into another Lowe's or Home Depot to buy lumber. With the money I am gonna save building this house, and once I prove all that to the wife  ;D I will be in the market for a bandsaw mill. Just words don't express making that first cut and turning over that first piece to see what you got, just therapeutic, best thing I have ever done. I could definitely see a career change, and at 34 still gives me plenty of good years to learn.

[redhouse]

Magicman: I think you just solved my problems, that is exactly what I was picturing in my head, but wasn't sure if it was doable. Thank you for the pics. What rating is your winch, and snatch block?

[Buck]

There is another slick set up using an arch on the rear of a trailer. I think it was a DanG design.

[beenthere]

Better include Fla_Deadheader on that design as well. A clever way to load and unload logs.

[Okrafarmer]

Welcome to the forum, redhouse. May you have many fun-filled days of sawing ahead. You and I are the same age, and you are not too old for a career change.  ;D

[Autocar]

Redhouse welcome to the fourm , fun for me to hear your excitment about everything you want to do . With your attatude your surley going to do ok ,good luck Bill

[Bobus2003]

Electric winch and Gin Poles worked well for me in the past

[fishpharmer]

Welcome to FF! Great folks and info here.