Need some advice on a trolley system

Access to the neighbor's property? Portable winch and a trolley/dolly/sled can do some amazing work in areas like that. Wish I had taken sone pictures of a slanted lawn job last fall, ended up ripping red oak logs large as possible and used the peavy to set them on a dolly and winched them 100yds out and around a house. Zero lawn damage but slow. Like the raft idea though...
 
Gorman said:
I hear ya. It’s just that the pieces are 38” across. To put them on a sled we’d have to quarter them, maybe more.
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Old car bonnet has worked for me in past if have path width to handle it. Just add a tag line to the back to help negotiate the route. Tow line attached to front. Could fit 60 inches with right bonnet...
 
We once winched out big stuff using the Arbor Trolley and one of those orange poly shovels.

Load the trolley, put the scoop of the poly shovel under the front “foot” of the trolley with shovel handle facing the winch. Run winch line thru handle of shovel and then thru the “triangle” at the bottom of the trolley handle where it meets the bottom frame.

Shovel keeps trolley from digging in and making a trench. Skids right along nicely. Of course a small pneumatic caster wheel would also be effective.
 
Gorman said:
All the wood is on the other side of a stream. Can’t get anything in to lift it.
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Maybe I'm mis-judging the size of that stream from perspective in the first picture, but could you bridge that with a few 4x4s and 3/4" plywood for a deck?
 
ATH said:
Maybe I'm mis-judging the size of that stream from perspective in the first picture, but could you bridge that with a few 4x4s and 3/4" plywood for a deck?
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Yes. We did that for getting the top out. But again, we can’t get a machine down there.
 
Some back story. The job was bid four months ago. I sent the contract via email and the guy calls me tells me to do the job. I get to it after repeated calls and have remind him of the details. The wood stays, we chip the brush. Well, we did the job and he asks me “what about the wood?” I’m like, “you fucking told me four times to leave the wood”. Then things falls into place.

He tells me he’s “out of sorts”. Just had a “kitchen fire”. Tells me “my son is in the process of moving in.” He’s about late seventies. He probably has dementia.

Then we find the property markers. The tree was on the neighbor’s land. I expect a call about the wood around Memorial Day, when the neighbor’s return.
 
We've done it on big spans with a whole spool of line. Yarded a decent sized white pine up to the chipper.
You're going to need alot of pull to tension the rope enough, we were using a truck for that. Used the chipper winch to move the load up the line. Block on each end of the wood with a deadeye, the moving line was then attached to the first block.
Even a little bit of weight dragging the ground will take tremendous pressure off the tensioned line.
It's a lot of setup and potential for rope breaking but it's a hell of alot better than humping cookies out.
 
Z'sTrees said:
We've done it on big spans with a whole spool of line. Yarded a decent sized white pine up to the chipper.
You're going to need alot of pull to tension the rope enough, we were using a truck for that. Used the chipper winch to move the load up the line. Block on each end of the wood with a deadeye, the moving line was then attached to the first block.
Even a little bit of weight dragging the ground will take tremendous pressure off the tensioned line.
It's a lot of setup and potential for rope breaking but it's a hell of alot better than humping cookies out.
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I was thinking about buying a 300’ hank of 5/8 stable braid for the span. You have any better rope ideas?
 
Gorman said:
Yes. We did that for getting the top out. But again, we can’t get a machine down there.
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You had said earlier the stream was the reason you couldn't use a cart or sled. Could you bridge the stream to pull stuff up on a cart/sled/log arch?
 
ATH said:
You had said earlier the stream was the reason you couldn't use a cart or sled. Could you bridge the stream to pull stuff up on a cart/sled/log arch?
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We can but the pieces are so goddam big around I’d rather figure a way so we don’t have to roll them by hand onto a cart or sled. If I had to choose between a cart and sled I’d choose the sled 7 days a week.
 
Gorman said:
We can but the pieces are so goddam big around I’d rather figure a way so we don’t have to roll them by hand onto a cart or sled. If I had to choose between a cart and sled I’d choose the sled 7 days a week.
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See the rigging video I posted. But instead of using a tarp for a bunch of debris, use a grapple?
 
Thanks for all the help guys. I’m sure to use some of these techniques in the future. The owner spoke with me and I had another company look at his driveway to see if I could get a grove crane in there to remove another tree in his back yard but I realized I needed CRMC approval since this tree was totally alive.
The other company is going to do that tree and deal with coastal resources too. They are going to lift a bobcat over the house with the crane to put the wood closer to the crane radius. While it’s down there they’re going to forward that other wood, crane it out, and then hoist the bobcat back over the house.
Plus, the homeowner paid me.
 
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