Yeah... that type of profile is not foreign to me! Some of the Rockies' down hills on a heavily loaded touring bike (Long Haul Trucker) were pretty exciting... I recall the speedometer hitting 45 mph... definitely too fast for the brakes! It was a much different experience from high speed down hills on road racing bicycles!
I was debating a mini excavator to use as a mini logging shovel, but it just wouldn't work for other stuff i intend to do. Well, It would. Just way slower.
You guys and the grill/smoking pics today are making me hungry, that's looking goodBurned a piece of highly valuable black cherry in the stove today. Cheater and used propane on a chunk of brisket today,. Too lazy to drag out the big grill and tend it all day. It's on wheels... maybe if it was on tracks ... Foil wrapped some little splits of scrounged apple wood. Smoked on the grill for a couple hours, then wrapped in foil and in the oven at 250 for about 5 hours. Tasty!
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.I wish I had a hoist setup like that back then. The last motor I installed at my mother's was off a homemade tripod made from 3 trees chained together at the top. I pulled a 389 out of a 66 GTO convertible and installed a Trans Am 455HO and Turbo 400 into it. That was fun. Now if I do any work like that my tractor will come into play using the forks. I did an inboard Mercruiser 350 boat motor that way back in 2012.
Id imagine if you get something up there with the cost it takes to bring it in from the states it has to have multiple functions and abilities for multiple jobs and readily easy to get parts. Id imagine anything that only is good for one thing up there either is not bought in the first place or is gotten rid of pretty quickly.
Little more cash layout too.
You will need to add an I beam inside a building that you can hang a chain fall on. My ceiling in my garage is 10 feet and I can pull a motor off of one of the two I beams that support the 2nd floor. I need to clean out my garage this Summer. I have three I beam trolleys to install another moving I beam onto the two already up there. The 3rd trolley will traverse on the moving beam. I've lifted Goldwings off the floor using straps and a chainfall many times using one of these beams. Over at our barn I have 12 foot ceilings. I need to rig up a chainfall on an overhead 8x8 beam in there for lifting objects instead of using the tractor. I have a new 8' bed for my pickup to install this Summer and that would make this job really easy.
I agree but when you are working all alone that is a real PITA.
Dang firewood hacks, burnin' HVBW and HVC.......You guys and the grill/smoking pics today are making me hungry, that's looking good
I tossed a split of HVBW into the wood stove today, I'm not sure why it's so valuable, my black locust does much better
That dude is plain INSANE!!! I’d rather swing a x27 for hours instead of risking my face with that nightmare
Now that is funny.
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Smart move. Been there done that in my lifetime.
I'm all for a good homemade machine, but that thing is a genuine bad idea.....
He may die trying to prove you wrong.
There was another video of him. He had like 5 rounds roped together and he was pulling them all up that ramp with that rope. You would think with the skills required to build that contraption that once that wheel started spinning he would have second thoughts of using it
There was another video of him. He had like 5 rounds roped together and he was pulling them all up that ramp with that rope. You would think with the skills required to build that contraption that once that wheel started spinning he would have second thoughts of using it
I've seen a lot of machines that I thought were a good idea, but that ain't one of em.....There was another video of him. He had like 5 rounds roped together and he was pulling them all up that ramp with that rope. You would think with the skills required to build that contraption that once that wheel started spinning he would have second thoughts of using it
It's one of those Darwinian machines
guy has money I see a bunch of kayaks and maybe a jeep liberty or patriot in the garage. I mean you would think he would just go buy a basic 25-30t model at his local retailer.
There was another video of him. He had like 5 rounds roped together and he was pulling them all up that ramp with that rope. You would think with the skills required to build that contraption that once that wheel started spinning he would have second thoughts of using it
You would have thought there would have been a point in the build where he would have been like
this thing is getting quite dangerous for the amount of effort im putting into this thing. For the amount of steel and the expensive components that are in that thing he could have built one heck of a firewood processor about 2 times over.
