Hopefully tomorrow. I need to take pics. It's a pretty good score. Just gotta convince myself that it's not too hot
Here is smiling Walt with his log arch. He pulled some heavy, heavy loads with that atv and log arch. Those logs in the picture were pulled 1/2 mile! He made it look easy.
Thanks HDRock. Since I found this forum I quit looking at Fakebook. Yaw all my kind of people on here.
Original article at Mother Earth News Build an All-Purpose Straddle-Wheeled Log Hauler If you do some searching you will find more information on these on the interweb
Here is one that is similar to Walt's with the sliding hook This style will still drag one end of the log, but works very well.
I've seen high speed wheel dollies used in conjunction with arches like that at the other end of the log to keep it from draging. They are sometimes used in vehicle towing. The one I saw was a home brew version. This one is a commercially available unit:
Just take a picture of what you like and start building, if it comes out exact or not is relative. You could ad features or generally make it your own.
Years ago a guy in Cleveland advertised one of the largest Logrite arches on CL, and I went to look at it just for fun. I couldn't afford it and didn't have a vehicle capable of pulling (or, more importantly, stopping) it fully loaded, but the fantasy of being able to haul large boles to a sawmill was intoxicating. It was a very nice piece of equipment.
Saw this today. Old school logging. This one had a hydraulic winch over the arch to pick up the logs. The horse drawn ones were designed so that when the horses pull the boom moved forward and used some leverage to lift the arch and the front of the logs. If they were going downhill the boom moved back and dropped the logs down into the dirt, thus providing brakes.
Here's a horse drawn one. Oregon Cascades style. Certainly has seen better days. It would have had metal hoop wheels. You can see how the boom is slotted. I think it has some sort of cramming action that cranked the rod above the axel, thus raising the log when pulled forward and lowering if they were going down hill and the arch started to move forward.
