An alder busted off down the hill at the back of my property recently. When trees have fallen back there in the past, I muscled the rounds up my trail in a wheelbarrow. Not fun. A helper, a couple of ropes, ratchet straps, a pulley, and my firewood carrier made for a better experience getting it all up the hill yesterday.
Great idea. I'm just glad I don't have to work that hard to get firewood. I do admire the lengths some of you go through to get your firewood.
The initial setup only took about 10 minutes and used about 90ft of my 100ft ropes for the furthest pile. We made a couple of adjustments early on and them moved the rigging to a closer tree for the other pile. I'd say an hour and a half overall for just under a half cord. I spent another 20 minutes later to split and stack it all right at the top of the hill.
I have a very similar situation in the mountains of NH. I'm definitely going to employ your method! Sent from my Pixel 2 using Tapatalk
I just noticed your location. God's country, for sure. I try to get up into the White's, every chance I get. Heading to a cabin on the kanc, in a few weeks. So looking forward to it.
I have a steep hill behind my place. I had to build a road across it and down to get to my wood supply. I have considered a skyline and winch to pull logs up from the bottom . something like that would work great if I didn't have the 4wd drive tractor . Have also done the wheelbarrow method. When I was younger.
Would a skyline setup work to get rounds or logs down the hill? I have a county road next to my land and I have to be careful not to roll wood onto the road.
I can't see why not as long as you plan for momentum. There's all manner of systems for slowing down people on zip lines. I looked into what I would need for a zip line on my 35-40 foot hill and just for fun and safe is more $$ than I would want to throw at it. I already have $ in a tractor so tough to justify $$ for a skyline.
My property pictured above is on a 19% slope, mostly of soft clay. Even if my 4wd tractor could make it, I would not survive the heart attack from fright, LOL. I limit my tractor to the 500' crusher run driveway and a flatter acreage uphill behind my house. Now that someone mentioned Zipline, I can can get the grandkids to help, with the promise they can use it! Sent from my Pixel 2 using Tapatalk
