I've seen a lot of videos on parbuckling but I never had a good chance to try it until this morning. My rigging can sure use some tweaking but it worked OK. My logs are around 14' long and 10"-16" … bigger ones were too heavy to pull up and over the log in front of it, pulling straight. But, the 2 to 1 advantage with parbuckling, and the way it rolls the logs, made lifting the logs up easy. Took some time but no hard lifting at all. Trying a single parbuckle line… didn't work too well because the log would angle in either direction… but, it did lift the log no sweat up and over the first log in the stack. Had to wait for Giz to finish up some powerful sniffing first… Double parbuckle lines worked better… kept the logs parallel to the stack, rolling across the pile to the back. My cable is just pinched in the middle, but I think using 2 cables, hooked up with a clevis, might be easier when I cleared the cable out from under the wood. Could un-hook and clear one side at a time. This cable set-up was a lot easier on the Suz pulling, and unreal how easy it lifted the logs up over that first log. I'm sure I can do a better job of where I tie-off the cables and how high the main pulley is… but first shot, good nuff. Injuries talked about by all of the Hoarders lately had me paying a little extra attention to the logs in case they wanted to move, and I might be in the way. Really didn't want to get pinched or worse…
Yup. Seems like your rig always has a co-pilot onboard too. She was snorting up everything in sight this morning… a sure sign spring is almost here… right after this 12" snow coming Oh well…
I guess I'm unsure why you're lifting them. I'd just start bucking 'em up. Those are nicely raised already. Just curious.
Just making sure they're off the ground so water doesn't get at them. Goal is to get the wood up and out of the woods on snow, without dragging them in the dirt/mud/small rocks… all of which makes chains dull fast. Once I have all I need for a season, I can CSS anytime I want. I'm making a work deck that sits on top of the sides of my 5x12 utility trailer. Last year, I added one of those cheap pickup cranes to the front right corner of the trailer. I made the boom longer and rigged the lift line so it travels 3x faster than the winch that drives it. (About as fast as bending down and standing up with a log) Once I get the work deck finished up, my splitter will sit up on it, in the vertical split mode. Can use my tractor's claw to move all of the logs for bucking. Should be able to lift rounds from the ground up to the splitter with no bending, etc. Splits will get tossed into the tractor bucket or small trailer to take to the shed or other stacks. As I finally get all of this stuff going, it'll make more sense prolly. I love doing all of the work and want to be able to do some of it year round, I just have to come up with ways to stop lifting and bending quite so much.
Right on. I can't wait to see pictures of the operation in action! Would like to see the modified crane as I've been eyeballing one of those myself.
Ya supposed to rain then snow here again also and it did get a little iffie when Buddy first showed up at the house
Yup. It's one of those $150 jobs. Has a 2"x2" boom that can handle 1000 lbs at it's shortest length. I don't need a lot of lift cap so I took off the main 3' section and replaced it with a 10' piece of 2x2 I had. It should be able to handle 200 lbs max at an upright angle. (I used to own and operate small cranes) Sometimes I really miss the last one I had re-vamped and then sold. It was a 35' 3/4 power (3 out of 4 functions were powered), rotating it was by hand. I could have lifted all of these logs today no sweat. I'll just do the best I can with what I'm whippin up now… My trailer and boom are in a snow bank still. I'll take pics soon.
Well, I've done something similar but never heard of it as parbuckling. We also used a little bit different rigging and loaded a lot of logs onto truck using that method, or as stated, our rigging was a bit different. Same principle but with yours it appears you had some problems getting all the cables out once you got the log up.
Yeah, the center tree I have the main pulley on didn't help. I could only pull to the attach and that meant I had to keep the cable short going out front. I can see things I'd change. I really just wanted to see how well it works. Whew… you can lift/roll bout anything easily.
