Wicked Cheap Log Lifter Build. 3 Pulleys, 1 Pole & a Giant Door Hinge. ATV Winch Powered!
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- Опубліковано 12 лип 2024
- The hardest part of chainsaw milling is moving the logs. This is a no-brainer!
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Love watching your videos. Im 65 and somehow I’m going to do this . Live the free dream
Awesome! For added safety you may want to make that eyelet on the end of the boom into a through bolt so a heavy log doesn't just pull it out and oh use the portable winch with your Jackery to free up the 4 wheeler. 😊
The 12 volt outlet on my Jackery is only rated up to 15 amps and there are no external DC terminals. A winch will probably take at least 50 amps.
@@noyopacific Your right! Good point. :)
Your brain works like no one else I know. You got it done. That will save your back big time. Pup has a personality now. He loves the dirt and the mud. He is still so cute.
the log lift is going to save you countless amounts of strain and body damage, your dad is spot on save the toil on your body always use mechanical advantage
Always love Saturday mornings 🌄 with Ryan and friends on the worm 🪱! ❤
Daily yoga for your back. Log lifter is brilliant 🤙 Cheers Ringworm.
Many years ago, I took to saying frequently "If a job is worth doing, it's worth using a power tool to do it!" Ryan, your Dad is indeed a wise man...
pup is growing up so fast :)
Things are rough in Houston tx right now. You are a pleasant distraction. THANK YOU
Glad to see that you feeling better and able to get back to growing Ringworm!
BTW, I meant to say the other week that you need to update the Ringworm population sign.
You always find a way to get a project finished. I am never disappointed! Can't wait for the next one.
Ryan bravo, your log lift worked better than planned. Excellent ingenuity.
Thank you for the video Ryan. It’s always a pleasure.
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From start to finish, I can never guess if the procrss is going to work!😂 Fun coffee viewing!☕ Kuiper, the dirty dawg! ❤🐾👍😎🇨🇦
Good morning sir thank you for the video
That is SO COOL that you did that!
Battery powered chainsaw is totally worth it, love the Milwaukee hatchet
I bet you could even lift Tito with that thing and place him on the saw horse. Only one way to find out!
Oh hell, that is hilarious!
Great job on the log lifter. I also have a Bernese Mountain dog, puppy. Mine is 11 months old. I can/t believe how fast they grow. I look forward to taking him on some fall and winter camping trips. Keep up the good work.
That pupper is getting HUGE!❤😂❤
Genius engineering! 👏 That's "The Back Saver 3000" I love the way ya think. Work smarter not harder. I can almost hear the curiosity of the new viewers upon seeing the blown up surgical gloves 😂
I have back issues too, and I always coming up with things to make my life a little easier. I love this log lifter.
Great video, I love how your mind works, good math skills
Great video worm, I’m 66 and will add this for my milling spot as well and you can not beat it for the money, thanks for sharing brother,👊🏻👊🏻
Hey Ryan great project. Just buy a short nylon winch rope to stay at the jib crane and you attach the 4 wheeler to it. Enjoy 😅
Hey Ryan also on the dog house just be careful going too close to the flue for carbon monoxide. It shouldn't be lethal outside, but the little fella could get sickie he's in, and it's running.
Sick (if) not sickie, dam you predictive test you ducking, meddling, duck stick!
Morning Ringers ❤
Hey Ryan, try getting a back brace and wearing when you are working to help support your back. You can get them from just about anywhere and some back strengthening exercises could help as well. Love the content watch it every Saturday.
Your my sat morning entertainment for years. Just want to say hi and thanks for all your shares. Also I’ve had those eye bolts stretch open on me. I’d suggest wrapping the cable around the tree and pole. If you use a clove hitch it wont slip. If your worried it might those eye bolts can be used as stops. I hope that helps. Btw I’m writing this as I’m watching. You may have figured this out lol
Awesome content
Love all the hard work
Great crane idea
Another great video. As I watched the 4-wheeler being dragged towards the tree I could see in my mind's eye a brace from the tree to the front of the 4-wheeler. Just a thought. As for a Ryobi chainsaw, I think I would pass on that. Eagerly wait each week to watch your adventures.
Good morning Ryan and kyper good to see another video 👍🥰❤️💖💕🇺🇸🙏
AWESOME,!!
Form follows function, and log now follows the worm. Nice video, thank you for that.
Awesome Saturdays on the worm! I'm 23 mins in. Forgive me if on minute 24 you think the same. Have you considered adding a spring to the bottom, it'll want to.swing naturally then back to centre.
Thanks for all the vids Ryan!
Nice gin pole great idea
Absolutely love love your channel .... thank you !!!
Hello from the Netherlands.
thanks for the video Ryan .
Kind regards, Hollandduck
Your engineering analysis of thinking from the limits was sound.
Love your videos, just a thought though , standing under your hoist could give you a real headache if it were to fail. As a father I told my kids, " If you crack your coconut , the game is over. Be safe Ryan!
Good for processing deer also 😎👍🏻
Just a thought. String the log lifter with a permanent cable with a couple multi shive pulleys at the base of the tree for a quick single point hookup with plenty of lift cable travel and short pull distance.
Keiper the yooper dog. Iam thinking he needs his own channel. The life and times of taking care of Ryan.
I have a Ryobi chainsaw & its AWESOME!
I also have a Stihl "farm boss" chainsaw.
I actually use the Ryobi more than my stihl anymore
Ryan get a Ryobi chainsaw. I guarantee you will love it espescially for small quick cutting.
Always enjoy the videos.
Awesome video bro
Good video
If you hinge the dog condom door at the bottom it can double as a ramp. Overhang the roof a little and rain should not be a problem. Face mount you sealing strips on the outside wall and they should still work if things move a little. I used this technique on a chicken coop years ago. I used a rope and some pulleys to raise and lower it.
Ryan. Since you have some leftover cable, why not use it to permanently string the cable and all pulley points. Form a loop on the bottom and just hook the ATV winch to the loop to pull when lifting logs. That way, if you need to retrieve another log from somewhere else you can just unhook the winch from cable and retrieve another log.
Think about the exhaust gases from the heater. An opening there , might let them blow back in. A good plan might be to be n the lea of the stone, on the other side of the prevailing wind. I am an absolute fan of your work.
All you need is a Ryobi fan expertly placed to circulate air into the dog house during winter. The dog house interior may also be a point of condensation if it is not insulated very well. The temperature difference can cause it without any air flow for such a small outside chamber.
brilliant job.
I have a nice gas18" ryobi chainsaw and it works awesome for firewood or down trees.. I love ryobi that all I have.
Thimble for all cable eyes. Don’t saddle a dead horse.
Ryan, you are brilliant dude! Going back to the new screen on the gazebo, if you spray paint the screen black it becomes almost invisible.
Have you considered a fundraiser to get you a bandsaw mill like a Wood-Mizer or a Woodland Mills? Small setup is like 5-6k and would make your milling with Theo super efficient with a higher yield. Keep chainsaw milling where is helps to prep for the other mill. I just bought a Wood-Mizer Super 50 and it is a game changer for our small farm.
I’ve no reason to doubt that you live on your wooded property. It sure is a beautiful place you got there. We’ve seen you build your tent platform, watched you build a deer castle, a Gazebo, a star gazing platform and you even began an outdoor kitchen almost a year ago which I know you will finish eventually. You have tool sheds galore, a floating garage and a TV room you pretty much moved into. Never have we never seen your outhouse. Why is that?Surely you have one. I suppose it could be the ‘all outdoors’ kind but you built an indoor shower facility, Im thinking you also have an indoor outhouse so as not to be swatting biting flies or snow icy seats, depending on the time of year. You do live there after all. And the only slowdowns were visits by your interesting party week events here and there then back to the chain-saw milling. What a nice life you’ve living, my friend. Kudos, cheers. Keep on keeping on, or is it carry on carrying on?
Don't over think it!
Build an A-Frame and use a come along or block and tackle!
Holy sail boat Batman, I know where your heart is, you can’t fool everyone
Ryan, my inner engineer is cringing. Please do not terminate a cable with an eye lag screw. Pass the outer top cable end through the boom and make the cable eye below it, to attach the final lift pulley. The upper top cable should loop around the tree and pass through the eye only to keep it from slipping down the trunk. Through bolt where you can with a large washer on the back side. Loop a cable around the bottom of the trunk to attach to the bottom pulley. After your final build, test it by lifting 4 times the load you think you ever will. Don't get under any lift or near the cable/pulley danger zone. Stay safe man!
Yeah Ryan safety first, like fire Marshal Bill says “let me show you something!”
Just apply a clamp to the hand brake and you could also put the quad in 4Lo. When in 4x4 if you apply the parking brake it will also hold the front wheels in place since the transfer is locked with rear wheels.
I have that Ryobi chain saw, 12 inch it works really well for small limbs and even does some big ones if you're in a pinch. But it works surprisingly well.
TNX 4 VID LOL
Adding some weigh to the font of the wheeler will help keep it from moving. It would be better to use your pulleys to make a gear reduction though to have the hoist take the load vs the wheeler. I would think about getting/repurposing a small generator to run the portable winch instead of the wheeler if you mount the winch to the tree.
get some heavey duty cable and make a zip line where you push/pull the log by hand to where you want it
Be aware those eye- bolts you used are not a forged eye. With enough time/weight the eyes can come open. Once they begin to open they can suddenly open all the way. Either weld them closed or use a forged eye hook. I'm speaking from experience here. Bare minimum is to put a decent bead of weld to hold the eye closed. They may stretch to an oval, but won't drop a log on you that way. And they WILL open up. Out there alone is not the place to be putting heavy logs overhead on a design that will definitely fail. That's my tip of the day.
String a section of cable with a loop that hits the ground on the log side and just ends through all the pullies to the ground and a loop on the tree end. Now the 4 wheeler winch can be connected 8 feet away and lift. quick connect, quick disconnect and go get another log never having to unstring the lifting cable.
But now I am off to build one of my own.
A nylon rope stretches but is very strong, and leaving it out in the weather has almost no effect on it, so leaving a nylon rope part of your lift in the tree and just hooking your winch to it may work.
More power tools, the better.
What about building an insulated box attached to the tree for a marine battery. You could then use a solar panel attached the tree to charge the battery. Above this another box could be built to house the portable winch.
Evenin 🖐😎👍
Nice hoist that should save your back you might want to put through bolts instead of eye bolts in the log thanks again
Back saver 9000
Of course you need to rig up a (temporary? ) tire swing, that clips onto that arm for use when friends come over..
As Mr. Burns would say: "I like the cut of your jib" Now ya need a crane scale...
With 50 pounds of muscles....a shaved head...you're vin diesel😂
The ryobi battery chainsaws are actually kind of bad ass. Especially for small stuff but I can cut up a 16in oak tree on 1 4ah battery the 40v stuff. I haven't used thier 18v chainsaw though. But I imagine it would work fine just die faster.
Pretty sure they're both types of cotter pins. If you search cotter pins they should both pop up.
Could I have placed a piece of old throwaway scrap wood on the bottom of the log to keep the lag screws from poking through the log? FYI. Remember, always use power tools when you can.
Great lift but we need more dog content ❤😀
for bigger pulls just hitch the back of the 4 wheeler to another tree.
Man oh man, that lag bolt holding up the end of your lift log spar is a horrible idea! Yikes, only takes a couple Kn for that to pull out! Ideally you’d want a pulley on the end of that spar and the lift cable only being anchored to the tree. But even then you’d want to support the spar at the end by wrapping or at a minimum a bolt and washer. You are a pretty sharp guy but that definitely needs a rethink! 😱
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I'm down for a collab !!!
Eventually your lag bolts will give way. It would be much safer if you drill right through the wood and use nuts bolts and flat washers. Especially on both ends of your upper retaining wire rope.
The small side can be a ramp
Don’t bonk your head.
Thanks 4 the video.
I saw a really cool home made cutting station like a very sturdy picnic table with 6x6 or 8x8 thick heavy beams A guy from canada was doing chain saw milling as well and he had ramps leading up to the table top and he used his atv to wench his logs unto his table. Pretty simple effective but back saving as well. He also built a heavy duty log Arch out opf steel he welded together I think they are slick as hell say for moving logs around they got wenches and chains on them to but easier said then done if you dont know how to weld though.
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Use your solar generator to power your super winch. It should have a 12 vt output.
I think that hinge will give out before either set of bolts
Upcoming project:
Make a leather harness for your dog, for the purpose of dragging logs.
"Pulling her weight", as it were..lol.
I Think i would just put a manual boat winch mounted on tree.
Hinge all or part of the roof. You can waterproof it with shingles. What was the weight limit on your Winch. Great video, thanks.
use a small vinyl window for the door of the doghouse...
@Surviving Ringworm All of your eye bolts are side loaded. Turn them 45 degrees. Otherwise, great job!
Get a battery just for the Box winch.
Congrats. You're gonna make it into a 5th grade math lesson with this one :p
Pileated Woodpecker after Black Ants.
They are called Square locking pins OR square Lynch pins(lynch pins tend be round) ... the thing you do not like are cotter pins or cotter keys.