How Do YOU Load Big Logs Without A Loader OR Team Of Horses

The technique shown in this video is a variation of the technique in this video: • APEX 12,000 lb Winch 4... My Dad learned logging, mule-skinning and work-horsemanship in the 19teens from a hired farmhand who happened to be a man freed from slavery as a young boy in 1865. He was employed by my grandfather when my dad was a little boy having been born in 1909. My dad credits this man for teaching him most all he knew of horse handling, beginning from the time he was only 5 or 6 years old. Things were a bit different a hundred-plus years ago...for that I am thankful and I am proud to be the very fortunate beneficiary of some of the hard learned lessons passed on by my own dad. THIS log loading technique is one of those lessons.
I invited (bribed) the Missus to join me running the camera and was totally unprepared for the questions sprung upon me while loading the log. The not so eloquent answers I gave to her questions, though rudimentary and totally non-scientific in nature, are basically just what happens as a new growth ring is added to a tree each year. So like the world 'expanded' during Pangea, so does the bark of the tree to accept the growing girth. As usual, she puts me in a tough spot ...and in short order too during that part of the conversation.
Now I have several machines that could easily load this log, but one is at another location and one of the two here is currently broken down and the skidloader still needs some minor adjustments before it can go back to serious work in the woods. So that's the reason for the video today. I tried to move this with two Kubotas....a B3030 and an L3301....but both attempts ended in failure. The only answer was to get it loaded to the trailer to transport it to the sawmill....and yes, that's another video !!! #outdoors, #kubota, #sawmill