Please help, need to load heavy short logs...

[Ram 1500 with an axe...]

I have access to 100 pieces of 6-8 foot long black locust and red oak, besides cutting at site, how else can I load them into pickup truck to process at home? They are large diameter and very heavy......
Thanks......

 

[TheRambler]

Hire a log truck with crane arm for a few hours. That or build some pully lift contraption, or maybe a winch and a ramp.

 

[skfire]

I have access to 100 pieces of 6-8 foot long black locust and red oak, besides cutting at site, how else can I load them into pickup truck to process at home? They are large diameter and very heavy......
Thanks......

buck em down to splitting lengths....and get some buddies and Buds ..... If ground has grade..park downslope and ramp em on the bed...
just finished doing that on a nasty slope by myself, bucking 20" round , 19" long blackbbirch..2 cords total..some I had to split in half on site and then load up...got old quick
if u find a way to load them whole...have a way to unload them as well..
on my old truck I had a backrack and I did winch some up on 2x12 ramps....would not reccomend unless that rack is triple duty bolted...and even then..
good luck man. And be careful

Scott

 

[TreePointer]

To get a log into a truck, I'd think about an electric winch and a ramp. Maybe take off the tailgate so as not to damage it.

Others ideas of the top of my head:

Block and tackle.
Rent skid-steer or tractor with pallet forks.
Utility trailer (side loader so you can roll them up with ropes or winch).
Hire timber truck to load & deliver load.
Rent large dumpster, fill it, have dumpster drop it off at your house.

Of course, available time and wallet will eliminate some options.

 

[BrotherBart]

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[Ram 1500 with an axe...]

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[Ram 1500 with an axe...]

To get a log into a truck, I'd think about an electric winch and a ramp. Maybe take off the tailgate so as not to damage it.

Others ideas of the top of my head:

Block and tackle.
Rent skid-steer or tractor with pallet forks.
Utility trailer (side loader so you can roll them up with ropes or winch).
Hire timber truck to load & deliver load.
Rent large dumpster, fill it, have dumpster drop it off at your house.

Of course, available time and wallet will eliminate some options.

Thanks for ideas....

 

[Ram 1500 with an axe...]

buck em down to splitting lengths....and get some buddies and Buds ..... If ground has grade..park downslope and ramp em on the bed...
just finished doing that on a nasty slope by myself, bucking 20" round , 19" long blackbbirch..2 cords total..some I had to split in half on site and then load up...got old quick
if u find a way to load them whole...have a way to unload them as well..
on my old truck I had a backrack and I did winch some up on 2x12 ramps....would not reccomend unless that rack is triple duty bolted...and even then..
good luck man. And be careful

Scott

Thanks

 

[Roundgunner]

I use 24 inch logs so the rounds are heavy. I cut mine to half or thirds to make them handle easier.

 

[Ram 1500 with an axe...]

I use 24 inch logs so the rounds are heavy. I cut mine to half or thirds to make them handle easier.

 

[Ashful]

I just bring a 2x10 plank and roll single rounds (I buck to 20" lengths) up the ramp into the bed. That said, I'd be looking for a tandem axle trailer with drop tailgate and a winch for loading 100 large logs from a single site. That could take you a few weekends, moving one round at a time.

 

[Knots]

These are someone else's pictures. I think I took them off this site a few years ago. Anyway, when I can't do it the young-man's way anymore I might build one of these:

 

[buggyspapa]

How about renting a trailer? Easier to load and holds more than your 1/2 ton. Sort of limits access, of course, if the logs are remote.

 

[maple1]

Boat trailer with a working winch?

 

[jebatty]

I've pretty much stopped trying to load and move large logs or large bucked rounds. Instead, I bring the splitter and split them on site. The splits are easy to load and usually also result in one or two less times to handle the wood.

 

[Bigg_Redd]

besides cutting at site

Why can't you cut on site?

 

[gzecc]

This is why pick ups are useless for many things. Get a trailer with a ramp. Cut them to the size you can roll them up into the trailer.

 

[Ashful]

This is why pick ups are useless for many things. Get a trailer with a ramp. Cut them to the size you can roll them up into the trailer.

As someone who processes WAY more wood than 99% of this forum, I'd not go so far as to say pickups are useless. They're limited, but I wouldn't be without one. I haul 1/2 cord at a time in my pickup, many, many times per year. When I have a cord or more to move, I grab a tandem-axle trailer.

 

[Bigg_Redd]

This is why pick ups are useless for many things. Get a trailer with a ramp. Cut them to the size you can roll them up into the trailer.

Trailers are pretty useless where there is limited room to maneuver - which is most of the places I cut wood

 

[mellow]

Double axle dump trailer. They are low to the ground and can carry quite a bit of weight, I use ramps to roll them up into the trailer, only having to load once is nice, dump it when I get home. Cut the pieces down to whatever size you are going to split them, remove any of the limbs so they roll "easier".

I have tried splitting on site and I would rather buck them up and do the splitting at home on my own time frame. Getting the wood into my yard is my first priority sometimes.

 

[mellow]

I will agree with the trailers being useless in the woods, that is when I put ramps on the f250 and leave the trailer on solid ground, make trips out of the woods in the truck then drop in the trailer the bucked up pieces, truck is higher than the trailer which makes it nice.

 

[jeffesonm]

Hire a log truck with crane arm for a few hours.

If you can get someone to pick them up and deliver them for even a few hundred bucks, that is probably worth all the hours and effort you'll spend bringing them home.