Don't have help so I'm doing it myself.

Piled up 3 to 4 feet high by about 20 feet long wood bundles pulled out of
the back yard unused acreage. Bundles are a mix of everything you can
imagine from thin stalks to 8 inch deadwood logs. Craggy as all hell.

Don't want to just throw it over the hillside dropoff (the purpose of
clearing the dead wood is for a free fire protection program which will chip
as much as I can give them but it has to be where they want it to be and
it's not yet there).

I have to move these bundles hundreds of feet to the pickup point.
Just asking for ideas.

First I tried the wheelbarrow but that will take forever even on paved
ground. Nothing fits. Average is three times the length of a barrow.

Then I tried the blue tarps and bungees but the brand new 9mil tarp wore out
a 2 foot diameter hole in the middle on the first run.

Now I'm using ropes but I wish I had thought about them first as it's best
done when I lay rope on the ground and pile the wood bundles on top before
dragging. For now I have the rope knotted into a big ball on one end of a
pipe which I shove (bangalore style) under the pile and then wrap it around
the middle and drag.

Rope dragging worked much better than the rest of the ideas so far.

The wood chippers are coming in a few days so I'm just asking for advice on
how to move large piles of wood of various sizes long distances by hand.

On 04/25/2021 08:23 AM, dan wrote:
The wood chippers are coming in a few days so I'm just asking for advice on
how to move large piles of wood of various sizes long distances by hand.

Big, cheap tarp? Nail on side to a 2x4 and create a harness with a
length of line so you can drag it.

On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 12:23:34 -0200, dan wrote:

Don't have help so I'm doing it myself.

Piled up 3 to 4 feet high by about 20 feet long wood bundles pulled out of
the back yard unused acreage. Bundles are a mix of everything you can
imagine from thin stalks to 8 inch deadwood logs. Craggy as all hell.

Don't want to just throw it over the hillside dropoff (the purpose of
clearing the dead wood is for a free fire protection program which will chip
as much as I can give them but it has to be where they want it to be and
it's not yet there).

I have to move these bundles hundreds of feet to the pickup point.
Just asking for ideas.

First I tried the wheelbarrow but that will take forever even on paved
ground. Nothing fits. Average is three times the length of a barrow.

Then I tried the blue tarps and bungees but the brand new 9mil tarp wore out
a 2 foot diameter hole in the middle on the first run.

Now I'm using ropes but I wish I had thought about them first as it's best
done when I lay rope on the ground and pile the wood bundles on top before
dragging. For now I have the rope knotted into a big ball on one end of a
pipe which I shove (bangalore style) under the pile and then wrap it around
the middle and drag.

Rope dragging worked much better than the rest of the ideas so far.

The wood chippers are coming in a few days so I'm just asking for advice on
how to move large piles of wood of various sizes long distances by hand.

A trailer?

dan writes:

Don't have help so I'm doing it myself.

Piled up 3 to 4 feet high by about 20 feet long wood bundles pulled out of
the back yard unused acreage. Bundles are a mix of everything you can
imagine from thin stalks to 8 inch deadwood logs. Craggy as all hell.

Don't want to just throw it over the hillside dropoff (the purpose of
clearing the dead wood is for a free fire protection program which will chip
as much as I can give them but it has to be where they want it to be and
it's not yet there).

I have to move these bundles hundreds of feet to the pickup point.
Just asking for ideas.

First I tried the wheelbarrow but that will take forever even on paved
ground. Nothing fits. Average is three times the length of a barrow.

Then I tried the blue tarps and bungees but the brand new 9mil tarp wore out
a 2 foot diameter hole in the middle on the first run.

Now I'm using ropes but I wish I had thought about them first as it's best
done when I lay rope on the ground and pile the wood bundles on top before
dragging. For now I have the rope knotted into a big ball on one end of a
pipe which I shove (bangalore style) under the pile and then wrap it around
the middle and drag.

Rope dragging worked much better than the rest of the ideas so far.

The wood chippers are coming in a few days so I'm just asking for advice on
how to move large piles of wood of various sizes long distances by hand.

I have to do this twice a year. Each year I create a pile as tall as I
am at the curb. I still haven't found anything better than carrying a
few at a time. Get all the thick ends pointing one direction, wrap my
arms around as many as I can and drag them out.

A few years I spent an hour or 2 with a loper cutting off all the side
branches and cutting them to 6 ft or so. Then they can go in the wheel
barrow. Not sure if that actually saves time.

--
Dan Espen

On 4/25/2021 10:23 AM, dan wrote:


First I tried the wheelbarrow but that will take forever even on paved
ground. Nothing fits. Average is three times the length of a barrow.


With the larger diameter pieces, how about cutting to size and they
wheelbarrow.

On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 13:31:15 -0400, Dan Espen wrote:

Get all the thick ends pointing one direction, wrap my
arms around as many as I can and drag them out.

Ours is once a year. It's nice they do free wood chipping.
It's not so nice that my boys are all off at college now so I'm alone.
(My food bill went to almost nothing the instant they left the house!)

I forgot to mention that like your wood chippers mine are picky in that all
the cut ends need to be facing the road and the wood needs to be
perpendicular to the curb and all bundles must be on the downhill side of
the road but no more than 3 feet in from the road.

They'll take up to 8 inches though.

The length of some of these is twenty and thirty feet long but most are
around six to ten feet long (almost all was dead or dying weeds, bushes,
brush, and some trees).

I could cut them into neat sizes but that's thousands more cuts than I want
to do just to move them a few hundred feet to where the chippers can get at
them.

I'm learning though that laying a lattice of rope (doesn't need many
strands) and then repositioning them onto that lattice works best.

Dragging that lattice isn't too bad (and not too hard on the rope if I can
try to position the rope so that it's mostly not touching the ground when
dragging (but it's a bit more work to do as I wore out the rope on one trip
before I realized that trick).

I wish I had known to lay the rope BEFORE I made these huge piles.
(I don't own a trailer but the terrain is not conducive to vehicles anyway.)

dan writes:

On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 13:31:15 -0400, Dan Espen wrote:

Get all the thick ends pointing one direction, wrap my
arms around as many as I can and drag them out.

Ours is once a year. It's nice they do free wood chipping.
It's not so nice that my boys are all off at college now so I'm alone.
(My food bill went to almost nothing the instant they left the house!)

I forgot to mention that like your wood chippers mine are picky in that all
the cut ends need to be facing the road and the wood needs to be
perpendicular to the curb and all bundles must be on the downhill side of
the road but no more than 3 feet in from the road.

They'll take up to 8 inches though.

The length of some of these is twenty and thirty feet long but most are
around six to ten feet long (almost all was dead or dying weeds, bushes,
brush, and some trees).

I could cut them into neat sizes but that's thousands more cuts than I want
to do just to move them a few hundred feet to where the chippers can get at
them.

I'm learning though that laying a lattice of rope (doesn't need many
strands) and then repositioning them onto that lattice works best.

Dragging that lattice isn't too bad (and not too hard on the rope if I can
try to position the rope so that it's mostly not touching the ground when
dragging (but it's a bit more work to do as I wore out the rope on one trip
before I realized that trick).

I wish I had known to lay the rope BEFORE I made these huge piles.
(I don't own a trailer but the terrain is not conducive to vehicles anyway.)

I have all those same restrictions about thick end to the curb, etc.

I have to get mine through a 4 ft wide gate so your rope trick won't
work for me.

I have one of those lopper trimmers, cutting off all the side branches takes some
time but isn't impossible.

--
Dan Espen

On 04/25/2021 01:10 PM, dan wrote:
Ours is once a year. It's nice they do free wood chipping.
It's not so nice that my boys are all off at college now so I'm alone.
(My food bill went to almost nothing the instant they left the house!)

I take it you can't get a burn permit. Wood ash is good fertilizer so
you could spread it on the lawn to return the elements to the soil.

"rbowman" wrote in message
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On 04/25/2021 01:10 PM, dan wrote:
Ours is once a year. It's nice they do free wood chipping.
It's not so nice that my boys are all off at college now so I'm alone.
(My food bill went to almost nothing the instant they left the house!)

I take it you can't get a burn permit. Wood ash is good fertilizer so you
could spread it on the lawn to return the elements to the soil.

I did burn a massive great pile of mine but it didn’t make any
difference to the area the ash was spread on compared with
the rest that didn’t have the ash spread on it.

On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 19:07:00 -0600, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:



I take it you can't get a burn permit. Wood ash is good fertilizer so
you could spread it on the lawn to return the elements to the soil.

You useless senile gossip would make a good fertilizer too and you'd finally
be useful for something.

On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 11:53:56 +1000, %%, better known as cantankerous
trolling senile geezer Rodent Speed, wrote:


I take it you can't get a burn permit. Wood ash is good fertilizer so you
could spread it on the lawn to return the elements to the soil.

I did burn a massive great pile of mine but it didn¢t make any
difference to the area the ash was spread on compared with
the rest that didn¢t have the ash spread on it.

Of COURSE not, you hilarious auto-contradicting senile cretin! LOL

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rbowman writes:
On 04/25/2021 08:23 AM, dan wrote:
The wood chippers are coming in a few days so I'm just asking for advice on
how to move large piles of wood of various sizes long distances by hand.

Big, cheap tarp? Nail on side to a 2x4 and create a harness with a
length of line so you can drag it.

Chippers are mobile, designed to be moved to the wood, not vice versa.

On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 18:56:43 -0400, Dan Espen wrote:


I have one of those lopper trimmers, cutting off all the side branches takes some
time but isn't impossible.

You seem to understand that they need easy access within 3 feet of a roadway
but that GETTING the wood to there is the hard part in some areas.

I wore out three pairs of leather gloves working on this one project alone!

They're coming very soon (I have a period of three days they can come) so I
worked all weekend on it. I could show pictures but you know pretty much
what it's like to drag, push, trundle, gather, and carry wood hundreds of
feet.

The rope trick is what's working best given how craggy the wood is (it's
entire small dead trees). The logs aren't as susceptible to sticking
together like a mass of velcro as the bushes and brush is though so I used
the wheelbarrow for the logs (it can handle six foot logs).

For the vines of poison ivy I had to use the loppers because they won't take
the stuff nor will they take common weeds with seeds like many brooms. For
the vines I had to lop them to fit in the green landscape garbage bins but
they're not supposed to take them either (nobody wants them).

I also found an old 1977 quarter. How much do you think it's worth? ;-/
(Maybe I can buy a pair of 1977 leather gloves for that much?) ;-0

On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 13:02:17 -0200, dan wrote:

On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 18:56:43 -0400, Dan Espen wrote:


I have one of those lopper trimmers, cutting off all the side branches takes some
time but isn't impossible.

You seem to understand that they need easy access within 3 feet of a roadway
but that GETTING the wood to there is the hard part in some areas.

I wore out three pairs of leather gloves working on this one project alone!

They're coming very soon (I have a period of three days they can come) so I
worked all weekend on it. I could show pictures but you know pretty much
what it's like to drag, push, trundle, gather, and carry wood hundreds of
feet.

The rope trick is what's working best given how craggy the wood is (it's
entire small dead trees). The logs aren't as susceptible to sticking
together like a mass of velcro as the bushes and brush is though so I used
the wheelbarrow for the logs (it can handle six foot logs).

For the vines of poison ivy I had to use the loppers because they won't take
the stuff nor will they take common weeds with seeds like many brooms. For
the vines I had to lop them to fit in the green landscape garbage bins but
they're not supposed to take them either (nobody wants them).

I also found an old 1977 quarter. How much do you think it's worth? ;-/
(Maybe I can buy a pair of 1977 leather gloves for that much?) ;-0

How close can you get a truck? I have had great luck hooking a long
rope to things like this and dragging them out. It is best to use a
chain to wrap the logs with tho. It won't wear out dragging along the
ground.
After Irma I dragged all of this up to the curb.

http://gfretwell.com/ftp/Tree%20on%20the%20curb.jpg

I have a child's cheap plastic sled I use for that kind of thing. It's light plastic, about 2 feet wide by 4 foot long, shaped like a shallow bathtub.. It drags fine if you don't put too much weight on it. (I loaded my bags of concrete mix on it, then I had to unload them all when it wouldn't move.. But lighter stuff is okay.)

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rbowman writes:
On 04/25/2021 08:23 AM, dan wrote:
The wood chippers are coming in a few days so I'm just asking for advice
on
how to move large piles of wood of various sizes long distances by hand.

Big, cheap tarp? Nail on side to a 2x4 and create a harness with a
length of line so you can drag it.

Chippers are mobile, designed to be moved to the wood, not vice versa.

Its different with the free chipping service that will only
chip your timber when its just off the road in stacks.

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FLUSH the trolling senile asshole's latest troll**** unread

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