Timber Arch dimensions for Billy NY

Wizzo, thanks for posting that! Very interesting, especially seeing more detail on this "timber" arch!
 
Nice drawing! Thanks for posting it Wizzo!

Billy - not to diminish the wheeled log arch - did you see the recent photos of the three point model that Loren the Adirondack Case Guy made?
 
I did, very nice work, nice to see it in the field too. Great to see useful tools and equipment on the job to make the task easier, no matter how you do it.
 
I think I have seen a similar one where there was a way
to hang the log on a chain, then you could unhook the
winch and use it to pull up another tree.
 

Close to 60 years ago a sawmill was brought in to work a tract of timber behind us. The used a Farmall H or M with a homemade log arch. It was made from cut up pieces of truck frame with some variety of stub axles welded to it. The tractor PTO drove a car rear end fastened to the top of the arch. The brakes of the rear end were rigged to be activated some way which I guess made one of the rear end hubs turn and operate a drum fastened to the axle studs. The drum had a cable with hooks on it to lift up the end of a log. I think they would lift up more than one, depending on the size of the logs. Purpose was to lift up the end(s) of the log(s) so the cut off end would not dig in the ground, making pulling the log easier.

The same general set up was used to transport harrows or other implements on the road. This was before wheeled harrows and remote hydraulic cylinders. The arch would be swung over the harrow and hooked to the tractor. Cables were threaded through homemade bushings and run down to the 4 corners of the harrow which was then picked up so it could be pulled on the road without the discs digging into the pavement. The highway department got ill about discs cuttng into the pavement.

Another use for the car rear end winch was to mount the read end on the frame of a truck just behind the cab and use the winch set up to pick up bundles of pulpwood to be loaded crossways on the truck. Pulpwood sticks were cut about 5 feet long,should remember the length since I cut a small amount at one time.

KEH
 
Let's try again
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You know they still make these. I saw them up in NY state last summer at the timbermans show in Boonville,NY Not cheap but the little one is for a good size garden tractor for like $350.oo all the way up to PRETTY big ones.
 
Somewhere (I can't find it) I have a picture of a home made three point log arch that was made from a modified house trailer tongue stood on end. It was kinda rough, but looked to be fully functional.
 

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