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    how to drag heavy items uphill,out of ditches,etc.

    what can i use to drag say a furnace or large cast iron pieces or large ovens from the 50's up a hill,through the woods, and into my truck? lets say the hill is 30ft high and the truck is a good 4 minute walk through the woods. the part im most interested in is getting it uphill. a truck or any other vehicle would have no access to where this is.



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    Have you got access to a junk hood, trunk or fender. Turn upside down, put the item on it and pull with a rope. Second idea - use a hand crank winch. Or do like I do - tractor and forks.
    People may laugh at me, but that's ok. I laugh all the way to the bank.

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    Just put a rug under it and do it like this guy!:





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    or this guy...


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    Quote Originally Posted by dryvr12 View Post
    or this guy...

    Wish I had that to scrap!! That'd be one hell of a project!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by haribobear View Post
    what can i use to drag say a furnace or large cast iron pieces or large ovens from the 50's up a hill,through the woods, and into my truck? lets say the hill is 30ft high and the truck is a good 4 minute walk through the woods. the part im most interested in is getting it uphill. a truck or any other vehicle would have no access to where this is.
    bobcat....unless you have a winch long enough...only way.
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    Can you get a 4wheeler in there? Know anyone with a 4wheeler?

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    a vehicle with a winch and all of the cable. then hook chains together to reach your load. use a log as a wheel chock and use the E brake if possible.

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    Get a block and tackle with a lot of rope. The more wraps the less you have to weight you physically have to pull. You can hook the block and tackle up to a tree and while you pull down, the item will come up, let gravity work with you not against you. Putting some kind of wheels or sled under it will help greatly also. I have moved a lot of furnaces by putting pieces of steel pipe under them.
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    Get a spare rim that fits your truck remove the tire then when you need a winch you have a cheap capstan winch.

    Jack up one rear wheel, block the truck, remove the tire then install your rim, put the truck in gear wrap a rope around the empty rim acting as a capstan.

    The nice thing about a capstan winch is that it will not pull until you exert pressure on the line, you release the line the winch stops pulling you have full control of a capstan winch.

    I used a rim on the truck as a capstan whinch to get shake blocks moved up from steep ravines.

    Using your vehicle as a capstan winch will not work if you have a posi of limited slip differential.

    Here is a capstan winch attachment for a chainsaw.



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    Boy you have all the cool stuff.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PartTimeScrapper View Post
    Boy you have all the cool stuff.
    No, no, I've outgrown that sort of stuff, I'm only making a suggestion to the lad how to retrieve his treasure.

    The demo picture shows a truck winching itself free from the mire, jack the wheel of the ground the capstan could be used for recovery work.



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    Quote Originally Posted by gustavus View Post
    No, no, I've outgrown that sort of stuff, I'm only making a suggestion to the lad how to retrieve his treasure.

    The demo picture shows a truck winching itself free from the mire, jack the wheel of the ground the capstan could be used for recovery work.



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    That is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. Seriously. I like it. A lot.

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    I had to shift something like the iron stove once with only a rope & me.

    I got the stove lined up widthwise with the slope & wound the rope around the stove so the free end was actually coming out over the top of it.
    I then pulled like the guy above & the rope tumbled the stove over to its next up side & a bit up the hill.
    Kept doing that untill I could get it to where I wanted.

    I think the rope in, this position, acted as a lever & the slope wasn't too bad.
    In a similar way I could turn a vehicle over, if the leverage isn't enough I'd add a pole or something & still use the rope.
    A bloody tough way to do it, but thats why I got the job, no one else could do it.

    When shifting whiteware around a huge pile of it, I & a friend have seen stuff roll uphill!
    Its all to do with the 'centre of balance'. But when you actually see it happen.....

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    i gotta wench system rigged up on my rider lawn mower, kinda like a PTO, i just run a system of pullys and cables from bottom of he engine, where the deck wouldve been, thanks to weider weight system...

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    Chains and boomers (on 2 lines if it is a car etc) gets er' done safely, especially if it is very heavy. Snapped cables can be very dangerous. It seems slow, but after some practice you can move really heavy stuff reasonably fast. I always carried 2 x 28' chain and 3 x 10 chain and 5 boomers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Area67 View Post
    Chains and boomers (on 2 lines if it is a car etc) gets er' done safely, especially if it is very heavy. Snapped cables can be very dangerous. It seems slow, but after some practice you can move really heavy stuff reasonably fast. I always carried 2 x 28' chain and 3 x 10 chain and 5 boomers.
    I wouldn't care to arm wrestle you, a man who abuses himself that bad gotta be tuff.

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    LOL gus I met area67 in person last week for his learning lesson in computer scrappin. He is a big ole boy and a very nice guy. Im 6'2" 220 lbs and I wouldnt mess with him either. He bigger than me.

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    In highschool a friend of mine had a winch hooked up to a car battery mounted on an old wagon (the ones with the bubble tires, not hard rubber/plastic). He used to use it in the woods behind his house to drag out trees for his firepit...he'd pull the wagon as far as the winch line, draw in the line to pull the log, repeat. Worked quite well. Otherwise, a 4-wheeler with a winch can never go wrong.

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    Quote Originally Posted by haribobear View Post
    what can i use to drag say a furnace or large cast iron pieces or large ovens from the 50's up a hill,through the woods, and into my truck? lets say the hill is 30ft high and the truck is a good 4 minute walk through the woods. the part im most interested in is getting it uphill. a truck or any other vehicle would have no access to where this is.
    I've been in this situation before myself. Sounds like the exact scenario actually... Anyways, it took a little while but I drug out 3 ovens, a washer, and a fridge out of a 6 ft dried riverbed. They were old too, been sitting there awhile. Then went through the woods and up a big ole hill. Did it all myself, no rope or nothing. Yes, it was a pain in the ass but it bought my daughter christmas presesents!

    Once I got them up and out of the riverbed, rolled them all the rest of the way. As far as your furnace goes... Get a friend to help!

    Edit: If I had a 4 Wheeler or a winch, you bet I woulda used those! But im just startin out an only have a truck, I think it would be safe to assume haribobear has just a truck as well...
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