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.

or this guy...

Originally Posted by dryvr12

or this guy...

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

Can you get a 4wheeler in there? Know anyone with a 4wheeler?

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.

Boy you have all the cool stuff.

Originally Posted by gustavus

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.



Regards
Gustavus

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

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.....

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...

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.

Originally Posted by Area67

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.

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.

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.