Heres what I did. My stacks were about 4 ft high max. First I would lay down a sheet of 3/4" plywood, then take my engine puller out and set it on the plywood. The plywood will give the wheels somthing to roll on. The puller will lift 1000 lbs so I by myself had no problem lifting the wood with a strap under the timber. I would then pull the puller back on its wheels until it cleared the stack. Then let it down onto my my cart. I paid around $150 for the puller and it was worth every cent. If I was to it over I would weld maybe 6" rubber wheels to the puller as the plywood used for the pullers 3" wheels would get a bit muddy at times.
Good luck, you can do it, I moved and cut all my timbers for a 7 bent home by myself and only went through 1 bottle of aspirin for those "oh my achin back mornings"

call me overly modern, but this thread makes me happy to have a tractor/loader....

Sorry to be slo, Mo. My photo host done confused me. I think I was taking a hard right to get outta the slab pile here.


This is a few steps further down. Just threw it together in a few minutes, make sense?


Caveman construction co.

Here's today's fun... not sure if it qualifies for rennaisance era or just redneck

Rigged with a gin pole frame and windlass.


looking over the windlass, at the gin pole, and then the bent.The bar above slides up and down to lock the handle

Halfway, we just put the gin pole down.


and up


Not strictly alone, Michelle helped with the windlass... longer handles next time.

Don, you and Jim Rogers are nothing short of inspirational!

being able to do this damn near by yourself and without the aid of modern machinery is just too cool for words.

Jesse

Thanks Jesse, we were kinda jazzed. I think it was more like Jim inspired, Red Green executed

There should probably be a disclaimer somewhere, OSHA would have a party if employees were involved.



This was a cypress log cabin kit that Michelle and I built. We pump jacked the ridge and hand set the rear commons, attached a jib to them with a block and tackle hanging to near the balance point of the 12/12 rafters. She hoisted the 20' green 4x10 front rafters and I walked the tail and connected (not my first day on the job).