Hillside tool elevator ideas ?

[foggy1111]

Too steep for a 4-wheeler with a good winch on the front? Load the wares on the wheeler.

 

[bcarwell]

Thanks again for the suggestions. Its looking like an overhead tramcart is not going to cut it due to the weight and stress at the end poles as someone suggested. So I'm thinking now it will have to be a big wheeled cart and I'll have to clear a path as best I can or have it run on handrail poles. As for power, I'm thinking now maybe until I have time to rig something better I'll just pull it up with my tractor. Its about a 45 degree incline of 120 feet, so it should be interesting....

Bob

 

[aczlan]

Thanks again for the suggestions. Its looking like an overhead tramcart is not going to cut it due to the weight and stress at the end poles as someone suggested. So I'm thinking now it will have to be a big wheeled cart and I'll have to clear a path as best I can or have it run on handrail poles. As for power, I'm thinking now maybe until I have time to rig something better I'll just pull it up with my tractor. Its about a 45 degree incline of 120 feet, so it should be interesting....

I would make a cart with 4 wheelbarrow/ATV tires, put a guide on the bottom (A) and a ring on the front (B). I would then use the guide with a cable below the cart to keep it going where you want it to go and the eye/winch to raise/lower it.

I would also add a "Leash" at the top so that if the winch doesn't hold, you don't have a cart freewheeling down the slope.


Aaron Z

 

[aczlan]

How I see the system working:



Aaron Z

 

[boggen]

personally like aczlan idea. seems a little more robust than below ideas. *shrugs*

only thing i can think of is a "slide" taking some cheap double wall culverts, and a saw zaw. and cut them half to, make U shapes. and then combining them. the hard smooth surface of double wall. i would think would hold up for a descent amount of time. though some fussing here and there to keep things in tact and not falling apart. and you may have to go down every so often and give some things a push, and hope that nothing becomes to slick and ends up shooting out and off a side. ((hope nothing gets damage when it lands on the ground))

other idea, 2x4's doubled so you can over lap them. and make like train tracks down the hill. then use some old car / truck tire rims for a 4 wheeled cart. and using a winch or like to pull things up / lower things down.

i don't know if you could find one cheap enough for that length, but a grain auger, to lift grain up into a grain bin / silo. but used in reverse to lower concrete that is dumped down into it.

if you have trees going the entire route. i remember seeing on discovery channel. of various harnesses and like used in jungles. so folks could go from tree top to tree top without having climb up and down 100 plus feet each way. and tugging along there research equipment and themselves on the same cables.

as far as you personally getting up and down the more steeper areas. tie off extension ladders so you can climb up / get some foot hold. along with a hand rail. *shrugs* never done this might be rather dangerous if ladder is not snug and held tight to the ground.

 

[forgeblast]

The Mini-Skyline: A Homemade Yarder to Bring Firewood up a draw by James F. Deaton. Published 0601
A yarder is a device that uses an overhead cable, some pulleys, and a tow rope or main-line rope to move the logs up the hill.

They have a great article on a home made yarder, using an old tiller. Might work for you.