I need a 2 man log carrier

[Pilot]

I would also split it with a chainsaw. No need for a second person, nothing to buy and have sitting around to clutter, can do it today.

 

[Doppelgangar]

here is the set of tongs that I made for the big peices.

They opened to about 5 feet.

 

[rsewill]

My father couldn't lift his logs so he installed a boom and tongs onto his (homemade) tractor. Both were hydraulic with the tongs hanging from the boom with the cylinder placed between the tongs' arms. Worked great.

 

[hydro2]

I also do some very large pieces, and have a double-height pallet next to the splitter, and load that up with the FEL. Then I'm just rolling them into place for the first split, and let half roll back onto the pallet while working through the other half.

My back has felt a lot better this year, after loading into the FEL on the opposite side of the splitter, rather than creating a ground pile and lifting and loading it again. Every time the FEL is loaded up, I head to the stack, work from a comfortable FEL height for the stack progress, and I've bent and stretched different muscles for ten minutes.

That is a great idea.

 

[MossRoad]

I have cut up several large dead trees and am planning to split them with my hydraulic 3 pt. splitter. Many of them are large and in order to try to save my back, I thought I might use some of those 2 man log carriers (long handle with tongs in the middle) to pick up the chunks and place them on the splitter. I figured having someone else split the wt as well as putting a handle on those bulky trunk pieces would make life a bit easier. Problem is, I have found that most of the 2 man log carriers have tongs that will only open to about 16 inches max. Do any of you know if there are any that open wider? I thought about using skidding tongs hanging from the middle of a steel pipe?? Has anyone else used tongs for this use? thanks

Can you mount one of these to your splitter? It is a swiveling truck crane with a hand winch rated for 1000 pounds. $150 bucks is pretty good. I imagine it would save your back. Just have to add some tongs to it and off you go.

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