Techniques for Moving Heavy Objects

Okay then. How about next week. I am off early on M,Tu and Fr. Can do it any time after 3pm those days.

Nwg - Thanks for being so on top of this. I actually don't get home until 6:30 on week nights as I commute to and from downtown Seattle. So doing it in the evening is tough. Maybe when we have more daylight in the evenings?

No my DW woke me up from a dead sleep and saw the bear ripping out plantings I had just put in my beloved Sophie's bed. I was mad and rushed out from bed grabbing only my red terry cloth robe and as I was nearing the bear, it hit me maybe I should have brought something else to defend myself. The only thing that entered my mind was to make myself bigger than the bear. So I pulled my robe up to my arm length exposing me and the bear ran away in a moment. One bruin to another he was intimidated. LOL My DW photoed him as I chased him up the driveway to the gate. Holae' El Berro.

O nce I get in my head I want to do something I try to get it done.If you are just as singled minded I bet soones is always better than later. A couple rocks twenty feet? Maybe an hour and a half.Do you have a truck to do the pulling with?

Steve, the mental image is wonderful - thanks for sharing that one!!!

OMG, Steve. That is a great story. Think I probably would have started out there - not sure that I wouldn't have turned tail and run, though.

NWG - sounds like a plan. I have my small truck - don't know if that can do it, but we can certainly try. I'll have to get a chain . . . can do that at McLendon's, I suspect. How big does it need to be do you think?

Any chain that pulls a car or nylon strap that pulls a car works well. Any of your neighbor "men" will have one. Don't buy it you are a "girl". You would just look at it in your garage until you sold it.
I had the pictures somewhere on DG in the past of the bear heading up my driveway. I'll have to look for them again. They were photo that I scanned.

Laurie, I'm impressed that you found a use for this technique already. I'm happy that I could help you impress DH with your feats of engineering . . . looking forward to hearing about the results.

No don't get anything!I have chains and cable and big farm truck. We showed pigs when I was a kid and we would bring 20-30 pigs to the fairs in that truck and a twenty foot trailer.Puyallup and Yakama and Portland, Monroe, all over! If you ever come over you can see how much has been cleared here since '72. It was woods all the way to the house origionaly. I haul 2 yards in it all the time of rock. I think it can pull a rock or two.

NWG - you are too great. Thank you.

sofer, sometimes you do that man thing and make things too complicated with too much stuff having to come out of the shed. boy thing. girls keep it simple.

Steve - I keep meaning to tell you that I've been coveting your "machine that sucks debris up, chews it up and spits it back out." Every time, and I mean every time, I'm cleaning up the beds (I have so many huge trees that drop __ap daily) I say to myself. Sofer has that cool machine . . .

kThe debris loader is the best purchase for my garden yet. Except my favorite trowell. I don't know what I will do when that has no more use. I use it for rock chipping, digging holes, pulling sod, cultivating garden, planting new plants, weeding, ...... I hope it never breaks. I am chipping my compost pile and moving it when it thaws and that will take Oh about 20minuets with the loader. Though the worms get separated and double in numbers each time. Actually I do it early in the spring so little worm production exists except at the bottom.

That shounds wonderful. Helping Mother Nature recycle, one debris load at a time.

Steve - have you considered driving the debris loader over this way in April, and hiring yourself out? LOL...

Steve,
What is your debris loader? Company that makes it? Sounds like I need one! I'm guessing they are quite pricey?

It is a 'Billy Goat' debris loader. I searched for over a year and bought one for 750 bucks in Michigan. I had to go there anyway to visit my family so it was no big deal. They run about 2700 new but there are lots on Ebay for less than 1/2 that. They are nothing but a motor and chipper wheel so not much to break. The one I got was from a landscaper who was getting a divorce. It is quite noisy so you need to know what your city laws are in regards to noise levels. I use protective head set. But it sucks up dirt, compost (new and old), pine needles, pine cones, grass, leaves etc. I also use it to load my mushroom compost from the horse barns into my trailer. I have used it to blow cow manure (dry from my trailor on to my large applications). With an 8" hole to suck from you can even collect last years mulch and blow it into the trailer and then put down compost and blow the bark back out. It is chipped up quite a bit but that only makes for great soil and worm heaven.

Seee, Steve???? Everybody's gonna want one.

Does it also chip small branches?

Here is the manufactorers website http://www.billygoat.com/site/categoryLobby.aspx?id=10 I'm in love!

Anything under 6 inches except large branches it chips and shreds. It is the best item you will ever buy. But look on Ebay. Many of them there under "debris loader"

Steve,
Six inches in diameter or length?

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6 " of Length. Nothing get the diameter of 6" but tree companies.

A girl can dream right? :0) So that means I need a billygoat and a industrial chipper!

We are going to get deleted if you continue with the metaphors. LOL

O.K. I promise to be good ;0)

Just chimin' in with an LOL here!