TLDR: For those who revel in the idea of solving a problem, and don't think, so much, about the cost until they are well into it...
Back over here, CIRENHOJ asked about getting wood UP out of a ravine, as opposed to "just" (remembering that "nothing is hard for the man who will not be doing it") going to the bottom and removing it from there.
To summarize, the consensus seemed to be, if it really HAD to be done, to use a sled of some sort (inverted car hood was favored) either as a cart for rounds or as a "front-end" for short logs.
A couple of respondents however mentioned using a tripod "or derrick" to suspend a cable, which must have stuck in my head because this morning I woke up with an incomplete picture in my head of a sequence of tripods up/down the side of the ravine for a "rope trolley."
After that, the picture kind've faded out... Having imagined a set of tripods with a rope running through pulleys I suspended underneath them, I couldn't picture how to use that rope. Ideally, I'd need to suspend something under the pulleys that I could run a trolley over.
I found this on Amazon, described as "Trolley Assembly,2 Wheel Trolley Rollers for Use with 1-5/8" Wide and All 1-5/8" or Taller Strut Channel."
The vision turned into, unless the amount of wood to be recovered is large, moving wood in stages up-hill by suspending a "few" lengths of unistrut under tripods and winching rounds, or ends of short logs from station to station with one of these trolleys. A more imaginative fellow would suspend saplings under the tripods and come up with a trolley design that would run along the saplings. As I suggested at the outset, this isn't necessarily about finding the easiest firewood to harvest, but about making something that looks impossible possibly feasible.
![[Hearth.com] Hauling wood up ravine (reviving)](https://www.hearth.com/talk/attachments/unistrut-pulleys-jpg.329511/ "[Hearth.com] Hauling wood up ravine (reviving)")
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Back over here, CIRENHOJ asked about getting wood UP out of a ravine, as opposed to "just" (remembering that "nothing is hard for the man who will not be doing it") going to the bottom and removing it from there.
To summarize, the consensus seemed to be, if it really HAD to be done, to use a sled of some sort (inverted car hood was favored) either as a cart for rounds or as a "front-end" for short logs.
A couple of respondents however mentioned using a tripod "or derrick" to suspend a cable, which must have stuck in my head because this morning I woke up with an incomplete picture in my head of a sequence of tripods up/down the side of the ravine for a "rope trolley."
After that, the picture kind've faded out... Having imagined a set of tripods with a rope running through pulleys I suspended underneath them, I couldn't picture how to use that rope. Ideally, I'd need to suspend something under the pulleys that I could run a trolley over.
I found this on Amazon, described as "Trolley Assembly,2 Wheel Trolley Rollers for Use with 1-5/8" Wide and All 1-5/8" or Taller Strut Channel."
The vision turned into, unless the amount of wood to be recovered is large, moving wood in stages up-hill by suspending a "few" lengths of unistrut under tripods and winching rounds, or ends of short logs from station to station with one of these trolleys. A more imaginative fellow would suspend saplings under the tripods and come up with a trolley design that would run along the saplings. As I suggested at the outset, this isn't necessarily about finding the easiest firewood to harvest, but about making something that looks impossible possibly feasible.
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