Ideas For Moving Rounds Around Yard?

[highanddryinco]

I do have a cone that I made out of metal. It's just ok, but obviously a beta version. It's round, a little cumbersome, and doesn't work quite as well on the logs over 15" or so. Probably should just buy the plastic one and be done with it. Most times I just knock off the log edges with my Stihl log sharpener. It helps.
Yeah, I built that tree/pole bracket after using the strap a couple of times.

 

[rottiman]

Due to old age and medical limitations I am no longer able to process logs or rounds. I now have to buy my wood c/s. This is how I move it between my shed and the house. Each box load lasts 3-4 days. I back up to my raised patio deck and roll it off. It has heavy duty casters on it so it rolls really easy.

 

[Dan Freeman]

Smart idea @rottiman. Can you tell me a little bit about that utility vehicle? Make? Is that a forklift on the back? I'm looking for a good UTV with a plow. I'm approaching 66 and it's time to look at something like this. Thanks.

 

[gthomas785]

 

[rottiman]

Smart idea @rottiman. Can you tell me a little bit about that utility vehicle? Make? Is that a forklift on the back? I'm looking for a good UTV with a plow. I'm approaching 66 and it's time to look at something like this. Thanks.

Not a UTV. Kubota BX 2680 sub compact tractor 26 hp 4wd hydro static trans. Rear lift is a 3ph

 

[peakbagger]

This one works pretty good



And these two combined even better

 

[Dan Freeman]

Thanks @rottiman . I can see it better with these pictures.

 

[bigdaddy100]

you should buy a large excavator with large bucket

 

[longislandcamper]

I just got a delivery of rounds this week that I'll be splitting next month. Luckily he was able to dump a lot closer to my splitting area than I was expecting.

 

[salecker]

I just got a delivery of rounds this week that I'll be splitting next month. Luckily he was able to dump a lot closer to my splitting area than I was expecting.


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Nice load of wood
with your weather that should last a while

 

[longislandcamper]

I finally got around to moving some rounds I had delivered about a month ago. I’ve been using a heavy duty hand truck with pneumatic tires. I’ll stand the rounds up and get the hand truck under them. Then I jam an axe on the top outer edge of the round to help get some leverage as until the hand truck back. I push the hand truck with one hand while the other hand is holding the axe handle keeping the round stable.

 

[twd000]

I bought an old barrel dolly on Craigslist

They're designed to lift and move 55-gallon barrels around a warehouse. I replaced the hard wheels with wheelbarrow tires and added a metal brace between the hooks to secure the rounds

I shuffle the round onto the hooks then tip the dolly upright, using a pickaroon when necessary. Then it rolls like a wheelbarrow around the yard. When I reach the splitter, I tilt it back down and the table height is just about right to roll the log from the dolly to the splitter