winch anchor point

[murphy4trees]

My highest paying single stump in Va. after Isabel was $1,475.00
I didn't really want to do the job cause if things had gone badly, the machine would have ended up rolling down into a ravine in the woods.... Had to set up some ropes and pulleys to control the machine... And the cutomer wouldn't let me use any of his trees or plantings as anchors....
Because there are no rocks I fairly easily hammerred a 5' digging bar into the ground leaving less than 2' showing.... I backed that up with a metal fencepost as Spidy describes...
Removal was accomplised with another 5' bar used as a lever, tied to the sunk bar with a friction hitch similar to the french prussic, with 10 or more wraprs taken around the sunk bar...
Sorry MB your good ol' tautline just wouln't work here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Won't you please try joining us in the 21st Century????

 

[RescueMan]

Re: I just curious...

Originally posted by MasterBlaster
How do you get the stakes outta the ground after you've pounded them in?

If they're steel stakes, you can pound them sideways, back and forth, to loosen them up. But sometimes it takes some leverage. Just use a long bar lashed to the stake with a good friction hitch and place a fulcrum (rock?) under the tip of the lever and yank.

- Robert

 

[MasterBlaster]

Originally posted by murphy4trees

Sorry MB your good ol' tautline just wouln't work here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Won't you please try joining us in the 21st Century????

And won't you PLEASE leave me be over my choice of a friction hitch?

GEEZ!:alien:

 

[Lumberjack]

Re: I just curious...

Originally posted by MasterBlaster
How do you get the stakes outta the ground after you've pounded them in?

A high lift jack does wonders also.

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

Re: Re: I just curious...

Originally posted by Lumberjack
A high lift jack does wonders also.

how would you hold it in place????

 

[Lumberjack]

We commonly use them to pull up fence post and the like. For a metal bar in the ground, a prusick or other FH to the bar and a loop over the foot of the jack . Same as if you were using a lever. As for balancing the jack the footplate will probably sink in and hold it, or just put one hand on top of the jack.





On fence post they make an attachment to pull out fencepost that fits the lugs on the post.

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

many thanks..ive took it on board....the prob we had was we had an enourmous pollarded black poplar in the corner of a garden.the tree had 10inch max branches at trunk that where over 18 ft long way too thin and poorley attached to climb on...underneath tree 3 garden fences 2 sheds 1 greenhouse etc etc but customer had big garden and said we could drop it in one [tree had alean wrong direction]..dont worry about a few shrubs and i small fruit tree...no room for crane or bucket..and no anchor point to winch from hence my question..anyway put in a price 1 year later the trees still standing[iwasnt going to be beat even if it involved scaffolding lol] but a good anchor and winch would have done the trick