We built two connecting 2-wheeler arches with electric winches connected to the ATV - hauls logs over 6m and >700kg without problem, max D=75cm. Good job, nice projects!

Again excellent design and workmanship!!

Good job, that's bringing the log out of the bush!

You really are a good logger, don't fight it, just do it Donn. I wish I could still get around cause I started in the logging and repairing them in 1956, we would be formidable. I could teach you how to splice cable and how to rig trees. and a host of other stuff

I am very impressed with your build and the use of the log arch. a nice solid piece of engineering. Well done!!

@DonnDIY

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Brilliant!

Bravo complimenti!!!!

wonderful job. beautiful place!

@DonnDIY

7 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Super idea Donn.Great!

@DonnDIY

9 жыл бұрын

FrogAnimation au Thanks, but not my idea. There are many manufacturers today whose products have similar operating principles and I'm pretty sure even they're not the authors of this idea. But it works brilliantly - moving wet and heavy logs around by hand is no problem for a skinny guy like me. :D

Nice design. Clean and industrial looking.

@DonnDIY

6 жыл бұрын

Cheers man!

Great work!

@DonnDIY

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks, mate!

Amazing

awesome job works great

@DonnDIY

6 жыл бұрын

Cheers, it does.

@ Stoneyburke - It was a different log arch for a tractor. The winch is for hauling several small logs at the same time - you can winch small logs up in a bunch.

@yohanaledezma5918

7 жыл бұрын

,j

Hey Donn, just found the blueprint sections and then came onto this smaller version of log arch and want to build two of these so I can haul out longer logs when needed. I also am going to be purchasing the log trailer and lifter blue prints. Sure do like your channel and have enjoyed watching you grow and become quite the fabricator and welder and machinist that you have become. Stay safe and I'll be ordering those blueprints by next month. Thanks for sharing. Fred.

Awesome job!!! Great design!!! Even the video and editing was superb!!! 👍

@DonnDIY

8 жыл бұрын

+ScoutCrafter Thanks!

Awesome job. I've built log skidding apparatuses before. Yours is damn good.

@DonnDIY

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks! This concept is inspired by LogRite products, because these where the first arches I saw on KZread and got the idea from. But I'm quite happy with it. ;)

@bigtater29

10 жыл бұрын

Ur welcome. It's amazing how much more weight you can move once you pick it up off the ground. You'd have a lot of trouble trying to pull a log half that size on the ground.

It's very very cool!

@DonnDIY

9 жыл бұрын

Ильнур Калин And one hell of a back saver when in need of moving logs without heavy equipment.

You are a genius with your creative ability to fabricate essential things for your needs. I will like your video.

@DonnDIY

9 жыл бұрын

Rasta Farian Thanks, man!

Incredible what that can haul.

Definitely the best and most simple design, wtih minimum 'fancy' stuff, just seems to work well! Well done dude!

@DonnDIY

7 жыл бұрын

It still works fine. I would make the next one a bit bigger for bigger diameter trees but this version is handy for smaller ones. Thanks man!

@darylhunt8866

7 жыл бұрын

Hey, thanks for the feedback! I live in a little part of what is known as the Garden Route in South Africa, we have some lovely indigenous forests here, but also plagued by wattle (exotic invaders) which suck up all the water, so I am wanting to try and utilise them for furniture - its a semi-hardwood, with a lovely grain. Very keen to build one of your logging arches to get these buggers out of the forest with minimum damage, but I can't weld... Would you be at all willing to share your design, so that I can get someone to make one up for me locally? I am sure I can find someone to do the job, just not able myself. We have just had hurricane level winds through this weekend, which has blown down a lot of these big trees here, unfortunately also made several fires here completely unmanangeable and destroyed many homes... anyway, I am hoping to make some of the damaged trees into something useful, perhaps with your help. Please email me on mail4daryl@gmail.com if you are willing. Thanks! Daryl

@samrodian919

7 жыл бұрын

Get yourself on a Mig welding course mate, you will never regret it!!

That is awesome. I need to build one like that. Would it be possible to get meassurements?

Pretty slick.

@DonnDIY

9 жыл бұрын

dadgad68 Pretty practical also. ;)

@dadgad68

9 жыл бұрын

For sure i use one too. Great job.

Genius!!

wow

amazing. I wish I could have plans of this build. the tongs are amazing. I see you took off the winch to use the tongs only? what diameter and length length log will this arch carry?

@DonnDIY

7 жыл бұрын

The plans are available here including tongs: youshouldbuildit.blogspot.com.ee/p/atvlogarch.html. I took off the tongs but didn't have the winch mounted at this point so I just pulled it with a tow strap. This arch will carry around 60 cm log in diameter (if I recall correctly) and 4 m long without dragging it.

nice!!!!

@DonnDIY

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

👍

nice job good. im.srilanka

@DonnDIY

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

класс!!!

@DonnDIY

8 жыл бұрын

+Андрій Мороз Thanks!

Very impressive, you make it look so simple. How much do you think that stick weights?

That's awesome. What kind of axles and hub did you use?

@DonnDIY

3 жыл бұрын

Off the shelf axles and hubs from a trailer shop.

I need one big time!

@DonnDIY

10 жыл бұрын

58belvedere Would a simple drawing of the arch get You closer to getting one? :P

@donmiller509

10 жыл бұрын

***** what part of the country are you from?? love this log arch..I want one..send me drawings please!!!! DON509

@paulvanderzwet4613

8 жыл бұрын

+Donn D. Don I love the simplicity & function of this. could I get a 'simple' drawing? Thanks, Paul

BEL ATTREZZO 👍👍👍👍

that's just plain old cool.

@DonnDIY

9 жыл бұрын

davidtamad1 :)

I guess it's okay if you don't have a tractor and it's flat ground. However on steep ground I would prefer a tractor with a winch, with that you have a long cable to pull the log out of the wood and then you can skid it away.

@DonnDIY

8 жыл бұрын

That's for sure you can't use lightweight ATV for pulling heavy logs uphill. We have a pretty flat ground here, some gullies here and there but that's it. What I prefer working with ATV is I don't have to cut a lot of trees down to get into the woods like you'd have to do when using a tractor. The trees just naturally grow in such distance from each other so ATV can pass through them. And it's fun to ride also. ;) The old tractors we have here not so much. :D

@khFokke1895

8 жыл бұрын

Well we have some old small tractors here that are good for maneuvering in the woods like the old Ferguson 35 and we use shop made winches mostly. However double traction sometimes is a must so a bigger tractor is needed, especially with big oak and beech logs. I'm from Serbia

brilliant time we do tables with the trunk?

@DonnDIY

8 жыл бұрын

We do that too.

That's using the ol' noodle.

Having some real difficulty sourcing that hub. Do you have a manufacturer or online store where I can find that in the US?

What is the size of the weels ?

Price in india Is it easily available in india

What size ATV?

@DonnDIY

7 жыл бұрын

500cc.

Good afternoon how much would it cost for you to built.me.o e.of these lumber arc please

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1:10 на стропе такое опасно делать

OMG! A using a German made chainsaw in Sweden???

salam

amz !

how come you did not show the time and effort it took you to winch the log up in the air. with my john deere gator i would of had that tree all bucked up and dumped at the splitter in the same time you just hooked that silly manual trailer thing up to the log.

@DonnDIY

8 жыл бұрын

+charles schwab I didn't winch it up, no need for a winch: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pKKB2bxtm8iZZ6w.htmlm37s I'm using the frame of the arch as a lever to lift the log and then attach the front of it with a chain and off I go to the sawmill. The log touches the ground only when the tree falls down and second time when it hits the sawmill. Nice and clean log. ;)

@damonr2233

6 жыл бұрын

Never mind the fact that that log looked like pine of some sort. Don’t know about you folks but I don’t burn pine ! Hell of a job on the arch ! I like the kiss (keep it simple stupid ) using only mechanical advantage.

thats stupid! I can already see a downhill crash... LOL

Just too cool!

@DonnDIY

7 жыл бұрын

Cheers!