2 1/2; 5 1/2; 7.0; 10.5 &18 Horsepowers

Here is a very interesting different woodlands wood-moving machine-system.
Get to 15:14 and see it is man riding capable too.
Swedish?? No YouTube CC.
Maybe one of our members can listen and comment.
Search up and post a manufacturers website? With English.
Seems to be factory built. Not D.I.Y.

This was the direction Jeff Davis was developing into.
What the economist E.F. Schumacher promoted with his developed Small Is Beautiful advocacy.
A simple IC engine 10 horsepower and less, put to effective working.
S.U.

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Here. An in English presentation:

Web site address at 17:22
Enjoy.
Steve Unruh

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That is Jonsered Järnhästen (the iron horse) very good machine, almost runs on muddy water :wink:
First video is Swedish by the text, (i don’t watched it yet)
Those machines are used much to carry out elk from the woods when hunting. Me and my father logged alot with one of these when i was young, it’s amazing how much it carries, our was only 5,5hp.
Until you learn to not try to pull it it’s a little hard, but when you learn to just walk and guide it through the woods it’s a sunday walk.

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Ok while on a mission to find ways of chipping wood for my gasifier ,i came across this , its what every boys toy cupboard should have .
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005955613072.html?spm=a2g0o.productlist.main.65.6cd236f2ODaCeX&algo_pvid=e02ca7f7-190c-4b1a-8450-d106336216b1&algo_exp_id=e02ca7f7-190c-4b1a-8450-d106336216b1-32&pdp_npi=4%40dis!USD!8579.00!4203.71!!!8579.00!!%402103209b16998765293185252e26fc!12000035015238735!sea!AU!5808963!&curPageLogUid=jcr5QJOXNR2z
Dave

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Did you see a version with the winch on it, that goes right up the tree? :slight_smile:

Just FYI, You can shortern the url and remove everything after the html? part. The rest of it is cookies and tracking. :slight_smile:

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Just FYI, You can shortern the url and remove everything after the html? part. The rest of it is cookies and tracking. :slight_smile:

Living and learning on DOW.

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Just in case you’all think I am slacking.
Dirt and compost capacity testing. Well rotted horse manure:


Over stacked to a measured 12 cubic feet. Ran it around and handles well.

Better hight for shovel unloading into the 32 inch high raised beds than a standard wheel barrow.
And can travel fit between the raised beds with a 90 degree square turn:

Then maximum wood carrying test. I was trying for 20 cubic feet:





Yeah-yeah. I should have chainsawed the maple windfall sections shorter.
And I should have put two rachet straps wrappers on it, binding it all tight.
Was too far to walk back for those. I was tired getting, and lazy. Pushing into dogs walking time.

Do see I need to weld up some rebar side carrying bunks to not stress the factory side boards.
~5 hours working it now. Time for the first oil change.
This B&S Chinese engine sure idles down sweet, and has lots of torque.
Regards
Steve Unruh

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Well it sounds like Christmas , but i don’t see no snow on the ground !

Have fun will travel slowly .

Dave

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I didn’t think you folks EVER had snow on the ground for christmas. :slight_smile:

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Steve, let me tell you a story, …
My brother Pavel built a wooden building himself, he used heavy wooden beams, which he processed with simple tools, a chainsaw, a chisel, an ax and he had an old tractor with a modified telescope from a forklift to lift the load, well, a neighbor comes by, something for a while he watches how he lifts a heavy wooden beam and says “it’s easy for you, because you have machines”. :grin:

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As Dave said, it must be like christmas :smiley:
Makes workinglife at home a bit easier and fun

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Obviously if your brother is anything like you, then the two of you could have done it without tractor. :slight_smile: It is a good thing, you weren’t there. The neighbor would have been confused, and claimed witchcraft or aliens must have done it.

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Good morning All.
When I set up this topic my usages of 2 1/2 horsepower applications are all 2-strokes IC’s.
My 5-5 1/2 horsepower equipments are a mix of 2-strokes and 4-stroke IC engines.

A newly released video showing the guts working in a 2-stroke chainsaw. Other small 2-stroke applications will be similar. The chainsaw, and a few others, have been systems designed to have all positioning usability. A very few 4-stroke have been designed for all position usages too.
Some know these well. Some not. A video review is great none-the-less. Better’n watching strictly entertainment videos.

Regards
Steve unruh

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Yeah Steve. they are an amazing machine. Up here in Canada a commercial size saw ( about 100 cc ) costs C$ 1500 and working 200 days a year 8 hour days can last 1-2 years before starting to weaken . Loaded down to 9000 revs and probably 3-4 actual use hours that is still a lot of piston strokes! For home use they can last decades. I can still buy some OEM parts from the dealer for a Husky 2100 that quit being made in the late 80s. Better product support than most things.

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Steve’s Yardmax looks like the solution for his situation, with the hill and load. We’ve tried a couple of other ideas that probably won’t do hills like his, but have been useful on our flatter terrain. One is based on the old Chinese wheelbarrows, with one wheel centered in the cargo area. Here’s more pictures than you need, but interesting:

https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/12/how-to-downsize-a-transport-network-the-chinese-wheelbarrow/

My son built something similar using a pallet with a 26" bike wheel centered under it. He cut the rear triangle off the bike, screwed it to the pallet, and added some bracing. He also added handles, and rear feet so it stands by itself on reasonably level ground. I’ve had 150 lbs, say 70 kilos of feed on it. Only once :slightly_smiling_face:. But for 50 kilos of scythed hay, it works really well. Unlike the Chinese barrows, all the weight is above the wheel, so it does take some balancing. But it will go any place your feet will, as long as there’s room where the pallet is.

I wondered about two wheels to avoid the balance issue. I put wheelchair wheels on another pallet, with axles centered on the edge of the pallet, and added a U-shaped handle like a garden cart. No worries with balance, but less nimble, and more work since you’re pushing down instead of forward. It’s a little easier to load hay, since it’s lower. Weight capacity is similar, with this one limited by the wheels’ attachment strength instead of limited balance.

My son can handle more weight on the single-wheel barrow, since he’s a little taller and a little (at least a little) stronger. If the handles were set lower, balancing might be easier for me.

One last crazy idea. I found this looking for wheelbarrow ideas and photos. I won’t spoil the surprise, and I’m not sure what to do with it. Maybe I could haul firewood up hill, out of the narrow greenhouse door. FWIW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTJOxyz6nd0&t=381s

Have a blessed Christmas if I don’t bother you with any more crazy stuff!

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Not so crazy at all.
If you can walk it; you can loads transport along it. Getting the load off of the man but onto a single brake-capable wheel. And now that wheel can even be electric motor tractive powered:

S.U.

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Here’s one more versatile than most:

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Motorized.

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This kind of idea can help with all kinds of chores too.

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I have seen 1960’s version of the single wheel snow shovel in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Kansas as well as Michigan to the north. Michigan is also known for an almost 3 foot wide shovel/ plow that you never lift off of the ground. This year so far the great lakes region has escaped snow for the most part.

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