How do you sleep at night with all these ideas spinning through your head. Your skill and ability is amazing!!! You could set up a viewing area for us to watch from! I don’t think you missed a thing. Outstanding. Just needs your logo!!!
GREAT IDEAS much more user friendly and SAFER!! I do believe there is no end to your ability to adapt tools to IMPROVE their use. good health and best wishes!
Great Job Doug- I think the electric winch and being able to drop cable through the center are great. If I ever have a need for a log arch, I would definitely follow your design. I have a tractor with a skidding winch, a log trailer with and grapple, and a John Deere 440C log skidder for moving logs.
Adam suggested your channel. I got hooked at ''there is a place for everything''. I totally agree. I've also fabricated a log arch as oneof my first welding project a few years ago and have been able to lift 1ton white pine logs so I'm quite happy with it.
Nice work as always Doug! Love the attention to detail on the cable keeper and bolt with rubber to keep the power clamps. You think of everything. Enjoy your day Around the Yard! - Brent
Nice job Doug. There are a few more mods I’d make… 1) add 2 more pulleys. 1- lower, centered in back below back pulley then other on vertical tongue. This way you could feed cable thru pulleys and pull log all the way to the front of arch without rehook. Same way forklift battery swapping carts do. 2) mount old hand crank winch perpendicular to frame on back saddle. Take cable out, down around log(s) and hook on other side. Crank hand winch to lift and cinch up logs, hook safety chains. Another winch could be utilized same way on front saddle as well. 3) add auxiliary battery box. Keep jumper cables there for back up or recharging. Toss in spare automotive/ boat battery when heading out. 4) wireless remote…if not already mentioned? I have a wireless remote 3 point uniforest 55h skidding winch and I tell you what, having that saves a lot of steps and frustration. And with 12,000lbs line pull, there ain’t to much than will stop it. There 2 things that will move…either log or tip over tractor
Add a roller a few inchs back from the winch. This will give you a bit more lift and keep the winch cable from binding on the spool from the direct downward force.
Made that mistake with a cable come along before. Binded the cable in-between itself and it was a nightmare to pull out also gave the cable a good kink
Love the changes Doug, But ! 1 You should've capped the tubing extensions ! 2 With the ability to drop the winch cable down the back bone now you probably wont use the upper pulley at the rear maybe set another one under the back bone where the extension meets the old back bone ? 3 Why not make a battery table on the log arch for a independent battery rather than trying to run cables to the sxs battery ? 4, Great job on making it better !
If you put a roller like on a pulley between the vew tubes protruding lower than the original rail ( leaving room for the clamp to go through ) you can pull the cable as far as you need to and pull the log and chain it up without rehooking.
I think it looks and will work great!! I'll jump over to Adams channel and check it out. I think it's great your channels work together. Just wondering.... How far are you two from each other? Have a Jesus filled day everyone Greg in Michigan
Nice upgrades! Too bad the arch at the back isn't any taller. If it were, you could've sloped or zig-zagged the top bar aft of the winch upwards. That would let the winch cable go directly from spool to log and you could drag it all the way in without needing to reset mid-pull. Then figure some way to relocate the rear pulley to be under the arch and you could eliminate the in/out over/under/over dance with the cable and grapple for each log completely
Rewached the video and thought some more... maybe replace the rear pulley with a snatch-block that the winch line is permanently threaded through? A couple chain links attached to the eyelet of the snatch-block and a few more welded on chain hooks would give you the flexibility to hook the block wherever along the frame is best for the particular lift or pull
Well done. Looks very useful. I didn't understand the 3" hole when you described it but once i saw it tacked up it made complete sense. You might consider a pair of wireless microphones when you guys are talking in a video or across the shop from the camera, in my opinion this will bring your videos to the next level. I dont mean to sound negative, if i did i apologize. I appreciate the content you provide, its always entertaining and educational.
I agree on the microphones. I have a set but haven’t had much luck with them. Sometimes they actually sound worse than none at all. Thanks for watching and keep the suggestions coming!
@One Eye Customs one suggestion I can offer is when you're welding hooks or d rings on some tubular steel, it was recommended to me and I agree that you should cut a piece of plate to a square the size of the tube and weld the hook or d ring to that and weld the plate to the tube so it spreads the pulling force on the tube. Not that you're doing it wrong, but since you said you like suggestions
great job doug, but what i saw immediately was you were trying to make the original stucture to do what it wasn't built for, i built mine out of 6 inch box tubing and was able to make it telescopic, your not thinking totally out of the box! i know that's not your unit!
Anything you can afford that gets you practice. I learned on a Miller welder so that’s what I bough myself. I prefer to buy better quality knowing I will keep it a very long time.
Great Video Doug. I can really relate to your videos. I'm always improving my equipment and tools. I'd love to see some more excavator mods. I recently bought a Bobcat E26 and I've put about 50 hrs on it. What kind of mods do you think we could come up with? Check my channel out. Thanks!
I will check it out. Here is a link to my excavator video with my modifications that may give you some ideas. Thanks for watching! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AeFVm16W-mg.html
"Exactly as if it was never cut off" would look NOTHING like that. it would look exactly like it did before you cut it off! Beginners work at best. look like something a 7th grader would do in jr Hight shop class. the welds look to be pretty nice though.
Looks great. You could add an Anderson connector to the end of your wire, and then put a pigtail on the side by side with an Anderson connector. It will make connecting to the side by side a lot easier. Then you could put an Anderson connector on the alligator clips, for use with vehicles that don’t have the pigtail.
Doug you design, build and use the best parts you can get.... The Manufacturer's nowadays build everything to fail as quick as possible to resale or replace to turn the tax dollar revenue over and over ...
my neighbor had the exact unit that i borrowed, i immediately could see the whole thing was too short, i built my own unit to handle 16 foot logs, it works much better!
with the added weight at the tongue, would it help to beef up the 2 45 degree buttresses? I would weld triangular steel sheets (1/4 inch should do) over the corners.
Lots of great improvements. I would suggest adding some chain hooks behind the winch so that you could have a 8-9' log suspended centered just in front of the wheels. That would keep the tongue weight down so that the ATV or UTV isn't tail heavy and has little weight for the steering. Other than that, it looks like a winner!!
This looks awesome, but do you think you might need a small pulley for the middle section to keep the winch cable from rubbing against the frame and damaging both? Just a thought...great job still!
As long as you hook the grapple back on the log farther than the distance the log is to touching the trailer tongue, it will never touch the frame. Stay tuned for Adam’s video on Hometown Acres.
That is a 1000% improvement over the original design. Awesome job on the entire process, that's why I have said that this is the best channel on RU-vid for ideas on how to make products better.
Well done Doug. I love the modifications you made. I just watched Adam's video. I clicked on the link to come over to your channel. I subscribed to your channel. I have been watching Adam's channel for couple of years. I love the relationship that you two have developed. You two are lucky to have each other. I own my own tree service business. And I sell firewood.
Like I have said before, Doug, "You're the Man". Another great video. Maybe some of the people in Washington should watch your channel and find a better way.
Very nice job. How about adding a roller/pulley so the cable does not rub the frame when picking up from below the wench. Second, add battery terminals from Summit Racing to make a very convenient power point at the back of the side-by-side.
I am Subscribed - Great video. Love the improvements. Like I stated to Adam - I wish I had my own land to go back in the woods and cut some fire wood. Just awesome. I was thinking about how you worked on this while it was getting dark and my neighbors have tolerated my Chainsaw after hours - I am sure I have gotten on their nerves with both my splitter and saw going at the same time. I live in the City and it's just not the same. One question - did you powder coat your work on this carrier? Sure looks like. Great Video and thanks for sharing.
Thank you, the carrier (log arch) was painted at the factory so when I made the alterations, I did the same. It was primed and then painted. It actually matched pretty well.
Great job. I love these videos. You always find a to make something useful even better and more handy! Keep up the good work! Im thankful Adam convinced you to start a channel! The knowledge, tips, and tricks you share are game changers!
The company that built it should pay you a stipend for redesigning and improving their original conception! Lots of great ideas, Doug! When will you start designing/building your new line of DAP's (Doug Approved Products). Stay well and stay safe!
Great job Doug 👏, Better design. I didn't think about the inner weld on the square tube.. so this addressed both length and front pull points perfectly like I had imagined.. can't wait to see you guy's getting to use it and you can always put that synthetic line on this winch.
I imagine that the manufacturer will see this video and they will have a new model at twice the price within the next year. Lets hope you see some royalties. Nice job.
Outstanding! This is why I love the channel - all the great ideas to take something good and make it awesome!!! Can't wait to see it working in the woods.
Doug you should add remote jump studs on the rear of the side by side so the bed does not need to be tilted and possibly add a pulley at the mid point or just behind the winch.
