Nice work there Therrin.
Back busting aint worth it man. Get a trolley! We use trolleys all the time, the biggest we've loaded ours upto must have been a 1.7m tall black butt log with 80cm wide. Not one strain was taken loading it either.
You can get a cheap and nasty one that will probably break within a month or two or you can get a little more expensive one and it will last forever. I believe Sherrills has a REALLY nice one, actually made for logs... That one looks a beaut' but comes in at about $300 AUD I believe.
Oh plus fabricate yourself some nice sturdy ramps too or the whole lot if you like.
Psst, take a look at our loader
Our Loader
Hey you know how I'm always going on (nagging and nitpicking like an old wife if you like
) about proper technique and deploying it is the best form of PPE? Well I noticed in this pic:
That you were holding the saw the other way around... Right hand on the top, left on the rear - While bucking, that is a very dangerous - bad stance. If that saw kicksback (major) it's gunna fly back and hit you in the neck/trap/shoulder and REALLY hurt you. The way we minimize that potential impact is by always holding the top with our left and rear with our right while always looking at the left hand side of the bar (never the right!) - that way if it kicks back in theory it is going to fly up and past your body, at the most it will hit your shoulder minimizing any fatal injuries...
In class our teacher got us to use a stopwatch. Hit Start then stop as fast as we could. The reason being it takes 1/15 of a second for a saw to kick back and reach your body. Nobody could beat 1/16 with complete concentration on the stopwatch. So imagine how you'd fair to a kickback absolutely no where near the same amount of concentration.
Once again, nice work mate, kewl pics (hey who takes them?) - a good interesting thread.