You can put places in places you didn't know you had. 
Yeah. In this case the best places are a coupla inches above and in front of two crossmembers. I'm kinda reluctant to weld on the mill, so I'm going to make a clamp-on mounting. (And that way there's no evidence left behind if it doesn't work
)
Brucer, trying to figure out how to keep the double cable long enough to do any good yet short enough to keep from having to move the factory snatchblock?
That
did take a bit of figuring. First time I tried it, the log was half way up the ramps before one end decided to go back down. The hook on the main cable just slipped along the yoke and let the log do what it wanted to do
. This left me worse off because I now had a cable firmly holding the high end up there.
Second time around I made a loop in the yoke and put the hook through that. I worked OK, but I'd figured the length wrong and didn't quite get the log up on the deck
.
It finally occurred to me that it doesn't matter too much that the yoke isn't helping when the log is at the bottom of the ramp. I can brace my Peavy on the ground and pry the log straight. It's when the log gets well up the ramp that I need the yoke, and that's just where it starts to do its job.
Lifting the low end isn't an option for me with some of the logs I have to deal with. Not unless I get a crane to do the lifting
.
Dan, that's a nice setup. I imagine it's a bit quicker to switch it into a log turner than the WoodMizer arrangement.
