Post #226543 by Swanky on Thu, Apr 13, 2006 10:10 AM

My two cents. First, avoid dropping the log on concrete. I've seen large logs break concrete. I wondered how the guy I get New Guinea stuff got the giant poles in his backyard around. He said on the islands it was easy to get a bunch of guys to pick it up and load it for him. In the the US he had some truck put them in his back yard. Old ways are best though. You might easily get some 300-500 capacity tires and make a cart, but, the axles and all would be tested and it would not work well. Rolling it on pipes would be the easy way as long as you could strap it to something to keep it from going too fast and getting away from you. I would think you would carve it in place though and not want to move it after it's done.

I have been considering getting a huge log and putting a massive tiki in the corner of my yard. It would require a good bit of roughing with a chainsaw though. If I can get that done first and then the log delivered where I could carve at my leisure, that would be ideal. That's on down the road though.