Post #72917 by captnkirk on Tue, Jan 27, 2004 4:13 PM

There is a device I have used several times called a "Spanish Windlass" I learned about it when I was in Boy Scouts.

It allowed me and some other skinny kids to pull up a 1000 pound tower which was 40 feet tall, and two of us to easily drag around huge rocks over 500 pounds.

You need two large (5-7 foot) sticks or logs lashed into "T" shape and some flexable "low strech" rope, cable or chain that will not break when loaded. Tie a rope from the object you want to move to some immoveble object. Insert the base of the T in the slack rope and twist it. Now one person holds the base of the T level and allows it to turn and everyone else cranks the arms of the T around so the rope is wound onto the shaft from both directions.

http://www.inquiry.net/outdoor/skills/b-p/windlass.htm

Two adults can easily pull a car out of ditch like this. You should easily be able to stand up a 800 pound tiki if you can rig it right.

[ Edited by: captnkirk on 2004-01-27 20:17 ]