Zip Line Used To Transport Firewood

Zip Line Used To Transport Firewood MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT Miscellaneous Patrick Jeanquart uses a zip line to transport firewood over a deep ravine near his house It has saved him a lot of time and labor “Our home is on a small bluff overlooking Lake Michigan with a ravine about 30 ft deep between the house and an area we call the campsite ” explains Jeanquart “We like to have a bonfire there overlooking the lake when we have friends over ” However hauling wood with a wheelbarrow through the ravine didn’t appeal to him Jeanquart had already built a zip line between his house and the campsite for his son Zachary It retracts like a pulley-equipped clothes line using an electric drill He used wheelchair wheels as pulleys at either end of the zipline Making the zip line trolley into a wood carrier was a simple matter of tying a plastic trash barrel to a rope that hangs from a pulley on the trolley “We tie the rope on the trash can to the handles on the trolley and give it a push ” At the other end of the zip line Jeanquart’s son unhooks the barrel dumps it and reattaches it to the trolley to send it back With a 350-lb limit on the zip line trolley Jeanquart isn’t worried about overloading the barrel You can see a video of the firewood zip line at farmshow com Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Patrick Jeanquart Algoma Wis 54201 pjeanquart1@gmail com

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