Make a Wood Carrier that's a Cinch

Make this simple, effective, and low cost wood carrier.  You only need two materials.  The picture probably tells you everything you need - but I am posting detailed steps and comments.

Traditional wood carriers take more materials and also do not take advantage of the cinching mechanism.  This works a bit like a dog "choke chain."  If you pull hard on one of those collars they slide to a tighter position.  The same thing will apply here.  The heavier the load of wood, the tighter the rope will bind.

NOTE:  For ease of illustration, the drawing has some significant visual exaggerations.
The pipe in the hand is the same dimension as the pipe down below near the wood cinch.
It's just easier to see the parts with the extremes presented this way...

Step 1: What you need.

This instructable does not require much! 

MATERIALS
2 feet of PVC
12 feet of rope

TOOLS
Saw
Drill
Scissors
Tape Measure

OPTIONAL ITEMS
Sandpaper to smooth sharp PVC edges.
Lighter to melt end of vinyl rope (if appropriate)

 

Comments

[Orngrimm]

Can also be made as makeshift-version:
- Replace the PVC with smaller logs/branches
- Dont drill into, but tie around the PVC/branch
This way, you theoretically only have to carry the 2 small ropes on your journeys :)

But nice instructable! Gave moe some ideas for my next hike and the wood-collecting-problems... :)

[bobzjr]

Orngrimm,

Good idea - nice insight that you could pull this off with just the rope...

On instructables, I really like learning things that maximize the benefit per unit of input. I think your idea might be even better with this equation. :)

[chris15252]

I like it! Simple and to the point, my kind of method.