I’ve never been keen on lifting heavy stuff. When a friend was moving and asked me to help get his refrigerator in the truck or the mattress up the stairs… I took a pass. Offered to contribute to hiring a mover, but don’t lift heavy shit.

I’ve stacked a lot of logs, moved a bunch of rocks and helped Barb with some big ass flower pots. But I’m real careful about what and how I lift. 

I paid way too much for an electric winch (that was almost too heavy to lift!) and never did figure out how to use a come-along. 

I asked ChatGPT for ideas and she suggested a block and tackle (photo). I purchased a small one and gave it a try this afternoon by dragging a railroad tie up out of the woods.

My plan was to suspend it in a nylon “cargo net” and hoist it up on the pickup but it was too heavy for the small block and tackle.

Plan B was to just get it into the bed of the truck and that worked but two young guys could have made short work of this.

Once in the bed it was easy enough to slide it off and position it on the edge of our driveway (to keep me from backing down the hill)