I love the way it’s cantilevered on those logs. Lots of modelling ideas there.
Cheers
N
Rick,
I can’t speak for Mike but one of the thing I am looking forward to what you come up with using our work as a starting point.
I can pretty safely say I think Mike will supply whatever extra pieces you may need. I’d for one be happy to design anything that maybe needed as Mike can always add to his list of “add on” detail parts. Don’t be afraid to hit him up and put me to work. Mike and I were talking today and I think one of the best complements we can receive is pictures of our models turned into works of art.
And if anyone can do it, you certainly can and will.
John and Rick.
Mike has a crane I designed for him with a lattice boom. Maybe those parts would work. I also made a boom attachment for log booms for the Willamette. It is for round logs though.
If that helps any.
Devon,
Found this webpage and thought it might be of use to you.
Bob
This might also be useful! 
Unless you’d rather buy! 
https://www.amazon.com/Aluminum-Waterproof-Dustproof-Nourishing-Elastic/dp/B07Q4ML8B3/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=tin+foil+hat&qid=1684077220&sr=8-6
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Rick
Anyting I can provide just send me a message.
Thanks very much Mike, I appreciate the offer and will take you up on it, hopefully you can extend this out a ways as I have a couple of projects in the pipeline ahead of this.
Right now I am concentrating on getting the railroad up for the season and I have a scratch build of a 1936 Model 320 Fairbanks Morse stationary engine that I am trying to pull together.
From this video
That’s an interesting design John in that it has no cable drums. That’s the first I have seen of any like that. Each of the six are “capstan” style winches. For those unfamiliar a capstan winch does not store cable on a spool. In stead you make a wrap or two around the drum with a rope or cable and you “haul” it in by applying some continuous tension to the cable and it pulls the cable in and you gather the loose end in a pile or some sort of receiving device. When the cable or rope is retrieved you simply unwrap it and haul it away.
There are several reasons to do that. One that I just recently learned was interesting. When they first started using these things as skidders they drug the cable down to the logs using horses. You can imagine a cable large enough to skid logs would get pretty heavy several hundred feet down the hill. So a man didn’t have the strength to do it. So they would use horses to drag the cable back down the hill to the logs.
They then started incorporating the capstan winch with a smaller cable or usually a rope. The rope was fed from the skidder, down to the logs, through a block (pulley), and as the logs were skidded up to the skidder they attached the rope and it got pulled up with them. Then after the logs were disconnected the rope was used to pull the cable back down by using that capstan winch to retrieve the rope.
But this machine is a set of 6 capstan winches and I am curious as to its use.
Interesting video Bob. I kinda figured this is how this sort of ore/coal retrieval system worked but never have seen it in action.
That hoist you got will be perfect for such an operation.
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Devon, What you described they called a “haul back line” I guess for obvious reasons 
Fascinating. Open contactors (on each end) for control, and overhead power rails.
If the dude stood up during the ride or scratched his leg the wrong way, he’d have a very interesting work day.
Just saying and staying on topic with something for Devon to think about and keep busy?
Yes and I have to say I agree because I need to make that 20 character limit which was my fault. However everything is my fault anyway and I feel you need a pickle plant with pickle cars. That will keep you BUSY!
You’re , Your RR has it’s own rules which belong to you and you only. …I left out "you are " as it does not fit into the preposition !
You crack me up my friend. But i am glad we agree on one thing “everything is your fault”. And your “intersting” opinions are always welcome in my book.
As much as i like pickles. . . Ill pass. Lol
Cliff on closer inspection I think the wires go to the motors and his hand is on the bell, and the 2 armed thing is the headlight and it swings to the other direction when needed.
I sent the pic to Mike, our local 3D printing Guru. 
And no, Rooster, not the Amcrap pics! 