Here's my wood hauler. I regret not buying a double axle trailer, but this one is small enough to wander through trees behind my tractor. It's also great for small errands, such as dump runs, etc.
Thing is freaking awesome! So glad i bought it and not the single axle 12 footer i had planned on buying.
I use this when I'm not on my place- 24' gooseneck- 16' tilt + 8' fixed deck. I can put 6 crates on the front, plus one more on the forks, and still tilt the trailer to load the skid loader (so about 2 cords). It also has a receiver hitch on the back to pull the log splitter.
I didn't read through the whole thread but there are a lot of great trailers out there, I'm envious to say the least. What I don't get in my truck I put on my snowmobile trailer, if it's a ways away. Nice to meet you Wise8706 . Great people here with knowledge that is priceless. I burned for decades and learned many things upon coming here. An old dog can learn new tricks.
Leaving the city dump There are 3 piles of wood like that. Im in between 2 of them in that picture, the 2nd one is behind/under me. I climbed half way up it to take that picture.
I keep reading about these wood dumps and such. Where are these fantasy lands where wood sits in giant piles for you to pull up to and cut? Why is it bucked? From tree services or people that tossed it to hand carry to street?
I thought the exact same thing... last winter I would go past part of the power company station, they had a field about the size of a football field with a huge oak in the middle. They had logs in the field but I hadn't had the time or way to really see what the logs were about. Then I walked up to the station offices, NOBODY AROUND! I left a note and then drove down to the log area. Luckily I saw a service truck coming out and hailed them down. Then asked about this. Seemed like the general consensus is that its anyone who wants to pick and cut. It really diminished since I first saw it. But I got there, looked and came back within an hour and started cutting. Id guess ask power company or the dump, if they have trees that they allow people to cut at their leisure. Best shot is to ask.
Around here there is too much demand for wood for it to be dumped somewhere by tree trimmers. Either they sell it as cordwood, or they chip it and sell it to the power companies here for their biomass boilers. My cousins kid works full time for a tree trimming company processing logs into cord wood that they sell.
After big health crisis, I'm pretty much starting over from scratch. I resurrected a 20 year old 5'x8' utility trailer that has been sitting under a tree unused and rusting for the last two years. The old stake sides had disintegrated several years ago, so in addition to putting on new lights with wiring and tongue hardware, I had to build new stake sides on the trailer and reline the bed. What would have taken me a morning several years ago now took me half a week, but the results ain't bad. (I'll pull it with the 1992 Dodge Ram 50 - a Mitsubishi Mighty Max, 2.4liter 4 cyl, 2wd sold by Dodge - in the background. It only has 73,000 original miles, and it's a great little truck. I just replaced the rear step bumper, which had rusted out, so I could use it to tow this trailer.)
Those eye hooks hanging from the bumper don't hit things ? I have the same truck at the farm. There pretty anemic. My carb is junked up from sitting.
The safety chain hooks wouldn't fit the holes in the new step bumper. I didn't intend the eye hooks to be that long but to get heavier ones that was all they had. I bent them up towards the rear with a digging bar. Frankly it makes them a lot easier to hook up when you have balance trouble with bending/crouching. One more thing - this one is definitely not anemic. It runs very well for a little 4 cylinder. You just have to remember its just a 4 cylinder!
That will get the job done Brian. Down here those trucks were sold as Mitsubishi tritons. (We call em Utes.) I have seen many hauling wood over the years. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
