It is a 28' BuiltRite (manufacturer) firewood conveyor. Cleated belt, hydraulic top drive, GX160.
It was a slow trip home. My intent was to pick it up, head back and get a motel at some point. I had left home at 3:00 am or something like that. Hit Fort Dodge just before noon, and left an hour later. I was long past the heavy truck traffic south of Chicago, and traffic north was very, very light. I stopped for coffee and a short break. It was dark and beginning to snow. Still felt good, but I was worried about the end of the thing and faster trucks, so several times I turned the four ways on until they got by. The magnetic lights were close to the end.
It actually gets quite low. In the second photo, the hand crank jack is mounted on the upper cross member. It also mounts below that, on the axle, much, much lower. It also had a slip tube, that could be pinned at different heights, as the jack itself only had about a ten inch travel. It is high in these photos to take weight off the quad. It could actually get too high, and the weight of wood has tipped it over, and slightly bent the top drum drive shaft. Took some effort to replace it. Lesson learned. No longer possible since I changed to a hydraulic lift cylinder. I bought it 02/26/2010, and gave $5,000. Bill of sale says it is a 2007.
I have some nice equipment that I try to keep up. The trade off is I drive an old mini van with a lot of miles on it. We did get a used pickup this February, but I'm still driving the van. I like it. The truck is high, and a step to get into. Now I know why the seats were all blown out in many of the trucks we looked at with only a hundred thousand miles.
