The ideal firewood trailer...

[CUCV]

A dump trailer made from a flat bed and insert, two units into one, but can be seperated easily and quickly.....now that right there is a good idear.

Yeap, only 4 bolts and the insert slides off the trailer.

 

[Junkfxr]

I have two trailers that get used for firewood. The most used one is a 6x10 high profile dump with a cheap 8k electric winch on the front and a pick up hoist from HF with a 2500lb electric winch mounted on the right rear corner. Cut the logs in 9' lengths, winch them to the back of the trailer, pick the end up with the hoist and winch them the rest of the way in. The other is a
6 1/2' x 18' flat bed with square tubing stuck in the stake pockets. I sure wished there was a knuckle boom on the tongue. They get pulled around with a 95 K2500 HD, 454 with 183,000 miles. Not only do pintles keep peole from borrowing them, they also articulate better than a ball coupler off road.

 

[Firewolf]

cummins are better than powerstroke in every possible way, but i am a bit dodge bias lol

I will Agree with Ram Power --------- Humin Cummins
98 2500 4x4

 

[KMB]

A dump trailer made from a flat bed and insert, two units into one, but can be seperated easily and quickly.....now that right there is a good idear.

+1

Kevin

 

[Butch(OH)]

Don't want to derail the thread but a pintle hitch keeps people from borrowing?? You guys must have amateur trailer borrowers. All that would do for me is Id have to say :censored: NO! when they wanted to borrow my pick up too.

2001 I bought a brand new Moritz 18' gooseneck hitch trailer. Within 10 minutes (swear to it) of having it home some dude I hadn't seen since high school wanted to borrow it, and my truck. When he didn't understand NO I asked if he understood :censored: NO!!

Last summer I bought a 14' landscaper trailer to haul our mowers. You know, cheapo angle iron trailer with light axles made just for lawn mowers. Never had a load on it and wife's nephew borrowed it and bent up a fender. Since it has a ball hitch every two bit trucker wannabie wants to borrow it to haul 15 tons of rocks, a 1961 caddy, a 5020 John Deere or an armed personal carrier.

I have quit second guessing myself about saying no in the most direct and impolite ways. I keep a stack of business cards from the dealer I buy trailers from. "oh you don't thave money to by one? Then you must no have money to fix mine when you trash it?? Sorry I need a trailer or I wouldn't own one and I don't have money to fix it either,,, good by.

 

[gink595]

Correct me if I'm wrong. If you put a pintle hitch on the truck and trailer to keep people from borrowing your stuff, if they are borrowing the trailer wouldn't they just have to ask to borrow the pintle reciever as well??

 

[psych038]

i already have to many project but i plan on fixing up an old pickup bed trailer that dad has had for years. its a utility box wich kinda cuts down on hauling space but... i can keep all my saws tools stuff etc. in it and locked. it is still a 4x8 box and i wont have to unload all my crap when i get home from the timber.

 

[beerman6]

The "Ideal firewood trailer"

I've been looking and thinking about this topic for a few days...and y'all have some great ideas,BUT I think the "IDEAL" firewood trailer is one that is always full... :monkey:

 

[wdchuck]

I've been looking and thinking about this topic for a few days...and y'all have some great ideas,BUT I think the "IDEAL" firewood trailer is one that is always full... :monkey:

Self loading,

Wood forage autopilot, and runs on hydrogen too.

smarty pants.:greenchainsaw:

 

[Mr. Firewood]

Correct me if I'm wrong. If you put a pintle hitch on the truck and trailer to keep people from borrowing your stuff, if they are borrowing the trailer wouldn't they just have to ask to borrow the pintle reciever as well??

not when the pintle is bolted to the frame of my truck

as far as wanting to borrow my truck, well only one person has asked and that person helps me out tremendously and is a over the road truck driver so I said yes, other then that the smallest truck I own is a 98 Ram 1 ton dually that everyone is afraid to drive, everything else is larger

 

[dolmen]

I've been toying with the idea of getting a new trailer, but as I only have a family saloon car, I don't need anything too big.

I was thinking of a dump type trailer that was 4.5'w x 4'h x 10'L this was giving me 180cf of thrown firewood. I'd read on here somewhere about what was fair as a tipped load to equal a built cord at 128cf.

What you folks think of my idea? size of trailer? idea in general?

Thanking you in advance

Cheers

 

[captndavie]

Well Chuck, I have a start on you, My 97 Super Duty that the boys and I built last winter. No bed hoist but now has a 2000 Lb jib hoist to lift the biggens up on the bed.My trailer is a year away awaiting funding but I have a 4000 Lb rated knuckle boom to weld on the front end of the trailer, a pto pump, tank and lines for the truck And a 10,000 LB Carco whinch if need be.

The ole SD

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Nice truck! Anyone ever convert these older fsuperduty trucks to 4x4?