Custom built 17.5' aluminum dump trailer...used rollback bed and new boat trailer. 9000# winch. Pulled that log out of a suburban yard by playing pinball with block and tackle through the guy's yard until I got it on the driveway. Backed up with the trailer and winched it up.
It took me somewhere around ten to twelve days to chop and stich that trailer together. Just about everything was retrieved from e-bay (in the end it cost me seven thousand bucks...a tad less than half of what I was quoted to build). The boat frame was a lot longer and I had to cut off and re-bend the front of it. Axles were wider...had to shorten them. Flipped the bed upside down and beefed it up a good bit. Sold the rollback portion of the bed frame (didn't need it...added quite a bit of extra weight). Most useful dumper I've ever owned. Weighs a ton and a half empty, but can haul and dump five tons all day long. Hydraulic brakes on all three axles.
I ended up adding a third cylinder towards the front that pushes directly upwards for 18" which takes off a tremedous amount of initial stress off the rear mounts since the cylinders push forwards. Cycle time is 45 seconds, dump angle is 44 degrees or so.
I like the running gear thing. Are those street legal?
here's how I move a log.
That's sweet.
Small LogRite arch, unloading my trailer.
And their ATV arch, with the grizzly 660 pulling off an eight footer.
And backing one off.
When we get to the really BIG logs, we break out the oxen.....All of them!
Where did you get that little rig,deeker?I need one for my little tractor
LogRite ATV arch.
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