Years ago my Dad made a trailer using a '37 Chevy straight front axe with the steering pivots welded in place. The tow vehicle was a '65 Ford Falcon with 170 cu in inline 6 cylinder and 3 on the tree shifter. We hauled a lot of wood with that combo. Later, he bought a Ford Ranger and used it until he throwed-in the towel on cutting wood. The truck was 2 wheel drive.
Nice thing about the truck was it being compact and you could get into the woods and around tight places. Bad thing was it was 2 wheel drive and geared pretty high so sometimes it was tricky getting where you needed to go.
The old Falcon with trailer was nice in that you could back the trailer into the brush/limbs and not worry about any scuffing or scratching!
My wood hauler set-up is a Jeep Wrangler with a 5 x 10 trailer. In the woods, the Jeep is nice in that with low range 4x4, I can creep around to where I need to go and backing-up is very controlled. The trailer has a ramp style tail gate and that makes it easy to load large rounds as I can roll them onto and off the trailer instead of killing by back lifting them. I split the stuff when I get home.
So - what do you use, truck or trailer or both to haul wood?
Thanks!!!!!!
Bill
Nice thing about the truck was it being compact and you could get into the woods and around tight places. Bad thing was it was 2 wheel drive and geared pretty high so sometimes it was tricky getting where you needed to go.
The old Falcon with trailer was nice in that you could back the trailer into the brush/limbs and not worry about any scuffing or scratching!
My wood hauler set-up is a Jeep Wrangler with a 5 x 10 trailer. In the woods, the Jeep is nice in that with low range 4x4, I can creep around to where I need to go and backing-up is very controlled. The trailer has a ramp style tail gate and that makes it easy to load large rounds as I can roll them onto and off the trailer instead of killing by back lifting them. I split the stuff when I get home.
So - what do you use, truck or trailer or both to haul wood?
Thanks!!!!!!
Bill
) w/an 18' sided trailer. I can haul about 1.5-2 full cords depending on weight factors (wood type/density and moisture level). If I load the truck as well I'm going down the road with about 2.5 cords which might be more than I should really be doing with an F-350. When I have my buddie's tractor available, the I like his dump truck as it hauls 2.5-3 cords loose and about 4.5-5 neatly stacked. The tractor and dump is A LOT faster and easier, but for financial concerns, a standard trailer that you can use for a lot of other purposes makes a lot more economical sense for a lot of people, where it's hard or impossible to justify or afford more than that. I'd love to have a dump truck and tractor, but I'll probably end up buying a tractor and a 25' gooseneck, that I can also haul wood, cars, tractors, scrap steel, etc,... with. My .02
- Super Duty & Dump Trailer (working on saving for them)
