Thread: Burnsy's Trailer Rebuild

I've been happy with mine, I've only ever winched a log on once as most times I used my old truck with ramps off the side and rolled them up as shown in the image below or the loader on the farm when I picked up logs from there. Now a days I use me Crane Truck

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Later down the track I'm planning on building a flat deck which can also tilt as well, as I quite often get timber forked onto the trailer and we have to push the packs off the fork or put some dunnage across the top

And also think twice about ripping the sides off as quite often they can form part of the chassis

Wouldn't want you going down the road and finding the arze dragging on the ground because the chassis has turned into a banana

Originally Posted by DJ's Timber

And also think twice about ripping the sides off as quite often they can form part of the chassis

Wouldn't want you going down the road and finding the arze dragging on the ground because the chassis has turned into a banana

Not on this one but I do know the type you are talking about. My old man has an old single axle trailer that you can nearly fold in on itself until the tailgate is up and pinned

Originally Posted by Burnsy

Not on this one but I do know the type you are talking about.

not having worked with a tralier much i'll still put my 2 cents in. if you are starting a side job and you want to give it a good go be prepared for every concievable senario.so i would put top quality brakes on it for starters get the deck as low as you can (there's nothing worse than getting a great pile of wood then having to try and put the mill on top) make both sides and back removable .set up ramps from both sides like dj's pic on the truck.get the best winch u can and make that demountable so u can move it from side to side or up front. make it so you can whinch a car on to the trailer.even if your'e not cutting u can charge a mates mate $70 one way to take a car small bobcat or any machinery somewhere .I cart around 5 different bobcats for builders and blokes who lend them to mates.i gave up very early in the piece trying with my single axle and went and bought the crane truck but still wish i had a very low trailer to take the machinery on site because its a lot easier than taking the truck. i recon this is more than 2 cents but there you have it

Mike... what about fabricating some side forks?... I mean like the log trucks have? running either side of the bed for the length of the trailer with gluts fixed to the bed?... maybe find a couple of hydrolic rams to fix to the forks on one side only thus they could perhaps be lowered all the way down to the ground forming ramps roll up the log or lay the boards on fixed gluts (Ive always had an aversion to just bunging lumps of 4x4 or such as gluts... easy access between the forks) raise the forks tie down and away you go?

Other way I was thinking was to get a couple of those ute cranes... no not hiabs just the crane thats raised and lowered by jack... one either end with a spreader between them (these arent hard to make) with a couple of hooks under that and you should be able to lift a fair log... the boards can be easily slid onto gluts either from the rear or lifted between the cranes?

Then again you could just go buy a nice truck eh!!

Id think your best way to go would be to make it as ONE MAN an operation as you can... think EASY for one... then if you manage to wangle an offsider its a piece of cake... trouble is most of us tend to over do things which in turn tends to make the whole job harder than necessary... so try to make it so JUST YOU can load and unload the logs or boards without help... be nothing worse than to have this near perfect log sitting there in the bush with no one to give you a hand... or a bunch of boards and just you on site but needing 2 people to load them

Just letting loose my own thoughts Ive had since first considering getting what you have just got!! ggrrr some fellas I tells yer!!

Cheers
Shane