Firewood trailer with conveyor roller floor?

[930dreamer]

I've been collecting firewood from the local brush lots around town. Just spit balling here, but I would like a way to load all the tree trunk and large rounds without having to lift. Has anyone seen/built a trailer with a roller bed/conveyor roller floor. I thought with a winch mounted on the front this would help my back out.

 

[tedsters]

i logged for a living while in younger years any thing to do with cutting and hauling wood is tough work and hard on the body that conveyor floor sounds neat but could be dangerous you would have to set some kind of safety light switches up or something or a bar or something gonna be interesting to see other peoples take on it, a winch would be a logical way could build something like a heavy duty cherry picker off from the tongue of the trailer with a swivel base could all be done with hydraulics would be a pricey thing to put together though but would work good if the trailer could take the abuse

 

[tedsters]

something like a backhoe arm with pinchers or an arm off from a tree skidster or tree farmer
only smaller like from a bobcat ?

 

[930dreamer]

I was thinking if a floor had rollers the wood could be pulled onto the trailer with the winch, I see used conveyor rollers sets on CL from time to time. Most of these aren't rated for tree loads. If the rollers were installed below the ramp that would help loading. All these ideas crashing through my brain.

 

[lessersivad]

Modified manure spreader??

 

[Ft.ValloniaStreaker]

Modified manure spreader??

I use 2 old spreaders, but they are stripped down. Everybody asks if I can use them that way though. I've always wanted an old lift gate but they add so much weight, just like a slide in dump bed. A 12V cable wench on a cherry picker frame seems like a low cost solution to back pain....lol

 

[70C-10]

Load hog dump bed

another dump bed kit

 

[Garage Coffee Roaster]

Those rounds get heavy real quick. Those rollers should have atleast 1/2 inch bolt to prevent deflection/bending. A winch bolted to the front could work also.

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[930dreamer]

I'd like to retrieve a few a these.

 

[metal1313]

http://www.wikco.com/logequip.html

i would just high mount a winch, and install a roller at the rear of the trailer you have unless you want to get real expensive real fast

 

[PugetDude]

I'd like to retrieve a few a these.

Cottonwood?

 

[930dreamer]

Cottonwood?

Those pieces are, they wouldn't be my first choice.

 

[Stuart in MN]

Harbor Freight sells this unloader for pickups, I assume it would work in a trailer as well: http://www.harborfreight.com/truck-bed-cargo-unloader-60800.html

 

[KenB]

Cut into smaller pieces before loading .



Ken

 

[Provincial]

Craigslist:
http://salem.craigslist.org/grd/4260247032.html

An 80+ year old retired logger stopped by our business one day. He had a bunch of 30-36" fir rounds about 16" thick in the back of his pickup. My brother asked him how he got them in there. Indignant, he replied "I picked them up and put them there!"

 

[BFHtime]

Tracks from a tracked vehicle with big teeth. Could probably use the engine and transmission too, you would have to fab them up in different locations. It may cost more than it is worth, but would make an interesting project.


Probably would be cheaper to use a backhoe with grabby teeth. I don't know the official names of these things. I hope you understand, what I am trying to say.

 

[raddksn]

Craigslist:
http://salem.craigslist.org/grd/4260247032.html

An 80+ year old retired logger stopped by our business one day. He had a bunch of 30-36" fir rounds about 16" thick in the back of his pickup. My brother asked him how he got them in there. Indignant, he replied "I picked them up and put them there!"

Sounds like my wife's uncle!!!

 

[930dreamer]

Craigslist:
http://salem.craigslist.org/grd/4260247032.html

An 80+ year old retired logger stopped by our business one day. He had a bunch of 30-36" fir rounds about 16" thick in the back of his pickup. My brother asked him how he got them in there. Indignant, he replied "I picked them up and put them there!"

That a cool setup, I don't find consistent length logs for that rig. Larger than I can lift and smaller than that trailer. I don't think the city would be to keen with me operating that on their property.