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Offline upstatenybowyer

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Re: Log loading trailer
« Reply #30 on: February 23, 2018, 07:28:02 pm »
You are one crafty devil Mr. Outlaw. I don't know what I wish I had more, that rig or those logs.  O:)
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Log loading trailer
« Reply #31 on: February 23, 2018, 08:49:16 pm »
Good job! Soon you'll be out of sewage and into metal work. Food for thought where you punch the hole through the tube and have that Bolt probably a good idea to get a grade 8 Automotive Bolt. regular soft steel bolts you find at the hardware store you'd be amazed and how quickly that hole in that tube will wear right through it. Another option is to drill a bigger hole and weld in a piece of round tube so puts the weight evenly on the bolt and not in a cutting shearing action. You may have already done that but just a thought

I'm already on it Paul.  Those are 2 very large grade 8 bolts.  The biggest I could find. 
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Offline Zuma

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Re: Log loading trailer
« Reply #32 on: February 26, 2018, 08:44:34 am »
How do you unload?
A while back I would easily fulcrum jack with blocks one end of a log
high enough to enter the rear of my maxi van.
Then simply back up. !2-14 foot logs 16' dia. no problem.  Tie to something
sturdy and drive away to unload. Needed to steak the log at far end
once and a while. )W( )W(
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Log loading trailer
« Reply #33 on: February 26, 2018, 08:52:40 am »
I pull the logs off with a UTV when I get them to my splitting stand.  I believe I could make a position locking mechanism for the arch and unload them with that if I had to.  Right now just dragging them off the back is working good. 
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Offline Zuma

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Re: Log loading trailer
« Reply #34 on: February 26, 2018, 09:03:54 am »
Cool, That would help with objects like wood stoves. (S)
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Log loading trailer
« Reply #35 on: February 26, 2018, 09:24:37 am »
I would love to build a saw mill sometime.  If I do that I'll be using this trailer a lot. 
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Offline Zuma

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Re: Log loading trailer
« Reply #36 on: February 27, 2018, 08:22:06 am »
I would love to build a saw mill sometime.  If I do that I'll be using this trailer a lot.

I had two buddies that saw logs on their home built mills.
Wish you could tap their brains but one past and the other
is 80 and hates computers. I still have many of the oak, cedar and maple log
timbers they sawed for me.  I sawed the redwood in California and trucked it back to VA
The spalted maple tree fell on my X's mom's house so I slabbed some up.
Did both with a chain saw.  )W( )W( )-w(
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Offline lebhuntfish

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Re: Log loading trailer
« Reply #37 on: February 27, 2018, 09:37:48 am »
Good use of redneck ingenuity there Clint!
Now if I could just find some Osage like that in my neck of the woods.  I've lived in poplar bluff mo for a year now and have yet to see one Osage tree.  Lots of hackberry though.

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Offline Eric Krewson

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Re: Log loading trailer
« Reply #38 on: February 27, 2018, 01:51:04 pm »
I have done a lot of chainsaw slabbing trying to get flintlock stock material, even thought of buying a chainsaw mill but that would necessitate my buying a much larger saw than my stihl 029.

All the logs I slabbed had hidden flaws that canceled out the prospect of getting good stock material. I got a few marginal ones.


Offline Stoner

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Re: Log loading trailer
« Reply #39 on: February 27, 2018, 02:16:48 pm »
Don't know how I missed this thread. GREAT JOB !!! John