Bucking Trailer Build

[RVALUE]

We're using the trailer tomorrow. I'll study it carefully. Especially whether it should hold more than one log at a time. Or how to separate them. Maybe that rack should be more level, and use a pickaroon.

Right or wrong, I THINK they only loaded one log at a time at Monkey's. At least when there was more, the cutters had to 'fight' the subsequent logs. Less angle may fix that. We will be loading with forks. (an option voted down at tree monkeys), the grapples have a place but are slower in this task.

 

[Steve NW WI]

I never cut on either, or split off the trailer. I was working on a splitter off Doug's stand though, so I have a little idea what's going down.

Maybe add to your list of criteria easy cleaning? There was sawdust galore by the time we were done, on a wet day it probably wouldn't blow off well.

 

[RVALUE]

Criterias for design:

Safety
Utility
Speed / Loading
Longevity
Towing
Setup
Storage compartments
Self cleaning
Other?

 

[RVALUE]

It should be able to be loaded with a tractor with 8 foot reach.

 

[Laslabjohn]

Instead of a tilting stand, some type of gates could be used to release large rounds individually.

Philbert

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You could put rollers in stead of a skid, then it would matter about the shape of log.

 

[Hedgerow]

Criterias for design:

Safety
Utility
Speed / Loading
Longevity
Towing
Setup
Storage compartments
Self cleaning
Other?

I don't see cost on that list...
One should always consider the cost..

 

[RVALUE]

Safety
Utility
Speed / Loading
Longevity
Towing
Setup
Storage compartments
Self cleaning
Cost
Other?

 

[Oliver1655]

Flexibility - Current bucking trailer has the ability to remove the bucking stand & be used as a trailer as well. In less than 1/2 hour I can remove the bucking stand & add boards to complete flooring as well as remove the fold up catch tray. However, it might take a little longer, (around 45 minutes), to convert it back to a bucking trailer unless I have help lining up the holes for the hinges.
- Remove the folding catch tray first so it can be strapped to the bucking stand to hold it up while removing the hinge pins.
- Remove bucking stand end rails which is how it is fastened to the trailer.
- Pick it up with tractor loader/"A" frame or just slide it off the back of the trailer. It sits on 2 - 14' long 3" channel iron skids.
- Remove storage boxes if needed - 4 bolts.
- Add deck boards if needed.

I like having an open frame under the bucking stand to allow a lot of the saw chips/dust to fall to the ground versus setting it on a fully decked flat bed trailer. It is not uncommon for the saw chips/dust under the trailer at the end of a day's cutting to be so deep it has covered the axle. A push broom is used to clean off the tops of the storage boxes/standing area prn.

 

[husqy lover]

I have cut my fair share on both of them, and both of them work excellent. With that in mind, I would change one thing on each one.

On Doug's I would make bigger "stops" at the bottom of the angle where the person running the saw is standing. A few times a couple logs rolled over the "log stops" when bucking on either side of the log.

On John's I would change the angle of the expanded steel. I would reduce the angle a few degrees so the logs that just got bucked, don't roll so "fast" down to the stop. Some of the bigger logs that get bucked up can gain some serious speed in that short distance.

Both trailers are truly amazing, and if you haven't experienced either one......ITS A MUST! So damn handy!

Would changing the angle of the expanded metal make the trailer wider?

 

[husqy lover]

We're using the trailer tomorrow. I'll study it carefully. Especially whether it should hold more than one log at a time. Or how to separate them. Maybe that rack should be more level, and use a pickaroon.

Right or wrong, I THINK they only loaded one log at a time at Monkey's. At least when there was more, the cutters had to 'fight' the subsequent logs. Less angle may fix that. We will be loading with forks. (an option voted down at tree monkeys), the grapples have a place but are slower in this task.

I felt it a little more difficult to cut with more than one log on the trailer. Not that I felt uncomfortable, but one could feel that way with less experience reaching over multiple logs. Just a thought

 

[hseII]

Yesh. Cover us in chips (intentionally), and we'll likely forget which way we're supposed to throw the splits!

I wish I'd spent some time up on the trailers now, I'd have a little better idea what we're fighting.

Stupid big is a problem no matter where you cut it. Best bet might just be to have a separate area where they're cut on the ground (or in a grapple bucket, with a big enough "spare" loader, and split on one of the log lift machines.

Stupid big is best handled by a mini-ex with a set of tongs and a tractor mounted splitter; unless of course you have a skidsteer mounted splitter.

That is on the to do list now, actually

 

[hseII]

Instead of a tilting stand, some type of gates could be used to release large rounds individually.

Philbert

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Similar setups are used in mills to advance logs.

And on the outboard side of a winder in a paper mill.

Air powered cylinders; open a valve etc..

Have a foot pedal where the sawer can stand on the deck, make a cut, and step on a pedal releasing the kicker/popper/roll stop he chooses.

 

[husqy lover]

And on the outboard side of a winder in a paper mill.

Air powered cylinders; open a valve etc..

Have a foot pedal where the sawer can stand on the deck, make a cut, and step on a pedal releasing the kicker/popper/roll stop he chooses.

Not that this is a bad idea, I do like the I idea, doing so would require power for the compressor or a generator to power the compressor

 

[cobey]

I'm curious as to how many of our members have cut on the bucking trailer or run a splitter next to it. Please add your name if not on the list. Sorry for not adding the names from Scott's GTG to the list but I got distracted.
Oliver1655
Hedgerow & Levi
Worksawcollector
LumberJackChef
Workshop
Awol & family
Sunfish
Sam-tip
Lurch2
Digger's Dad
Hinerman & Sam
Cobey
WkendLumberJack
ThinkerTinker
Homelite410
Ronaldo
Hoskvarna
srcarr52
A.E. Metal Werx
Time's standing Stihl
Stu
Rval


The large number of "evaluators" will help to provide a better balanced review. All comments are being taken under consideration.

Rval, Thenks for starting this thread.

I don't intend to do a lot of posting here but will be following. This is about other's opinions, not mine.

stihl livin

 

[Fishnuts2]

stihl livin

Fishnuts2. I spent time on trailer and feeding a splitter (Hedgerow's?)

 

[cobey]

Fishnuts2. I spent time on trailer and feeding a splitter (Hedgerow's?)

yes you did

 

[Oliver1655]

Our members who have cut on the bucking trailer or run a splitter next to it. Please add your name if not on the list. Sorry for not adding the names from Scott's GTG to the list but I got distracted.

Oliver1655
Hedgerow & Levi
Worksawcollector
LumberJackChef
Workshop
Awol & family
Sunfish
Sam-tip
Lurch2
Digger's Dad
Hinerman & Sam
Cobey
WkendLumberJack
ThinkerTinker
Homelite410
Ronaldo
Hoskvarna
srcarr52
A.E. Metal Werx
Time's standing Stihl
Stu
Rval
Stihl livin
Fishnuts2

 

[Lurch2]

After all this talk of no big wood on the trailer. Most of todays wood was big uglies.

I blame Dan. He was drivin the tractor.

And doing some fine tractor ballet I might add.

 

[cobey]

Matt said it works better when you have a few rounds to stop the others comming down,
works best without a cleaned off trailer deck

 

[Hedgerow]

It really boils down to the guy loading the logs, and the saw operators.. It's up to them to make good, consistent, "splittable" rounds for the splitter crews.. Considering the the big chubs we had to work with yesterday, I'd say it worked pretty good..