Lets see those trailers!

[Evanrude]

Hi, I'm starting to realize I'm going to need a trailer to haul the firewood, I dont want to destroy my daily driver, besides, its just a Dakota. I've been down to the TSC and all they have is a light duty 6x10 er so landscape trailer, I dont think that'll cut it. I want something with a little bit heavier axle and brakes. Now weather or not I build it myself or end up breaking down to buy one, I'd like to get some ideas of what y'all use. So, post up some pics.

 

[Haywire Haywood]

heres mine. 5x8, 25" tall sides, 3500lb axle w/ electric brakes. I wish I had a 5x12 tandem axle. It fills up pretty quickly unless you take the time to stack it, but if you do, you'll max out the axle before you fill it if you're cutting green oak or hickory. I like 5x trailers because they aren't wider than the truck. --Ian

If I had the skill to build one, I'd make it like this, so you'd have 7' of bed width above the fenders and still have a relatively narrow trailer.

 

[sdaly]

My trailer is a Big Tex 5x8 with a single 3000lb axle. No brakes, but it has the flanges to accept brake backings if I want to add them. If I really pack down both my truck bed and this little trailer, I can carry just about 1 cord. I didn't originally buy the trailer for firewood, it's just what I already had. If I were buying one for firewood though, I'd get something bigger like a double axle 6x14 or 6x16 that could carry a full cord easily.

For me, and with the way fuel prices are these days, bringing back a load of firewood any less than a full cord just isn't worthwhile.

 

[kevin j]

basic cut up 3/4 or 1 ton pickup, rear frame and box and axle. bought for $50 almost 20 years back. Rewired all the lights with new rubber cord, added a jack and extended th tongue.
Free garage sale aluminum topper on it to keep the bed from rot and keeps wood dry if I don't get it unloaded
neighbor broke the frame when he had (weighed) 6600 lbs of dirt in it, but other than that.....

 

[Evanrude]

basic cut up 3/4 or 1 ton pickup, rear frame and box and axle. bought for $50 almost 20 years back. Rewired all the lights with new rubber cord, added a jack and extended th tongue.
Free garage sale aluminum topper on it to keep the bed from rot and keeps wood dry if I don't get it unloaded
neighbor broke the frame when he had (weighed) 6600 lbs of dirt in it, but other than that.....

I was thinking about keeping an eye out for an old truck to do this with. Probably the cheapest way to get a good trailer.

 

[country boy]

Heres my lil pickup bed trailer works nice out in the timber small and bounces inbetween the tress nicely. I also have a 16' stock trailer that i use behind my big truck if it is easily accesable to get to.

 

[husky455rancher]

what would be the best way to doa pickup bed trailer? say if i went to the junk yard and cut the bed off a truck. do i just get some steel to make the angled pieced that connect to the trailer hitch? does anyone have any close up pics of their pickup trailer so i can see how their made?

 

[deeker]

This is our log hauler, on a very steep hillside.

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Our smaller log hauler with doug fir going to our mill.

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[kevin j]

Most common, use the entire pickup frame and everything. the frame rails are cutoff just by firewalls, notched and bent into a V, just ahead of box. add a crossmember at that bent point. Add a tongue, hitch, jack, chains. Mine has an extendable 3x3 square tube (with 3/4 inch bolts that bolt the toungue rigidly to the channel, not pins in holes.) that has the hitch coupler on it. It stretches out 6 feet, for original used it as a canoe hauling trailer. I leave it stretched about 2 feet out, backs up much better and less jacknifing. Cut off the axles just inside the hub ends, or remove diff or R&P, it pulls much better.

Pic i have at work is too big to load. I will take some better ones the weekend.

You shoudl see any numnber of these home made deals locally. Very commonly done.

k

 

[husky455rancher]

sounds cool, looking forward to the pics!

 

[TJ-Bill]

Here's mine, Still going to make some different sides for it hauling wood.. Just pikced up a 1/4 toyota truck that I'll be using to make a trailer for around the property.

 

[jerry wayne]

7x12 dump

only way to move this stuff around ,and save time . Also......dont tell friends you own one or youll be helping
"them"move crap all the time,Just got done doing so,and its friggin 10p.m. Holds a solid cord tossed ,and customers are impressed when the see her in action:jawdrop:

 

[Evanrude]

only way to move this stuff around ,and save time . Also......dont tell friends you own one or youll be helping
"them"move crap all the time,Just got done doing so,and its friggin 10p.m. Holds a solid cord tossed ,and customers are impressed when the see her in action:jawdrop:

Very nice, looks expensive tho.

 

[Dadatwins]

I agree with the dump trailer as a hauler, once you have one and used it everything else seems inadequate. My 5x10 tandem axle holds 5k. Total on the unit is 7k. I built up the sides 4' height and it will hold 5 yards of mulch without a problem. I would guess I could get almost 1.5 cords of wood in stacked tight. Best thing I ever bought so far.

 

[zanderson]

We use a 1 ton ford and a 14 dump trailer. with the added sides we can put about 3 cords in. Gotta go with dump trailer - can't imagine doing firewood without it.

 

[Haywire Haywood]

That is real nice if you have the truck to pull it. I've wished almost from the day that I got it home that my F150 had the 5.4L instead of the 4.6L. When you buy used you take what is available though. I thought about finding a totaled 04 truck and swapping engines out. I'd get better mileage (rumor) and more grunt too.

Ian

 

[Austin1]

This is a pic of my little trailer. Going to replace the 13'' wheels with 15''ones to get better ground clearance.It's 7'x5'x3' really just 33'' high, since the pic I made the hinges for the lid out of pipe, a pipe in a pipe makes the best hinge for stuff like this especially tail gates. In that pic it still has door hinges on the lid. But tail gate has a pipe in a pipe hinge.

 

[Austin1]

That is real nice if you have the truck to pull it. I've wished almost from the day that I got it home that my F150 had the 5.4L instead of the 4.6L. When you buy used you take what is available though. I thought about finding a totaled 04 truck and swapping engines out. I'd get better mileage (rumor) and more grunt too.

Ian

I have herd that also about the 5.4 getting better mileage? I know a 5.2 dodge gets better mileage than a 5.9 as far as gas engines go.
But I have to feed a 502 big block Chev and a 460 ford and a 440 dodge so I guess it is relative lol

 

[RAS323]

This is a Bri-Mar 6'x10' dump trailer.

 

[Wirenut2266]

I do like the tandam axle style with breaks. mine is a 7x14 nice size, but wider then the truck. so driving in heavy snow, I have to plow through snow with truck tires, and also drag tandam trailer next. that is a negative, but shouldn't be out in that deep of snow anyway, bruce