Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)

[zogger]

Ambull, yup 20 trailers. I blame my wife, she is weak and never says no to me.
Tires and rims on this dump was $1000, brakes were $400. There is 8 trailers in this one pic. And yes that is a row of machinery on my fenceline.

Not seeing any war surplus army tanks in the pics?? Bet you could scrounge with one of them things..and blow the tree right off the stump to harvest!

Sport!

 

[steved]

I thought it was his back too until the last sentence.

Lowboy axles, sounds like a bad thing.

Plenty strong, but the wheel style sucks...they are impossible to center and/or balance. The tires themselves are available in load range g and h.

 

[steved]

Lower to the ground than a standard trailer for easier, more stable loading/unloading of equipment. Dozers ,bobcats, loaders,etc.

No different than a standard axle, just the hub and wheel...

 

[steved]

20 trailers? WTH! $1k for some tires? Oh hell no.

I'll inspect every inch of it. Seems like trailers should be cheaper, doesn't seem to be much to them.

Those 14.5" lowboy tires run about $75 a piece...brakes are probably $50/wheel.

If you want cheap, mobile home tires with wheels can be had for less than $20 most times, just have to look.

 

[chucker]

mn. dot is really starting to frown on mobile home tires being used on any trailers over 3000 pounds! my sons car hauler was flagged for inoperative condition using the 5 lug system... ended up selling the trailer for junk(300.00) RATHER THAN THE ADDED 900.00 FOR NEW AXLES AND TIRES/RIMS... sorry for the big fingers! didn't mean to SHOUT!LOL

 

[cantoo]

Chucker is right, we can't use the mobile axles or tires up here anymore either. The tires and rims are on ebay for $142 each before taxes, I buy them at a local shop though and pay abit more. I also buy my brakes complete because it's easier than just replacing a few parts more often. Don't like to be broke down on the side of the road because I'm usually over loaded or over width.

 

[steved]

I've been using mobile home axles and tires for over 25 years, and never been questioned. Not saying its right, just saying I've never been given a second look. I would guess my trailer has over 25k miles of interstate miles alone...not a driveway queen. You can see my trailer in my rebuild thread...it looks homemade, and has four of them (should be a good enough reason to be scrutinized); and I'm swapping them out because (lowboy wheels) suck. [emoji1]

 

[Ambull01]

Ambull, yup 20 trailers. I blame my wife, she is weak and never says no to me.
Tires and rims on this dump was $1000, brakes were $400. There is 8 trailers in this one pic. And yes that is a row of machinery on my fenceline.
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Holy hell man! Why do you need 20 trailers? You doing a scrounge train?

 

[Ambull01]

Chucker is right, we can't use the mobile axles or tires up here anymore either. The tires and rims are on ebay for $142 each before taxes, I buy them at a local shop though and pay abit more. I also buy my brakes complete because it's easier than just replacing a few parts more often. Don't like to be broke down on the side of the road because I'm usually over loaded or over width.

Cantoo, you need any help on your homestead? I'll move to Canada and work for wood. Don't know much but I learn quick, sort of.

 

[Ambull01]

@zogger, hey you go sir. Couldn't get pics with the dog because he went upstairs to sleep already. Such a light weight.

 

[Ambull01]

Looks to be in great shape. I'm actually surprised how good it looks after serving time in a HD. Looked at the piston and it's smooth. Friday can't come soon enough, need to get this thing in some wood.

 

[MustangMike]

Funky Dogs, but the saw looks nice. Best of Luck with it, and enjoy!

 

[Ambull01]

Funky Dogs, but the saw looks nice. Best of Luck with it, and enjoy!

Yeah, now I know why zogger mentioned Klingon and Makita in the same sentence. Don't really understand the shape of the upper dogs.

 

[Battletross]

Posted this in my "ID" thread, but figured this would be a good place for these as well. Got three loads from a golf course doing some off-season cleanup. They have probably 10 more loads of this size available but mostly pine. Might be a good way for some of you to find free wood. The course is part of a pretty ritzy country club in an area where few people would bother to burn let alone collect firewood.

 

[dancan]

Nice score Battletross !!
Up here mh axles are fine but the tires must be DOT numbered to be legal , the tires that have a mh on them are not .

 

[Axfarmer]

Here is a small maple scrounge from after work today.

 

[Ambull01]

Posted this in my "ID" thread, but figured this would be a good place for these as well. Got three loads from a golf course doing some off-season cleanup. They have probably 10 more loads of this size available but mostly pine. Might be a good way for some of you to find free wood. The course is part of a pretty ritzy country club in an area where few people would bother to burn let alone collect firewood.

Nice trailer. How did you get those logs in there? Looks quite heavy.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I now have my winters supply of venison "in the freezer", so today I did a bit of "mini" scrounging,

And NO, it didn't come from the pile in the pict., that's to be brought home later.

I'm always surprised how much that thing will hold, if you heap it up...

SR

 

[Battletross]

Nice trailer. How did you get those logs in there? Looks quite heavy.

They had a skid steer to load it up. Tipped the operator 10 bucks a load and I was on my way

 

[Ambull01]

They had a skid steer to load it up. Tipped the operator 10 bucks a load and I was on my way

Nice score man. Free wood and didn't have to lift a thing. Can't get better than that unless they paid you to haul it off.