Time to show your wood haulers for the 2008-09 season

Finally snapped some pics...

trailer holds just shy of 1/2 a cord, towed my my '99 Olds Bravada


Trusty '89 S-10, which is sadly no longer road worthy so it is a woods truck only.


And just because, a sheep pic...

here is mine finally dug out the camera

another picture

I don't have any road through my woods, so this setup is narrow enough to get through.

Mines in my avatar,that picture is about 1/2 way up the mountain,I usually round it up a little more than that though.

Here is big (also in my avatar) and small.

99 Dodge 3500 4x4 CTD - Same one I had last year, same one I'll have next year.

There's our wood hauler parked at a limb staging area. Trees are dragged there and limbed, the bigger limbs get hauled away with the logs..smaller limbs are just piled up.

Thats Sweet, every wood cutters dream

I bought this little trailer for $25 and spent another $25 getting a proper hitch and fixing a tire. It works great for clearing out messes near gates and fence rows. The 13 year old does not mind pulling it around but every now and then I find tire tracks in odd places.

The Ford F550 does the hauling, the Kubtoa L39 does the loading among other duties

Its nice to grab the rounds others cant handle -

and I then split them with the Northstar 37 ton

what size John Deere is that in the background?
Do you use the backhoe much? do you like it?
I have thought about buying one for my 4600

What do these look like? I've never seen one.

Splitter action (almost -had to stop to take the shot)

Its a John Deere 2520 series - its smaller than the Kubota, but was my go to machine until the arrival of the L39 Kubota.
The backhoe on the 2520 is good and powerful for its size (6.5 ft depth) -but the larger hoe on the L39 gets the bulk of the work these days because its faster and easier, and with that less wear and tear for a smaller machine. However when space prevents the larger unit, then its back to the Deere 2520 w/46BH

how many horse power is that splitter?

Looks to be at least a 9 HP - see below for all details

http://www.northerntool.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_6970_200326296_200326296

Has anyone thought about mounting a splitter on a trailer so you can pull both at one time? I dreamed up a design but I wonder if its been done already.

That's a great old Patrol ... what year?

Well my Dad has something like this . . . only he has the splitter (a home-built one he made years ago that runs off the Kubota's hydraulics) sitting in front of the trailer . . . which is in reality an old horse-drawn manure spreader. It looks funky since the splitter is at a 90 degree angle to the trailer/manure spreader, but it actually works pretty well for my Dad -- and the best part is that since it is a manure spreader when he gets to where he wants to be he can engage the manure spreader's unloading mechanism and easily ratchet the wood to the back end of the trailer. Some day if I think of it I'll have to take a photo -- a very strange looking contraption.

^Pretty neat...dump box and 4x drive too?

Past - 89 Chevy 2500 Shortbed - And no, the Walnut is NOT for burning!


Present - GMC Sierra 3/4 Ton, Duramax Diesel/Allison Transmission with an 8' bed to haul even more wood. :coolgrin:

Threw a ball on the mower and use the same trailer I use for the jeep. This is what I use for yard work and the picture shows a load of free wood from a neighbor across the street that he has rotting out back. I think I can get another two to three loads like that.