Outdoor Wood Furnace Info
All-Purpose OWF Discussions => Equipment => Topic started by: oldchenowth on October 15, 2013, 05:20:16 AM
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who makes a good solid quality dump trailer that won't put me in the poor house? There is a company near me that makes good stuff but Warren Buffet needs a loan to go there.
I only have a half ton Chevy with a 350 so I was thinking 6x12 would be about as big as I could go. I wish i could go 7x14, but I think that would be way too big for my pickup. The body does not cooperate as well as it used to, but the wallet restricts my toys.
Should I be looking for a scissor type lift or straight cylinders for lift capability? Low profile or over tire?
Figure you guys with equipment would have some experience with these.
thanks,
Rich
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If you are looking a trailer for hauling wood, you don't need to worry so much about the size as the amount of weight the trailer will haul. Some 6 x 12 trailers can carry 1000# and some could carry 10000#
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I have a sure track 6 x12 it was the best bang for the buck it is a very heavy duty trailer and it has a scissor lift and I never had a problem lifting any size load
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Pj 7x12, scissor lift, 14,000 lbs. Might be a little heavy for your truck but they make lighter units. With the sides it's 2.3 cords stacked even. You can't beat a dump trailer for wood. Low to the ground and a months worth of wood. It's a little over 4,000 lbs empty.
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Low profile, the over tire are too top heavy
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I've been doing a lot of research on dump trailers lately and just purchased a 14' PJ Low Profile. One of the best trailers out there!!
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I have a low profile Travalong dump trailer. 16 feet long, 15,500 lb rated. Torsion axles. It has 7 gauge sides AND floor. I have never seen another dump trailer with 7 gauge sides. They actually bend the steel to form the floor and sides from just 2 pieces of steel with a seam down the middle instead of in the corners. I used to have the 14 footer same trailer. Before that I had a H&H 14 footer-what a pile of junk that was.
Low profile is nice for loading over the side and low center of gravity. Ramps are less steep for loading skid loader too. Only trade off is some ground clearance. I go with low profile for those benefits.
Travalong costs a little more but well worth it. Like the guy at the factory in Kansas told me; People who buy their trailers are people who have already owned another brand. You can't see the value until you buy something cheaper and realize its limitations.
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I live about 30 miles down the road from both the Travalong and Titan Trailer manufacturing plants. Both make great trailers. I have a Titan 14-footer, mainly because of the man that developed that company, a true gentleman cowboy and go-getter and a life long friend of our family. He passed away last year and the world lost a great man when Dave left us.
The Titan trailer has a scissor lift and never any problem dumping a trailer load of wood and I cut a lot of heavy Osage Orange, hedge, bodart, or what ever other name it has. I did have had a loader operator put WAY too much sand on it once and it did not dump it, but was over the rating on the trailer too. Its a heavy trailer, 4200# empty but a great wood wagon and you should have a 3/4 ton or bigger truck if you are going to fill it full. A word of warning, it will flat wear you out if you try and fill it with firewood, but it is easy to unload!
Titan makes a 10-footer that I have seen and that looks slick and more along the line of a 1/2 ton truck companion but don't have any experience with it. The sides are much lower to the ground too which makes getting the firewood from the ground to the trailer much easier.
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Here is my Titan after this afternoon's wood cutting excursion. First time out this fall, and I ran out of gas (me, not the saw) before I got it totally full. Was in the 50's here today, too hot to cut wood but next weekend the bottom is suppose to fall out around here, lows in the single digits but I am set up now. Great trailer!
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Here is my Titan after this afternoon's wood cutting excursion. First time out this fall, and I ran out of gas (me, not the saw) before I got it totally full. Was in the 50's here today, too hot to cut wood but next weekend the bottom is suppose to fall out around here, lows in the single digits but I am set up now. Great trailer!
Nice trailer!..wow 50's..I had a high of 34 lol