Urban Log transportation ... small or large scale ... show us your method!!

[metalspinner]

farmer77,
I was on the look out for one of those trailers for a couple of years.  Then I ran across the red trailer and went with that.  How long do you guess it took to load that log onto there?

[tomboysawyer]

Our local museum lost a bunch of EWP in a storm in early May.

They could get people doing community service for petty offenses - a whole crew - for $7 a day. But the E.D. knew I needed just a bit more pine and it seemed a shame to make these logs into landfill.



This is my friend Dan's tractor, my truck, and our load on my 'old' aluminum car hauler.



And this is our "Dyna" unloading the car hauler of about 5 ton of EWP. We made 6 trips to get the whole load.

[Sprucegum]

I am always suspicious of people loading things in the dark     

[tomboysawyer]

I am always suspicious of people loading things in the dark     

We were unloading!

But it is one of those things with "urban transport" - all of us work during the day. Dan I quit work early to start pulling logs off the museum land at 4pm and hubby showed up about 7pm. We finished up about 10:30 pm with my trailer and his landscape trailer full and the rest queued up for a weekend run with my skid steer loading and this same unloading scheme.

But engineer will probably tell you you should be suspicious of me anyway.

[Left Coast Chris]

Mettalspinner, 

I usually lay two chans on the ground next to the log, pevy it over then back over the log, lift it, place the cross members, bind and go.   It takes about 10 or 15 min. to load normally.    There is the occasion that I lift more than one log at a time and that can take a little longer depending on how they are oriented on the ground.   I just do hobby sawing so its perfect for me but your cherry picker trailer can haul alot more logs and is really the cats meow!   I do love my trailer though and can lift 6000lbs.   Not bad for a $400 trailer!

[Ironwood]

I have posted these pics before, I'll throw it in for fun, crane trailer mostly homemade, large arch homemade, small arch homemade, Last pic is my old truck, the bed/ crane went on the new chassis. I moved the truck crane to the rear of the bed to be more effective at reaching. You get the idea.

 

 

 

 

 

And this is my old truck, the crane and bed went to the new one.
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[Warren]

O.K. Here's my rig for fetching logs that the tree guys leave for me.  This unit also doubled as my hydraulic log loader and log turner for my original LT15 when I sawed 20 and 24 ft oak logs.  Originally a construction truck, so no grapple. Have to use chokers to sling and lift the logs.  But is still pretty handy.  Can lift in the 4,500 to 5,000 lb range up close to the truck.  I just picked up the sycamore log on the truck today.  FF Log Calculator sez it should be about 3,800 lbs.  That made the truck grunt at full extention. Parked in one yard.  Lifted the log over the hedges out of the adjacent yard.   FWIW, price was not bad.  A friend at church works for a construction company. They upgraded to a newer truck.  The company thought it was going to be a white elephant to get rid of with the knuckle boom.  So I "took it off their hands....".  (Read: jumped on it...)  Still need to fab a set of low bunks for it.  Have the steel.  Just never got around to it....

 

[OneWithWood]

I found this shot once before so I thought I would find it again and post it here:

JMS 10 ton trailer with Farma 51D loader
 

[urbanlumberinc]

This method works pretty well.   

Yup, thats a Blue Ox you see there, belongs to a friend of mine who moved the logs for free.

That tree was 106 years old, 39 inside the bark, small end, 13'6 long

[Ironwood]

THE question IS could the Blue Ox lift it? How much did it weigh?

          Reid

[urbanlumberinc]

Nope, the butt was 8500 lbs.  We set some small logs perpendicular under the big logs to act as rollers.  Then, when we got to the yard, we choked the logs off to a big ole cottonwood and pulled em right out. 

[Ironwood]

Here is the big arch carrying a big / short log. 
 
 

             Reid

[TexasTimbers]

Todd that looks exactly like a PJ trailer, I would bet that it is. If so they are made right down the highway from me in Tigertown Texas by Mexican Mennonites. They claim to be out of Paris but the plant is in Tigertown. I have a 3 axle 34'er just like yours. I don't care for the 3 axle design but it does brake well.
Ya gotta tell me if that is a PJ. If not, someone is knocking off their design to a tee.

[Todd]

kevjay,
It's a Load Trail trailer, and I think it's out of Cananda, but I found them down in Texas. ( I can't find them in Canada anymore) I bought it used and it's been a great trailer....now only if my truck were bigger.....
Todd

[ScottAR]

Mexican Mennonites

Am I the only one that finds this hilarious?   

[Todd]

Si   

[TexasTimbers]

Fact is always stranger than fiction. Mexican Mennonites in Tigertown Texas. But that's not the end of the twist. I popped a hub off my rear axle last year and drove out there to get a new one.

The front office is run by . . . . . Canadians. The guy I worked with had just moved down and said that 2 or 3 others had as well. They have an American, Candian, and Mexican flag proudly, and prominently displayed at their plant. they have employee housing right there to the tune of hundreds of units. It's a sprawling operation to which the INS has obviously turned a blind eye

But this thread was Urban log transportation I just posted this to give you the rest of the "hilarious"  story.

[sawguy21]

 

[Reddog]

This is what I use to load and haul. If I had known I would hauling so many for people, I would have gotten a flat deck.

 

[Haytrader]

Theere are a lot of Mexincan Mennonites around here. Generally large families who work on farms or in feedlots. Some come up to buy machinery and take back south. Wads of cash. But most are poor and a farm job with a house furnished is what they want. Often the wife hires out also and an older girl watches the kids.