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Started by barniescamp, April 30, 2009, 10:53:48 PM

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barniescamp

do any of you guys know or heard of anyone hauling firewood in a 48' trailer with a walking floor[ live deck ], I'm asking this because somebody asked if I could produce and deliver approximately 400-500  face cords of firewood and the only way I see getting this much wood delivered in a timely matter is with a 48' walking floor trailer but I don't know any body who ever did it without the wood being on a pallet. I don't like the idea of the wood getting hung up inside the trailer as 40 face cord would take awhile to unload by hand.

bkellyvtme

My father worked for an outfit that delivered wood that way. It did get hung up every now and then.

Sawyerfortyish

I don't think you can haul 40 cord in 1 trailer. Since a cord of green cut wood weighs 5000+lbs per cord 40 cords would weigh 200,000lbs+. Don't get pulled over by the dot.
I would think that most of the wood on a walking floor would unload and you may have to kick a few pieces off that didn't.

chucker

  ? 40 cords on a 48 foot trailer? you talking thirds as a cord or how do you measure a cord? 220000 pounds sounds just a little heavy to me ....
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chucker

  but to answer your question a live bottom farm wagon works good if you dont have far to go ... or maybe try a end dump ?
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barniescamp

Sorry I ment face cord or 1/3 cord, I fixed the original post.

chucker

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Gary_C

I would suspect that dropping firewood into a live floor trailer with a conveyor would be kind of hard on it. You could probably expect a lot of repairs and some unloading by hand.

If it was me, I'd look for someone to hire with a big end dump or one of those side dump trailers.

I wouldn't get to excited about big promises. That's a lot of firewood and don't forget firewood is just a commodity and they could get it from a lot of sources.
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Ron Wenrich

We do it on an almost daily basis.  Our trailer is 40' and we use it for firewood and hauling bark.  We use live bottom trailers that clean out like farm wagons for sawdust.  In the winter, those things can freeze up and you get a bunch of damage. 

We have used live bottom for firewood, and they work OK.  We used to load logs in the top and cut to length inside the trailer when the call was for cut and not split.  We have also put cut and split onto large piles and loaded trailers with knuckleboom loaders.  We no longer dry any wood in our yard. 

We use a MultiTek processor, which goes onto a conveyor and is dropped into the walking floor trailer.  We load about 9-10 cords per load, and that's plenty heavy. 

We've used the current one for about 4 years.  The last one lasted about 7-8 years before someone decided they wanted it more than we needed it.  They stole it right out of the yard.  Walking floor trailers are the preferred trailer for NY garbage haulers. 
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woodmills1

anyone else trying to make up a joke about the walking floor trailer that suddenly just walked away ??? :D :D :D
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treecuttingsob

i have hauled wood in mine from missouri to arizona a lot of times works good but will hang form time to time just walk the flore forward when it happens then back again

DanG

Quote from: woodmills1 on May 01, 2009, 07:01:58 AM
anyone else trying to make up a joke about the walking floor trailer that suddenly just walked away ??? :D :D :D

No, but Ernest Tubb did a song about walking a floor that was probably in a trailer. ;D
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Ok ya got me sthumped on the walking floor  ???   What is it .....  :-\
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rebocardo

Like a conveyor belt loop for a floor.

Ron Wenrich

Not really a conveyor belt.  There are 2 types that I have seen.  Our web type is large chains on each side of the truck, and it has paddles that are welded to each side.  The chain is advanced, and the load comes off that way.  That's what we used to use for firewood.  We even put loads of logs in these.  We currently use this for sawdust.

The other type has a slated floor that runs lenghtwise in the trailer.  These move back and forth and moves the load from front to back.  This is the type we are currently using for firewood and mulch. 
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SouthernRumRunner

They are different type of walking floors. I use keith walking floors on my chip trailers.There is another company called Mac who builds  different type of walking floors. check this video out  www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiXIYtIFMyM&feature=related

beenthere

I see there are no conveyor belts there.

Looks like it would work fairly well.  :)
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rebocardo

This link explains the "continuous belt floor" aka conveyor belt system.

http://www.jgpress.com/BCArticles/2001/050170B.html

This is the Keith Walking Floor others have mentioned

http://www.keithwalkingfloor.com/stationary_agriculture.html

justintimemoto

my neigbhor uses a walking floor for doing round bails works allrihgt you got to help them a little bit but it does good
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wi woodcutter

I have used a end dump trailer for hauling wood, it works good.

Just make sure you raise it nice and slow and be on level hard ground.
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TwinCut

I saw somethink kind of neat last fall in Washington, they took a stinger pole type log trailer and took of the bunks. Then they mounted an open top sea can on the trailer that they had installed a walking floor in. The idea is that they can move around on bush roads a lot easier than with regular chip trailers. Seemed to work really good.

arojay

How do they dump, just open the barn doors?
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TwinCut

Yep, that's about it. The back doors open and the hydraulic system is kicked in and the material "shuffles" it's way out.

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