Sunday, 2 September 2012

Moving logs: new trailer and a modified log trolley

Well, after our old trailer died, we picked out a new one, and it's finally arrived! The neat thing about it is that the front, as well as the back, can be removed:

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It also has tie-down points on the floor, so we can lay ratchet straps in to secure the logs without bending the side walls:
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The result is that large loads of logs can be placed evenly across the axle, and everything works nicely!
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However, we now have an additional solution for moving logs as well. Some locations are hard to access, and you have to push the trailer backwards up a track, then reverse the car up to it before loading and driving out. So given that we now have a Stein Arbor Trolley, I paid a local engineering firm to make me an extra part for it, so we can pull it with the 4x4:


It will come in very useful in future I think!

Mike

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