«Previous    Next»
Trailer-Mounted Log Loader
“I use my home-built, trailer-mounted log loader to transport logs out of the woods. It’s built heavy and saves a lot of time,” says Alfred Caissie, Wellington, P.E.I.
  Caissie uses the hydraulics on his Massey Ferguson 4-WD tractor to operate the log-loading trailer. The 20-ft. long rig is equipped with a jib that swivels 180 degrees and also up or down.
  “I cut the logs into 15-ft. lengths, then use controls on front of the machine to load them onto the trailer. I copied it from a big log loader owned by a friend but made it smaller,” says Caissie.
  The jib’s base mounts inside a big steel pipe that sets on a car spindle welded onto the trailer’s frame. A hydraulic cylinder is attached to a steel bracket at the base of the post and uses the sprocket and chain off a motorcycle to rotate the spindle. Other cylinders are used to raise and lower the jib’s arm and to operate the grapple.
  The machine’s wheels and axles are off an old Knight manure spreader. Caissie used square tubing and channel iron to build the frame.
  Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Alfred Caissie, 571 St. Gilbert Road, Wellington, P.E.I., Canada C0B 2E0 (ph 902 854-2069; carolann_martin@hotmail.com).
  



  Click here to download page story appeared in.



  Click here to read entire issue




To read the rest of this story, download this issue below or click here to register with your account number.
Order the Issue Containing This Story
2015 - Volume #39, Issue #2