Loading Logs On Trailer With Winch

Getting free wood home from work for my out door wood boiler with my dump trailer with the winch.

Loading logs on trailer with winch. For the bigger logs i stretch the cable out. But like brother bart said a 2500 pound winch is what he has and i have to agree the 5000 is probably over kill. I got it on sale at hf and it works fine. Even the 2000 lb capacity winch can move a log that is heavy enough.

I have a 5000 pound winch that i put on my utility trailer for pulling logs. January 04 2009 065503 am chek out portable winchyou could use it in your wood lotand 100s of other uses. With this setup i can load two logs high and sometimes 3. Here i have a truck capable of carrying medium logs worth 4 points utility trailer capable of carrying 600litres of fuel and a short log cart capable of carrying short logs that are worth 3 points.

That will pull some pretty good size logs. I have a deck over trailer that i am wanting to be able to load logs onto with minimal fuss. I was thinking that i could take a trailer wagon and hook it up to the winchs drawbar and use the logging winch to pull logs out and directly up onto the trailer. I use two oak 2x8 12 feet long.

When loading the skid plate doubles as the ramp and i have the winch mounted to the front of the trailer with a receiver hitch mount. As a result you can create some quite creative vehicle combinations. Make sure you use something substantial to hold the weight of your logs. Also you get to see how i load and.

Thanks for stopping by. I have loaded many logs using a hand winch mounted on the front of my trailer. Winch and trailer to load logs reply 13 on. Since you can actually winch pull a cart properly in mudrunner you can attach another trailer to your truck using the winch.

When i get to the landing i would unhook and use the grapple to load the logs onto the road worthy trailer. I also have a larger trailer similar to yours and have been thinking about how i could adapt the idea to the longer trailer to haul 16 foot logs. I am winch shopping and want to go as heavy as reasonable but price is a concern. I use a harbor freight portable winch to roll logs up several 4x4 ramps laid on the side of the trailer.

This video is a review on the harbor freight badlands 2500 winch and loading logs to mill them up. If the logs are under 20 i usually just use a cant hook to load as it is quicker. The winch is model number 61840.