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Building a wood hauler trailer for the WD45
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    Posted: 29 Mar 2012 at 10:07pm
My FIL has had this buckboard running gear that he got from the Amish for years.  It's been sitting in the woods for a long time.  I have a 2" square tubing 4'x8' frame that I want to put on it and make a firewood hauling wagon out of it.  I'm thinking treated plywood floor and 2x8 wood sides for it.  What do you guys think? 








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It's going to be a lot of work.  First thing, I have to make sure the spindles are good.  I have someone I can get cheap used tires from.  I'm kicking around the idea of putting a pivot point on it and a cylinder so I can dump the wood after I haul it out of the timber. 
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I'm doing this on a SHORT budget.  (My wife says).  
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why not??
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Go for it -- would be a fun and useful project -- when my wife places a short budget, I have to ask -- shorter than what, my last project? - that ended up being not that short in her mind, and the road goes on forever, LOL.  We have fun together.
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Here is my wood hauler...lol.
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I would not recommend plywood of any kind on the floor!  Water needs to be able to escape, hence no wider than 1x6s would be best!
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A 2 wheeled trailer is much handier than 4 wheel if you ever have to back up. It also puts added weight on your drive wheels in sticky situations. I have used the dump on my barge box for wood, but you end up with a longer pile than the length of the wagon so don't plan on getting it to dump out in one spot without pulling ahead. If it isn't shed-ed, you need to remove scraps and have it tilted so water and such can run off.

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We once had a two wheel dump trailer-- made from the rear of a rear truck frame/ axle and it was one mean machine. Really rugged- could drive over stumps and mud ruts and keep on going>>> I agree with CTucker.
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I would personally not use plywood, I would lay some kind of heavt duty decking.
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Thanks for the advice everyone.  I'm thinking about making some plan changes.  I'm thinking about cutting off the front axle and making it a two wheel trailer.  That way I can put lights on it and use it as a utility trailer/4-wheeler trailer to pull behind my truck.  Also, I think I'll use some of the heavy duty metal mesh for the flooring.  That way mud and small debris can fall through, along with any water. 
Still in the planning stages yet, so who knows what it might end up as. 
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I used to have trailer I made out of a 66 chevy pick up. I often thought about adding a tranny and a PTO shaft so I could have 4 wheel drive when hooked to the tractor. There were times while cutting wood we had to roll it down the hill cause we couldn't get the trailer to the tree we were working on. A 4wd pickup changed that so my idea got left behind:)
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Originally posted by Iowa_Allis Iowa_Allis wrote:

Thanks for the advice everyone.  I'm thinking about making some plan changes.  I'm thinking about cutting off the front axle and making it a two wheel trailer.  That way I can put lights on it and use it as a utility trailer/4-wheeler trailer to pull behind my truck.  Also, I think I'll use some of the heavy duty metal mesh for the flooring.  That way mud and small debris can fall through, along with any water. 
Still in the planning stages yet, so who knows what it might end up as. 

Maybe separate it at the reach, and add a box on top of the rear section. Make the box center a little ahead of the axle so you can have some tongue weight for towing and you could make it dump. I have a small trailer I pull with the 4 wheeler for hauling wood to the house and when I want to take my lawn mower down the road, I can tilt the bed back, drive up on it and be on my way without messing with ramps.
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Originally posted by CTuckerNWIL CTuckerNWIL wrote:


Maybe separate it at the reach, and add a box on top of the rear section. Make the box center a little ahead of the axle so you can have some tongue weight for towing and you could make it dump. I have a small trailer I pull with the 4 wheeler for hauling wood to the house and when I want to take my lawn mower down the road, I can tilt the bed back, drive up on it and be on my way without messing with ramps.


That's kinda what I'm thinking.  There is a property that I'm hoping to be able to set some traps on this fall, and I'll need to haul my 4-wheeler there.  This could be pretty handy for that. 
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An old New Idea 12A ground-driven manure spreader with the "wide spread" beaters and other rear end hardware  taken off makes an excellent wood hauler.  Flair- top box, narrow, easy to reach in and get to the bottom (even for a short guy). Wood can be stacked and heaped; will hold a pretty good "jag."
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I have an old spreader with the rear mechanicals cut off that I used to use for firewood.  That thing has pretty much given up the ghost though.  The frame is pretty much shot.  It was great while it lasted though!  A friend let me cut at his farm, and I'd come out of there with a truck bed and spreader full of wood at a time.  Really cut down on trips. 


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I like the 2 wheel trailer approach as well.
I have a trailer made from a '50 Ford P.U. box and an older mobile home axle.
I put one of those trailer controllers on my WD so I could utilize the electric brakes.
I haven't hauled wood with it in a few years as I have been hauling the wood out in log lengths and sawing it to length on level ground as of late.
My wood lot is very steep in places and the brakes worked really well when I was hauling
cordwood down out of the woods with the trailer.
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