An interesting trailer

[Mick Dempsey]

You can get sticks onto a trailer with a winch in other ways.

 

I have turned the vehicle round, and sent the cable lengthways down the trailer and pulled the wood up the ramps, or, if you wrap the cable around it and set the ramps up the side it can be rolled on.

 

Guy on here had some pictures many moons ago.

 

Bit hard on the cable mind.

Edited June 2, 2018 by Mick Dempsey

[eggsarascal]

I think it's called parbuckling, or something similar. Used it a few times since I saw it on here.

[Mick Dempsey]

I believe it was, well remembered!

[openspaceman]

7 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

I think it's called parbuckling, or something similar. Used it a few times since I saw it on here.

That's right, it's how we used to load the matador trailer if the stick was more than 150Hft. I've used it to roll  8 tonne onto a drag trailer which the  lorry crane wouldn't lift.  It is also useful to  run a strap under the log and lift and roll at the same time  with a forwarder crane as long as there is some dead weight in the trailer, it nearly doubles the lift force even with no ramps but is more applicable to short lengths.

 

The thing about parbuckling is that as the winch wires are both back at the tractor winch it doesn't put any tipping force onto the trailer.

[Treewolf]

I think he's just built a mobile crane, so testing, certification, and LOLER may be an issue. The winch has also probably become lifting equipment. 

[openspaceman]

3 minutes ago, Treewolf said:

I think he's just built a mobile crane, so testing, certification, and LOLER may be an issue. The winch has also probably become lifting equipment. 

Yes but unless something has changed there is a lesser requirement for inspections if no one is within the working envelope of the load

[skyhuck]

Unless something has changed, forwarding trailers don't need LOLER.

[Gary Prentice]

49 minutes ago, skyhuck said:

Unless something has changed, forwarding trailers don't need LOLER.

Why's that? (I don't know) I thought that anything in the workplace that elevated a load did. 

[Vespasian]

I'm halfway into building my trailer for my little chipper, it has a lifting point on the chipper and I suppose I could fabricate a device like that to lift it into place...   if theres one thing I can't stand about these so called wee chippers its getting them on and off trailers or into the back of a van...

 

The only downside is you might look a right prat driving around with a giant arch on the back of the trailer...

 

 

[skyhuck]

3 minutes ago, Gary Prentice said:

Why's that? (I don't know) I thought that anything in the workplace that elevated a load did. 

I think its to do with the fact thats not likely to be other around, as there would be in a more urban environment.