Building a sawmill trailer

[Shiny steve]

10 minutes ago, Forest2Furniture said:

I'm considering putting the mill onto an ifor williams flatbed that way I can bring home wood I've milled.

That's not a bad shout, but they need leveling befor you cut hnce why I built the box frame trailer. Hopefully it won't allow twist so the timber should be straight. 

[Forest2Furniture]

44 minutes ago, Shiny steve said:

That's not a bad shout, but they need leveling befor you cut hnce why I built the box frame trailer. Hopefully it won't allow twist so the timber should be straight. 

Mine is currently on a box frame trailer and you still have to level it, all trailers will flex.

[Shiny steve]

Trailer build. 

[Shiny steve]

First logs on the trailer

[Johnsond]

On 12/04/2020 at 20:00, Forest2Furniture said:

I'm considering putting the mill onto an ifor williams flatbed that way I can bring home wood I've milled.

Lot to be said for this, to be honest I considered it for a good while prior to building my own trailer. I’d have been looking at a 16ft as a min and having owned a tri axle in that length I know what a solid decent tool they are and I think the levelling could be done easy enough with the same type of legs you see on most of the woodlands trailers retrofitted to some fabricated outriggers or box passed through between chassis and bed. . I looked at possibly putting the mill to one side and putting bolsters on the other to do as you say and carry the wood milled back. What put me off in the end was the weight and the fact they are very low at the back end for getting into some places. Milling tomorrow for my own use and luckily it’s close to home but still a pain to have to stack the timber and go back later with the ifor to collect. 

[Shiny steve]

Very interesting points there mate. 

[skc101fc]

Lot to be said for this, to be honest I considered it for a good while prior to building my own trailer. I’d have been looking at a 16ft as a min and having owned a tri axle in that length I know what a solid decent tool they are and I think the levelling could be done easy enough with the same type of legs you see on most of the woodlands trailers retrofitted to some fabricated outriggers or box passed through between chassis and bed. . I looked at possibly putting the mill to one side and putting bolsters on the other to do as you say and carry the wood milled back. What put me off in the end was the weight and the fact they are very low at the back end for getting into some places. Milling tomorrow for my own use and luckily it’s close to home but still a pain to have to stack the timber and go back later with the ifor to collect. 

I've done exactly this with my normally yard based HM126. Rear ifor W screwjacks, scissor jacks in the middle and my hi lift/farm Jack at the front to stop chassis flexing and dipping as sawhead travels down the track. At end of day lift and turn sawhead parallel on tracks, ratchet down and load up with timber alongside. Not 100% perfect but got the job done. We're supposed to be practical guys with the ability to find or make the solution required.

[Forest2Furniture]

I've run my mill on the Woodlands type trailer for the 3.5+yrs and most if not all the places I mill for my own use is on farms or estates never in a forest.

So, thinking the ifor trailer a wiser move, thinking of putting another pair of ifor screw jacks on the front to match those on the back or use the side lift jacks I have on the current mill trailer.