Trailer hoist....

[chris hennelly]

Season's Greetings to you all! I have a flatbed trailer (ww2 bomb trailer) that I would like to add on a hoist to lift 1.5 tonnes of tree trunk onto,as a timber trailer then transport and lift onto bandsaw mill.  I was thinking of electric from own battery? Advice appreciated! Regards Chris.

[Mrblue5000]

We need pictures 🤓

[GarethM]

Cmon, keep it in old drab green and NATO numbers. Rock up at a job wearing ww2 uniforms and sporting RAF moustaches!.

[Stephen Blair]

[GarethM]

I'd rather flashheart than mainwaring.

[Stubby]

Never poopoo another man's poopoo Blackadder ! 

[GarethM]

If you said you didn't want the job, you didn't have to turn up with pencils up your nostrils!.

Edited December 19, 2022 by GarethM

[Justme]

What weight is the trailer rated too?

 

A crane capable of lifting 1.5T plus a trailer in the <=3500kg range might not leave enough usable payload for 1.5T.

 

My 14 foot Ifor williams triple axle trailer & crane came in at about 1700-1800kg empty. I would expect the ex military trailer to be quite heavy to start with.

 

[doobin]

Will an ex bomb trailer even be road legal? Id imagine it’ll be a pig to tow. Surely there are more suitable base trailers for such a conversion? 
 

 

[scbk]

I can picture this going down the road, with logs in place of the bombs