Chinese quad/compact timber trailers?

[RichardT]

"you should be able to work that one out quite easily"

 

Yes, I had.

 

"you get what you pay for"

 

Well, sometimes. Opinions vary, as with recent debate hereabouts on the value for money, or not, of premium chipper brands.

 

'try "cheap foreign" '

 

I should maybe wait 'til they're pricier then, like Honda cars or Kubota tractors.

[RichardT]

"why not look at building youre own"

 

Thought about that, I could cannibalise a fair bit from around the farm, but for a tandem bogie, backbone/bolster setup it starts looking a bit time consuming, or pricey if the admittedly excellent local metal shop gets involved. I may spring for a basic trailer and bodge up my own wire loader.

 

It's interesting that this small scale stuff is so scarce here compared to the continent, the tradition of actively managing farm woodlands seems much stronger elsewhere.

[Charlieh]

there was one on ebay today home made that was really well made, but unfortunatly my comp crashed at the vital moment, going to build my own, got to source the bits which are going to come to a couple of hundred quid and get a mate to weld it all together

[Les Cork]

Hi try these Quad-X ATV Spraying Equipment they make sound trailers and might be interested in building a Log winch kit version.

They are ATV specialist accessory manufacturers, based in Ahogill in Northern Ireland.

[Dean Lofthouse]

"you should be able to work that one out quite easily"

 

Yes, I had.

 

"you get what you pay for"

 

Well, sometimes. Opinions vary, as with recent debate hereabouts on the value for money, or not, of premium chipper brands.

 

'try "cheap foreign" '

 

I should maybe wait 'til they're pricier then, like Honda cars or Kubota tractors.

 

Why the attitude ??

[RichardT]

"there was one on ebay today"

 

A black one? That looked quite tidy, I thought it had a couple of days still to run...

 

"Hi try these"

 

Thanks I'll give them a call.

 

"Why the attitude ??"

 

That's not how it looks from here Dean, I didn't start the detour into the murky waters of British industrial decline.

[Charlieh]

"there was one on ebay today"

 

A black one? That looked quite tidy, I thought it had a couple of days still to run....

 

yep it made £255 which is less than the parts would have cost to make one there was a second home made one finished last night, but wasnt very well thought out and would have transfered most the weight onto the atv, there is a cool video on youtube of a home made one, with a hydraulic adjustable axle so you can balance to load correctly, will post a vid later

[Dean Lofthouse]

That's not how it looks from here Dean, I didn't start the detour into the murky waters of British industrial decline.

 

You asked for opinions.... and it is a discusion forum

 

How can it be a detour giving my opinion that you are wasting your money and explaining why, either you want our opinion or not .

[RichardT]

Dean, I'm very happy to read anybody's opinion on either the query I raised, or on tenuously related questions of industrial history. If responding to an offered opinion with a degree of skepticism or puzzlement counts as 'attitude' that's a pity.

[Dean Lofthouse]

Perhaps the use of a smiley ??