Fitting timber bolsters

[aspenarb]

Now that is heavy duty, bet you manage to bend one anyway!

 

Probably John

 

Thanks for the replies, quite a variation in size of bolsters, it will be loaded by the forwarder and unloaded with a loader or digger the other end so I would rather err on the side of caution and go bigger so it can take the hits a bit more. What length are the sockets that your having made Bob? From memory the ones on artics are around 6"?

I cant really go much wider on the trailer so think I will have to mount them on the inside of the chassis and cut the floor rather than welding sockets to the outside

 

Go as deep as you can on the sockets Dave and make sure they are well braced . As far as bolsters go I would go a bit heavy duty because of the way they get treated, big gnarly timber is quite often loaded over the top with a telehandler. Some of these sticks can go five tons plus and are normally wrestled on the trailer with the crane one end and the telehanler the other, often one end is on and a bolster dropped in then the other end shunted on.What we do is a very different job to timber hauling where they pull up to a nice clean harvested stack of timber.

 

Bob

[Old Mill Tree Care]

Thanks for the replies, quite a variation in size of bolsters, it will be loaded by the forwarder and unloaded with a loader or digger the other end so I would rather err on the side of caution and go bigger so it can take the hits a bit more.

 

 

If Graham is doing any of that loading/unloading you'd better make the whole lot stronger than strong.

Also consider stabilisers or he'll have the whole lot on its side!

Hahahha!

[Dave177]

I was thinking about stabiliser being required but I think we will give it a go without them first.

Loading with the forwarder shouldnt be a problem, its whoever ends up unloading by ramming a set of tines through the stack!

Generally it will be mostly for clean forestry cord, we have a few small wildlife trust etc sites that have no real acces so it would be to move that rather than being for arb waste, however im sure it will be used for that too!

[TobyAllen]

I've recently had this trailer made, the sockets which sit between the side rail and bed rails. Theres 8 pins and 12 sockets so I can adjust as needed.

[Al Cormack]

I've recently had this trailer made, the sockets which sit between the side rail and bed rails. Theres 8 pins and 12 sockets so I can adjust as needed.

 

Can't see any photo??

[wicklamulla]

Can't see any photo??

 

Tank Gawd fer dat as i was just gonna book an online appointment with Specsavers.

[Goaty]

In the post I can't but I can in the timeline to the left?

 

 

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[aspenarb]

Mick Dundee has been sidetracked of late but managed a few more hours on the bolsters for the Bedford.

 

Fronts and rear frames with twistlocks

 

 

 

Getting there

 

[Tom at Heartwood]

I had these bolsters and sockets put on recently by a welder near Chertsey.

 

 

 

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Hi Al. What weight of load can you carry on your lorry? Tom.

 

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[Tom at Heartwood]

Same question regarding the Bedford. What will it carry. Tom.

 

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