A tipping trailer for my CUT

[soulasphil]

I like the FEL very much on my JD 3520, but it has its limits. After hundreds of runs to carry cut branches to the burning place, I'm dreaming of a tipping trailer. I have no experience with tractor trailers and the best way to connect them to the tractor. I would be thankful for your experience and advice.

 

[ninefinger]

Go to build it yourself forum and search "3 pt trailer hitch" . Multiple pages there but if you can weld there are some very good ideas there. Even if you can not weld you can have one built.

 

[SkogenMe]

I like the FEL very much on my JD 3520, but it has its limits. After hundreds of runs to carry cut branches to the burning place, I'm dreaming of a tipping trailer. I have no experience with tractor trailers and the best way to connect them to the tractor. I would be thankful for your experience and advice.

I don't own one (they currently fall into the same category as your hedge trimmer for me... dreaming only ) but something like the Pronovost off road trailers might be of interest.
Pronovost- Dump trailers - Off-road service
They look similar to small european dump trailers I have seen before. They pin to the hitch and have a swivel so the trailer can tip over without the tractor.
Happy dreaming

 

[Willl]

After hundreds of runs to carry cut branches to the burning place

How far are your runs ?

To far to just use your grapple and 'tractor' them to the burn pile ?

 

[savageactor7]

soulasphil we do a lot of tree harvesting and many times we're hauling cut branches to a remote location using the 3PH.

Lay a bunch of branches on a chain attached to the 3PH and yank them away...the chain will tighten on the branches as you pull it.

Then again if you're talking about small branches like grape vines maybe a trailer will suit your needs better.

 

[soulasphil]

Thank you SkogenMe For the Pronovost link. It's something like that, except I'm not sure we can get them here. Besides I don't want it to be off-road. We don't have trucks here. Last week I had to collect a few pieces of furniture and a table-tennis table a couple of miles away, managed with the FEL, a lot of ropes and several trips, but I would have loved a trailer. After reducing a 200 metre laurel hedge from 5 metres high to 2 metres, I wish I could have taken the branches to the dump site. Had to burn them instead, took three whole days !
So according to the regulations here, with my standard driving license I am allowed on the road with a 1.400 kilogram trailer (load included) without any brakes on it. I'm looking for a trailer of that type (1 ton load) that is sturdy enough for everyday use and civilised enough to be towed on the highway.

 

[soulasphil]

My runs are about 300 metres to the burning place, so 600 metres going and coming back for more. I don't have a grapple, I'm very jealous of those I see on the pictures on TBN but haven't been able to find one here so far, except a small grapple that could be adapted on the FEL bucket. My branches are 3 to 6 centimetres in diameter and 2 to 4 metres long, lots of them!

 

[savageactor7]

those branches are a good candidate for dragging...and you'd like the way they clean up your trails too.

 

[tessiers]

3 point chipper won't cost much more than the trailer and will save all the traveling.

 

[Builder]

Probably won't believe me, but what you want is an old Grove farm wagon with a hydrauilic dump. The problem with the little mickey mouse trailers is they don't hold any bulk. Brush is generally light & bulky. They look really sturdy, but they're only really suited for firewood, dirt, etc. They'd fill up with brush real quick. Probably very expensive, too.

Check these out at your local big time farm tractor store. They're real nice for brush-they hold a ton of bulk.

At $750, they're a bargain. I use one on one of the farms I do work on.

Grove 7x14 dump wagon Wagons for sale at Wengers of Myerstown