Hanging Equipment On Trailer

[Daves3032E]

I am getting a new 16 ft gooseneck dump trailer to replace my 18 ft utility trailer. Every two weeks I travel about 75 miles away to my sister in laws and I take my tractor and whatever equipment I can to get firewood out of the woods from a location near her house. I leave all of the wood at her place and sell from her house.
The problem I'm running into is transporting everything. I have my saws and related equipment that can go in the bed of the truck. I have my root grapple, bucket, 3032e, carry all forks/rack, log splitter, 3 point log grapple, and logging winch. I currently try to judge what I will need on my next visit, but sometimes I would like what I didn't bring... you know the problem. Pack up everything that you think you'll need, but realize you ended up needing that one thing that you didn't bring.
I also want to build a small forestry/forwarding trailer to get more wood to the landing at a time. Where would I put that??? It wouldn't be huge, around one that would work behind an atv.
I was thinking I could take the sides off the trailer and lift it on its side and hang it on the side of the dump. Has anyone had good luck with that kind of arrangement? What else could I hang on the outside? I think that as long as I keep it pretty close to within the width of the trailer that it would be ok. It's not a deckover dump.

 

[2458n]

Why do you choose to drag everything back and forth? Could you not leave one or two items locked up at your sisters? My Crysteel dump truck bed has what is called a triple tipper on it. The hoist is in the center and you have pins that attach on three sides and the pinned location determines the dump. Gravity brings the bed back down. As long as the object weights less then half the bed it would be picked up when lowering. In the case of hanging things on the side; I would then pin it off in the rear location.

 

[Daves3032E]

Why do you choose to drag everything back and forth? Could you not leave one or two items locked up at your sisters? My Crysteel dump truck bed has what is called a triple tipper on it. The hoist is in the center and you have pins that attach on three sides and the pinned location determines the dump. Gravity brings the bed back down. As long as the object weights less then half the bed it would be picked up when lowering. In the case of hanging things on the side; I would then pin it off in the rear location.

I transport it all because I also have wood to take care of at home and two other locations depending on the day of the week.

 

[nc redneck]

One of the main reasons I got aweigh from goosenecks. The use of my truck bed is to valuable. I am lucky pull with 3500 DW. So it works well for me.

 

[lilranch2001]

How about adding a second trailer.
My late father in law towed a fifth wheel camper and boat trailer together quite often

 

[Daves3032E]

How about adding a second trailer.
My late father in law towed a fifth wheel camper and boat trailer together quite often

I wish I could, but I don't believe that is illegal in NY.

 

[Diamondpilot]

This is the very reason I dumped my GN. I quickly learned I needed twice the trailer once I deducted my bed space.

Chris

 

[George2615]

How about adding a second trailer.
My late father in law towed a fifth wheel camper and boat trailer together quite often

Towing two trailers is illegal in NY.

 

[schmism]

sounds like you need a larger trailer not smaller.

Sounds like the best thing for you is a combo trailer in the 22-24' length. 14K pumper pull with WD hitch on the back of a 1 ton sounds about right.

 

[RedNeckRacin]

Ignore everyone complaining about the GN's. They didn't have a big enough trailer to begin with if they are griping about bed space. They tow more weight easier to. If you had a large enough trailer, there wouldn't be bed space issues There is a reason semi trucks don't tow large trailers off the rear of the frame. (Yes I know there are pintle trailers, but they are relegated to smaller equipment)

If the dump trailer is deep enough, can you fab a rack to stack things inside?