Help me make my trailer self loading

[newbury]

OP -
Take your second drawing, drop a ramp down from the end of the trailer. Buy or build a simple slip scoop. Hook an appropriate remote control winch to the front sides of the slip scoop with the cable running up over the ramp to the front of the trailer. Put a Big A** handle on the back of the slip scoop. Then manually drag the scoop (essentially a BIG shovel) up onto the pile while steering it with the handle.
Start the winch while steering the scoop down the pile, filling up as it goes, and up the ramp.

You probably can't do it in one scoop, but you could drag a lot more than a shovel full.

 

[Sysop]

Converting the trailer to be a small flat bed, with a boom and winch, to lift 5 gallon buckets up may be an idea. Ratchet straps to hold the buckets secure for the journey. You still need to chuck the buckets full by hand, but it won't be as much manual lifting and moving of the material. That trailer looks as high as a small pickup tailgate would be.

 

[stuckmotor]

I'd sell the ATV and get a small tractor with a loader or a slip scoop on the 3pt hitch. A tooth bar on the loader bucket works wonders when pushing into rock.

I'm with MossRoad on this one. Doing the work of a tractor is a big enough pain when you actually have a TRACTOR.

 

[bcp]

Or put that ATV to work.

Hydraulic Quad Bucket

Bruce

 

[NS Gearhead]

LOL, no selling the ATV is not an option. Renting isn't either as it's such a long round trip that I may only get 3 trips/ hour. The trailer is half a yard. That's 24 yards if I worked steady 8hrs/day over a weekend. Two tandem loads. The cheapest machine to rent would be around $300 for the weekend. Tandem load of gravel costs me $250... so I guess it's some savings, but if I can set something up once, it'll pay off over time. I'm talking about moving around 10 tandem loads.

One thing I didn't specify is that the winch would be electric. A wireless remote for it could be an option.

On my way in to work today, I thought of option #3; build a ramp as high as the trailer, and push the gravel up the ramp and into the trailer with the atv. I'd build a purpose plow for this off of the snow mounts it already has. The only issue I could see with this is that the trailer disconnected may not want to stay in place. LOL

 

[NS Gearhead]

Oh! Also the 2nd option, the scooping action is when driving forward, not backwards. Backwards was my initial thought, but I realize it would just jacknife.

Option#3

 

[NS Gearhead]

This may be avariation on what someone already said; build a scoop with a handle and a ramp going up to the trailer. Use the winch to pull the scoop and guide it to dig in more or less with the handle. Up the ramp and dump.

 

[aczlan]

IMO, that option 3 is the best.

Aaron Z

 

[NS Gearhead]

I could use logs to build the retaining wall pretty easy.

 

[PAGUY]

Tell wifey if she loves you she would load your trailer for you.:thumbsup:
Good exercise to tone her body. :laughing:

PAGUY