NS Gearhead
Veteran Member
I've got a huge pile of gravel just waiting to be taken... but shoveling's getting very, very old. I'm on a shoe string budget and I want to somehow make my trailer self loading.
Here's the trailer
the gravel (broken up shale)
the pile
I loosened as much as I could last year when I had this rented
Here's my first idea. The boom would be a pipe inside another pipe. The clamshell bucket would lay flat on the ground, and if it doesn't have enough digging power, I could stand on both halfs and draw the winch in to close. The only part I don't have figured out is how to open the bucket both to start digging and to dump.
2nd idea is like a backwards loader bucket lifted by the winch. At first I thought of running it backwards, but thought the ball coupler would hijack once I touched the gravel.
kind of like this;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaRNs2M2fVs
Thoughts on why these wouldn't work, what would work better, or possible solutions?
Here's the trailer
the gravel (broken up shale)
the pile
I loosened as much as I could last year when I had this rented
Here's my first idea. The boom would be a pipe inside another pipe. The clamshell bucket would lay flat on the ground, and if it doesn't have enough digging power, I could stand on both halfs and draw the winch in to close. The only part I don't have figured out is how to open the bucket both to start digging and to dump.
2nd idea is like a backwards loader bucket lifted by the winch. At first I thought of running it backwards, but thought the ball coupler would hijack once I touched the gravel.
kind of like this;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaRNs2M2fVs
Thoughts on why these wouldn't work, what would work better, or possible solutions?