How best to unload wood chips?

[hobbyfarm]

ArkCivEngr,
The easiest way I've found is to not have to do it at all.
When I needed mulch, I simply asked the arborist to dump them where I wanted the pile. I told them I wanted 15 loads, and boom, I had them.
That way the pile(s) was mine to turn and deal with.

next?

 

[DMF]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I tried one of those from JC Whitney. A few yards of mulch was all it could handle before it was just too heavy of a load.

It looks like without a dumper you're gonna do a bit of shoveling. )</font>

Wow, I tend to disagree. My Country Manufacturing dump trailer bit the dust this weekend when I needed to haul a bunch of backfill for my retaining wall project. I put the Load Handler on my pick-up and moved 15 yards of backfill 1-1/2 yards at a time, no shoveling. My pick-up has a drop-in bedliner which is pretty slick so I'm sure that helps a bit, but I would have been in quite a bind without it this weekend...

My $.02

 

[davesisk]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( The "loadhandler" is available from JC Whitney. It works as good as the ad says it does. Here is a link to it. I have one and it is well worth the money. Load Handler

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Harbor Freight sells something like this, and Northern Tool also I believe. I've thought about putting one in my 5x10 trailer, actually. I seen to always be carrying material in it, and it's a pain to unload. Just a little too heavy to tip it all the way up with the tractor, especially fully loaded... /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Dave

 

[tommu56]

The trick with a load like that is to fold tarp like a series of z's with the bottom of z on left to top of z on right mabe 12" on top of z's then when you pull tarp out you dont move the whole load just 12" of the load

I'll take a picture next time I get a chance

tom

 

[ArkCivEngr]

Ron,

While unloading the chips this afternoon, I had an idea that is pretty much the same as your suggestion. A vertical stack of plywood, reinforced with 2x2s or 4x4s running vertical, with chains running side-to-side at the top and bottom. The reinforcing beams will carry the load, there's no tensile force to pull anything apart because the chain will be pulling on the backside of the stack, and two chains each with two contact points will keep the stack from turning or flipping.

Now I need to draw a FBD. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Taylortractornut]

When I was in highscool hauling scrap iron was my evening job. I got lots of good metal and all out of it to but it was a pain to unload all the small loads i had to make with the S10. I got hold of some conveyor rollers like they have to move boxes in a factory. they were around 28 inches and left loats of room betwwen my fender wells. I took a few sections of tubing and made a small frame and the made a tapered shape up over my wells and upthe sides of the truck then lined with 3/8ths plywood.. When i got my load Id go home to the seperation pile and drop my tailgate and put it in reverse fly backwads and brake. The rollers would shoot the frame out and when it past the gate it would dump. Hauled lots of scrap iron and mulch. that way. last year i gave the frame and rollers away to my cousins husband so he can haull off ard trimmings.

 

[bobodu]

Taylor...
What a hoot.I just logged on to suggest something like that!!

 

[Taylortractornut]

its a hillbilly roll off container lol. On friday evening when the Perfume started to get in the air I'd open the tail gate and dump the clutch. it rolled out rollers and all ready for a night out on the town lol. It waso the right hieght to [put under the saw table to let the stock roll onto the table. Ithink at the most it held nearly 2 cubic yards of mulch.I had a stay chain in the bed to hold it down when dumping after i overlooked it once i had to hand unload the scrap from the little dump to beable to get it back into the truck.

 

[bobodu]

Also sounds like it might come in handy when the BEER wore off and the girl really shouldn't be seen in daylight... /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[Bigbear]

Took awhile to find the post, but I am the one that made a homemade version, role up dump bed. Scroll down towards the bottom, has a few pictures. Hope this helps. I have put one ton of rock or sand and it still unloads easy. Link

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