[Jacob]

@redwoodmtnmill I hear that. Somehow, every time you get a bigger machines, the jobs just seem to magically get bigger.

Which skidder grapple are you running and how has it run for you?

• This reply was modified 2 weeks, 1 day ago by  Jacob Chidester.

[Jacob]

Firewood would be one product I see this type of trailer being valuable in the production chain of. I just hadn’t considered it much as I live in a climate where firewood really isn’t a major consideration

[Jacob]

I’ve looked at these trailers as an alternative to bigger equipment with larger footprint/larger impact but they just don’t make sense to me from a financial standpoint. I caveat this with, if you are doing it for fun, hard to go wrong. Also, they are cool.

If we just consider pine and what a 400 lb pine log looks like (the limit of the machine) if I cut those logs into their most valuable form of lumber I get a single 12 ft 6×6 (if I’m lucky). You can load 8 of them on to the trailer. Lets assume in a single day, you can take down the requisite trees, get them cut, loaded, hauled out, on the mill, and turned into lumber in a single day. If we say each piece of lumber is worth 50 bucks, you made 400 dollars gross for a day of HARD labor. 400 dollars gross with a 7k trailer, 7k atv, 15k sawmill, and 8 hours of HARD labor.

I think as has been mentioned elsewhere and as was maybe mentioned in a video that @silvicultural made, a small tractor (could be found for that same 14k) and appropriate attachment is a better solution so you can pull logs that yield higher value products. These trailers just don’t have the power to pick up logs that make real money.

Edit: I also considered horses as a novel alternative

• This reply was modified 6 months ago by  Jacob Chidester.

[Jacob]

Can’t figure out how to “like” but I’ll second this. Runners to create a gap for forks is big important.