Sean, would you post a picture of your hand truck if you get a chance? Thanks!
Also, your "chainsaw chipping" advice from another thread worked great!... along with using a tarp to rake and collect all the "chipped" up brush into.
I bumped the thread for you, previously, without notice being given, in this thread. I was figuring it would be seen in the New Posts listing of threads.
Seems that Photobucket. com has done away with free sharing, and threads now lack pictures.
I'll see about a picture.
Chainsaw chipping is best done with a tarp in the trailer or bed, and cut up directly. Branches on the tarp on the ground can be cut up easier than cutting on the ground and moving a lot of little pieces.
Cutting back crotches before loading can help. Keep all the bigger wood out until the end. You only want to be 'chainsaw chipping' the smaller brushy branches. Loading slightly neatly, rather than willy-nilly will mean more cross-cutting (good) of branches less cutting with the grain to a degree (slow).
I've used a wooden floor flatbed trailer, with 2' plywood stake sides. This is easy to 'chainsaw chip'. Reach over the back end from the ground and cut a line or two, then climb onto the CUT portion of the branches, and cut the next line of branches you're NOT standing/ kneeling on.
I fit a ton more brush on my friend's smaller grapple truck with weaker metal sides by 'chainsaw chipping'. He doesn't mash it down. On the dedicated grapple truck service, the operator smashes it down against tall, HD steel sides.
