How'd it go today?

It ocurred to me yesterday whilst bumping all
Over creation with that lift hanging off the back of my truck that goosenecks ride a lot smoother too.
thats what sold me on them last week, had to move a truck with one maybe 100ft offroad with a very heavy load of chips and I couldn't feel any extra bobbing and bouncing like a heavy bumper pull has

couldn't help myself, no hitch yet but I wanted to see how it looks behind the truck, very tongue heavy I noticed while moving it with the loader but it doesn't seem to squat the truck nearly as bad as the bumper pull did
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Too fiddly for me. I ream or shove something in there. Usually sticks if they are handy. They help to roll the logs away from each other after being cut.
Yo, a former TH star, Tucker, offered an excellent trick to avoid getting saw stuck- cut in a bit from from the top of the log and then pull saw out and right next to the kerf you just cut, cut a very thin wedge, pull saw out and the lil wedge will tend to fall into the now-widened kerf, tap this wedge in a tad deeper with your bar, reinsert the saw into kerf below this disposable wedge and continue cutting all the way downward, the wedge will prevent binding.

Very simple, quick, and easy :drink: :dude:
 
Yo, a former TH star, Tucker, offered an excellent trick to avoid getting saw stuck- cut in a bit from from the top of the log and then pull saw out and right next to the kerf you just cut, cut a very thin wedge, pull saw out and the lil wedge will tend to fall into the now-widened kerf, tap this wedge in a tad deeper with your bar, reinsert the saw into kerf below this disposable wedge and continue cutting all the way downward, the wedge will prevent binding.

Very simple, quick, and easy :drink: :dude:
thats what i was trying to refer to :) i use it all the time!
 
Agreed.

Just curious, did you know of the technique prior to Tucker with the 411?

And I realize there are a myriad of techniques for dealing with bind/top bind but Tuck's technique has it's own place in the tool bag
 
I did not, Cory...t'was a new trick for me and an appreciated one. I since learning of it here, shared it with many of my fellow USFS sawyers on the Mt. Hood. To near uniform acclaim.

I only posted that caveat so that we all are reminded that no trick covers all situations...and that some situations are immune to most all of our tricks :D. As you clearly know :).
 
called like 8 different B&W dealers and nobody would sell me a hitch kit without install, random jeep shop down the road is overnighting me one and not even charging shipping!

also, dude said he'd get those logs at 9am, 8:45 I asked if he'd show up and he said "itll be later I'm busy" so guess the chippers gonna get its first workout since the infeed hopper upgrades, local dirt contractor gave me a lead on a 7 tree removal to go look at later today, got the lawn mowed, gonna have to do a lot of trailer wiring but its going to wait till I can move the trailer upto the shop and shade, too hot out to work in the sun right now

so far its been a decent day, need to grease the trailer but I'm pretty sure most if not all the zerks need replaced, might go load it with logs to see how much itll dump compared to my old one which would dump close to 15,000 pounds without any issues, my dump truck currently only dumps about 2/3rds of a box of chips which is super annoying, been using a block of wood to keep the bed up 4 inches and its helping a lot but still not great, going to swap it to a telescopic cylinder before too long
 
spent a lot of time on there this week


You can buy a goose neck hitch mounted to a plate at Tractor Supply and adapt it to your bed
went with a turnover ball, overnighted to me, gets here in the morning, we don't want the plate style, especially since you still have to do frame mounts and drill holes in the bed, plus no tractor supply in my area sells anything gooseneck related, they barely stock 2" balls let alone pintle or bigger which sucks since the only 2" stuff I own is a log splitter


also need to modify my BMG to move a gooseneck, the stock hitch adaptor doesn't work and I can't extend it and still lift this trailer, been using the bollard pin in the coupler but I don't like it, thinking of adding a receiver to the top of the BMG or welding a ball right onto it
 
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just landed the biggest crane job of the year, 1 day with a crane, 1 without, gonna be a case of we need the crane for 1 tree but theres 10 to do so we are just gonna crane everything we can in a timely manner and rig the rest out, chip everything that can fit and dump it in a field, stack everything else off to the side, finally some decent work!
 
spent a lot of time on there this week



went with a turnover ball, overnighted to me, gets here in the morning, we don't want the plate style, especially since you still have to do frame mounts and drill holes in the bed, plus no tractor supply in my area sells anything gooseneck related, they barely stock 2" balls let alone pintle or bigger which sucks since the only 2" stuff I own is a log splitter


also need to modify my BMG to move a gooseneck, the stock hitch adaptor doesn't work and I can't extend it and still lift this trailer, been using the bollard pin in the coupler but I don't like it, thinking of adding a receiver to the top of the BMG or welding a ball right onto it
I’d weld a ball on top of the arm.
 
probably what I'm going to do, then I gotta figure out safety chain loops somehow, this new BMG is MASSIVELY upgraded from the last one in that department btw, it has actual hook holes and stuff in multiple places instead of the one chain slot the last version had, and internal hose routing, I dig it!
 
Got my hitch installed, huge pita but I got it, and apparently I forgot how to back a trailer 🤣

Seems to pull nice, haven't had a load in it besides my loader to see how bad I can make it squat, which I cant with that machine so I think it'll be better than the bumper pull, that thing squated really bad even with just the loader in it, now I have to re wire this thing and get a new battery, eventually add a tarp kit and possibly fab some new ramps, overall I kinda dig it!
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