Ok, Frank, I am understanding a bit better. The first thing I would do is try and find a very heavy duty flatbed truck bed or trailer putting a lower axel setup under it with lower profile tires. With this you could attach your crossfeed system and risers. You could then have some I beams that dropped down from the side of the trailer and use them to roll your logs onto the bunks you have attached to the bed of the trailer. You could also attatch hydraulic cyclinders to each of these ramps to pick the log up to place it on the bunks. You might want to have some log stops to keep the log from rolling into the carrage track or off of the other side of the trailer. To run the hydraulics, you would have to have a separate hydraulic pump and motor, Like I have with the original hydraulic test mill that Ron Heriman built. I have the first and did have the second such mill. I sold the second one, a couple of years ago. The second such mill was set up to saw 26' logs, up to four feet in diameter, on a two axel trailer.
The first mill is set up on a single axel trailer for 18' longs, 4' in diameter. I have had logs on that mill that weight in excell 5 ton, without any problems.
This is all my fault Frank Pender. I did't explain my problems clearly enough. I hope I can do it here.
I need two kind of trailers.
1) Trailer for the sawmill for only transportation, from location to location. The sawmill will be used as a stationary sawmill.
2) The second trailer will be to transport the logs from the forest to the sawmill site.
Today I don't have any of these two trailers in Congo. I need to build them.
The most important trailer for me now is the log trailer.
In this topic I need help on the Log trailer.
Loading method:
I read your post Frank about loading logs from the side of the trailer. This method is well used in Congo today.
My worry is about safety of the workers and the efficiency. I need at least 2 logs to the sawmill each day.
Can you explain your method of loading logs and maybe adding a couple of pictures?
Building a log trailer:
Did you see the picture of the disused log trailer I linked to in my first post?
I imagined that I could use that disused log trailer after restrengthen it and replaced the 4 axels.
If this is not a good idea I might just build one from scratch using trailer chassis, a couple axles from a smaller truck ect.
Today I have a 72HP Valmet 87 4x2. I'm will check up a 120-130 HP Valmet 128 4x4 later this year in Congo.
I hope you all understand my shaky English. It might be more steady later on
