Simple Firewood "Unloader"

Simple Firewood "Unloader" PICKUPS Miscellaneous 31-1-44 Unloading firewood from a trailer is an easy job for Harry Scott of Walsenburg, Colo. "I use a piece of chain link fence," he says. He bolted a pair of 2 by 4's to each end of a 22-ft. long, 4-ft. wide section of fence. His homemade trailer, built from an old pickup bed, is 8 ft. long. Before loading firewood into the trailer, he pulls one end of the fence forward onto the trailer floor until the back end hangs over the trailer's tailgate, then lays the front over the front end of the trailer. He manually throws firewood into the trailer on top of the fence. Once the trailer is full, he pulls the front end of the fence back over the top of the firewood pile. Then he runs a chain from his loader bucket to the fence. Then he uses the tractor to pull the entire load of wood off the trailer and onto the ground. Or if he wants, instead of backing up the tractor, he can drive the trailer forward out from under the wood. Either way, the firewood ends up in a pile on the ground. "Firewood is much easier to stack when you can pick it up directly off the ground, instead of having to reach over the sides of a trailer," says Scott. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Harry Scott, P.O. Box 1265, Walsenburg, Colo. 81089 (ph 719 738-3847; rockworm80 @msn.com).

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