Eastonmade Axis Loading a 7x14 Dump Trailer
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- čas přidán 5. 12. 2020
- Running the Eastonmade axis and conveyer into the dump trailer for the first time
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The most underrated therapy for the mind, body and soul. A day spent at the wood lot bucking up and splitting rounds.
Great video Adam. All the best and stay safe.
Dig a hole for the trailer, raise your work station, place a shoot of sorts at a down angle off the conveyor.
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Now that I have a son I can’t afford to be stupid and take chances anymore. I wear them every time I cut
Thanks for the video. I would put a ball hitch on the back of the tractor to move your trailer and splitter. Quick and efficient... hope you have a great weekend
I’m currently looking into that. Thanks
Adam I love your videos. You always get right to the point. As far as loading the trailer goes I would say dig yourself about an 18 in dip where the trailer sits. It may give you just enough room to even everything out. Keep up the good work!
if you have been around concrete trucks you could attach a chute that was removable like a concrete chute the wood would go up the conveyer and slide down the chute
Great comment.
These videos are awesome. I’ll watch Hometown Acres over anything else on TV or online. My Dad and I decided to start a hobby firewood business now! Keep doing what you’re doing. Love all the knowledge you share and how you edit your videos. Very impressive!
The kickstand is only for safely working on the trailer with the bed up. Its not made to hold a loaded bed up.... Awesome setup you have now... Someday I will have a dump trailer too!!
Nice video. Had my 14 ft dump trailer for 3 months. Dont know how I got by without it. Great piece of equipment.
I REALLY like the way you think about processing and the overall through-put to the process rather than just one part of it. I like the Axis splitter also very much. I am wondering if you could attach at an angle, with hitch pins, a small deflector plate, about 12 inches long to the end of the conveyor, to deflect the wood a little farther over into the trailer. It could be easily removed for transportation. Good work Adam!
Just remember ol boy dumping that trailer without having it hooked to a truck could be dangerous 😉 good video 👍
I’d add a chute to the end of the conveyor. Even if it only a foot long or so. That’d help a lot. Make it out of sheet metal and figure out a way to secure it without having to drill holes or pop rivets on the end of the conveyor.
Work smarter not harder!! Nice little video. Thanks again for the advice and video. Be safe.
Is it possible to put a plate at the end of the conveyor to devert wood to the center of the trailer? This was a good video. I love the estonmade axis.
Yes sir that’s what I was thinking from the start of the the video us old timers think a lot a like lol
Find a giant snow bucket for you tractor and split wood into there when the pile gets big and dump in trailer
Chris at "In the wood yard" is great content for someone that been doing a while and is building up towards bigger and better equipment..
I’d dig out an area 24”-36” down to put the trailer. I have to work around elevation a lot and do my best to use it to my advantage
Man you have the dream sideline. It isn’t about the money - it’s all the fun with all that neat equipment. Way to go. You are doing a grand job. Thanks for you videos - really look forward to them👍😁
Load the trailer then turn it around and load the other side so to speak.
And Chris is a beast. Lol
Fill up the trailer the way you had it parked, start with the conveyer in the front corner and keep pulling ahead. When the first side is full pull ahead and loop around and pull up so the conveyor can start filling the other front corner, then continue to pull ahead as the trailer fills up. It’s a lot of pulling the truck ahead but it would eliminate having to handle the firewood any more times. I’d like to see a video of this method to see if it works
The kick stand is made for an empty trailer, so if you have to servise it or fix some thing.
This needs stressed even more!!
Dump body props, or safety stands are for EMPTY dump bodies !!!!
I've been working with a shorter conveyor my whole life. Great video I'm glad Morgan turned me on to this channel.
Thanks for joining. Glad to have you here
Try backing in with doors open. Hopefully that will put the bulk of the load over the axles. More importantly, a 3 point trailer mover is one of the handiest attachments I have. Use your tractor to jockey the trailer around. It doesn't appear that you need the box blade for ballast for grappling one log at a time if you can move a nearly full IBC tote without it. But if you do, then a quick hitch is really nice. I switch between 3 point carry all, box blade (for snow removal), and trailer mover all the time in the winter.
Propping your loaded dump box is asking for trouble. Just jack up the trailer to shed rain or use your new 3 point trailer mover to lift up the trailer and put a 6 x 6 or a short round under the jack.
You have an awesome setup and a great channel.
Keep the trailer hooked up, then move it forward after one side is loaded turn the trailer around, I always have the drivers side of the trailer against the splitter, that way you can see better how close you can get, either way you do it is still easier than chucking it into the trailer. Keep safe my friend.
30 mins a cycle and keep the work area clean. Finally some one else that has ADD and OCD like me ha
It's spelled CDO, alphabetical order. LoL
Yeah, I can’t stand letting the wood yard get too out of hand. Cut split and stack in small doses so you don’t have a mess out there
I was watching video hoping you'd tilt dump trailer for maneuvering wood in dump trailer....Great job!!!
Dig a shallow parking spot for the trailer.
yes, or could the splitter station/conveyor be raised on blocks, plastic pallets, mound of soil?
Just some advice from my own experience, if your not going to keep the trailer near a plug in to keep the battery charged put a solar charger on it or your going to eat battery's. Its hard on the pumps as well running them on a battery thats not fully charged.
Maybe find spot on property with hill and use large concrete blocks below and pave section.. Cover Eastonmade up top with portable shelter temp or metal roof shelter so lasts longer.. lower section paved area allows you to work through winter and scoop firewood without dirt.
Hey bud, this disabled veteran suggests you utilize your tractor to maneuver trailer wherever you want it and when full bring it to solid ground ie driveway,,,then hook up truck for delivery. Easy to get a 3 point hitch bar n ball for tractor. 👍
Great video Adam. I think you covered the topic quite well. Hope you got your deer as well. Nothing like cutting fireworks with a little venison jerky as a snack.
I think you have the right idea of changing your task every 30 minutes or so. It’s a hobby business, so keep it enjoyable.
I’ve seen some conveyors with a little extra chute at the end, normally incorporating a grid to allow small pieces of bark etc to be filtered out. I’m not sure if something like that could be added to the end of the Eastonmade conveyor just to give that extra distance, it would be another thing to setup etc.
good to see you are not bending over to cut your wood . i try to tell people this to no avail . also keeps saw from plowing the dirt . . i try not to saw when frozen . mud on a log turns to a dirt file on the blade . put a short grouser bars with an under slide for unwanted smalls . see ya friday . also good that your cutting from both ends of the log . once saw a guy just sawing from one end and his tractor tipped . went right after letting the log down nothing hert. see ya friday john
The electric motor on your hydraulic pack is close to double the amperage of a starter motor. If you run the motor without any incoming amperage like that you'll get 9 months out of the battery. With those setups the truck is supposed to be trickle charging the battery in between dumps to make sure its kept up to full power. Not sure what the amperage going to the battery though the trailer plug is but I'm guessing its only 20 amps max. If that is the case you'd need to idle the truck for 10 times longer than you ran the dump hydraulic motor for in order to charge the battery sufficiently. So a 30 second dump would need minimum 5 minutes with the truck running to recharge the battery
Another point about dumping the trailer not hooked to a pickup or SOMETHING, is, that wood piles up very deep, and the front of the trailer is going in the air!
Also, that jack isn't made for those forces!
Hey Adam! That truck and trailer is a perfect match, awesome idea lifting that dump to move the firewood back! Keep up the great work 👍
A 3/4 ton would probably be better but the f150 pulls it just fine. Thanks for watching big Dave!
Good plan, keep changing up. Keeps you alert, bad things can happen if get tired or complacent.
Fantastic video. A very efficient one man processing set up. Well done.
I recommend, as others have, adding a chute to the end of the conveyor to direct the wood to different parts of the trailer. It would be similar to chutes seen when a construction crew or roofing crew is renovating an upper floor or dismantling an old roof. Waste material is thrown into the chute and it is directed into the dumpster below. Great video!
Reading through the comments, Just a few things to add:
Modifying your work area (raise the Axis or lower the trailer spot) is really effective but relatively permanent. Are you ever gonna move the Axis to a different spot in the yard?
A 6" or 12" slide on the end of the conveyor would help, but you will lose pile height as well.
A simple suggestion would be to bring the trailer in at an angle to the conveyor, sort of pointed behind the splitter. Then if you do speed up the conveyor towards the end of your splitting it throws wood back to the middle instead of all the way across the trailer.
Yeah I’m trying to think of a way to make a 12” slid for the end of it that could swivel like a cement truck
Great video and I liked how you used the dump trailer to gather the wood!
You have a nice set up/operation there Adam. Makes me wish I had more property to process and sell.
Daniel from Arms Family Homestead send me here keep up the good work
If you are going to keep the splitter in that location make a slight dugout for the trailer to go in. Or use the tractor to drag the pyramid to opposite side of the trailer.
I have that exact same Appalachian dump trailer. Absolutely love it and excellent price
Thanks for sharing with us Adam. 👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Maybe a downward pointing folding ramp at the end of the conveyer. Sacrifice some height to gain distance, basically.
If you look at the bigger firewood processors some have chute that is right under the end of the conveyor so when the wood falls off the conveyor onto the chute is slides a bit further and would get you to the center of the trailer or further. If it was made to be removable with 3 point hitch pins or something similar, then as the trailer fills up you can remove it in a minute and carry on. Plus it wont change the height for transporting it. Great video, and congrats on your new purchase!
Just started watching your channel. I enjoy watching the type of work you do. I cut and split a lot of firewood myself (for personal use). I use a Bobcat s175, with bucket, grapple and homemade log splitter to do my work.
Keep the videos coming.
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Look to get an old farm conveyor that is used to get bales up in the barn. Use the conveyor on the splitter to run up on the other one which is taller and will get to the center of the trailer. This would work to get a taller seasoning pile. Could also use it to run the wood out in different directions then a straight line off of the splitting table. May just need to fab up a hopper between the conveyors.
Great video Adam! What a slick setup that is, take care buddy.
Like a lot of others said, raise the Axis and/or lower the trailer. Another thought since you like to switch up activities would be to load up an IBC tote as a third activity in addition to cutting the logs and splitting the rounds. Also take care of your trailer and it will last longer.
It is always either raise the bridge or lower the river . Another way to get greater conver coverage is to mount the splitter/converer on a raised platform. Bruce Piegols
Something I have done is add a receiver to my box blade where I can put a ball in there to move a trailer. You can move the trailer without getting off your tractor.
I just watched a video recently that Andrew put up with a stand alone conveyor with the amount of firewood you are doing that would probably pay for itself and give you a lot more versatility just a thought
Friend of mine ran into the same thing with his he took the bucket on his tractor and dug down a foot or so making a loading dock of sorts to back his trailer into
Nice video Adam. You got your setup figured out. Only thing now is to hire the neighbor kid(s)
As for the conveyor...I wonder if a set of makeshift grizzly bars would help. This splitter does not need them due to lack of trash but what I think they might help in this situation is they will “deflect” the wood out another 1-2’ possibly center loading this trailer. Only down fall is the clearance height. Andrew may be able to chime in on this. Forgot to add...the kickstand on dump beds is for supporting bed without load. Careful that you don’t bend it. I’ve see FELs use the stays with a load in the bucket and yeah not good. Damaged stay and cylinder.
Would love to see a hunting video of you. Could be an unexpected but welcome change of pace
Just add light steel to the end of the chute. Facing down. Like a slide. Something that can be removed easily.
Great video!
Awesome video!!
Irony- having to shovel out a dump trailer...
BTW, I love that splitter. Glad to see you're not dropping hundreds of pieces on the ground now.
1. Easiest fix, load 1 side of trailer, drive forward, turn around, load other side.
2. See if you can re-arrange your work area and get the trailer lower than the conveyor. Perhaps build a small retaining wall and put the trailer on the downhill side (this is how we load manure spreaders). Same idea, just dirtier.
3. Easier fix - just buy a longer conveyor or add a folding deflector chute.
4. Split wood and run conveyor into the carryall box, then use tractor to dump into the trailer if your tractor has this much lift capacity.
I'd be careful raising the dump bed and letting material slide into your tailgate. Just asking for problems. Damage the latch mechanism, or possibly pop a wheelie if load was too heavy (probably not an issue with wood, but the thought crossed my mind)
Giddyup and Merry Christmas!
PS, buy a bigger chainsaw bar. I bought a Holzforma 25 inch china bar for my Stihl 361. Works very nice (with Stihl OEM chain)
I also switch between tasks because it allows me to use a different muscle group while I rest the other one. Sawing is a lot of bending without as much heavy work while splitting maybe a bit more lifting, but much of it is while you are standing up.
That is exactly my reasoning. I can only run saw for about an hour straight before my back is killing me from bending over. The tractor helps quite a bit getting the wood off the ground but that is a lot of on and off the tractor
I don't think you need the trailer to have very much lift to let the rain drain out. Just put a couple blocks of wood under the bed and on top of the frame to support it. That way you don't have it very high and it is supported.
Awesome job
Nice video Adam. Love ur hard work. I was using my log splitter and gotblos
Just a tip. How about a flip up slide extension on the top end of the conveyor , angle down for far side of trailer , hinged at the top of conveyor side panels , and up out of the way for for direct drop.
Like the video. Shoveling snow out of a dump trailer made me chuckle, shoulda just hooked it up and hit the dump lever
Raise the conveyor & add a roller table chute. Roller table could turn left or right also.
If wood goes too far & flies off trailer, than add plywood to that side.
Adam, if your getting stuck it's because of the Ford hooked to the trailer! lol Seeing all the suggestions, and the quickest and the cheapest is just keep raking few times each load. It will give you a air and water break!
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you could use the tractor to move the dump trailer ,that is how I move all my trailers around.
Eastonmade has an option to buy the splitter w/o the conveyer put a separate longer conveyor beside the conveyer.
Beside the splitter.
One thing that you can do instead of using the support post is you can take two pieces of wood and place them on the front of the trailer on the right side and left side under the box and lower the box on to the pieces of wood
I always consider using the tractor, over truck, for moving trailers. Lighter footprint and more maneuverability. You can put a ball on the 3pt or on the forks/ loader...
Perfect answer if I can put it to words... take the tractor bucket and dig down a spot for the trailer to sit... could even use railroad ties on the sides. You could get the end of the conveyor right in the center of the trailor and awzys above it .. Hope you understood my explanation...
Take care of that stick, usually the purpose is for servicing an empty trailer. A loaded one will put some unnecessary load on it
True. It’s a safety prop rod for use if you have to work on the trailer with the box up. To fix a hydraulic line, etc. so the trailer box can’t fall on you.
Build a raised platform for the splits to get the height you need. Great job, keep it up
Make a slide, like a kiddies slide to attach at the end of your conveyor. It doesn't have to be a long one but it will give you added reach.
Good video, I can't think of anything else to help spread out the wood in the trailer.
Others already mentioned it, but the prop in the trailer was only designed to support the empty bed, not the added weight of the wood.
Adam that setup of yours keeps getting better and better. You normally split into the totes so where is the trailer load headed now?take care brother
I'd form up and pour a concrete or compacted gravel pad to work the splitter on. You'd get a nice level easy to clear work surface, and could easily pivot the splitter around by grabbing the tongue and pivoting.
Also put an adjustable chute/diverter at the end of the conveyor, with a prop rod that is connected back down the conveyor somewhere and easy to adjust the angle of the chute.
Great video Adam. I have been thinking about upgrading my big box store splitter to an Easton Made axis and noticed the splitter being about 2' to 3' short on conveyor length. The cheapest way around this problem for you maybe a small flat top retaining berm to work off of. I know this kills the concept the portability. But under the circumstances this is what I've noticed, watching your video. Keep the good work up 👍
👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🗽🙏🏻 Enjoyed! Couple of things I do. To keep the bed up a bit so water runs our lay a 2x4, 2x6 or 4x4 across the frame and then let the bed back down on the 2x4. Another thing is I use my tractor (Kubota L3200) to pull my hydraulic trailer around. I mounted a hitch/ball on the back of my box blade...backing up the trailer with the tractor is a lot easier too. Neat splitter...I have a 30 ton Northern but I only split for my wood stove in the shop. I grew up in Iowa on a farm, got transferred to Dallas in the mid seventies and retired 12 yrs ago to the Piney Woods of East Texas. Lots of sunny days with 50/70 degree days all winter long. Really we have 4 months summer, 4 months fall followed by 4 months of spring! We have sandy soil, never any mud which is another plus.
Should’ve kept that snow in the trailer to soften up the blows the wood will bring as it lands in the bed. Just because it’s a tough utility trailer shouldn’t mean you can’t take care of it. But ironically the conveyer idea I’ve wanted to do with my setup for quite some time. I’ve thought about buying a used one off a farmer.
Hey there great job on the videos. I’ve truly appreciated the information on the east and made splitters. I would arrange the conveyor somehow so that sits higher. Maybe you can build a small mound wheel of dirt and then pull it on that and pull the trailer up next to it which means the trailer would be sitting a little lower compared to the conveyor. I think you probably see what I’m going with this.
I'd consider a chute that attaches similar to concrete delivery truck chutes. Couple of big bolts protruding from the end of the conveyor and a simple chute made of plate steel that hooks on the bolts. Sweet talk your buddy at the welding school into making it. It shouldn't take an hour to do.
Saws looking good. Throwing some nice chips.
Yeah I think I have finally mastered hand sharpening. Only taken me three years. I think I’m going to do a video on it
Two ideas for the conveyor. It looks like you could rotate the splitter 90 degrees clockwise and park the trailer slightly on the down hill to get more reach into the trailer. Second idea would be to make a small ramp with 2x4 and plywood (picture a super steep angle skateboard type of ramp) to divert the initial drops from the conveyor to the far size of the trailer, then you slide the ramp out before the pile gets so big that the ramp is stuck. You would need to keep it small enough so it's not a chore to slide around and move out of the way. If it works, you could always get a lighter weight product down the road made out of aluminum for long term use.
Don’t criticize Chris, he is the hardest working guy I’ve ever seen. Probably, the most efficient.
I’m not criticizing him. I was actually complimenting him saying he’s a harder worker than I am and I don’t know how he does it. I don’t have the stamina that he has
Subscribed for prioritizing work, but busting it out to get in the woods for a chance at a deer.
The easiest thing to do is to take the splitter and put it in the spot that makes the most sense with how your yard is laid out (timber, drive paths, tractor maneuverability, etc),, and set the splitter up in a place that is as much a net benefit as possible. Then take the tractor and scrape out a trough to drive the truck and trailer through. Make it quite a bit longer and wider then you think you'll need. You'll have to drive through/in to it and want to be level. Especially when you pull out with your load. Take the material you remove and use it to raise your work station for the splitter. Give yourself a decent ramp to be able to pull the splitter in and out for remote business. Between the trough and the ramp you should be able to gain an easy foot, foot and a half, which should be all you need. Of course, if you have a rise anywhere on your yard that you could set up on, that would be great. But I'm pretty sure that you thought of that already.
Perhaps a short steel extension could be fabricated that would kick the wood to the center of the trailer after it falls off of conveyor....would be cool if it rotated a little like a snowblower chute. Can the angle of the conveyor be adjusted in order to get more reach out of it? If so could lower trailer parking area or raise conveyor side of the woodspliter as long as you still had a comfortable work position. That trailer is going to be great for your operation.
Lower your trailer on side of hill with a dig out and flatten out the conveyer? Then on one side could be a fire pit for all that scrap wood.
Great video TH
You've got a really nice set up there. Be careful dumping the wood t the back of the trailer without being hooked to the truck. It'll stand up on you, been there, done that. Put a clamp on ball mount on the loader bucket or forks to move the traler with the tractor. To getthe wood t the center of the trailer, put a chute or "gizzley bars" on the end of the conveyor or get a longer, stand alone cnveyor with the attached cnveyor dumping into it.
Sliding the load to the back might result with the hitch in the air.
Ask Easton to make a folding conveyor. Similar to all the other manufactures. Or simply ad a 24" extension grate to your conveyor to reach the middle of the trailer.
When we split firewood commercially, those smaller rounds; we'd double up and split 2 at once, it speeds up production time a bit, and saves you a bit of back and forth....just a thought for ya, cheers!
Add some grizzlies bars. It will extend the conveyor easily. Not sure your welding skills, but it wouldn’t take much. Starting to become a believer of the Axis. Slick looking/working machine for the type of wood you sell.
Look up wolfe ridge, they have a grizzly bar style end chute on their conveyors. You could make oe have one made for your eastonmade to give you the extra 2 or 3 foot of distance you need.
You can cut and split wood anytime but deer gun season only come once a year so go and get you one .If you want do and hour on and hour off its up to you .
I am a super fan of the 5 .0 coyote motor I have two mustangs with that motor but for towing you cannot beat the 3.5 EcoBoost I run an aftermarket custom tune and it will literally tow a freight train at 2,000 RPMs at 80 mph... But glad to see you bought an American made pick up
My comments, you're
doing fine on your dump trailer with what you have. Some day you can elevate the splitter to get the trailer closer. One thing I do like is the vertical splitter. Watching guys with a four way horizontal, seems like you get more waste pieces. I've only used the vert. and to me works better.