Building A Log Hauling Trailer

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@mtness1721 2 жыл бұрын

Perplexed: Not sure who is more beautiful...April, or her confidence in speaking and material handling and building!!! Much respect to you!!

@AprilWilkerson 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! :)

@joelegrand5903 4 жыл бұрын

When I retire, I want to harvest a large oak to make tables & benches from my own wood. I got everything worked out, but the moving of the logs to the mill was still a big problem. Now it is just a project away, thanks April!!

@MrLightPanda 5 жыл бұрын

That’s awesome. When you control every aspect of a project like getting your wood straight from nature, I think it makes you that much more creative

@rayjones3212 5 жыл бұрын

April, you have the ability to handle "Where there's a will, there's a way!" Love seeing the things you build and how you approach everything you do. That is what makes this channel so interesting. Thanks for sharing with all of us!

@wadegadberry4211 5 жыл бұрын

Just built an Alaskan style chain saw mill for my buddy. We were discussing how to load logs onto our trailers. We didn't want anything permanent, Then along comes April with an Answer. Keep up the good work.

@erictroutman1571 5 жыл бұрын

April. Always enjoy your vids. Love your energy and willingness to tackle most anything.

@mesquitemike4450 5 жыл бұрын

Nice work! I found that chocking the trailer and truck tires also helps when first lifting the really heavy logs off the ground. It sometimes wants pull the trailer back and rolls over the stabilizing jacks. Matt makes it look so easy!

@Aardrijk1 5 жыл бұрын

Nicely done, April! I love that trailer.

@kennethpierce7304 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome! I love the outtake at the end of the video. I’ve been there and done that as they say as I work by myself. Looking forward to seeing more videos. Thanks.

@richardhowe2370 5 жыл бұрын

I'm always amazed at the projects you tackle! Nice job April!!

@kevinnobody3052 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this one April. I bought a saw mill a while back and life got in the way so I haven't done anything with it until recently and your video tackles a problem I was having with loading logs on my trailer. Thanks

@Abom79 5 жыл бұрын

Great project and build April!

@gibsonj5035 5 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, a great build! I'm already looking forward to the next one!

@bobbycresap4440 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome video. You definitely need a huge collab with Matt when you make that amazing Wilkerized Band Saw mill!! This video definitely felt like a homecoming video to the good old April videos. Thank you.

@VeselinStefanovVS 5 жыл бұрын

Always is pleasure to watch you going trough different projects, keep up with a great job and I’m very pleased to see you using long sleeves while you welding, as a welder myself I can’t tell you how harmful it is if you are not protected.

@Zerostar369 5 жыл бұрын

Thats awesome April! I have an old dual axle boat trailer I plan on hacking up and turning into a flat bed log hauler with an arch. Ill definitely reference back to this video for inspiration/guidance when that project comes up! Thanks.

@deanaoxo 5 жыл бұрын

How i wish i'd of thought of this. Just brilliant. Thanks April, you rock.

@talladegadude4852 5 жыл бұрын

Great video and loved the out-takes at the end! Very creative thinking!

@sandrarichardson2713 Жыл бұрын

I have seen propane companies use something along this line for moving tanks. It must work very well and especially for those dealers who cannot afford the big truck with a little crane on it to load or move tanks. This is really awesome watching you put this all together. Thank you so much. Jesus bless.

@FigmentsMade 5 жыл бұрын

This looks fantastic! And slabbing up your own wood is such a fabulous feeling!

@chrisflavelle1200 5 жыл бұрын

It looks like one of the next few projects will be a bench or moveable table for the metal chop saw. Love the head band also and the nod to Rosie The Riveter. Keep up the great work. Always look forward to your videos.

@AprilWilkerson 5 жыл бұрын

Yep, a table and cutting station is on the list but who knows when I'll be getting to them. My list is very long. : ) Glad you enjoy the videos!

@VitorMadeira 5 жыл бұрын

Dear April, I've been following your channel and binge watching your videos for some while now, and let me tell you that this one turned into on of my top 10 favourite ones from you. Thank you so very much and greetings from Portugal.

@dananelson8447 4 жыл бұрын

Watched it again. Always learn more the second time. Appreciate your excitement. Thanks for sharing.

@michaelstgeorge3646 5 жыл бұрын

April, I've watched a lot of your videos but when you moved I got out of the routine of checking in to see what you've been up too. Once again found you from us working on similar projects. Glad to see you're still around making good content. The bloopers at the end were funny, that's just how it goes working solo.

@leol1682 5 жыл бұрын

Thats Awsome April Love the trailer Hauling logs .

@daviddemoise3526 5 жыл бұрын

Turned out awesome! I look forward to seeing your sawmill build next!

@Sludgepump 5 жыл бұрын

Nice build April!! Looking forward to seeing you build a couple of mills!

@theshadow1559 5 жыл бұрын

I would suggest that you construct a single wide roller made of 3" steel pipe mounted to steel plate brackets at either end of the pipe, the roller should fully extend across the rear of your trailer. Mount the roller's brackets to the outside of the trailer's rear end frame rails, this should assist the large logs being loaded onto the trailer's bed.

@bjwillis43 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome job! If you weld a D-rind to either side of the trailer you will have an anchor point to attach a pulley so you may pull those logs that are not directly behind the trailer... Love your videos, keep them coming!

@Karaon 5 жыл бұрын

I love watching your passion grow

@carnagie85 5 жыл бұрын

She is amazing! Does some amazing work. Excellent work.

@phillypauly 5 жыл бұрын

wow! nailed it- I really like the removable features.

@hphillips7425 4 жыл бұрын

Nice job. I am glad you showed the bloopers at the end

@georgeeads8689 5 жыл бұрын

Very impressive. Great work April.

@user-xd1lr2yc9c 5 жыл бұрын

Thank! With great pleasure we watch your inspirational videos. Hello and best wishes from Ukraine.

@paulmcguire3789 5 жыл бұрын

I am amazed at your work, you always do an excellent job on what-ever you do.

@josephsheehan6450 5 жыл бұрын

One of the most consistently great channels on KZfaq!

@SharpEdgeForge_1050 5 жыл бұрын

You and matthew cremona have the best videos ive seen on making a log arch. Its really helped me in planning my own. Thanks for sharing

@matthewhouppert1791 5 жыл бұрын

Love the welding videos... And the woodworking videos... And the construction videos. Keep it up! You're awesome!

@stevesmith8107 5 жыл бұрын

I'd do rollers for sure always helps with big wood or odd shape stuff. I'd recommend some rollers on ramp an also some spaced apart on the flat side of deck too.

@mcremona 5 жыл бұрын

Great work April! I'm super pumped to build another mill with you!!!

@DaddyBear3000 5 жыл бұрын

Matthew Cremona love you guys working together👍🏼

@HandToolRescue 5 жыл бұрын

9ft wide!

@JohnMGibby 5 жыл бұрын

Just finished your gigantic band saw video series. Awesome project!

@mcremona 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks John!

@mcremona 5 жыл бұрын

hahah 9' wide so she can cut 9 of those size logs at once!

@mdvener 5 жыл бұрын

Great job. Looks good , and the out takes, nice touch. Now you can watch a nice informational video but real behind the scene what really happens. Great job

@TheBeardedWoodworker 5 жыл бұрын

The ending...the struggle is real. Been there way too many times myself. Thanks for adding that!!

@vikingrobot4179 2 жыл бұрын

Nice build! Simple yet effective idea.

@slamsshenanigans2296 5 жыл бұрын

Very cool April! I've admired Matthew's log trailer for a long time.

@MrRaynemaker 5 жыл бұрын

Greetings Ms Wilkerson. I have loaded a lot of commercial equipment onto a trailer such as this one. A couple of 6 ft. 2X12's is all you need to winch anything onto this trailer. The inclined plane was in use thousands of years before anyone ever heard of a flatbed utility trailer. I enjoy your videos and have great respect for your skills and ability. You tackle and finish some amazing projects.

@MegaMuhammadsaleem 3 жыл бұрын

Good engineering brave lady

@larrybe2900 5 жыл бұрын

April got bit with the 'don't hold me back bug'. Holy heck, just think if it becomes contagious. Exhilarating and not debilitating is what I am talking about. Good build!

@TheMrAshley2010 5 жыл бұрын

Love the 'bloopers' at the end of the video. Thanks for sharing!

@jsimpson8018 5 жыл бұрын

One thing Matt does that you have not mentioned and that is a winch line damper. Not sure exactly what it is called, but all winch lines, especially steel ones will store energy and should they snap that energy can cut a person in half. Mat uses a blanket to some sort of large carpet remnant on his winch line to guard against that. I HIGHLY recommend you do this too. Even if you are out of the way, it could save the back window of your truck.

@juniorrackley2569 3 жыл бұрын

April if those brackets on the floor where built taller you could drill holes and place a pin to hold that bar once it goes over center. May not be needed but you know how us old guys and their ideas are.

@9a7psj 5 жыл бұрын

Any honor, a favor to the beauty of the floor, is rarely seen; that a woman works with iron, slices, peels, varies .. constructs herself !! beautifully, great greeting from Zagreb - Croatia

@snowsliding 3 жыл бұрын

Nice build :) Definitely appreciate the out takes at the end!

@russargabright 5 жыл бұрын

Glad I'm not the only one who talks to my projects as I work on them. Great idea April me have to do something similar to my truck, to make it easier to load game into the box.

@zabla6 5 жыл бұрын

Simply awesome! Glad I found your KZfaq!

@papasteve215 5 жыл бұрын

Ma’am. Great build as always. I have been assembling pretty much the same type set up as you for the past few years since I have retired. I have built a chainsaw mill and as soon as I can get back to work I’m building a kiln and completing a shop. I’ve been fighting a second round of cancer ( thank you Agent Orange) so I’m having to take a couple of months off. And I think this arch will be a project I’ll build soon. I’m so thankful to see you wearing proper clothing for welding now. If I may, when drilling larger holes in metal a good rule of thumb is to drill your pilot hole approximately the same size as the bit twist , or the size of the point of the bit, and then drill with the final size of the hole needed rather than stepping up the size of the bit little by little. Great job, y’all do such a good job videoing your work. Thanks.

@kovuk9 5 жыл бұрын

I absolutely LOVE your videos. You have got to be one, if not the most talented individual I have ever seen.

@hispeed69 5 жыл бұрын

Another Great project April. You should look into trailer skid rollers to protect your angle you welded on the rear of the trailer. Great addition to any long trailer carrying a load. Additionally, please balance a heavy load just barely forward your two axles center point to safely haul that weight and prevent swaying. The longer distances at highway speed will show it’s importance. You can add a bar across the top of your rail that you place in front of your logs to act as the forward stop to prevent sliding when braking. Hard to explain but simple to do with your building/welding skills. I’ve gotta add this lift to mine now! Thanks!

@dabruscar 5 жыл бұрын

You are amazing April. Great work.

@terrystephens1102 5 жыл бұрын

Looking fantastic 👍👍

@dsmmike95 5 жыл бұрын

Always love the outtakes and great job

@maxiumgolf1 5 жыл бұрын

Great plugs! Wasn’t quite expecting WIX.com Cool build, great idea

@tblbaby 5 жыл бұрын

That is AWESOME! I love logs and slabs and considered a crane mod to a truck bed/frame to do this. A trailer is much more practical. Maybe a come along on the cable to bring a log up closer? Then Swing it on up. A steel plate up the middle of the trailer for a slide zone would probably save hassle and a lot of wear too. Love where you're going with this. Way too much beautiful wood is just burned up when it could be slabbed up and used for amazing furniture.

@bernardinodasilva8571 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent job . I like to see the way you are evolving, and your main weapon is the courage, sympathy and above all simplicity. You admit mistakes and the help you have. GREAT . In this work I verified that the lifting bar does not load the objects efficiently inwards, the simple solution is to lock the log chain not directly in the bar but in the pulling chain itself , some 30 or 40 cm or even 50 far from the point where it is now .Add a hook so like that is easy to remove the pulling chain from the bar. If you do this you can continue to pull the log to the interior of the car without great maneuvers. I think you should try.

@billearnshaw1074 2 жыл бұрын

Well done, and the workmanship is perfect.

@AprilWilkerson 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed the build.

@billearnshaw1074 2 жыл бұрын

@@AprilWilkerson Looking at moving 4 pallets of stone tile, and what you built was the first thought. Then how to control the upper bail when it passed center. Rent a dump trailer and slide in a unit. Now leaning toward something that they use to install septic tanks (concrete), which is a lift on a trolley with overhead i beam. Which is basically two overhead supports like you built with an I beam spanning the length with a trolley.... You can find some of the odd things i have built under my name on u-tube, underground green house, bug out trailer, and lab trailer. Sharing back ideas to people that post things i have used over the years...

@davidthompson5108 4 жыл бұрын

Great job on that. Welding sure opens up the projects you can do. I know it sure has for me once I got my everlast welder and got proficient using it.

@clarkhughey4536 4 жыл бұрын

CLEVER ALL DAY LONG!

@BruceAUlrich 5 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to seeing how you build Matt's bandsaw mill. I'm sure you'll have a little twist that you add to it. It is an incredible design though. Nice job on the log arch.

@leksey7870 5 жыл бұрын

Gorgeous trailer turned out!

@CR-tm5ug 5 жыл бұрын

Brilliant work

@chasemixon6327 5 жыл бұрын

That little trailer would have been so handy this past weekend! I had to move a 250 gallon propane tank! All I had was a cherry picker and trailer... :)

@karljacobson7811 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome work!

@69virgin1966 5 жыл бұрын

I've said it before,there is nothing you can't do once you put your mind to it.Great job. Thanks for sharing and God Bless

@HeavyboxesDIYMaster 5 жыл бұрын

Making a detachable, HEAVY DUTY, arch support sounds super hard! But I guess you just pull the pin out for the hinge and leave the base in place. Great work! I can see your DIY skills progress. I'm wanting to make a hoist/band saw mill combo but that project will probably be on hold because I have other ones I have to do first that are more monetarily important.

@brucemartin5510 5 жыл бұрын

You are just having a blast! Rock on!

@jeffreyrathbone268 5 жыл бұрын

Great job like always

@thomasarussellsr 5 жыл бұрын

Love the bloopers at the end.

@TravisMeeks6 5 жыл бұрын

i live in southern arkansas, and pray that i never have to haul a stump or log as long as i live.. but here i am.. and this is the dopest idea i've ever seen for that. haha.. awesome video.. and, if you wanna show how to build a bagged trailer so that we can more easily haul our lowriders and body dropped trucks, that would be awesome! haha. thanks for the videos!

@DaleDirt 4 жыл бұрын

Great Job , I love and admire your spirit . Very inspirational .

@Sonal_Mobile 5 жыл бұрын

Great job April! I learned a few things from this ☺ Way to go with the 800k+ subs too 😉

@JohnMGibby 5 жыл бұрын

I just watched the Cremona band saw video series. What an awesome and daunting project. Looking forward to you tackling it. You DEFINITELY have the shop for it now. LOL

@2AKNOT 5 жыл бұрын

What a dream project. Can't wait to see Mat on your channel or you on his.Good luck finding a decent size log around here but I'm up for a road trip if you want to go to Mat's neighborhood to bring some of those beauties back. :D

@unsafe_at_any_speed 4 жыл бұрын

You could make the arch telescopic for pulling the logs all the way to the front in one motion. I use this for liting my snowmobile into my pickup. Just hook it up and push the button on the winch. Gotta love machinery!! Great videos btw

@bill154cub 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks I built a 10 k twin axle trailer and you just gave me ideas how I can move logs and heavy steel. Thanks.

@morgansword 4 жыл бұрын

Found one and thought gotta watch and it was ok as they really mirror things I have built. It's the last fifteen seconds that had me falling out of my wheelchair. I have pulled till my gut hurt or ran end to end trying to get the first one then it gets easy just to see the glad I caught that moment. I have only edited a comment so can't relate to the hours making a video, envy not having this when we did our thing but just for your info box, your finally reaching a dream never ever conceived when living in washington. You can do the happy dance now

@robertodebeers2551 6 ай бұрын

Always fun to watch you work, April. 👍👍

@AprilWilkerson 6 ай бұрын

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoy my channel. Thanks for watching.

@JamesAllen300 5 жыл бұрын

Love the idea with the trailer!! One idea you might think about is chequered plate to go on top of the wooden floor. It would stop the wood getting all scratched up and ruined and the plate can just be brushed / washed down afterwards.

@kreglamirand2637 2 жыл бұрын

Very nice build. I'm a professional climber/arborist on the south coast of BC. Moving logs is a constant issue here and although this doesn't solve the "getting logs out of tight back yard" problem, it solves many of the other ones.

@TokenViking 5 жыл бұрын

I highly recommend a nylon loop strap for lifting rather than a chain. The chain works well enough for logs, but if you are also going to be moving large stones, the loop strap will save you a ton of headaches.

@Crewdiddy 5 жыл бұрын

Hi April, I would move the pivot brackets up by the wheels to minimize the load on the back end of the trailer and your hitch. You would also have to extend the height of the arch to reach the back of the trailer, but this would also help with getting the logs in further without having to reposition and winch multiple times. Thanks again for your videos.

@bobvila4381 5 жыл бұрын

Oh man... Cool video, cant wait to see the sawmill!

@michelevitarelli 5 жыл бұрын

Great project and video. Thanks for sharing.

@jacelandadventures1523 4 жыл бұрын

When I added the jacks on the rear of my trailer I drop the angle just like you did before welding it in place! I know the same feeling! 😑 thanks for sharing great video! 🙂

@raynoladominguez4730 5 жыл бұрын

Ramps with rollers. Talking to the steel always helps, personal experience.

@ricks.1318 4 жыл бұрын

@@walterdove8727 AGREED .... Best / Most practical solution for the trailer ... and nothing else to carry or handle when using the trailer/arch !!!

@killingoldgrowthsince 4 жыл бұрын

One word parbuckle

@Hats4everyone 4 жыл бұрын

or just pick the dam log up by hand....

@killingoldgrowthsince 4 жыл бұрын

@@Hats4everyone sure

@robertjordon5782 4 жыл бұрын

Great job you are inspiration to all welders

@jmhm17 5 жыл бұрын

Love the bloopers!!

@gregorythomas333 5 жыл бұрын

Great build April! Love the acrobatics at the end :)

@jeremyspecce 5 жыл бұрын

Man, that trailer looks like it could pick up Matt's trailer! She's a beaut! I like that it's removable, it would be cool if you could have a pick point in the metal shop to winch the arch to for storage and installation.

@RXRSawdustStation 5 жыл бұрын

For the arch anti-flop support you could try 'swing-out' legs. As the arch reaches the point where it could flop down you'd have two swing-out legs waiting to catch it and when the arch is raised again the legs would lay flush with the arch. Great work on the trailer, April...well done!