I am stealing all of this ideas. They are mine now haha. Thank you

Very good job well thought out and it looks to me like it’ll work very well keep up the good work and I will keep watching god bless

I'm supper enthusiastic about your projects. You've done a great job with not only the builds, but with the editing of you're content. Wish I live closed to someone like you! Please keep up the great work and thanks you!

I thought I heard a bunch of woodworkers who mill their own logs, weeping and mumbling "oh man, I want one of those!".

Your trailer reminds me a lot of my tractor...always needs just a little bit more.

Great trailer; can't wait to see the movie.

what a great trailer matt, you have worked and worked adding modifications along the way until you will end up with a totally custom log trailer, great job, this will make getting your logs an almost effortless task....going out with this trailer to get logs is almost getting ready to eat out...lol...enjoy all of your hard work.....bravo.......

Got myself a similar trailer last week. I liked your idea of the shackle mounts and chain slot, so I duplicated that, more or less. Works great! Thanks for your ideas.

Sounds like the trailer weighs more than the logs you pick. It is a great idea.

That's awesome, Matt! Really made that trailer hugely useful for what you're doing. Welding can make some great things possible in the right hands!

Great, I see You are also familiar with metal work.

Nice welding Matthew. Love this machine

Matt, best such logging trailer that I've ever seen, only wish that I'd come across something like this years ago while I still had my youth; "old too soon, too late smart". Very nice meeting you you at Fine Woodworking Live.

It has certainly come along way, and proved worthy of the time and investment.

Awesome modifications.

Looks like you've done a great job on that thing. Still very impressed! 🤓

Great Job!!!! And I have never seen a Skill saw cut metal as great as that one does. Fist up, Fight for Truth.

Looking pretty comfortable behind the welder now, speeding through them

For a wood worker your one heck of a fabricator. Great job. It looks like your improving your fab tool arsenal also.

Excellent demonstration and explanation

Loved the mods. Putting a winch on my new to me f150. Looking forward to trying to put a too big log into it.

Lots of great ideas here Matt. Thanks for sharing. On to the slabbing videos.

Nice looking trailer. Your welding skills are improving with every video. I would highly recommend that you paint over the primer very soon. Primer is porous and it is designed to have paint stick to it. Moisture, water, etc can penetrate the primer and the metal underneath. If the primer is left exposed for a while, the paint you eventually put on top will not stick very well. You need a top coat to seal the primer. Don't wait too long or you will have to sand and re-prime. Thanks for posting the video. Excellent work as usual.

thanks for posting your trailer that is something I would like to build when I get my new trailer.

Great upgrades. Love the content you deliver

Absolutely love that trailer! Really enjoy each & every modification video you do on it. Thanks so much for sharing.

I love it!!!!! Thanks for sharing.

Love your spaceship, oh sorry, your trailer. :D Great update Matt!

Great work Matt! Don't leave that paint without a top coat for too long. Primer is porous and will rust. It's just harder to see with the rust color of the primer. Painting over rust will not stop it from progressing.

Wouldn't this particular episode be more appropriately closed with, "Happy Welding" ?? haha

Watching this progression is really cool.

Very nice Matt , it has come along way .I should have my trailer in use soon . New tires and brakes next!!!

Awesome trailer, love that circ saw too!

Great series of videos, nice and solid, my only suggestion is get a proper blanket for cable snap protection, I have seen them snap and it's violent and can be deadly, keep up the great work and thanks for sharing!

The trailer is looking more and more like something out of Mad Max.

Great design and functionality!

AWESOME work Matt! Very impressed with the overhead welding on your back! That trailer is bad-ass!!!

You should consider making a conveyer roller tailgate that you can lower when loading logs. It would have less resistance than not having it. When driving pull it up.

Hey Matt . Im jealous of you welding skills!

The trailer really came out great!! Very nice job on the whole project and modifications.. Thumbs up..!

Great job on the trailer, Matt, it looks fantastic!

Great work

Well, i think you could Add a few more arches Upright in a row Sheet metal all around A door, a few windows Interior decoration Camper ready Cheers! Nice work, Matt!

Great video Matt! That trailer is becoming more awesome every time!

Always love the trailer log hauling vids.

With the changes you have made to the trailer, it should work better going forward, good job.

That trailer is awesome! Great work Matt :)

That's one sweet trailer....great work Matt

your trailer is coming along Matt! nice work!

That trailer is built like a battle ship!

you're a talented dude!

Someday Ill do the same to my old double axle boat trailer.

Your welds are getting better. Good job.

Your welds are looking great, this projects been good practice.

Nice setup.

That's an awesome trailer. And awesome trailers deserve awesome paint jobs! I suggest yellow, orange, red, and blue flames on the fenders. :)

hopefully that welding on the center of your arch did not create a week spot. i know a little bit about constructing for structural or heavy weight and welding strait across will weeken the tube. i would try triangulating the piece instead of verticle go katiwampus

Good video Matt!!!

I am thinking find a way to use some pulleys, block & tackle maybe.. Great build

Nice work Matt - Great Mods!

Really cool!

Hey matt! Awesome video man. I too am making a log arch trailer. Hope to make great videos on how I did mine. I have seen how you did yours and from that been able to come up with my own version. My trailer also is going thru a complete rebuild of the suspension,brakes,wiring ect. Will be also installing brakes on the other axle so it will have them on both axles. I also on October 1 2019 bought a sawmill I hope to very soon be able to make enough money with the equipment to start doing this full time. Although your fabricoble is pretty good I can only hope my many years of experience will allow me to make it look better. Lol. Your videos are an inspiration although I wont be able to make huge slabs like you do from the beginning I do plan on making a mill much like the yours. Who knows maybe I'll pick up a sponsor along the way.

I have watched every trailer episode... and I still haven't seen a hot tub in the back of this thing.... I thought you said you pick up ash in this thing? Just playin bud.. its looking great.. And your welds look pimp and they held! Hoot hoot! -Brian

thank you Matt. oh by the by on stainless steel ( on the band saw ) i saw in marine enviroment . it would rust . but sailors can kill / tear up anything

Hey Matt, sorry I have been too busy this summer to keep up with some of your videos, but it looks like you have been having some fun. Those are some nice looking logs. Looks like you will have walnut in stock again. Take care buddy.

just watched your video its great! i just got a person call me up to build one for him and found this video it super helped out! thanks man!

Great job! Currently have a car trailer for logs equipped with 18k winch. My intention is to put a Timbery mill over the winch load load as you do onto the milling bed. Fun stuff ! Tnx for your efforts very enjoyable :-)

Good engineering and fabrication. Too go with the very heave load's think about a 3 to 1 or up to a 5 to 1 block and tackle from the winch cable to the arch. Here's some thing I've posted befor that you might like: I was using a "Harbor Freight" 2,500 lb winch 2 of them: Some thing to concenter take and wire to your battery pos and neg would be a 6 gauge with copper lug's then back to your hitch then put a "Anderson style connector" on it and the other plug end on the winch you'll find that the winch will work better: Moving log's if you are doing a lot of it think about a log arch, look one up they are not that hard to make and on the front end put a hand winch to pull the end down and then secure with a chain in chain hook's: On long log's up to 47' I've used two arches and pull them with the same winch you are using and a second on a hoist to lift the logs onto the trailer using a 5 to 1 block and tackle to give me a12,500 lb lift capacity but I did go with a 1/2 inch cable: My boom arm could be raised to 33 degrees and hand cranked out in two section's 5ft and 3ft and then my whole hoist could be raised up to 48 inches higher, actuality used a "HF" hoist to mount my hoist to my trailer 3 point's on side 1/3 from each end and middle on both sides of my trailer I also had out rigger's. I cut and milled a lot of tree's for timber framing.

Good one

Sweet upgrades :)

I'm glad you did the Cremona weight test on the shackle. I was concerned about the holding strength.

hi mat my name, is ray from malta I have been an avid subscriber of yours for a few years now . I all ways enjoy your content every time, just one suggestion on the trailer would it be to difficult to put rollers all a long the bed of the trailer with some kind of a stop block so the log does not roll back.regards ray..

I posted about adding a roller to the trailer end but I now see your way a head of me it looks great . have you had any steel bending due to the logs you pick up

Pretty slick👍

Instead of a roller ,half piece of 2 inch pipe slightly higher that trailer floor ,might do trick

by the time you're done, this thing will make the best vanilla latte in MN maybe even the Midwest.

I wonder if this set up would work on something higher than a trailer? I'm trying to figure out how to get logs onto a 2-1/2 ton flat bed truck w/stake sides.

thought about using a pulley or block and tackle to take stress off the winch??

How do you keep the arch from flopping down on the bed of the trailer once it gets past the tipping point coming forward? Tim

dude awesome videos.

I've seen you lay a towel or coat on the winch line when applying load on it. Is that for if the line snaps it reduces the risk of it flying around?

Matt, Yours was the first log hauling trailer I remember seeing with a built in loading arch. Now there are several on KZfaq and at least one content creator recently gave yours credit for being his inspiration. Congratulations if it was you who started the trend.

Hello Matt. Love your stuff. I have been inspired by your work. So much so that I have built a log arch based on your design. I have noticed your arch does not just free fall when you get past center. Did you do something to make that possible? If so please elaborate a bit. Thanks!! Marshal

Hey Matthew, brilliant build! Curious, what kind of blade did you use on the circular? It sure cut that plate fast.

Is it safe to look at welding flare here without protection ?

Should have used an etching primer Matt. That red oxide will not protect much. Paint it asap. Could you tell me what blade your using to cut that steel please? I am looking for one myself. Thanks a bunch love all your videos.

Thanks for the great videos. I really want to learn to weld. How did you learn? Could you make some how to videos for cutting and welding? How can I get started cheap? I know nothing!

The right rod choice. Are you running ac?

You MADE me buy that Florip marking gauge and now I see you're spending more of my money. What circular saw is that, Matt? :) BTW you're welding skill have progressed nicely!

You could always try to adding a weight sensor to the trailer and find out just how much these logs do weigh. :-)

I was a Certified welder myself when young (bridge, pipe, structural & nuclear) Plug welding & proper bead layout for horizontal- you've had some training?

Let me start this comment by saying I know nothing. But, I have a question/idea/thought. If you were to start all over again, would you consider trying to mount something directly to the axle? I'm imagining cutting the trailer floor and welding some really heavy gauge steel directly to the axle that sticks up thru the floor and then you build your levers on that. I know it would set back from the end of the trailer a bit but you would be anchored to the strongest part of the trailer. I'm just curious in case I ever build something like this. BTW, great job. If I had started out, I would have used the same approach you've taken. I'm only thinking about the axles now because it seems like a lot to "beef up" the edges. The more I think about anchoring on the axles, the more I like the idea.

Dang Matt next you'll be making log retrieval trailers lol. just kidding my friend,that trailer looks great. Your welds have so much better. keep up the great work

Hi! Can you tell what hand saw you used to cut sheet metal? Good job!

matt, While you were working i noticed a lot of new tools? I know you look for the most economical/practical solutions and you now have a great machine. Sort of a Pyramid builder? LOL! For the viewers that might be inspired, what would you guess is a total investment in this project?

what is that metal circular saw you are using?

looks awesome dude, ive been thinking about getting one of those evolution rage saws, how do you like it? prob get the one that cuts up to 1/4

Very nice mods! What is the capacity of the trailer? Have you maxed it out yet with the 5,000 lb-er?

Matt what’s the point to the towel on the cable?

Hey man what's up bro,can you do me a favor can you tell me where you got that table mat my friend thank you :)