Dads wood hauler

This is my dads wood hauler, a Farmall AV. He bought this AV along with a Super AV probably 15-20 years ago. He likes this tractor over some of his others due to it's light weight and good power. The back portion of his woods is very swampy and will stick a heavier tractor pretty easy. The only thing he doesn't like about it is it has a very fast reverse which bothers him over the rest of the transmission being fast as well. It will VERY easily run down a Farmall C. The wood trailer came from a 1968 Chevrolet half ton pick up dad bought new. He was run off the road with it in 1974 by I believe a drunk driver. When he was run off the road, he slid into a very large, deep ditch with a large stump in the bottom, which he hit dead on at a good clip. This caused his truck to go end over end, destroying it, so he made a wood trailer out of the box and frame. As you can see, some time back, probably 20+ years ago when I was a little guy, I decided it needed my artistic rendering of a deer and my signature as well. I don't think there is a tree in the woods this thing hasn't bounced off of, dad's woods are very hilly leading down to a big swamp. The splitter I built a few years back, it has high speed trailer spindles on it and is easily towed 60+ mph. I am going to rework my log cradle on it and add a hyd Cyl to the tilt portion of the beam. I believe I will also rework the wedge at the same time.

Ross

Nice stories. Glad it all turned out well

Like the story and the trailer!
They look good together.

I have always wanted a pickup box trailer. Last truck I scrapped, iron was too high not to get rid of it.

Prices are down now, maybe I'll find an old truck cheap.

Rick

Your Dad has a pretty good setup there
You really don't need anything too fancy to haul firewood. It just needs to be reliable. When I got married my wife and I lived in a little house in the middle of nowhere. I cut dead trees out of a neighbors woods/pasture to heat the house with. I used an old SC Case tractor with an old Minneapolis Moline manure spreader converted into a trailer. I even mounted a twine box off of a 14T John Deere baler onto the hitch to carry my chainsaws, tools, gas, and oil. I still have the trailer, but sold the tractor a long time ago. Maybe I'll drag it out of the weeds some day and put new lumber on it. The oak lumber I put on it when I rebuilt it is getting pretty rough.