Tree Trolley / Lumber Cart Build
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ต.ค. 2020
- Fabricating a dolly truck for hauling branches, logs, and lumber. A labor saving cart for treework, arborists, ground workers, and carpenters.
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Youre a funny man. Welder's loctite.😂
Great job and thanks for sharing with us.
I was hoping that joke wouldn't fall flat :)
Love this. I'm a solo worker, so my ground crew really needs this.
That cart has been great out there and just, won't, die :)
The dogs stole the show, lumber cart is still awesome though.
Agreed. All about the dogs. They're pretty much living outside and in the shop these days :)
Love this idea. I trim alot of palm trees and would live to have this to drag them to a central location closer to where I could chop them up. Everything you added is perfect except I would make the pulling handle a little higher so I would not have to bend over as much and maintain the center of gravety on a heavy load. I would need to make mine so I could breakdown the cart for I use my handtruck for many applications. I would live to learn how to weld but watching videos is not as good as having a teacher. Keep designing on the fly like we both do. Love your channel.
Raised handle sounds great. I’d love to do a palm tree someday
Very cool. This is the kind of stuff I've been brainstorming as well.
big time and labor saver for sure
Great upgrade to 2.0!
Big thanks!
Sweet! Thanks man
Thanks for checking it out :)
I can see that saving you a lot of time and sore backon your tree 🌳 trimming jobs
Agreed! Big time/labor saver, and that's just so so great
I know chippers are expensive but you have a lot of room at your new place. You could mulch all of your brush from tree cutting right into your dump trailer and instead of 2-3 or more loads to dump your brush you could do it all in one and dump at your house and compost your chippings to amend your soil for gardens and such. You would be (one and done) with brush so to speak. It would just be another piece of equipment to haul around.
Aside from adding another piece of equipment to haul and maintain, I'm with ya man: it would be faster, easier, and better to chip. So it's on my list ... you're not the first guy to recommend one! haha I guess I'm a late adopter :)
Awe vid as always. Cook and neat idea. If you made much taller it would tip over too easy. Slight bend on the handle would be nice too. I would add a stop collar on your extension piece so you can pull or push it to the stop and then pin it. We made an extension on a trailer to haul long plastic pipes and that made it super simple to find the hole for the pin.
A stop collar! Yes, great idea and thanks for that. It's exactly what I need along with the slight tweak to the handle. Thanks
nice build. I like that horizontal bandsaw!
Happy to share that saw with ya next time you need to slice up a skein of yarn :)
This is excellent! I'd love the plan you mentioned at the end there, but I need to learn how to weld first.
I've been toying with the idea of a version that doesn't involve welding ... would be pretty much the same thing but rely more on bolts and fasteners :)
I need one!
Gotta buy a welder now.
Thanks
That cart is simple but a HUGE time saver. I use it just about every day
Still haven’t made one. Gotta learn to weld now. Dang
No time like the present
Nice upgrade. I saw the tail drag and thought you could bend the handle arm up enough so you don't have to bend over to pull it and the load would stay fairly level
Exactly. If it keeps giving me trouble after shortening the end I'll but up the handle ... good eye, my man
@@metaspencer I'm a jack-leg inventor like you. Some of the things I built to make my life easier on the farm had my neighbors shaking their heads and wondering why they never thought of that. I'm always looking for a better/easier way to do things
@@SteampunkSteve Jack-leg! I like that phrase and will have to borrow it :)
@@metaspencer it's an old fashioned term I picked up somewhere. I use the definition of it as amateur. But after looking it up I may be using it wrong
NICE ⚒️👊
Thanks buddy!!
The _holey_ pants make a comeback! 😁
ventilation back in action! too many pairs in need of repair :)
Good build, I've never seen or heard of a tree trolley before. I could have used something like that when I'd haul branches down to the beach across a road for the 4th of July bonfire every year. I did the indian travois thing most of the time. By the time I was done most fires would be about 1 1/2 telephone poles high & people would come from miles down the lake just to see my fire. Good times.
Sounds like a blaze! Toasty evening sounds good
Hey man, Pretty awesome stuff, thanks so much! Think this is a great idea for fence building and am going to try something like this out to take a load off the daily lumber haul.. I have zero welding experience however so am going to try just metal drill bit with nuts and bolts. 😬 thanks for the ideas!
-yours truly,
Justin
I used to build fences myself and the cart came in SUPER handy. Huge time saver. Yeah, you should be able to bolt something together without much trouble. Modifying a gorilla cart might work for ya too. Hang in!
Looks like it might be advantageous to have a third wheel forward on your cart. If the load got too heavy you could let the wheel take the weight and just pull it instead of lifting. I know it is balanced but there always seems to come that time where it is heavier than you want.
I hear ya! If not perfectly balanced that cart can get very front-heavy. But with that said, it's super navigable with the two wheels. Definitely a workhorse!!
Another good reason for bending the arm up is like you just said about the back arm sliding out and touching the ground when you lift up on it if you've been the front arm up your only picking it up just a little bit and going forward with it then you won't have to drag you back in
Absolutely. I love that idea and will have to fun with it. Just a few inches up would make a real difference. Thanks!
If you bend that handle up just a little bit you won't have to lean over
Yup yup. Brilliant!
Easy enough to attach a cross member with castors to make a long cart for steel or lumber.
Good point. That would be a nice addition
Nice man. One thing that freaks me out is metal shavings. After getting one in my eye from being careless I'm paranoid now.
Yikes, big goggles are a must! I'll have to remember that at all times
I like it! Ihope it's not patented yet. I am going to build something similar for my retirement tree business!
You're gonna love it, buddy. I still use mine all the time and it's a big work and time saver
It might be better if u put a slight bend upwards on the extendo arm to keep the rear from dragging while ur hauling it. Just a thought. Great vid as usual. I see the bed is off the new truck.
You idea to bend it up has been echoed by a few others, so I'll have to do it. Good spot on the truck! New video on that project coming soooonish :)
Cool build. Did you consider turning the last 25% of the exstendo arm up at an angle so you could have the length with out dragging while at full tilt? Or could raise your handle up closer to your natural carry point, resulting in a more level cart? Again nice work Mr.
After a few tests I made that tweak and the cart flows a lot better. It's a back and life saver! Thanks man
I’m looking into following this build. What tweak did you make? Angling the rear extendo-arm or angling the handle?
See if you follow this. The tail is dragging on the ground when you pick up the handle, and when you do so the whole cart is slanted to the rear. If you raised the starting position of the handle (Spacer between the rear connection of the tow handle to the cart)). When you pick up on the handle the cart would be closer to level and the rear extension would be further off the ground???
I gotcha! needs a few more inches to travel well over rough ground. I'm always in awe of your powdercoating, btw. thanks buddy
It is not green but it will be just as useful. Well done :)
I was thinking you might say that as I spritzed on the black paint! :)
@@metaspencer :D
nice idea and fun project, but you extension in the back is scraping on the ground and looks almost redundant. for professionel use i would still prefer steins arbor trolley
Yeah I had to raise the handle up a few inches to avoid that drag. The Stein trolley looks great for sure
That’s a cool trolley. Very handy! I guess you could put a slightly upward slanted section right at the end of the extendo-arm to make it not drag and get even more length/support in the back...
I waited all summer for bus videos... what’s going on with the bus?
That little bend in the handle is a great idea! If it keeps dragging I'll have to take your idea and run with it. Here's your bus update: I finished tile and did a few little things with it this summer, partly while staying in it during a short quarantine after taking a trip. So it's been a great space to hang out in. The batteries haven't been charging right so I noticed I lost a belt ... alternator. So not being able to reach the belt I dropped it off at "my guy who fixes buses" and it's been there a few weeks. So that's it: nothing much to report. It's just "the bus!" :)
@@metaspencer thanks for the update!
How did you learn to weld spencer?
A friend gave me a 10 minute lesson and I just practiced
Hello there I have a few ideas to modify a bit
Raising the handle up a bit is worth it ... locking the folding arms in place is also nice
Now hows to do it but it's how you did it
for sure! :)
Should video on "everything I need to start welding" a culmiation of your journey. I know you dont like making "how to videos" due to the increasingly litigous nature of modern society, but that is how most of us watch videos, to learn stuff and see how other people solve problems.
I've had a few people ask me for that so I should do it! I don't really worry about lawsuits ... I typically stay away from how-to videos just because it's not my style. Thanks!