How best to unload wood chips?

[caylor]

It would be great to see a Free Body Diagram of your set-up. For all you non-engineering folks that is what FBD meant. My wife was right, while a country boy, I am still a nerdy engineer at heart.

 

[Bigbear]

Well caylor, sometimes for us, F = m a, just means ( <font color="red"> LETS GETTER DONE </font> ). If it breaks the first time, just make it bigger. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[milkman]

Overlapping the tarp sounds like a great idea, make it easier to start the load off. Man you can learn something on this site everyday, lot of great minds. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[gotrocks]

Why is this tread two screens wide?

 

[milkman]

I think it's because BigBear posted a really long link. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Bigbear]

Sorry if I did something wrong /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif I checked it right after my post and your post and it was OK. I promise I won't drive my tractor tonight at all, <font color="green"> (just work on the backhoe subframe) </font> /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[milkman]

You didn't do anything wrong, I was just stating why the page was wide. Not drive your tractor for one night, /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif that's too harsh a punishment, maybe skip desert after supper tonight or something. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[RobS]

<font color="blue"> Sorry if I did something wrong </font>

No biggie. When using the URL Instant Markup feature there is a second entry (after you OK the URL) that will allow you to enter a name for your link. The name will show instead of the actual link /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[milkman]

I tried the overlapping of the unloader and it worked great, I put just one overlap about 1/4 of the way up from the rear, and then I put six buckets full of dirt in the wagon. When I unloaded, the rear section moved and then the rest of it came off. This way I can haul a bigger load and it's easier to start unloading. Next time I'll put about three overlaps and try that. Thanks for a great idea.

 

[dbelisle]

We had three trucks moving 6 inch rip rap. Two had dump bodies and one was a pickup with the Unloader in the back.

The pickup with the Unloader in the back moved as big a load and the trucks with the dump bodies. I was very surprised.

Those things really do work !!!

Each load was between 3,000 to 4,000 pounds,
and loads with the Unloader came off with ease.

Dave in NH

 

[fractal]

My local county yard offers "pull offs". Here is what we do.

First you take a rope and tie it to your bumper. I modified the process by tying both ends to the bumper to make a loop, which I lay through the bed and toss over the cab of the truck. You then lay a tarp in the bed of the truck. You could plop down a 4x8 sheet of plywood first if you felt so inclined. You then fill the truck making sure everything goes in the tarp. Lay another tarp over the top when you are done and tie it down. I find having the bottom and top tarps overlap makes a no-blow cover which saves on the traffic fines. Pull the top top off and hook the rope to a front loader and have it back up. Do remember to open the tailgate or you are in for a supprize. The whole load comes out of the truck and lies there on the ground behind the truck. A modification if you don't have a full size front loader is to tie the rope to a tree (tie it high if you can) and drive away.

I have had them pull over 2000 pounds of yard waste out of my truck that way and nary a problem. Only time I had a problem was after three years in the sun the UV broke the rope down and it got brittle and broke. A quick splice and they pulled the load out and they got to keep the rope /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

There are plenty of high tech solutions but the basic pull off with a rope that the local gardeners use seems to work well.

 

[Tevi]

Take some old tires space them in the bed and chain them together and run the end of the chain out the back.Hook the chain up and give it a good pull