Pimp my log carrier

Moving the sections of tree that I have cut down from the coppice area is proving to be a very time consuming and tiring task. I have taken down six or seven mature wild cherry trees and also the remains of a partially collapsed ash tree. On the positive side there is a lot of good quality timber to be milled from these logs; on the down side they are very heavy and difficult to move across fairly rough terrain.

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To date I have been using the strengthened log carrier MK 1a and this has been the most effective and reasonably efficient method. Great design but the ground conditions have worked against it recently. The main drawback has been the increasingly sticky mud jamming up the double wheels at the back. The mud is forced between the two sets of tyres and so pushes the wheel itself onto the metal frame making it rub and the whole thing harder to drag along. Bigger wheels, that must be the answer.

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Great idea, just need to fit them to the trolley. That’s when the real fun began.

Clearly a much bigger wheel needs to have a much bigger clearance space so that it fits inside the frame and runs freely.

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No problem, some simple cuts and alterations and more cuts and more alterations and some strengthening pieces and before you know where you are there is a new wheel installed. Just two more to go.

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So back in action and the seemingly endless job of bringing out the logs continues.

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More next time……….