Dump Trailer Manufacturers

But simply attaching a few planks to the posts wasn't the goal. Stick a metal frame with wheels and a tongue underneath, and you have yourself a hay wagon. Once the posts were in place, I installed guard rails running along the sides of the wagon.

Gross Vehicle Combination Weight Rating (GVCWR): The GVCWR is the total weight of your fully loaded truck and trailer combined. Live animals are even more challenging to tow than a trailer with dead weight (like a car or a boat), because animals tend...

Having this type of cart expands your riding mower from a mere lawn maintenance machine to a mini-tractor that can transport supplies and materials around the farm. A small pull-behind cart for your riding lawn mower can be a great accessory.

A chainsaw milling attachment, a personal weather station and a body roller for sore muscles are among items our editors found. DR Power Equipment Brush Mower DR Power Equipment's PRO-26 Field and Brush Mower's disc brake system provides power-steering...

Actually, “a lot” is an understatement—it poured for days, with relatively brief respites between cloudbursts. Along with the usual scattering of small branches, the storm blew down the top of a White Pine tree (a sizable section about 25 feet long)...

(Pick up a container of worms in the spring at your local bait supplier, and add them to your compost pile or bin to speed things up.) 7. Compact tractors are versatile pieces of equipment that are perfect for small farms.

Before you and your livestock hit the road, it's necessary to take precautions to minimize potentially dangerous problems. At some point in your farming experience you will need to tow your livestock from point A to point B.

Fiskars markets a slightly different, but-just-as-efficient, design. Most incorporate an easy-slide panel for dumping heavy loads. Fruit is picked undamaged with this device and it almost makes fruit picking fun! Ames' lightweight, basket-style Fruit...

The right square baler for your farm depends on how much acreage you bale. Unless you plan to stand in your garden or field with a hose a few nights each week, plan to get an irrigation system.

I'm personally more inclined to check casually for the other items on the list—farm budgets don't usually have too much of a slush fund, and the “wants” are best left for deals that are too good to pass up.

Our current loading technique, though, is a lot different and takes just 5 to 10 minutes. L oad At Night For Morning Delivery For the longest time, we believed it necessary to load pigs in the early morning hours to avoid overnighting them in the trailer,...

Unite With Community Members Aliza Sollins Attend your neighborhood association meetings or other city council meetings to engage your neighbors with the work you're doing at your farm to help combat illegal dumping.

This technique produces less penetration with less burn-through and creates a wider, flatter bead appearance. Step 3 Weld in a well-ventilated area free from flammable material and remember to wear proper skin and eye protection.

If they're really tame and you're sure they won't panic, haul them loose but with a dog-type barrier screen in place to keep them out of the front seat. Mom and Dad often transport one or two sheep or goats in the back of their minivan, but no matter...

You can find them in a wide range of leaf shapes, foliage types, and blossom colors, just as with their non-trailing cousins. Can be standard, semi-miniature, or miniature in size.

Is yours refusing to branch out? Trailing African violets would be fun to enter in a show, both because they're more unusual and because their multiple crowns help ensure lots of blooms for the big day.Whether you're growing for show or growing for fun,...

In the garden, frost heave can quickly destroy plants and small shrubs if steps are not taken to prevent this winter damage.For frost heaving to occur, the soil must have the ability to conduct water, an affinity for water, and high saturation; i.e.,...

A plant that takes no prisoners. A thug takes over. Stolons from thugs can wind their way between, and right through, their bedfelllows.Agressive garden thugs don't appear on lists of invasive plantsThugs are not the primary focus of articles about "invasive...

Sway stabilizers help high-profile trailers track straight in high winds. A 6-liter V-8 gas engine will handle just about any trailer load, but you will spend more at the gas pump.

Keep this up during travel and acclimation to the new location. This article was written by Anna O'Brien, D.V.M., Germantown, Md., and vetted by Lyle G. Sheep and goats also need a form of permanent identification, such as an ear tattoo or Scrapie tag.

Our world depends on it. Cats knock recyclables to thefloor, dogs pick up from there and shred said recyclables. A couple of laundry baskets have been volunteered to handle the overflow.

My husband and I have wanted to build a better compost pile for a few years now. Yesterday I went back to the pile for the first time since last autumn and I saw that my smarty pants husband has already got a jump on it with the perfect material—pieces...

Not all wheelbarrows are the same, though, so which type of wheelbarrow you should buy depends on the tasks you need it for. Wheelbarrows are used for a variety of things, such as moving rock, mulch or compost to the garden, moving trees or large shrubs...

Photo by Frank Hyman Set up a schedule for mulching so your spring vegetables don't suffer. We burn enough calories to justify pie! Tags frank hyman , homemade mulch , Mulch , winter mulch

While ATVs and tractors are great for moving things around, particularly across long distances or when you've got a heavy load, small yard carts are also great to have on hand for moving small loads across the barnyard, saving your muscles some effort...

So when my friend Kathy told me she had entered two competitive trail rides, one on Saturday and one on Sunday, and asked me if I wanted to come along, I jumped at the chance. When my friend Kathy told me she had entered two competitive trail rides, one...

So pruning before the ivy starts to climb is always the best policy. Simply choose a few healthy shoots and use floral or hair pins to lock them into place, preventing them from creating trailers and climbing.