Horse Muck Trailer Ramp

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Abby-Lou

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My dad is currently beavering away doing me up an old trailer ready for when we move to my new field. Any ideas for a successful
ramp ? This will be the first time I have put my muck heap on a trailer as normally deposit it in a pile at the end of the field. My question is what do you use for the ramp ? Only used a ramp once and found it a bit tricky with the wheel barrow to get grip - Any ideas ?

Was thinking of planks of wood but covered in that roofing cover which has bits of grit on to give me some grip with little 2 inch steps of wood and leave a gap for the wheel.

Really looking forward to not dragging a wheel barrow through the boggy field this winter whoop whoop !
 
I would suggest investing in a proper metal ramp with perforations. They are so grippy. I've had wood with chicken wire etc before and they are generally quite bendy to walk on and slippery. The chicken wire helps but I didn't find it stopped me slipping completely when I had a full wheelbarrow in the wet. Now have a metal ramp which I think was definitely worth the money. I can go up in snow and rain and always have grip.
Good luck with your new field.
 
Oh you mean the wobbly icey frozen plank of death ;)
Good luck finding a good one- Best thing we did was build an earth mound up to it - and reverse trailer into it each time,,,,
 
We have a wooden ramp which is very robust. It is free-standing so the trailer can be towed away when full and then reversed back. The ramp has support midway up to prevent sagging or bending; a row of laths up each side for extra foothold and a clear middle section for the barrow wheel to run up. It is covered in chicken wire which gives good grip generally but does need sweeping off in particularly wet weather so that the mesh doesn't get clogged with mud. We have it in the field in summer and the yard in winter.

Our biggest problem is that we sometimes forget because the ramp is so grippy that the trailer bed can get a coating of ice and coming off the ramp on to the trailer is like stepping on to an icerink!
 
Do you have a bucket on a tractor? Can you not just park it so you can fill the bucket and then tip it into the trailer?
 
I bought a metal ramp with mine (checker plate top), but repainted the top of it with anti-slip paint as checker plate can still get slippy with muck on it. You still have to be careful on the choice of footwear as I "planked" on it wearing shoes with insufficient grip.
 
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