Runnin' Loads

[Logger nate]

Thankfully we are able to access this area without going on the hwy.
Well it's not exactly light pine, we call it tamarack, I'm told the official name is western larch. Normally heavier than pine in this area. Just for fun I weighed one of the half rounds-68 lbs.- 22 in row you can see=1496 lbs. per row-5 rows plus partial row at back= roughly 7500 lbs. Not oak but heavy stuff for us

 

[lefturnfreek]

Oooold pic but I still love it...



White and black poplar and off road only Ford testing!!

Keep on .... Runnin' Loads!!!

 

[Logger nate]

Oooold pic but I still love it...

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White and black poplar and off road only Ford testing!!

Keep on .... Runnin' Loads!!!

Nice load! You and my buddy could make some great advertisements for Ford. Snow! That's awesome, I feel better now, lol (it was 92 here yesterday )

 

[lefturnfreek]

No chance of snow here right now as we cycle from 85-95 during the day, that pic is from 5-6 years ago during early winter.
Justa lil on that truck, 1.5ish C and for perspective, truck has a 6in lift ... ya it gets worked!!!

Keep on .... Runnin' Loads!!!

 

[95custmz]

Is it a diesel or a gasser?

 

[lefturnfreek]

5.0 gasser auto, it lives in 4 low and was $200.

Keep on .... Runnin' Loads!!

 

[Cowboy254]

For the last few years I've been cutting wood at a farm owned by an impending divorcee single mother. I cut wood for her, I cut wood for me sort of arrangement. However the ex-husband has bought her out of the farm so that's the end of that. She was expecting to have moved to the other side of the country by now and so refused my offers of cutting a winter's worth of wood for her but the family court put the kybosh on that due to the children, with the result that she was now virtually out of wood and living in a rented house getting cold with another 6 weeks worth of burning season to go.

So I took her a load of stuff that I had cut from her former farm. I'll admit, it is stuff that I had picked out of my woodshed this year that is not quite as good. The small branch material of blue gum and candlebark is pretty ashy. There's some swamp gum in there as well that is also ashy, though it is pretty dense. However, she has been complaining that the heater in the rented house burns down too fast and ashy wood will burn more slowly. So really I'm doing her a favour by giving her crappy ashy wood. Even after this, I suspect I'll need to make another trip out there with some more.



I'm a bit embarrassed about my puny trailer after seeing some of the monstro-loads you blokes haul around. The cops would come down on me like a load of bricks if I tried to do a @Logger nate .

 

[Cowboy254]

I should clarify, I am grateful to have had the opportunity to cut wood at her old farm and the arrangement was mutually beneficial. What has me reluctant to give her the best of my wood pile is that she repeatedly refused my offers to cut wood for her when the opportunity was there and now she finds herself in a situation where she doesn't have enough and no longer has the farm where I could cut for her.

It's a bit like taking a lady out for dinner. I'm happy to buy you dessert but if you decide you don't want one then don't go thinking it's cool to eat half of mine.

 

[dancan]

Hmm, trailer load lol

 

[H-Ranch]

Hmm, trailer load lol

What's the conversion factor? 1 trailer load = 3/4 van load?

 

[Cowboy254]

Hmm, trailer load lol

About the same BTUs though

 

[SeMoTony]

About the same BTUs though

cantelievered out of the brush before the 1st was noodled squarish & loaded
second was loaded easier with roll. I am not abusing that mini van. It has air shocks and 1250# overloads on the back HD front suspension. Somebody on another thread guessed 250# so I had to research; green red oak 61# cu. ft. average dia. 29 3/4 " 31" high. Using online geometry support that ramp supported 712#. Just out here having a bit o' fun
Stay safe

 

[dancan]

About the same BTUs though

About right on that .
What I don't have in quality I'll make up for in quantity lol

 

[tnflatbed]

"quantity has a quality all its own" I love these non truck pics makes me want to own a mini-van.... well just a little

 

[Sandhill Crane]

It's a bit like taking a lady out for dinner. I'm happy to buy you dessert but if you decide you don't want one then don't go thinking it's cool to eat half of mine.

You've met my daughter? In Australia?

 

[Sandhill Crane]

SeMoTony: You might want to mount an air bag behind the drivers seat...

 

[Cowboy254]

I love these non truck pics makes me want to own a mini-van.... well just a little

How about a Subaru?



I had some in my daughter's car seat but didn't get a shot of that.

 

[nighthunter]

I remember one day with my uncles and we're were cutting hurley butts to make hurlerys and we had about 120 of them cut so we loaded a 20 foot trailer as high and as much as we could they were unbelievably heavey sometimes taking all three of us to lift them we had about 20 left to load so we stuck them in the back of the 2 seater jeep anyway on the way home we blewout 2 tires on the trailer next thing as we were trying to limp the trailer home we got pulled over by the cops and my uncle got done for overloading and carrying to many passengers .it's a pity I didn't get a pic of the jeep and trailer but a couple of pics of a hurley butts and a hurley
Leason learned I suppose

 

[lefturnfreek]

Yaaa.... remind me to never loan any of you chip chucker's any of my trucks.... and cars too apparently !!!

Keep on ..... Runnin' Loads !!!

 

[Logger nate]