Bushmans
Smoke Dragon Herder
My friend from work asked me if I wanted to pick up some free wood today so I said sure. A lady whose property he hunts on had a tree cut and the guys tree company cut it all into firewood length. I think it is a sugar maple and I loaded my truck and trailer pretty full. It rained the entire time.
It is green and super heavy so I tried not to overload my little trailer and I went easy on the truck too. It was about a 20 minute drive. On the way home I had a blow out on my trailer and had to stop and change it, still pouring rain!
I pulled into my drive and thought I had a pretty good chance on making it up to the wood stacks with this load but alas I only made it 20 feet off the drive before the whole rig sank into the lawn.
So, still raining I had to unload all of the wood in the front yard. Then I unhooked the trailer and spun it around by hand to get it out of the way and the tire twisted into the lawn. I couldn't budge it. SO into the garage to get the jack and some oak planks. Jack the trailer up and slide the plank under the tire. Then I could move it out of the way. Then onto the truck where I had to jack up each corner and put planks under all 4 tires. Eventually I got out without too much damage to the lawn. I spent the better part of 30 minutes tamping all the trenches flat. I still have a few holes that will need to be filled but oh well. It was a good haul. I got around 2/3 of a cord out of it. Big rounds. Some were close to 20". The big tree on the right next to the propane tank is the one they took down. She had them leave all of that huge trunk so she could have a carver come in and carve it.
It is green and super heavy so I tried not to overload my little trailer and I went easy on the truck too. It was about a 20 minute drive. On the way home I had a blow out on my trailer and had to stop and change it, still pouring rain!
I pulled into my drive and thought I had a pretty good chance on making it up to the wood stacks with this load but alas I only made it 20 feet off the drive before the whole rig sank into the lawn.
So, still raining I had to unload all of the wood in the front yard. Then I unhooked the trailer and spun it around by hand to get it out of the way and the tire twisted into the lawn. I couldn't budge it. SO into the garage to get the jack and some oak planks. Jack the trailer up and slide the plank under the tire. Then I could move it out of the way. Then onto the truck where I had to jack up each corner and put planks under all 4 tires. Eventually I got out without too much damage to the lawn. I spent the better part of 30 minutes tamping all the trenches flat. I still have a few holes that will need to be filled but oh well. It was a good haul. I got around 2/3 of a cord out of it. Big rounds. Some were close to 20". The big tree on the right next to the propane tank is the one they took down. She had them leave all of that huge trunk so she could have a carver come in and carve it.