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Two weekends ago, a friend of mine offered to run a load of logs for me with his 14' dump trailer, to the right of my trailer, and I took the smaller pieces. There's mostly cherry and maple, but a couple ash and locust pieces are in there too. I've split and stacked almost all of the wood from that day, and it's almost 2 cords.
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And this past Friday, I cleaned up parts of two cherries that had fallen at Grandma's:
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I wish I could find a load of slabs like that !

We have racks and when full band it up and forklift it out. $100 and they sell pretty quick.
Weigh enough to sometimes lift the back of the skid steer, so in the 5k area.

Sold 6 last week to a lady. Using it for siding or a fence.
Most people use it for firewood.
In the winter I use the edger "sticks" in my hobo heater (55 gal drum) that's setup near my firewood processor.
 
Hauled a load of Ash out of the pasture today. Hopefully get at least one more tomorrow.View attachment 740327

I have to say I like your truck I’m a huge fan of the first gen Power Strokes. They aren’t the fastest trucks but they don’t stop and they go on forever if you maintain them.


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I have to say I like your truck I’m a huge fan of the first gen Power Strokes. They aren’t the fastest trucks but they don’t stop and they go on forever if you maintain them.


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I always wanted a diesel and when I found this with 4×4 and a 10' bed I couldn't pass it up!

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I work at an airport and a patch of woods was infringing on one of the runway approaches due to the height of the trees. I took on the job of taking down about 35 trees over the past couple years, bucking them up and hauling them out to be processed as firewood. All the trees are down and the approach is reopened, but I still have a lot of wood to get out of there. It's a real wet area so most of the work is done after the ground freezes unless we have a dry spell where I can get back in there with my truck to load. All the trees are Pin Oak which I'm not a huge fan of due to the large amount of sap wood and the hundreds of small branches on the trunk. IMG_0688.JPG IMG_0689.JPG
 
Took a ride back in before to see what's left to get out. Got about 3 of these big boys still, which I will probably drag out with a backhoe to an open area where I can buck them up comfortably. I wear a size 12 boot for reference.
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Got tons of rounds like this to get out too. IMG_1308.JPG
 
Took a ride back in before to see what's left to get out. Got about 3 of these big boys still, which I will probably drag out with a backhoe to an open area where I can buck them up comfortably. I wear a size 12 boot for reference.
View attachment 758339 View attachment 758340 View attachment 758341 View attachment 758342 This is what I will use to get them out to the open

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Got tons of rounds like this to get out too. View attachment 758344
Hopefully you use the backhoe to load your truck
 
I ran a load down to my brother in Melbourne on the weekend. My SIL hasn't seen the new Ranger before and thinks it is massive, and that the load of wood was enormous. It's about 2/3 cord in total - not big by North American standards. Stihl, my brother and SIL are happy so that's good. She told me that they heated through the whole winter with the wood that I provided which gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling. Don's an accountant and does our tax returns. I swing saws for recreation and exercise and hate doing tax stuff. So it works out.

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The wood is mostly swamp gum (e.ovata) which is a low-medium density eucalypt which is a bit ashy. Not my favourite wood but as they say, it all burns. There's some peppermint (e.radiata) which is both denser and less ashy in there as well. As far as Don is concerned, free wood is good wood and he can't really tell the difference between top grade firewood and trash anyway.
 
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