Runnin' Loads
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Depends. I got free help loading it so I let them toss it. Plus this stuff is sopping wet so I wouldn’t want to haul any more than what’s in there now.
If I’m going a long way and want to bring as much as possible I’ll stack. With the tommy lift, the truck box is almost 9’ deep so I can carry quite a bit.
I originally thought the tie down strap was to keep the wood in but now I realise it is to keep the trailer together
In a perfect world I would bring the wood home bucked up and split off the trailer. I had a side job just before Covid hit that was paying me $250 a day to haul Oak trees that went down in a tornado away. It was faster to skid the logs to the trailer and pull them on. We could get 3 tralier loads in a 5-6 hour day. Don't get long days for $250.
Hey Joe, you got a flat tyre on the huskee.
No need to thank me
Lost track of the number. Been doing this every work day for a little over a month.
It is only keeping the stake sides down in place. The trailer only had a jam nut in the rear stake pocket to keep it in place which has failed with use. I cannot risk the stake sides coming up and pouring out the load from underneath.I originally thought the tie down strap was to keep the wood in but now I realise it is to keep the trailer together
I am planning to weld a new rear post into place and weld everything together. As designed the trailer would make a very poor flatbed so no reason to pull the sides off.
When my BIL first moved to Ohio, they had no inspection on cars, so he kept buying used junkers for $50 and driving them till they fell apart. He had a Vega with a Pontiac Iron Duke 4 in it. He loved the little thing, rusty as it was. He slammed the door one time and the windshield wipers disappeared. He just said, oh well, that's it for this one, sure am going to miss the old Iron Duke.
Thanks, maybe that's why I could see the whole machine in one mirror? Old pic, the splitter got new shoes and bearings a couple years ago.Hey Joe, you got a flat tyre on the huskee.
No need to thank me
First load in the new to me truck
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I have to check which thread I’m in, coming from “Scrounging Firewood” to here. Same picture.
Yeah I’ve accidentally put the scrounging photos in here and the wondered why I couldn’t find them in scrounging. I try to only post loads in here.
lefturnfreek
Sharpen the chain, chuck chips ...repeat...
I have a lil maintenance stuff to do since I’m down to burning trash loads
Cleaned up the bark which I burned for over 2 days ... pulled up the old pallets, dropping dirty fill to make a parking pad for rarely used trailers, then bringing in gravel to finish raising the rest of the row.
Keep on Running Loads !!
Cleaned up the bark which I burned for over 2 days ... pulled up the old pallets, dropping dirty fill to make a parking pad for rarely used trailers, then bringing in gravel to finish raising the rest of the row.
Keep on Running Loads !!
Sawyer Rob
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I ran a load yesterday, from Chipper 1's house to mine.
I was looking for some blk. locust, for saw logs, and he had some extra's, here they are,
Anyway, thanks Chipper 1, and it looks like I'll be bringing you some lumber back!
SR
I was looking for some blk. locust, for saw logs, and he had some extra's, here they are,
Anyway, thanks Chipper 1, and it looks like I'll be bringing you some lumber back!
SR
Ryan'smilling
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I ran a load yesterday, from Chipper 1's house to mine.
I was looking for some blk. locust, for saw logs, and he had some extra's, here they are,
Anyway, thanks Chipper 1, and it looks like I'll be bringing you some lumber back!
SR
What are you doing with the black locust SR?
Welcome bud.I ran a load yesterday, from Chipper 1's house to mine.
I was looking for some blk. locust, for saw logs, and he had some extra's, here they are,
Anyway, thanks Chipper 1, and it looks like I'll be bringing you some lumber back!
SR
Glad to see it become something more than firewood.
Sawyer Rob
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Nodak Andy
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Hauled a few loads the last few weeks. Most of it was dead, some standing some not, firewood. Some of it came from a tree service in the area that Ive gotten in with. The two huge logs on the trailer are cottonwood, which we will eventually mill for fun. It's not super desireable I know, but it's big and will be fun to mill. The pine in the one picture will be milled into slabs as well. It was pretty cool as it split into two and grew back together 4 times throughout the main trunk. There's some poplar in there too that looks pretty cool that came from a farm cleanup I helped a guy with. Lots of firewood and a bit of millable stuff!
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