BTW,all dry wild cherry
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a rela 1/2 cord in a pickup
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BTW,all dry wild cherry
Harzack223
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Not bad, I usually only put 1/3 in my truck only a 6ft bed. Makes it a pain sometimes when I have to deliver a cord.
yeh,the 8ft bed hold a lot more..
when i put a 1/2 cord of GREEN wood in the old girl gets to saggin a bit in the rear
when you gonna come over and give them saws a workout ??
got a nice BIG pile to do !! LOL !!
thot you was gone borrow the splitter ?
Harzack223
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I've been so busy with everything else that I haven't had much time. Waiting for my 064 to come back and sold my 361. Suppose I could fix some of the other ones if I find time. I was gonna ask about the splitter but right now only sold a cord and haven't cut the rest.
Guarddog1
ArboristSite Guru
yeh,the 8ft bed hold a lot more..
when i put a 1/2 cord of GREEN wood in the old girl gets to saggin a bit in the rear
when you gonna come over and give them saws a workout ??
got a nice BIG pile to do !! LOL !!
thot you was gone borrow the splitter ?
Who needs a splitter a maul is the way to go. Gas never goes bad always runs fine it can sit for a year and be just fine. And I love smashing it into the wood. Just something about it I love it! I will split by hand as long as I can.
After arguing with a couple guys on how much a pickup could hold i ended it all with this load..130cubic feet stacked and measured..ok,two cf over but is stacked tighter could have been less but close enuf !
BTW,all dry wild cherry
If you stack it, and have side rails, sure you can get a half cord. Hand tossed, it'll be a face cord (1/3 of a cord). Sold thousands of cords of wood on Long Island over the years. The sale of firewood out there is well regulated (someone has a ##### about your wood Dept. of Weight and Measures does a test buy). They quantify by volume, weight, type of woods acceptable to be listed as "firewood", moisture content, etc.
Having 4 or 5 trucks out delivering wood for two months straight, you can't be stacking to get those delivery's out...hand tossed or machine loaded (depending on delivery location and stacked or dumped), well we had to measure our load marks repeatedly. A standard pickup bed load tossed, even with 2' rails, we were not capable of meeting requirements.
Edit: BTW, try driving that load down the LIE and see how you make out
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A cord is 128 cubic ft , why is 1/2 cord 130 cu ft? Am i missing something? Steve
OH my !!
you got me on that one !!!
as per original title,, 1/2 cord.. two loads gave me the 130cf..
brain cramp !!
dont know where you came up with that ??
MY pickup thrown in takes a 1/2 cord,64 cubic feet,done it both ways,from a stack and unloading and stacking,,in fact usually a little more than a 1/2 cord a load..did you see the picture ??
why not ?? xtra springs help but you have to have a REAL truck to do it..i do it all the time and sometimes with a LOT more weight when doing green wood.
I used to like hitting my thumb with a hammer too.it felt so good when it stopped hurting ! LOL !
i remember 30 yrs ago when i was 1/2 my age i enjoyed the workout too..yestday i split a 20in maple "Y" that even in my good days i would have let sit and not even tried..now i put the splitter in verticle position and sit on a piece of wood and can split all day..of course if your splittin pine or softwood i can understand..
jerryw66
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I've filled my 8' pickup bed higher than that, and when I unload and stack it, it measures about 100 cubic feet. Just can't get much more in it unless you stack it just right, I don't know if it will make 128 even stacked nicely, unless you have sideboards.After arguing with a couple guys on how much a pickup could hold i ended it all with this load..130cubic feet stacked and measured..ok,two cf over but is stacked tighter could have been less but close enuf !
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jerryw66
ArboristSite Guru
Now I see what you mean, Yea makes good sense, 100 cu ft is really pushin it in an 8' box, I've tried. I get those cramps all the time.
If you stack it humped up to cab height, it will fit in three rows and be less stressful on the springs. Need some sides on the truck.
I've put a full cord maple/ash on a pickup, but it was a 67 M715 Kiaser jeep with stake sides on the bed. That load didn't even flatten out the leafs.
P.S. that same M715 survived an encounter with a telophone pole, the pole snapped off and the M715 just had a bent bumper. The 6 cyl and 5.13 gears make for a slow ride though.....
I've put a full cord maple/ash on a pickup, but it was a 67 M715 Kiaser jeep with stake sides on the bed. That load didn't even flatten out the leafs.
P.S. that same M715 survived an encounter with a telophone pole, the pole snapped off and the M715 just had a bent bumper. The 6 cyl and 5.13 gears make for a slow ride though.....
Thanks for straightening that out, thats a good 1/2 cord in there you must have stacked it tight. Some people I sell firewood to stack it like a jigsaw puzzle and complain thats its not a full cord, I just them thats what you get, go somewhere else if you don't like it. Steve
had to help a friend deliver some xtra wood to a customer,,i think they used a whitling knife and sandpaper to get that stack so tight !!
no bugs in THAt pile ! not enuf room
side of pile looked like a parquet floor !
but then agin,it IS 128CF of wood,,not wood and air..
KodiakKen
ArboristSite Operative
put an add on craigslist last week
I am selling my 8 foot bed chevy heaped..not like THAT pic but mounded about 18" above siderail and selling it for $100 delivered and dumped..I thought I was about normal for around here..but my phone rings a lot. I advertise 1/2 cord +/-. I guess we have a lot of crappy wood cutters around here. all I have is dead standing cut ash and 1 1/2 -2 year seasoned maple. I did talk to one guy about a load he got from another cutter (HACK) and it was dead wet and shorted..6 ft. bed level with sides with a cap with spray painted windows. I delivered him a load tonight at 5 and he called at 8 and ordered 2 more..shi*..I should charge more. sucks to be honest. In my opinion if everyone sleeps happy at night..I can live well with it. I deliver at our convenience and haven't had an unsatisfied person yet.
I am selling my 8 foot bed chevy heaped..not like THAT pic but mounded about 18" above siderail and selling it for $100 delivered and dumped..I thought I was about normal for around here..but my phone rings a lot. I advertise 1/2 cord +/-. I guess we have a lot of crappy wood cutters around here. all I have is dead standing cut ash and 1 1/2 -2 year seasoned maple. I did talk to one guy about a load he got from another cutter (HACK) and it was dead wet and shorted..6 ft. bed level with sides with a cap with spray painted windows. I delivered him a load tonight at 5 and he called at 8 and ordered 2 more..shi*..I should charge more. sucks to be honest. In my opinion if everyone sleeps happy at night..I can live well with it. I deliver at our convenience and haven't had an unsatisfied person yet.
Steve NW WI
Unwanted Riff Raff.
Probably not, spend a year sitting and you'll have an awful big gas tank, but it won't hold much splitter fuel!
Seriously, I applaud you guys that split by hand. I get my maul out once in a while for stress relief, but that's about it. Too much elm on my hands!
MS460WOODCHUCK
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Here is a load on my 1/2 ton shortbed FORD, well with the tailgate down I guess it would be 8' bed.
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dang thats a load all right
i thought i could haul pretty easily a cod in my 8ft cummins bed stacked tight 4ft high might actualy be alittle over cord i havent measerd it .
going to cut wood this weekend loadn the 20ft trailer 4 ft high and the bed of the truck 4ft high. i can pull 30 miles an hour puln the grade out of the laske with that load. shes heavy thatl be about 4 cord , depends on how much i quarter the rds down on the mtn.
i thought i could haul pretty easily a cod in my 8ft cummins bed stacked tight 4ft high might actualy be alittle over cord i havent measerd it .
going to cut wood this weekend loadn the 20ft trailer 4 ft high and the bed of the truck 4ft high. i can pull 30 miles an hour puln the grade out of the laske with that load. shes heavy thatl be about 4 cord , depends on how much i quarter the rds down on the mtn.
