genesis5521
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Last time out, I tried using a garden wagon to get the bucked rounds back to my truck which was 50 yards away. It worked really well. I get my wood from the Nicolet National Forest, and can't take a vehicle in to the woods. The wagon holds 6 rounds (16" long, 16" diameter), but I had a hard time pulling that much weight (I estimate 300 lbs) over uneven terrain. 4 rounds I could pull fairly well (around 200 lbs). And when I got to the the smaller end of the tree, I got 12 to 15 rounds in it. It took me about 30 to 45 minutes to get a whole 16" diameter, 80' tall tree (that 60 rounds 16" long) back to my truck (6 to 8 trips) and with a whole lot less effort. Normally that would take me an hour and a half, to 2 hours, (around 50 trips) and a whole lot of back breaking effort. I thought about a dolly or a wheel barrow, but this is way better. No balancing the load, and no lifting while moving the load. Actually, I could get 9 big rounds in the wagon (around 450 lbs), but I could only pull that much weight on very flat and even terrain, and not very far. The picture below is not the exact wagon I used, but it's close. I borrowed my girlfriends old, beat-up garden wagon which is a little bigger. Now it goes with me every time I make a woods run. I can't use it in every situation, but more often than not, I can.
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