BlueRidgeMark
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OOOOPS!
I've been loading my truck by eyeball, judging weight by how the beast is sagging.
Methinks I may be in the habit of overloading it a tad. Just a tad. A wee bit.
For example, a couple of years ago I posted about scoring a standing dead oak.
I noodled the rounds into quarters, and loaded them on my Nissan 1/2 ton. Uh, I seem to recall getting more than 1 round on the truck for each load. Yep. One round and then some. Maybe even two rounds, though I'm not sure of that. 1 and a half, anyway, plus some odds & ends.
Well, I just did some weight calcs. Oh, this is ugly!
One of those rounds, if wet, is over a full ton!
http://www.woodweb.com/cgi-bin/calculators/calc.pl?calculator=log_weight
That calculator doesn't allow partial feet, so that weight is low by about 40% -50%. The rounds were about 26-30" thick.
Anybody have a calculator for dry wood? Or do you know a conversion factor? This calculator assumes 75% MC.
I've been loading my truck by eyeball, judging weight by how the beast is sagging.
Methinks I may be in the habit of overloading it a tad. Just a tad. A wee bit.
For example, a couple of years ago I posted about scoring a standing dead oak.
I noodled the rounds into quarters, and loaded them on my Nissan 1/2 ton. Uh, I seem to recall getting more than 1 round on the truck for each load. Yep. One round and then some. Maybe even two rounds, though I'm not sure of that. 1 and a half, anyway, plus some odds & ends.
Well, I just did some weight calcs. Oh, this is ugly!
One of those rounds, if wet, is over a full ton!
http://www.woodweb.com/cgi-bin/calculators/calc.pl?calculator=log_weight
pecies: Oak, Pin Small End Diameter: 54.00 Large End Diameter: 52.00 Length: 2.00' Quantity: 1.00 Estimated Weight: 1944
That calculator doesn't allow partial feet, so that weight is low by about 40% -50%. The rounds were about 26-30" thick.
Anybody have a calculator for dry wood? Or do you know a conversion factor? This calculator assumes 75% MC.