Runnin' Loads

[mountainguyed67]

I very rarely see anyone hauling wood that hasn’t already been bucked up, here locally. Excluding loggers. Lots of you on this forum do it though. Interesting. I think people don’t have the equipment, or don’t want to haul it in addition to hauling firewood.

 

[Ryan'smilling]

I very rarely see anyone hauling wood that hasn’t already been bucked up, here locally. Excluding loggers. Lots of you on this forum do it though. Interesting. I think people don’t have the equipment, or don’t want to haul it in addition to hauling firewood.

It works well for me. I try not to lift wood by hand if I can avoid it. Ideally I'd have a dump trailer or a second piece of equipment so I could load logs where I'm working and unload them at home, but so far I don't have either. So, if I find a place where someone else can load my trailer, I sure appreciate it and I try to show it with a bottle of maple syrup or something.

If I can spare the time, my ideal setup is to buck the load right on the trailer when I get home and then pull the splitter right alongside the trailer. That way I can get the wood through the wedge without ever lifting it, not from the ground anyway. I took a page from Sawyer Rob's book and pretty much only buck wood on a trailer or wagon. Much less strain on the back that way.

 

[SS396driver]

I built the arch so I dont have to take FEL .

 

[mountainguyed67]

I built the arch so I dont have to take FEL .View attachment 817229

Can you get a more complete picture?

 

[SS396driver]

Can you get a more complete picture?

Here is the thread.
https://www.arboristsite.com/community/threads/log-arch-build.339958/

 

[mountainguyed67]

The guy with the sawmill near me has that in the trailer he brings logs back with. I didn’t see it in operation, but he showed me the stump he ties off to and pulls the trailer out from under it.

 

[Nodak Andy]

Hauled this and another load in the back of my grain truck. Gotta love free wood!

 

[Nodak Andy]

Couple more loads today. Grain truck is pretty well full of some sort of either pine or fir. It was all cut into 16" chunks and fully dry. And it was free! The guy even used his skid steer to load it for me. Just wanted it gone. After loading the grain truck he threw the grapple on and we went through his tree rows and took down a bunch of standing dead Ash and he loaded the chunks on the trailer for me. All total is say there's a little over 2 cords worth. With probably 2 more left to be taken down and hauled out. Next days off I plan to go back down and cut more down for him. All it cost me was about 8 gallons of gas, 5 gallons of Diesel and a bit of sweat!

 

[Nodak Andy]

Hauled another trailer load today. Tree guys that cut it down said it was oak... Not too sure myself. Regardless, it's gonna get taken to my brother's house and most of it will be slabbed in his band saw Mill.

 

[Nodak Andy]

My brother got around to milling up a couple smaller chunks of the oak today.

Not sure, but i've had a couple people tell me they thing its walnut, not oak. Whats your guys' thoughts?

 

[stumpy75]

I think you have some of that highly valuable walnut there...

 

[Nodak Andy]

after talking it over with a buddy, he seems to be pretty certain it's an american elm tree. Still gonna try to find someone with a big enough mill in the are to mill the main section of the trunk in whole slabs.

 

[cat10ken]

Looking at the bark, I thought willow but the grain does resemble walnut.

 

[SS396driver]

Ash and elm

 

[MechanicMatt]

Wish I took pictures of what I put my Colorado through today, or the neighbors Mason Dump, the poor 6.5 K3500 got a WORK OUT!!

 

[motolife313]

Delivering some cherry, pin oak and alder tomorrow to a customer

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Well, it was another beautiful day here today, so we were back at it! I pulled my wagon out to where I had some logs skidded out, and started bringing them to my helper,

and he sawed them to length,

We was using a Husky 562xp with a 20" bar, and many of the logs were 20" or bigger,

so we ended up with quite a few that size,

until we had a decent load cut,

So, we hooked the tractor to the load and headed home,

There's still plenty more to load/cut,

but that will be "another days" work!

SR

 

[MechanicMatt]

SawyerRob, I gotta admit, I do like your process..... a LOT! Buck right into the wagon!

 

[U&A]

Been working the ram hard the past month moving bed fulls of wood.

Good picture of her

Sent while firmly grasping my redline lubed RAM [emoji231]

 

[Sawyer Rob]

SawyerRob, I gotta admit, I do like your process..... a LOT! Buck right into the wagon!

It works great, Matt. It makes splitting easier too, because you can roll the rounds right onto the splitter, NO bending or lifting needed!

SR