wireedm
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Might have something to do with the cost of a new saw versus the cost of a new truck?
lol, and the cost of diesel to run through the new BIGGER truck.
Might have something to do with the cost of a new saw versus the cost of a new truck?
I'm not really trying to stir anything up here, but I suppose it will. Why is it everyone here insists on bigger/faster/sharper "right tool for the job" thinking on chainsaws yet think nothing of using trucks/trailers WAY beyond safe or intended duty? No I'm not preaching, I grew up a farm kid, do it myself. Just seems to be a big disconnect in reasoning.
I'm not really trying to stir anything up here, but I suppose it will. Why is it everyone here insists on bigger/faster/sharper "right tool for the job" thinking on chainsaws yet think nothing of using trucks/trailers WAY beyond safe or intended duty? No I'm not preaching, I grew up a farm kid, do it myself. Just seems to be a big disconnect in reasoning.
I just hauled home a single 1.5 cord load of red alder on Saturday. I used my flatbed carhauler style trailer with some sides that I put together using the stake pockets on the trailer. I am deathly afraid of one of the 3 foot long rounds coming off of the trailer and smashing some other car on the way home. So I underload. The trailer is a 10.4k GVWR model so it has more capacity.
Do you folks have any lessons on log load binding as related to firewood rounds? Any stories of these loads falling off on the way home? I would never just throw my saw up on the pile.
Well I can tell you my reason. You would know this too growing up on a farm. Get it doen with what you got in the short time you have to do it in. I did have a F350 ford with a 11' flat bed at one time. That thing had guts like you would not beleive. Due to wisconsin nice winters the frame rusted out on the old thing. The last trip I hauled with it I pulled a 27 ' gooseneck cattle trailer. I had 15 head of750 lbs heifers on it. Yeap just a bit of a load. But, on that day we had bad weather coming in and would have had to wait till it dryed up again to get to the loading area.So it was just to get it done job.
Bob
I'm not really trying to stir anything up here, but I suppose it will. Why is it everyone here insists on bigger/faster/sharper "right tool for the job" thinking on chainsaws yet think nothing of using trucks/trailers WAY beyond safe or intended duty? No I'm not preaching, I grew up a farm kid, do it myself. Just seems to be a big disconnect in reasoning.
If you're making 5 cuts with your 15" bar on your Poulan Pro and I'm only making 3 but my bar is 30"........at the end of the day, who has cut the most wood?Hahaha. Reasoning? What does reasoning have to do with anything in this thread?
Really though, every one knows one key to hauling a load is never get in a hurry. Slower? Well I don't know, if you're hauling 5 loads a day with 1/2 cord a load, and I am only hauling 3......But my loads are 1 full cord..........at the end of the week who has moved the most wood?
Andy
If you're making 5 cuts with your 15" bar on your Poulan Pro and I'm only making 3 but my bar is 30"........at the end of the day, who has cut the most wood?
Yes, I understand "get it done with what you've got". However the time argument fails here. Overloading vehicles/trailers means you have to drive slow, use back roads etc.. Yet saving time and wear and tear is the main argument for the bigger/faster saw, same applies here. The ONLY justification I've seen as stated earlier is money.
Correct me if I am wrong but I was under the impression that DOT was for commercial vehicles only. It is a big ordeal where I live because you can drive a dully pulling a 44 ft trailer over loaded with any farm equipment you want with your normal liscence but have to have a CDL to drive a 10" box truck that delivers bread. The comercial drivers get real mad at us farmers for that reason. Some state cops do not realize that either, I have been chased down and ordered over the scales by troopers that do not understand the difference in CDL and private or farm vehicles
My 2 brothers and I hauled home quite a few of these this winter.
Its oak that had died from oak wilt.
How many cord on this load.The box alone is 10 foot long + about a 3 foot tailgate:monkey:
I'm not sure if I have these posted up somewhere else, but here is our rig with about 60 6"x6' yellow pine posts. Grossed 14,210, made some noise going out of the place too, gotta love that cummins power, especially through a 6" tip.
What mods do you guys have done to your rigs?
You all ought to see how these rednecks that sell firewood here loads a turck up. Tailpipe is dragging and blocks of wood between frame and differential so tires do not scrub on fender wells etc......They would have fit considerably more wood on a pickup than posted. There is at least another 600-800 pounds available if its loaded above the cab......who says you can not fit a full cord of oak or hickory on a 1/2 ton pickup truck and still do 70 on the interstate!
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