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...and found that it was pretty heavy. The trailer is a tandem axle 18' long x 83" wide BigTex 70CH (car hauler) that a friend/neighbor lets me use. He had bought the trailer (used) and it had been sitting in his yard for months. I had asked him what he used the trailer for and part of his reply was that "every farm/acerage needs a trailer..." - and he needed the 7000 lb GVWR car hauler - instead of a lighter duty utility trailer??? I think he's doing pretty good for himself cause recently he bought a nice little Kubota (with a front-end loader and bush hog) for something to play with - after all "every farm/acerage needs a tractor..." 
. And he can haul his tractor on his trailer if need be...good excuse for the wife 
.So I asked to borrow it (trailer) and told him what I wanted to do with it and he said use it for as long as you want and for however long you want. So I'm glad he had that trailer sitting there doing nothing . I built sides for it to haul firewood, and I have wondered how heavy is the trailer with a "good" load of firewood on, because I've already hauled quite a few loads with the trailer. Recently I found out where a new truck stop had been built that had a public weigh scale for tractor-trailers, and it was near where I've been getting my wood lately. So yseterday I got a "good" load of Oak (and a few pieces of Hickory) on (trying to keep in mind that my pull vehicle is my F-150 4X4 1/2 ton with upgraded rear shocks and Timbren springs) and went to the scale. Probably looked funny...but I wanted to know. Trailer and wood weighed 7250 lbs (trailer weighs 1960 empty, so the wood weighed 5290) - I surely wasn't expexting that!!! . I didn't realize that the Oak (some green and some not so green) weighed so much. I'll definitely need to not load so much wood next time. I was trying to load a little more cause the wood is about a hour and 15 mins. away, and I still have about 2 or 3 trailer loads available - might have to stretch it to 4 loads. It's wood from a friend who has a tree service business and the place where he dumps the wood is easy to get to and nice straight pieces. Why did I post all this? Cause I wanted to, and some of y'all might be interested .
Here's a couple pictures of the load I weighed (the sides on the trailer are approx 28" from the trailer floor):
Kevin
. And he can haul his tractor on his trailer if need be...good excuse for the wife .So I asked to borrow it (trailer) and told him what I wanted to do with it and he said use it for as long as you want and for however long you want. So I'm glad he had that trailer sitting there doing nothing . I built sides for it to haul firewood, and I have wondered how heavy is the trailer with a "good" load of firewood on, because I've already hauled quite a few loads with the trailer. Recently I found out where a new truck stop had been built that had a public weigh scale for tractor-trailers, and it was near where I've been getting my wood lately. So yseterday I got a "good" load of Oak (and a few pieces of Hickory) on (trying to keep in mind that my pull vehicle is my F-150 4X4 1/2 ton with upgraded rear shocks and Timbren springs) and went to the scale. Probably looked funny...but I wanted to know. Trailer and wood weighed 7250 lbs (trailer weighs 1960 empty, so the wood weighed 5290) - I surely wasn't expexting that!!! . I didn't realize that the Oak (some green and some not so green) weighed so much. I'll definitely need to not load so much wood next time. I was trying to load a little more cause the wood is about a hour and 15 mins. away, and I still have about 2 or 3 trailer loads available - might have to stretch it to 4 loads. It's wood from a friend who has a tree service business and the place where he dumps the wood is easy to get to and nice straight pieces. Why did I post all this? Cause I wanted to, and some of y'all might be interested .Here's a couple pictures of the load I weighed (the sides on the trailer are approx 28" from the trailer floor):
Kevin
