The march to 150

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Got 11.5 cords out today and the first 2 cords for tomorrow loaded. My wife is running a half marathon in Philly tomorrow and I hope she’s home by 1. Just making a few deliveries in the afternoon. Pictured is my dump truck with 2 cords on it.

 

Looks like you are the one running the marathon...good job...what size I your dump truck?

 

Looks great for what others would think of it as uglies. Keeping all those set making the rest of your selling splits visually appealing.

 

F350 with a 12’ dump bed. Load by hand, unload by thumb.

 

We bought a F350, flat bed, got to do a little more work on it. Should pull our dump trailer well.
Most of out customers only get a face cord at the time, a couple get dump trailer load.

 

Great work this summer jrider

 

Nice truck! You plan to put wood sides or metal?

 

I think it has wood sides, we have to change rear engine seal started leaking about 20 miles down the road....

 

Thanks. It was a busy summer for sure.

 

How is the surgery feeling? Are you back to 100%? Wish i had your ambition for making firewood.

 

I was back to 100% about 4 weeks after.

 

Started the afternoon off with delivering the two cords of oak on the truck from yesterday. Then went and did another two cord delivery. Finally loaded up these two cords of cherry which will get dropped off some time during the week.
It’s too warm for hand loading all this wood. Now that school has started back up, I’m ready for fall like temps.

 

Says the man who ran a saw all summer.

 

Loading I find to be more exhausting, at least at the pace I load...not trying to take an hour to fill the truck up.

 

True enough, a slow pace means less dinero.


Time is money.

 

Gas? I don't see a diesel badge...stinks on the seal...but being 2 WD pulling the tranny to replace the seal is not that bad of a job...might consider replacing the front tranny seal while you are there. I bought an F150 some years back, they sold it cheap because "the tranny was out"...it just needed a front seal

 

Is it worth all the extra work of hand loading when you already have a FEL? Do you load by yourself? Just seems very labor intensive to me...I mean firewood is just in general, but this part of the game wouldn't have to be...

 

I'd think his main reason for hand loading is to have a more accurate cord measurement.

 

Seems like a lot of work just for that...I would think you could get a pretty accurate load by just dumping it in with the loader once you figured out what a 1, 1.5, 2 cord looks like.
I guess I'm lazy...but after all the work of making it into firewood, there is no way I would hand stack 150 cord...just to go dump it in a pile in an hour or less! I would however guarantee my quantity...