Loaded truck pics.

Gotta get while the gettins good. I prefer cutting in the cold, but will go year round.

 

Same here, although fire danger im limited to November to march/april/may if lucky. Gotta get it while I can.

 

I miss my old six litre (sucks litres) Chev 25hunny (non-HD). Third picture, not wood lol

 

My old 93 6.5L turbo diesel. I missed it so much that I bought it back from my friend. It was supposed to replace my 6.0 because I started selling firewood out of town but I quickly obsoleted it when I bought another 93 with a dump box. Apparently the diesel pickup was about to blow a rod so I had to say bye-bye to my first vehicle bought for my first business, scrap metal recycling.

First pic: black walnut, sugar maple
Second pic: ash, sugar maple, birch, apple, apricot

 

Load of barkless black locust from Sunday

 

Didn't they all? That or crank snapped...

 

Transmission and transfer case were the weak spots in the two that I had

 

Got another jag of Shagbark & some Ash to finish off the load

Edit: That is Honey Locust not Shagbark, I must of been day dreaming when I typed that.

 

Got another load of Ash from the State Park today, probably the last load I will get.

 

Did you lose a load of turkeys OFR?

 

Virgin bed. Not for long. Not sure how I'll like the spray in Bedliner.

 

Nice - now just needs a headache rack.

 

You will love it for everything but firewood. They are great for keeping things from sliding around.

 

Today’s haul.

 

Load of black locust from Monday. Note: few pieces of cherry. .

 

Got a decent truck/trailer load for my parents. Mostly ash but I couldn’t let the locust behind..

 

Its rare to find rotten honey locust. The healthy ones that are cut (city trees) have a bug that burrow in the wood. Come back to your firewood pile after seasoning and you'll see piles of sawdust laying around.

 

I'm guessing you're talking about a BackRack. I'm a scrap metal recycler as well so my bias is to have cab height-high walls to hold a full bush cord and expanded metal protecting the back window because cargo tends to go through the somewhat big voids in BackRacks. I once picked up 21 panels of expanded metal on 1x1 inch tube. I kept 2 sets of three for pickup bed cages (perfect cab height width and truck box length) and sold the other 5 sets of three to other scrap guys. Not strong enough of course, so I reinforced all the edges with bed frame...spring steel that bends and and retracts back to straight under load. Never had a problem with 2 tonnes in the truck, three feet over the walls. Keep the bed frame in mind or truck walks or other framing projects. I dont know how it is in everyone else's area, but aside from garbage on garbage day, plenty of bulky items get put on the curb throughout the week and there;s no shortage of bed frame. Not easy to drill through though

 

Some nice firewood there Jason. Bet it felt great to get out and run the saws.
If you left BL behind i wouldve
How much BL was there? Too bad it was hollow but you never know til you cut into it.

 

There’s a couple dead or near dead standing. Very similar to this one. I’ll more than likely get as much as I can but there’s 3 others cutting on this property so I need to get the bigger ash out as my parents need wood for this coming winter. If I split it now, should be ok. Looks like it’s been on the ground for a while but it’s solid and heavy.