My 20 cord load of Oak showed up today. Driver did a nice job stacking it, he just couldn't get where I had hoped, but oh well.
Am I counting 9 axles under the load? Plus the tag axle and the steering tires. Do you know how much weight it was? We have load restrictions on the secondary roads right now while the frost comes out. More axles=more legal weight. That is a nice load of wood! Congrats.
That was my count on axles, it’s horrifying enough to think about tires on the 5 axles under my rig let alone 11.
Class A roads to get here & the frost is out, so no issues there. Your axle count is correct, that truck was a monster. Driver figured weight at about 110K. That should make two years worth of heat for me when supplemented with shoulder wood, I burn 15-18 cord per winter. I ordered another load for later in the year just to have it here. We'll keep hauling off job sites for shoulder wood & campfire wood to sell. We should be in the 100 cord range by year's end total count. Gives me a chance to break a couple saws in lol.
That's a heck of a load! Very nice! I was just talking with a logger the other night about price on a 12 cord load of ash and maple. You get a mix load or what all is in it?
100% Oak, cut in January so it's green. Most won't be ready till 22-23. It was $2100.00 for the load. I figure with fuel going up it wasn't gonna get any cheaper & we lost almost 4 months skidding our own the last two winters, so this wasn't too bad.
That will really depends on weather & logging/hauling. We can do 2 cord per day pretty easily with 4-5 men. What you don't see in the pics is 5-6 cord of other logs we hauled back to process, some of those are right in the way due to where he had to set this load. I'll work on those nights after work & get the area organized better. Once we start we can get through it pretty decently.
Not to bad, the truck load I was looking at is 960. (80 per cord) can get oak,ash maple or mix, I was looking at the ash and maple for faster drying time. You got a lot of work sitting there and a lot of BTUs!
20 cords of green oak itself should easily be 100k in weight. I would think it would have to be much more than 110k total.
