I forgot to mention, I like your “saw rack” in your truck bed. Saws can take some serious damage if allowed to roll around in a truck bed.
Thanks! That's a fact! It's all over in all our small towns around here. If it wasn't for honey locust, we wouldn't have much hardwood around. 3 year seasoned honey locust is gona make some very nice heat!
Thanks! If I'm just going around town (I live in a town of 250 people) I don't worry about using it, but when I got to travel a bit, I like to use it. Simple, yet it does what it needs to. Here's better pictures.
Where you from KSPlainsman. I’m from Dodge City. Score a little honey locust now and then, but mostly dead standing elm in the creek bottoms.
That's genius! Hope you don't mind if I steal it for my 4-wheeler trailer. My saws aren't nearly that big but my trailer isn't as big as the box of your truck either.
Howdy Elmer! I'm just NW of ya in Gove County. This stuff here is out by Gove. I started doing tree removals, which got me into doing trees in town. Then this gentleman, who is a friend of a friend needed help with 2 of these removals, since they were by shops and there were consequences if there was a mishap. Then he let me at all of it. I'm beyond thankful and appreciative. Before I started doing that I did a lot of elm and even cottonwood along the creek and dry river beds.
Have at it, and send me a picture when it's done! I'd love to see someone else's take on it. I put a 4x4 under the plywood, to keep it from sliding off the bed side to side. The saws weight keeps it in place.........and I drive slow.
That is such gorgeous wood in the round. As rot resistant as that probably is, no telling how many years that would be good if in a woodshed.
Yes Sir........... there's a 4x4 a couple inches shorter than the inside of the bed rails. It surprisingly doesn't move around when driving, but there are 2 metal screws holding the aluminum bed rail covers down, that I'm sure help keep it in place. I also drive slow. I'm not in any sort of a hurry.
In the pictures of "Load 3" that I'm putting up, that has been sitting on the ground, outside, in log form, for a decade and it was perfect inside. So in a woodshed? Indefinitely I'd guess. I have 10 year old cottonwood in a shed, that's jn perfect shape yet...........well, for cottonwood. Lol
So here's load 2 from today. I used my little Northern Tool jib crane to load up the pickup. Then Mr. Ron used his John Deere with grapple bucket to load my trailer. Those rounds in that trailer are 3' or more, depending on where a guy measures. It's crazy how dense this stuff is. The first 2 rounds were on one side of the trailer and it was probably at a 15 degree angle, until the third piece got loaded. Lol Between the pickup and the trailer, this was a lot of weight. Took the ole girl a little bit to get up to speed.
Here's some better pictures of some of the trees and I found one riddled with thorns. The second picture is the one I bucked the 3 chunks off of, for my trailer load on round 2. I should have everything hauled out of there by Monday, except for the long log pile. That's gona take some doing to sort through that. Some of it is cottonwood anyways. So I won't be taking that.
Yielding pretty decent so far! That one is going to stay put. If it was 2 or 3 foot diameter, I'd be out there with my sawzall, cutting off those thorns, but I'm not gona mess with it for a few pieces of 6" wood.
