Loaded truck pics.

Second half cord load for customer in post #7839. Black birch, sugar maple and cherry. Empty rack to be filled ASAP. Gotta start stocking up for next years customers. (although I already did since any cordage wood cut after April will be for 26-27) Also delivered another half cord to new customer today. Forgot camera, but it did happen.

 

Thanks Brad, here are pictures of the elm that was dropped off just as I pulled in with the load. Got it blocked up along with 3/4 of the truck load and moved to the backyard. Should be sitting on over 2 cord waiting for the splitter. Time change is not going to help progress.

 

2 .25 cord today . 8' wood .
Today's customer canceled. They had a 1 cord order. And I planned to drop the loaded trailer at a neighbor's. Which i did . So I'll stockpile the load on the truck .
For a 40 below phone call

 

With the hardwood you burn and sell . Do you notice a difference in seasoning or drying time of processed firewood, between summer cut and winter cut ?
Up here , winter cut dries Much faster than summer cut .

 

Never paid much attention. Customers usually get the driest on hand.

 

Don't winter cut living trees have a much lower moisture content?

A self-preservation feature, no?

Then, each spring, the tree begins pumping massive amounts of water to itself.

While dropping some trees one spring for my garage build, I had the experience of one tree that I made a notch in and knocked out the notch, water was actually running out of the notch! As if someone had left a faucet turned on! Well, not a full steady stream but an amazing amount came out.

 

Yep, that sap can really flow. This was a hickory log we had just cut and sat 1 end on the trailer, look at the water running out the low end...https://youtube.com/shorts/Z8KF7DSd64Q?si=mA_q0_BuMxLafora

 

In the spring when we cut a tree . It will really flow out of trees up here. Summer happens at about warp speed here .
With our Birch , the highest btu species here . If it's fell before it thaws out . Then processed . Stacked off the ground with the split up and bark down . Put something over the top of the stack to keep the rain off. It will be well under 20% moisture by September.
I know that oak takes a long time to season. I was wondering if anyone had figured out the time difference in months to be 20% between winter and spring/summer fell .

 

With Aspen up here . When fell in the winter . If a tree is left with all the limbs on . It will fully leaf out and the leaves will make it to full size and stay until the hottest stretch of the summer , which will shrivel them up.
If we don't have a real hot stretch . I've seen the leaves make it till almost fall time .

And the wood is Noticeablely drier

 

Today's load . 16" split Birch . 1 cord loose

 

Have any scales around? My F250 Superduty would have some good squat going with a load of oak half that size...

 

That's a mountain, right there.

 

It should be around 5,000 lbs . Of wood . Birch in Alaska weighs around 5,000 lbs per cord !!!! Where as White Spruce is around 4,000 lbs per cord
So I will load 1 1/2 + cord loads of spruce . But only 1 cord of Birch .
I Always worry more about my tires than I do the trucks suspension or frame .
F350s are Built to take a woodin down.

 

KCT, Red Oak, Sugar Maple, Cherry
I’ll be home in less than 30, no diesel stop

 

Bringing all the Benji's back home, eh?!

 

The next time I drive my trucks there will be a be a benji hit. Still searching for the 100% profit formula. Ai couldn’t help me find the elusive Nashville equation.

 

If you watch for someone getting rid of fuel oil heat you can sometimes score free fuel for doing tank removal...plus then get a free tank to build a hog smoker!

 

Son came down to take a hand me down couch from my sister. I sent him home with a decent little jag of wood. Has to be at least 5-6yr old.

 

No room for the couch, huh.

 

Priorities. Ha!
He pulled it in my trailer with his Ranger. He’s loving that truck, edit: and his new couch!