I hear ya...kinda like me with the black locust. Oak, ash, maple plentiful here. BL around, just a scarce scrounge so thats why ive been on the kick lately. Plus ive never burned it either. Always nice when you can get more at your convenience. Wanna see pics though.
Black locust is definitely getting more scarce to find. Someone I knew had to get rid of it on account of moving so it was a sacrifice thing. At least the recipient we knew and burns wood too so it wasn’t wasted. Sucks though but with some kinds of wood, just takes a bit of patience and right wording in the searches here. Yes will take pictures again. I wanted to respect the gentleman who had the tree downed in his yard and he seemed just carefully skittish in ways so I left about 19 larger rounds and probably about a 1/4 of the truck left in tree tops. But he agreed with me on Thursday same time for the pick up,I’m excited to go back and get it.
I understand not wanting to murder the truck , At the time all I have is a small Toyota and trailer , Not afraid to load the trailer but I do go easy on the truck , usually no wood in the truck and if I do I go easy on it. buzZZsawBRAD keeps a roller skate in his center console that he puts under the trailer hitch when he gets a load.
Truck payload is about 1600lbs. Total towing is 6,600. Had to balance it out.If it were a different wood I don’t have issues with loading more but oak is some of the heaviest of woods here along with BL and madrona fresh cut. Tree was cut in Nov, so I’m not surprised with the weight. Trailer needs some spring work but I don’t think it can handle more than 4,000 safely.
I sorta forgot to get a picture of it all in the trailer. Suffice to say I’m pretty wore out... loaded this all during a downpour. But this coming week is going to be epic: sunshine and a break from work. Will be sweating it out and loving every minute of it.
Very nice load, FatBoy85 . You know your truck and trailer and what you feel safe pulling, especially when you said you were fish tailing. That can get you in trouble quick. Good job, glad you can get the rest.
Thanks Jeff, Nothing else puckers up tighter than a snare drum than a you-know-what, brother when fishtailing. There’s a bridge called the Tacoma Narrows and this is crossed daily. The cross-winds can be sheer wickedness and sometimes it get really breezy just before the bridge downhill. First time was worse, this afternoon wasn’t so bad but it was blowing judging by white caps below. I’ve learned a lot from this trailer and it’s served us well for more than 30 years.
I didn’t quite see these comments until reading this thread through but if what you’re saying is true, you think I should change the shock/suspension system for weight?
And those were twisted. I don’t believe they were road dragging unless I came upon big dips but have always crossed them since I learned. If these started a fire, they’d likely catch the darn trailer siding first! Try explaining that to the Highway Patrol...
