Loaded truck pics.

Love the truck and the fleet of Huskys.

 

Half cord load of sugar maple delivered to a new customer today. In 15 years of burning he said its the nicest firewood he's ever bought. Made my day for sure! He had come to the conclusion that a delivered "cord" was 90% full and a percentage of that wood was punky. He showed me what was left of his last delivery that he had neatly stacked. Some oversized chunks, plus another chunk that was half punk. Plus other loads that weren't dry. Typical complaints I hear. He wants to buy loads of fresh split wood to stack and dry himself. Ill be able to accommodate.

 

Yesterday was a bit of a workout

 

Scaled conservatively @ 8'10" long , x 65" wide by 4' tall . Top of the sidestakes is 5'1" tall .
Wood boiler customer uses 36 " ish wood . And , they were Out of wood .
It was gusting up toward 70 mph in Delta and a good 30 + in the woods . Road was drifted in and I had to open up a new tops deck . And get the landing cleared so i had the room to move and deck wood . Then get to work with the wood. Wasn't a dark to dark day . But didn't get home till 8:45 .

 

And yes, it got a front and rear 2" ratchet strap frame to frame .

 

Love seeing those big loads! If those logs you’re cutting are about 9 foot long and you can fit 1.5 cord on a load, do you ever wonder how much longer you could cut them and let them hang over, and still be confident they’ll hang on? 2 cord load? 2.25 cord load? I’m dying to see you try

 

A customer forever! Nice work brad

 

The biggest load I've hauled on this truck was 2 cord . I used to always deliver 12 foot wood . But the wood I had was dryer. It was all incinerated in the 2023 Pogo Road fire .
The wood I'm in now is wetter and heavier . But I still can do 1.5 cord loads of 8 to 10' long wood no problem .

 

Here's a 1.5 cord load of 12' wood . Didn't exactly snatch it from the flames . But it was the last load ever gotten from this area. Within 1 week , the whole place was as bare as the Moon

 

This was a standard 2 cord load on Whitey my 1990 F350 with the 7.3 International diesel

 

Face cord load of 2.5 year dried pignut hickory. Delivered yesterday to a FBM customer. Normally burns a cord or so but ran out. Complained about how much "crud" (loose bark, shards, dirt etc) he gets with his one cord load from the other wood guy.

He sends me this text this morning and I quote "I'm in love with this wood. If you get a load of hickory or oak let me know" I take it he liked it?

Looks like I have another new customer. He was willing to take fresh split too.

 

My wife and I were on a hike up the road yesterday when we came across this older Ford. Granted It’s not loaded now, but this old beauty was owned by a man who logged in the area, who has since passed on. I saw it loaded many times with firewood to keep his family warm over a period of decades. Now instead of plowing his landing, it is used to plow a private drive just up the road. If I would have seen it for sale sooner, I would have bought it for ours.

 

early to mid-80's?

 

Today's load . 1.5 cord or 10' spruce .

 

Half cord load of 2/3 dead ash, balance silver maple. He was so pleased he wants to buy a cord of green splits in the Spring. Third new customer in a row from FBM that wants wood in the Spring. Rare I sell any bulk wood in the off season.

 

What is this spring you speak of?

 

Mostly black birch and sugar maple, with a little dead oak and white birch mixed in:

 

Load from last week. Mix of Norway and red maple with some box elder mixed in. His wood shed. I love the way he curved the roof as well as built around the tree.

 

Mostly black birch and beech, with a few random pieces of dead red oak, black locust, and ash mixed in.

 

That pic is an optical illusion. Looks like the red oak chunks in the background are part of the load.

You have REALLY spoiled your customers Eric. Done the FHC proud!