Loaded truck pics.

Got the last 5 rounds split up today...ended up with just shy of 2 face cord from this load...well, if I include the wheelbarrow full of shorts/uglies it would be almost exactly 2 face cords...here's the one from today

 

Good looking stack. I sometimes for get the wheelbarrow of uglies and shorts in my tallies too.

Is that a piece of metal on top?

 

Yes, it's attached right to the rack.
So right as I was putting the splitter away last night my neighbor called to say I could have the Ash rounds that have been laying along the road since last summer...I drive by there a couple times per week and they have been calling me! I figured her BIL would take them, but she said have at it, so about an hour after I cleared my bed of the Oak rounds, it's full of Ash! It was nice because it was a quick score, but as y'all can probably guess, random lengths! No pic yet, was dark when I got back.

 

Pic of neighbors Ash...not a great one though, I backed too close to the trailer...

 

Red maple

 

I like that real Craftsman toolbox.

 

I have one just like that. I bought it brand new when I was a junior in high school on sale for $44.xx in 1975 or '76. It was a complete tool set with both 3/8" and 1/2" ratchet and socket sets along with tons of other stuff. I still have and use all the tools but I've retired the box but can't throw it away... Lots of good memories over the years working on cars and toys with buddies.

 

just googled the old toolbox and saw one for sale at $250... LOL that's nuts...

 

Nice load of white oak this morning. 21 rounds made a full load, left 5 rounds and the whole top.

 

Nice Load...Looks like you need a headache rack that would protect your window!

 

Thanks, been loading this truck like that since 2017, and my last truck since 2008 without incident. I better knock on some wood

 

Jahaha

 

Huh...your load looks like the same species as mine.
I dunno why but I just had it in my head that the wood I picked up last week was eab ash...but when I started splitting today I realized that it's maple...red I think. Fine with me, I like maple, and it's about the same BTUs as ash, plus it's still pretty solid, so win win in my book!

 

yeah looking at your pics I had a hard time seeing ash myself.

 

I've been driving past this wood for a year now, and it looked like dead ash when driving by, so when they called to say I could have it, I run over and loaded it in about half an hour, right before dark, I just didn't pay any attention to species. Either way, good wood, and will still dry pretty quick

 

Load of sailboat fuel...

...Okay, just wanted to show off the new toy. This is why you don't buy nice toys. Picked up a used lift but decided it would never be nice enough for this nice of a truck so new it is.

Now to find someone Sandhillbilly or buZZsaw BRAD that want a nice liftgate for their truck.

 

We had a tornado go through town on March 14th. I stayed away from the initial clean up. Too many people for me. Every church, school, college group possible was out helping. Which was great, but also a lot of first timers running saws. Storm damaged trees are not the trees to learn on. The linemen didn't need me in the way while the worked for 2 weeks to get power back on 100%.

Now we're hitting 4 weeks after the storm and wood scrounge is good. My family has a family friend with 15+ acres of timber in town that was hit. Lots of 20 inch and bigger trees down on the ground. Land owner rented a mini excavator to help clean up. A couple guys are salvaging timber logs. I'm salvaging firewood and logs with possible metal in them. In one week we basically cleaned up the driveway and yard around 2 houses. Barely touched the acreage.

I have 3 dump trailer loads of white and red oak. Having a 3.5 ton excavator load the 300-450# chunks makes life a bit easier. Trailer load in pictures had 9 chunks, 24" diameter and 20" long. 8 chunks 20" diameter and 20" long. 2 loads of big rounds with excavator and one load of 6-12" rounds all loaded by my kids last Sunday.

 

Thats a sweet set up! Maybe someday I'll have a least a "new" tailgate. LOL!!!

Wanna see some wood on it and soon!

The sailboat joke just hit me!

 

Texted a picture to my wood fairy this morning. Got a text back a few hours later that netted me this load of hackberry this afternoon. Trunk was 20" diameter. Kind of a win win, as I moved the wood around in the box they used the liftgate to load the bigger rounds. Maybe a half cord total.

 

That definitely counts as loaded.