Loaded truck pics.

Yes he did take it easy on his way home! I think the steering would have felt pretty light.


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Here's a few pics that I dug up... All four wheel drive, and all Washington trucks (meaning no rust)...



This one is my current truck: 2003 Ford F-150. Taken in northern MI last spring. Bent the axle on my dad's trailer with that load. In my defense, it was later discovered during the repair, that the axle had rusted internally due to no weep holes in the bottom. Still, I felt pretty bad...




My previous truck: 1994 Ford F-250 Diesel. I really miss this truck. I couldn't believe how much weight it could carry/tow, and the awful places it
could go (winter/spring in northwest WA; mud, mud, and more mud). I'll have another like it some day... I miss that trailer, too. My buddy built it from a mobile home axle/frame. It got horrible abused by another friend that adopted it, then I "appropriated" it, repainted it, and rebuilt the deck and sides. Yes, I painted the wheels purple...in order to irritate my friend that originally built the trailer.





Another previous truck: 1984 Chevrolet S-10. Got it for free from a friend. My brother and I nicknamed it "The Trucktor". The durability and utility of the early eighties to early nineties compact pickups has always amazed me.

 

The end is finally in sight cleaning up all the maple from the 2 trees I had cut down. These 2 loads went to my neighbor.
I'm keeping track and so far, with what I've kept, what my dad's taken, and what I've given to one neighbor, it totals 6.5 cords. There's at least 2 more cords to work up. AND the main trunks from one tree went to my other neighbor in 3 logs about 10ft long. The biggest of those is 58" at the butt.

 

Here's a few from last weekend. Picked up for free from a local tree guy. Can't complain about free but I wish I could buck it up myself. Stove max is 18", 18 1/8" is too long, prefer 14-16". Most of this stuff is 16-24", but it's free.

Front of the truck is mostly almond (I think), then oak, and a few weirdo pieces at the end. Trailer is mostly birch, oak, some fir, and 2 rounds of cedar (for campfires).

Both truck and trailer are overloaded I'm sure, everything was soaking wet except 1pc of old ash. Had 3k lbs of rock in the truck several times and this felt way heavier. Trailer is only rated for 2k, a lightweight aluminum. The last is all unloaded at my parents ready for splitting.

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Looks like the truck and trailer both earned their keep for that day!

 

Maple fell at work.

 

More ash today

 

Load of Ash, all from one tree.

 

I guess you could say you're haulin' ash.

 

I got nothing on Ohiostihl though, one of these days I'll haul big boy loads like he does!

 

Red oak. Fell this last summer I think. Blew over. About 26" on the but I think if I remember right.

Trying to load pics. It's giving me some message about reloading the page for security?? Bare with me...

 

You have something on me. I can’t load those big pieces in the truck. I have to make them smaller first.

 

Ok it was a size issue I think. I reduced the pic size and it took them.

 

That Chevy is earning its keep.

 

So how did you get those onto the trailer?

 

I have a few buddies that are loggers. He was moving decks..well really got to wet and he left my job. He pulled up that wind thrown tree. We bucked it and used the loaded to load it onto my trailer.

 

That's one great looking combo

 

Thanks!

 

Great to see Colt Seavers still getting it done after all these years!

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I would have no idea what your talking about if guys on here had already kidded me about driving "The Fall Guy's" truck. I had never heard of that show before and had to Google it after guys on here were kidding me about it. It was slightly before my time but I had heard of many other shows from the era even seeing episodes of most 80s shows? ?