How much should a full log truck cost?

Welcome to the nut house. Stick around here long and all your neighbors will think you are going nuts with all the stacked wood on your property.

 

T.Jeff Veal welcome to the FHC! Glad to have you

 

Thanks. I finally figured out what CSS meant on the way home from work last night. I have been stacking 10 1/2 ft logs on light poles and covering with a tarp. Have some that are 2-3 yrs old now. When I get the call for wood, I try to go get it home as fast as possible, then CSS when I have time.

 

If you are in Virginia put an ad in craigslist and offer a free hardwood dump to tree services. Run it all the time and you will have plenty of firewood to process. I would not pay anywhere near $100 for log length firewood but that is just me. You are in Virginia, not Maine or New York. If your drop off spot is easy access you should not have a problem, it just takes time to get established.

 

Same here in Ma. 675.00 delivered for 6-7 cord mixed hardwood

 

I just paid $490 for a full load, about 6.5 cords. Try Palazza and McDonough on the south shore.

 

They charged me 600.00 plus 75.00 for delivery in Plymouth 2 years ago. I will give em a call as I need another load. I usually get a load every year but was unable to get one this year due to various circumstances and now looking like I'm going to run out of wood before winter is over. Thanks for mentioning them, maybe I can get a better price this year.

 

They've been advertising $75 a cord. I'm right down the street from their yard so no delivery charge.

 

Sooo.... The guys delivering and bucking wood ran out of beer money?

 

What do you use to stack those 10+’ logs on the light poles?

 

Just picked up 2 loads on Friday for $600.00 each. Cherry, soft & hard maple, ash & beech. All less than 14” diameter. Perfect for my owb.

 

I eats my Popeye's spinach......
We use 30HP Kubota with FEL.

 

What attachment do you have on your front end loader to handle the logs?

 

I'm guessing it's a set of log tongs hanging from a chain of the bucket. I have a similar set up but sometimes I use the tongs to set big wood into my dump trailer.

From the Stuff in the ashes thread:

 

We have 2 hooks welded on top of the bucket and use a 6' chain between them with the log tongs for the big stuff. We have 2 different size tongs. We also have a set of forks that mount on the bucket for smaller logs that the tongs won't grab safely.

 

I’m looking for something that I can take one or two logs off the pile at once & hold at waist high for bucking to save my lower back. I have a set of forks now but once you take a cut or two on one side of the forks gravity takes over & the other side tips to the ground. I’ve cut one side of the log & then the other to get it to stay level on the forks but that takes time walking back & forth & I don’t feel I’m being productive.

 

A grapple is about the only thing that will work then to hold the logs tight. We looked at that option, but our tractor isn't set up for one yet. Have the pin on bucket and no third function to operate the grapple. It can be changed but $$$$. And you will still have a section to cut where the grapple is holding.

 

Nick loves his grapple! He picks up anything with that thang... loll I’ve seen him pick the log splitter up and move it many times.
~Lissa

 

Thankfully our tractor has the third scv for our snow plow to angle so that’s not a problem. I get what you’re saying about not being able to cut the piece your holding with the grapple.

 

That looks like a nice set up you have there.