Not a lot, but its fun. I got 6 beds of the gator so far. Taking a short break. Tomorrow my wifes grandfather has a ton of rounds for me to get. Problem is its 60miles away, but it saved him $500 for the tree service to leave them. Its all red oak and hickory, and probably 5-6 trailer loads... Im just used to having the gator or tractor etc etc... its in suburbia and requires using a wheel barrow and lots of muscle...
Red and white oak, lil hickory, lil cherry, and some beech. I have tons of oak here at house and around the corner at the farm. I relaxed a little this evening trying to bust a few bushy tails over at the farm and found two huge dead standing reds and theres probably 5-6 smaller ones as well.
I dont think I would want to wheel barrow a full stake body or box trucks worth in one day. I usually can only get one round in the wheel barrow at a time. Its probably 75-100yds one way.
You'll spend that $500 in bourbon and Advil after humping a bunch of red oak and hickory 100yds! Can you bring the gator to the property and use it to bring loads to the truck?
Feel your pain Ejp, this is behind our place. The only way to get the beech, cherry, red oak or butternut out is over the little bridge that myself and one of my foster sons put in. It is really steep including our yard, I would have to take out a bunch just to get equipment back there. Bought a hand truck that works great on the even ground, it is easier on the back like Midwinter suggested. Since we don't own the land but have permission, yep it is one wheelbarrow at a time. Once I get to our yard then the lawn tractor and my Ohio steel cart can be utilized. In your case not only are you saving grandpa money your gonna score on some quality stuff.
A hand truck is not without difficulties. They tend to roll over on sloped or uneven terrain... They don’t do well with large diameter rounds... if you need to stop momentarily, you sometimes need to unload a hand truck to prevent a few rounds from falling over,,, With all that said, they make it easy to move long bolts of wood (4-5’ long) that wouldn’t fit well in a wheelbarrow or that you might not be able to lift into one... I use my hand truck in conjunction with a trash barrel to move splits around on occasion... occasionally I’ll dump one over due to high center of gravity but for the most part, it works well...
I feel spoiled, I have 200 ft of cable and pull everything to me. My hats off to you guys lugging rounds on a hand cart. I did that when I was young, and it was a great workout but painfully slow. Whatever works for you! Receiver mounted winch with a warn on the gator????
I drive the gator or the tractor right up to 90% of my wood... im only doing this because it saved gramps $$... trust me im dragging tail leaving today hahahahaha I typically use my tractor with backhoe/hydro thumb to pick up most logs, then buck them down, sometimes right over a trailer or the gators bed... i do firewood easy normally.
