Well, I've been putting it off thinking I would somehow get time and energy. Neither seemed to be happening so I took a day off work to get a load. Dry white spruce. Didn't even have to go out in the woods to get it. The 3/4 ton handled it pretty good. Used the Husky 455 20" to do the bucking. I've gotta get it figured out how it likes to start in warm weather. Had to do a bunch of pulling a couple times. Then I just let it idle for a while between cuts and loading. I HATE having a saw idle for a long time. Sounds like someone got hurt. I can tell that I'm out of shape. Took me 2 hrs to buck and load. I bucked them @ 9' length to get 6, 18" rounds . It went to a friends house. I prefer to Not burn spruce if I can get poplar. Which I can.
If you are the one who lifted those logs into your Pickup then my hat is off to you. That is a nice load you got there.
Bark flecks off and gets in the carpet. Too many limbs and knots. TOO MANY LIMBS!! Burns up too fast . Doesn't leave a good bed of coals. And , I think that from being a faller and climber for as long as I was. And mostly falling Or taking down conifers. My respiratory system got overdosed with dust. Now when I cut them the dust kinda chocks me up. I seldom get that with poplar or other hardwoods. 2 main reasons I don't like spruce . #1 Too many limbs . #2 Doesn't leave a good bed of coals.
Well done! I don’t think I could have loaded that by myself. I burn a bit of spruce as I have a lot of it and feel the same way you do
One thing I was very impressed with was the new headache rack I got last winter. I have several pickups with busted rear cab windows. Most from firewood. On this forum I see lots of pickups loaded with firewood. Most with a back window just inches away from the load of wood in the bed. It was very reassuring having a window protector. I need to weld on some taller side stakes with top rail. That way I can put more wood on. . Anyway. Its something to think about. I really prefer a flatbed for hauling wood . But, If I have to use a pickup bed I want a rack on it.
Got another load today. This one is part of a trade for a set of 4 MattTracks Lite Foot tracks for my 4 wheeler. 2 were put on a 4 whlr and driven around for about 1/2 mile. Then taken off because he didn't like them. The other 2 have never been on anything other than the shipping pallet. And they come with a spare brand new track. Pretty good trade for 10 cord of wood imho. It was HOT today and humid. Had to enforce rest breaks on myself when loading and unloading. Somewhere in the 90 s out in the sun. Which I was. For a guy that really doesn't mind 30 below at all. And can work all day out in 45 below. 90 above just ain't right!!! I live in Alaska for a reason !! I should have snapped a pic but didn't.
I award you the Viking award 1st class for outstanding work in during blazing temperatures. Well done! BB
Not for the Interior on a hot sunny summer day. Last summer the highest temp I noticed on the thermometer read out in the mirror of the Kenworth I was driving was 97 or 98 . In dappled sun light. ( partly shaded by trees. One summer in Hoonah I was carpentering on the pier @ Icy Strait Point and the thermometer said 103°F. In the sun. Since I was out in the sun, getting hit with the sun from both above and below, reflecting off the water. I figure I was working on 103° heat. Since the coldest I've worked outside in was 106,107 ° below F. Windchill. -65°F ambient with a fair wind blowing. I can say I've worked thru 210° F temp variation. Not boasting , just sayin. Thank you for the award
Got out a cord of mostly poplar today. My wife came with with her pu Dodge Dakota . I cut a load of stove length that she brought home. Then I got almost 3/4 cord to my track trade deal. Another very warm day . But it was breezy with a bit of overcast. So it wasn't as bad as the last 2 cord I put out. My hope / thot is , having the tracks on my 650 Arctic Cat will make it more of an Arctic cat. I can build the sled runners for my woods trailer and get out wood all winter. Then I won't be busting my hump in the heat or during hunting season.
Be sure to let us know how they work for you Cold Trigger Finger They're pricey, and I've never known anyone who's tried them out.
You bet. They lower the center of gravity while raising the machine up quite a bit . Win win. They do slow the top speed down some, as they are in escense lower geared. But provide good flotation! I'm quite excited!!!
Brought home another load in the Dakota this afternoon. My truck driver. Not a half cord. But more than what we had at home this morning. Unloaded and bucked it to stove length . So this week I need to split it and put it in the shed. One trailer load equals 1 Dakota load.
Birch? Looks like your truck driver is getting all the attention from the pups. Nice quad and trailer as well.
I like your truck! The red paint and the white birch make a pretty picture. Does it have rear seats? I would gladly do without rear seats and have a longer truck bed, for my ideal truck. Not much traffic up there eh? Lollygagging in the middle of the road.
