How much should a full log truck cost?

I usually try & fill the shed I built around my OWB. & then just cut off the pile to feed the stove as long as the weather permits. Gets to be a bit of a pain once the snow starts ( wet wood, wet gloves, cold hands etc.)

 

Tri axle around hear yields 7-8 cord of wood depending on the diameter. $750.00 a load

 

Hmmmmmm, wonder what it would cost to get a load like that to Indiana??? That is some nice cutting on that load! I would be the guy to get the dirtiest nastiest logs.

 

sounds like you need a bigger shed

 

If you haven’t gotten log loads before it is good to be there to ask the driver to spread the wood out instead of unloading in a tall pile. safer when cutting. I have gotten deliveries from a couple outfits some seem to think more about the guy cutting than others. The pic in my sig. is the last load I got 1 year ago it was 950$ in new Hampshire

 

How many cord did you get out of that load?
Hard to tell the size of the logs in the pic

 

I really don’t know I split it(pun intended). With my bud. He takes it as we split and fills his shed witch holds 4 cord. I get ther rest so I hope it’s around 8

 

This is the best load I have gotten stacked well on the truck and the diameter is workable. The other outfit usually puts the good looking stuff on top and a couple big knotty beasts in the middle

 

OWB will take up to a 44 inch long piece of wood. My splitter will do up to a 28 inch piece. My plan would be to cut 28 inch lengths and split in half for seasoning. Anything 8 inches or under, I'll cut in 40 inch lengths. Back side of the barn is all afternoon sun, so they can stay out til next fall in the sun and wind, before stacking inside the machine shed for the long haul.
As they say, the way you eat an elephant is one bite at a time- I can knock out a couple of cords at a time, and eventually it'll all be done.

 

Good plan!

Those 28" long splits sound heavy!

 

Depending on diameter, they very well might be. Depending on how strong I'm feeling that day, I may be bucking a bit (or a lot) shorter, haha! At the same time, If I roll the splits onto the utility trailer and back the trailer right up to the splitter, it's just rolling them off and standing them up for vertical splitting (right, Backwoods Savage?). Again, it may just be easier to buck in standard lengths. I tend to overthink...

 

I definitely do!

 

I went vertical last week on a few 18" oak rounds.
Busted them into quarters...then back to horizontal...

 

He only sells clean, straight, smaller diameter wood. Anything over 12-14” he keeps for himself. Unless someone orders larger wood.

 

I may be a slow learner...

 

I just opened an ad on CL saying that about 5 cord of mixed woods is 500, straight Alder is 600 and all black locust is 750. Some trucks are showing 1600 but the load is in upwards of 10-20 cords. Different ads though.