Loaded truck pics.

Snap snap snap !
Cedar is about the noiseeist firewood .

 

How much does a cord of oak weigh ?

 

Nice stacking job. But , That poor truck !

 

.Wish I could like this twice. Once for the Nice load of wood, once for the step stool/ladder.
The only way I climb in my truck is with the tail gate up. Ball , bumper and step over the top of the tail gate.

 

Not much of a loaded truck pic.
Some slab wood I picked up at a local mill here.

 

A throw weight and a hank of throw line. About 100 feet of 7/16" 3 strand. A long coil of 1/8" cable( wire rope, 4 wheeler winch line. ) maybe 300' of it. With eyes spliced in each end. 4 or 6 small pulleys. Arborist pulleys work Great ! 6 spring gate caribiners
And a rope comealong.
Make a miniature hand logging shotgun system.
As long as the wood is up hill from u. Gravity will provide the yarding power.
It will take a little bit of thinking for each setting . But it works.
You will still get plenty of walking exercise. But get more wood to the road.
Make up 4 , 6' long eye to eye rope straps

 

Have you tried a Jet Sled ? Black plastic utility sled. With 7 to 8 months of winter here. Sleds are kinda sorta REAL IMPORTANT to us . even a skiff of snow or even a good moist frost lets them slide pretty good.
My wife's is a Jet Sled Junior and mine is a Kodiak. We use them for all kinds of stuff.

 

At one point I had 4 pickups at the same time that had busted back windows.
Hence the headache rack on my truck now.

 

Yours looks just like mine !

 

Been there, done that! Multiple times

 

More so than Mulberry? I’ve never burned it.

 

I've never burned Mulberry. I thought it was just a bush.

 

Nice flat bed ! Around here a short bed flat bed isn't at all common. Lots of flatbed light duty trucks around here.
I'm debating on wether to build or buy a flatbed for my F350.
I'de like to build it so I can have a 2nd loader's deck over the cab so I can keep the spare up there. And fuel and oil.

 

I haven't weighed a load of oak lately. We cut a load of hickory for a cooking customer. 1/3 cord truck load was HEAVY. It was still green, weighed 2100 Lbs
I know the hickory is heavier than the oak.

 

Sounds intriguing however where I usually end up scrounging is in a national forest and they kind of frown on a lot of rigging in the trees.

 

I have two sleds I use in the winter, a 4-1/2' x 2' Viking sport and a 6' x 3' Otter Magnum sled. I can pull either with the ATV or snowmobile or I can pull them by hand. I guess I could use the smaller sled in non-winter months to haul rounds out (pulling by hand) however I don't think it would last too long in our granite-covered terrain.

 

Cut this red oak at a co-workers house this morning. It was dead standing. Gonna make fine wood.

 

Yes that will. Should split easy. Nice load

 

A great afternoon out cutting a load of oak. Just 3 miles from home. I got permission from the owner of the woods earlier this fall after he had 14 oak trees logged out. Sure would be nice if we’d get some cold weather to get the ground frozen solid for awhile.

 

Wow! Look at all that wood! Hoard on.