Hey guys. Got questioned about buying dry fir. 16’ 6-12”logs. Come out to be 1100$ a load delivered to my wood yard. Driver thought he couldn’t make weight with how dry it is. So he should be able to go pretty high. No scales no highway. Just gravel to my hOuse. Curious to see what you guys think for cordage will be on the load. I honestly don’t know. It’s a mule train. I think some were around 12-14. I sell for 250$ a cord here. And always sell out early. Trying to see if it pencils.
Welcome to the forum EOTrapper. Your state must require a certain weight for firewood. I think that is rare and wrong. A cord of wood is the proper way to go with firewood. On the other hand, it sounds like you will get some dry wood which is a huge plus!
My dad made me this splitter after retiring last winter. Has log lift. 4 way adjustable. And a 26 inch stroke. I’d like to put more pics on here. But I keep getting some security warning.
That’s a great looking splitter! Hat’s off to your dad! Depending on what you’re using to upload pics (PC, phone) you may have to resize your pics… I upload from an iPhone and never get the security message.
A short logger will go 6 - 8ish cord. A long logger will go 8 - 10ish cord. Good solid loads after CCS. If a mule train or hay rack can get you 12 - 14 either that load is way over anything road legal or someone has an extra long thumb when they’re measuring and advertising their cords. There will almost always be huge gaps in the load on a short logger, no way around that when loading match sticks, tops and pistol butts. Oregon does not use or require weight as a measurement for firewood. Legal cord is dimensional measurements, per Weights and Measures and the AG dept. The only time weight will affect the load is if it’s green heavy wood and that weight limits the load and causes low volume. Owl
That security error is typically too large of a file when I get it. If it's something I really want to post, I have to go in and crop it a bit. That almost always resolves the issue. So for the pic above, edit it and crop the black portions out. Nice splitter. Hope you can post more pics of it.
Not enough information. All we know is that we're dealing with 16' long logs, 6-12" diameter. How tall? If he loads to the top of the bunks like normal and these short logs are 16' instead of the normal 40' length then I can compare to my last log tuck load that made just over 10 cords from a normal sized log truck. 16/40 is 40% so a log truck load of 16' logs should only get you 4 cords. For 1100$ can't you get 40' logs?
