Nice 1st load of the season ! Trailer & truck squatting pretty good (headlight pointing to the moon ) You're the "Don't mind the mule, load the wagon" type !! tad over 1.75 cord CSS ( we'll know more in about month )
Yep if it all goes in a spot to measure it. But I think it's going down my fence line so it will be easy. I stack about 4 to 5ft tall and however long it will go I guess? The guy joked and asked if I wanted him to put a few sticks in the back of the truck, I said no I think I have enough!
LOL Much more..... You'd have to lean left & right for steering Maybe a rack on the front bumper for a log or 2
Nicely done clemsonfor .... Great start to the season.... It's always nice to have the inside track........ Knowledge is half the battle...
I would say you have about 2 cord there, or about 9000 pounds; and here is how I devised my answer. You have about 20 logs, about 12" in diameter on the small end and about 8 feet long. One or two are longer, but you also have some smaller diameter logs. Ultimately it scales to about 1000 board feet. A thousand board feet is about 2 cords of wood, and two cords of hardwood green is 4500 pounds to the cord, thus 9000 pounds overall. Now with anything we must ask, does this make sense? Here again it makes sense from a different standpoint. My bulldozer weighs 10,200 pounds and I know it is too much for a landscape trailer to move that typically are rated at 10,000 pounds. Like my bulldozer, it seems your load is about maxing out the truck and trailer, so that is my guess and why. (Just for fun, not trying to be a know it all, just explaining how I derived my guess).
You may be right; you gain a bit from splitting wood and that 4500 pounds per cord is based on mixed hardwood going to a paper mill (they pay us in pounds not cords). With the load being oak, it would weigh more too...so you might get that chicken dinner. Being a sheep farmer I love lamb anyway!
By the way, just noticed you're new here, welcome LodgedTree . You are close enough I can call you neighbor. Nice dozer!
About 1.8 cords and you are way overloaded. Yep, safety police just arrived, this party is shut down now.
I like your answer, as a forester. Ha I don't put that much thought in it even though I am one though. We sell so little hardwood I don't even know much about it, other than normal stuff. And with even pine we talk in tons now a days. But I like it. And that trailer is over max it's a 7000lb trailer.
Hey LodgedTree welcome, guess I missed you signing on-You're gonna like it here, I guarantee it-And FWIW, I thought your rationale above for the load was spot on---And it appears you're a fit from the get go-although you may be real close to the cordage, I'm getting the chicken dinner NH mountain man
Yea I meant to say welcome Lodged tree. I didn't recognize the the name and looked and saw your new. So welcome.
We might be closer neighbors than you think, we have a house in Lisbon NH as well. The wife and I got married in North Haverhill...
Yes sir, I was in Haverhill not long ago." Closer than you think", My wife and I both have family spread out thru Maine.
I didn't miss ya-just saw I where I welcomed you on your retirement post-God bless you-must be my "oldstimers" and I'm just past 50...anywho, you've found yourself another home and we welcome you...lots of really good peeps here with hearts of gold and lots of knowledge and bullchit too! Watch out for that Eric VW - he's a rascal you take with a grain of salt...good at getting others to work and pretty handy with a camera...
