Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Snobdds]

Put the tailgate up and load them nose down. You won't be able to haul as much, but you can still haul.

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

There is a log yard close by. They actually pay slightly better for spruce/fir but I don't use them. For me they are good for hard wood and pine but on spruce/fir their minimum length is 12 footers. The saw mill took 10 footers and up. I can put on 500 bd-ft of 12's and 10's, 30/70 or 40/60 maybe, but if I load just 12's the nose of the truck is in the air in a hurry. It has an 8' bed and the axle is 4'-6" back. A log cut 10'-6" hangs 1 foot over the tail gate. A 12 footer is 3 feet over. If anyone knows how to beat this problem let me know. I don't know much about truck suspensions.

gg

With a trailer?

 

[4570Man]

A trailer would be the simplest option. Stretching the frame would work, but definitely not a project I'd want into. I can haul 16 foot timber no problem on my stretched F-450. Hauling 12 foot stuff on my 8' bed truck had the same problem you're having. Adding a weight box on the front might be an option.

 

[4570Man]

When I'm hauling wood to somewhere besides the sawmill the dump truck is the only practical option. Since the sawmill has a knuckleboom loader to unload a trailer doesn't cause any trouble.

 

[PhysAssist]

I cut another good pile of bigger wood today. The sawmill gives me these logs because there's supposed to be metal in them. Only one log in that dump truck load actually had metal. I've cut loads from them before and only found 2 logs with metal. The last 2 loads had already been through the debarker. That's pretty nice firewood.

I'd love to find a sawmill where they'd give me that deal- they only get really straight logs w/o [many] knots or joints/crotches.

We kinda get the opposite deal- we either get wood from a tree surgeon's log pile, or some of a local logger's cast-offs, good for firewood,but no mill would touch them for lumber, meaning I have all kinds of fun cutting and splitting them trying to get even length and make the knots and joints less problematic.

Oh well, good thing I love a bargain [and a challenge].

Nice looking wood and wood piles!

PS: That sucks Gordo- but the guys have a coupla good ideas there- it all depends on what $ you need and expect to get from the mill.
Best of luck!
PA

 

[4570Man]

I'd love to find a sawmill where they'd give me that deal- they only get really straight logs w/o [many] knots or joints/crotches.

We kinda get the opposite deal- we either get wood from a tree surgeon's log pile, or some of a local logger's cast-offs, good for firewood,but no mill would touch them for lumber, meaning I have all kinds of fun cutting and splitting them trying to get even length and make the knots and joints less problematic.

Oh well, good thing I love a bargain [and a challenge].

Nice looking wood and wood piles!

PS: That sucks Gordo- but the guys have a coupla good ideas there- it all depends on what $ you need and expect to get from the mill.
Best of luck!
PA

Some of the tree guys wood isn't bad. The higher end crews take the logs and that's a less good deal. Here's a load I got from tree guys. The sawmill deal definitely is a good one. Unfortunately I'm limited to about 6 loads a year.

 

[PhysAssist]

Some of the tree guys wood isn't bad. The higher end crews take the logs and that's a less good deal. Here's a load I got from tree guys. The sawmill deal definitely is a good one. Unfortunately I'm limited to about 6 loads a year.

That's a lot nicer than the usual logs we get, but we only get a load every coupla years [& it's just for heating our little log house], so when we need it, we ask for a truckful of whatever they have in the yard as long it's good-burning hardwoods, and because we're not fussy about the straightness or prettiness of it, they do give us a pretty decent discount...

That and the chance to get a plate-full of SWMBO's chocolate chip and/or oatmeal raisin cookies.

[I even offered 'em some of my favorite craft beer ONCE, and they said that if it was all the same to me, they'd prefer the cookies...]

 

[4570Man]

That's a lot nicer than the usual logs we get, but we only get a load every coupla years [& it's just for heating our little log house], so when we need it, we ask for a truckful of whatever they have in the yard as long it's good-burning hardwoods, and because we're not fussy about the straightness or prettiness of it, they do give us a pretty decent discount...

That and the chance to get a plate-full of SWMBO's chocolate chip and/or oatmeal raisin cookies.

[I even offered 'em some of my favorite craft beer ONCE, and they said that if it was all the same to me, they'd prefer the cookies...]

I pick up all the decent logs. Anything they deliver is crap.

 

[PhysAssist]

I pick up all the decent logs. Anything they deliver is crap.

Well, I guess I gotta tell SWMBO we need a bigger truck then... :laughing:

 

[Happy Gilmore]

Loading up a cord for delivery.