Author Topic: a couple loads (Read 2177 times)

treefarmer87 · « **on:** July 30, 2011, 12:34:25 pm »

i took 10 loads this week here are a few. i painted the log body,bumper and wheels on the international yesterday

Autocar · « **Reply #1 on:** July 30, 2011, 01:19:15 pm »

Looking Good your on the right track

treefarmer87 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 30, 2011, 01:50:38 pm »

thanks, i have a couple acres of poplar and pine to cut. then i have to move about 30 mi. to a nice 2 acre tract of grade timber

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #3 on:** July 30, 2011, 04:02:38 pm »

Making them loads, one stick at a time.

I remember dad cutting a tandem load of aspen a day with a tree farmer and loading by tractor at days end. 100" 10 cords a load. It was rather big aspen and he ended up cutting 300 cords off ten acres in winter just after Christmas. End of Feb that year we was in Fl.

treefarmer87 · « **Reply #4 on:** July 30, 2011, 06:14:59 pm »

those were the good ol' days. i wish wood was like that here today

Buck · « **Reply #5 on:** July 31, 2011, 08:51:57 am »

Tf87, hows that truck now you got to run it? All what you expected?

treefarmer87 · « **Reply #6 on:** July 31, 2011, 05:22:56 pm »

it does great, it hauls 2000 bf no problem. it gets better fuel mileage than my c 65 and topkick too. heres a pic after i painted it

Bobus2003 · « **Reply #7 on:** July 31, 2011, 05:54:47 pm »

Pretty good lookin older rig.. treat it well and she should do you well for many years

treefarmer87 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 31, 2011, 06:05:53 pm »

i believe it will, i like it, it only has 81,000 mi

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #9 on:** July 31, 2011, 06:57:39 pm »

Just broke in good at that mileage.

Ohio_Bill · « **Reply #10 on:** July 31, 2011, 10:54:59 pm »

Treefarmer 87, nice truck. I just hauled my first load of logs on mine this week, only 1600 bf of Poplar. I have a lot of weight form the 20 ft flatbed, but I use the truck to haul lumber and ties so the flat bed needs to stay. My truck has a 6.6 so its not a power house but does ok .26000 GVW . I can take the bunks off in 15 min and convert back to a flatbed .

treefarmer87 · « **Reply #11 on:** July 31, 2011, 11:33:19 pm »

thanks, you have a nice one yourself. that is a really nice log body.

treefarmer87 · « **Reply #12 on:** August 01, 2011, 10:05:30 pm »

HERE IS ONE FROM TODAY

smwwoody · « **Reply #13 on:** August 01, 2011, 10:20:03 pm »

TF 87

Those logs are all ready lumber loaded on the truck and leaving for Vaughn Bassett Furniture at 3:00am

Woody

treefarmer87 · « **Reply #14 on:** August 01, 2011, 10:56:05 pm »

that was fast,

i got a load of white oak like that for you in the mornin

semologger · « **Reply #15 on:** August 02, 2011, 10:50:43 pm »

I have an older ford 700 2 ton with a 24 foot flat bed on it. we put a set of bunks on it to haul out of the woods 5 miles to the mill. the only thing i dont like about the old truck is i can make 3 skids and truck is loaded. i only put 22 logs on the last load. have some nice wood. nice trucks guys

grassfed · « **Reply #16 on:** August 03, 2011, 07:39:51 am »

So here is my truck.

I need to build some better bunks. It is 25k empty and is 51Kgvw. (38Krears) With the slide in posts I can get about 1.8mbf. I figure 10 tons is about what I should shoot for but I don't know since the axle is pretty far forward I have been selling a load or two a week of these Fir logs to a local sawmill that is only 5 mi away on dirt roads. the truck is registered AG use and I haul about 500 round bales a year.The loader is great for loading and stacking bales.

sandhills · « **Reply #17 on:** August 03, 2011, 12:09:07 pm »

grassfed, I was wondering if anybody used the loaders for hay too. Awhile back someone had a prentice loader for sale and I kept thinking that would work really good for hay hauling too, wouldn't take much of a switch to the bed to go from hay to logs, I'd be loading big rounds, what do you haul?

grassfed · « **Reply #18 on:** August 03, 2011, 01:41:24 pm »

I haul 4x4 to 4.5x4 rounds. The truck has a 19 foot bed and I carry 2x4 on the bottom and 2x3 on top for 14 per load. If the bales are within reach I can load and unload and stack faster than with a tractor.

treefarmer87 · « **Reply #19 on:** August 03, 2011, 07:15:54 pm »

nice truck grassfed

ChuckinVa · « **Reply #20 on:** August 03, 2011, 08:20:34 pm »

Hey treefarmer87. I thought I saw your new to you truck with a load on 29S yesterday about 7:00 Pm near Lovingston. I was headed back from Farmville via 460 to 60 to 29. Was that you?

CX3 · « **Reply #21 on:** August 05, 2011, 08:58:27 am »

Grassfed please re-work those pipe bunks on your truck. You have a nice rig there you shouldnt take a chance on that load of logs crashing down on you from a cheap piece of pipe breaking. Dont wait another day thats how men get hurt

treefarmer87 · « **Reply #22 on:** August 05, 2011, 09:50:08 am »

ChuckinVa, no it wasnt me. i dont travel that far i stay around here mostly. a lot of guys have the internationals though

paul case · « **Reply #23 on:** August 12, 2011, 02:09:02 pm »

those are some nice looking loads of logs that you fellas are cutting. any sawyer with a brain would be happy to buy loads like those from ya. good job. pc

treefarmer87 · « **Reply #24 on:** August 12, 2011, 05:09:34 pm »

THANKS

smwwoody · « **Reply #25 on:** August 13, 2011, 01:32:38 pm »

I have been buying as many of his loads as our current over stock of inventory will allow

paul case · « **Reply #26 on:** August 13, 2011, 04:57:00 pm »

you a lucky man woody. pc

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