Illegal loggers at the sawmill. Just curious how they are getting away with it

[matthew sparks]

Well if I hooked a trailer to a 3/4 ton i just wondered what I was allowed to haul. Sawmill is 3 miles away but I would probably get popped the first load out. The sawmill does not buy at landing.

 

[northmanlogging]

Contact your local DMV, could be that 16k is all you can haul without buying tonnage, and placing the GVW stickers on your truck. Tonnage isn't real bad until you start going up in weight, every state is different though. If I remember correctly a years tonnage on the dump truck was only like 500.

Other wise it comes down to what you feel comfortable stopping with a 3/4 ton truck, pulling isn't the issue, like so many believe its stopping that gets people hurt.

 

[matthew sparks]

Electric breaks is my number one idea of stopping. I have hauled 24 ft boats full of fish as a commercial fisherman. I have bent some axles but never had trouble stopping.

 

[CRThomas]

Sparks when I started all I heard was in these hill Billy's was hey man if you don't burn Oak there is some wronge with like stupid. They still think the same way and I still sell my Ash. If you going to sell bundled firewood you have to think it's for looks so you go where the customers are stay away from low end of town they buy it by the truck load. When I started I thought I had messed up. But as time went on I became the bundled firewood man with the dry wood. I pickup a good bunch of jobs cleaning up broken limbs a plugged up drain walking the dog take out the trash. I can pick my jobs now because it's just me and my wife she do the paper work I do the dumb part. Paducah has a money end of town start there. Get one store in the money end of town with a lot of traffic keep it full and watch it grow. It don't happen over night. All ways have your truck bed full my grand daughter sold 20 bundles waitin on me to eat breakfast. Could have sold more but that's all we had. All ways got my chain saw and equipment with me. Later