Legal Load

[slowp]

Here's what a legal, but tiny load looks like here. That is $2.50 worth of wood.

I bucked off the rootwad first because it looked like a potential candidate for standing up and I wanted the topwood. Come to think of it, this is my first bigger than 12" rootwad buck off. Hmmm. I used a wedge, unrepaired. Note there's yellow paint on butt of tree. That makes it a legal to firewood tree.

Once again, I photoshopped the sun. It was actually dense fog and drizzle.
A perfectly normal day here. Now I must return and get another load.

 

[forestryworks]

thanks for the pics... how does that colorado handle loads?

i was always told midsized pick ups were "underpowered and overpriced",
to quote my local dealer

 

[sILlogger]

so someone has to go through and mark what trees are legal for firewood....and then you have to pay to cut them???:jawdrop:

 

[wildbio]

i was always told midsized pick ups were "underpowered and overpriced",
to quote my local dealer

I don't think the the mid-sized 4.7 liter V8 Dodge Dakota (302hp and 329 ft lb of torque) and 4.0 liter V6 Toyota Tacoma (236 hp and 266 ft lb of torque) could be considered underpowered

 

[Zodiac45]

I don't think the the mid-sized 4.7 liter V8 Dodge Dakota (302hp and 329 ft lb of torque) and 4.0 liter V6 Toyota Tacoma (236 hp and 266 ft lb of torque) could be considered underpowered

Agreed WB,

Plenty of power in those models. Sheesh my old 86' Ranger (Tonto) 2.3L 4cyl 5speed 4x4 long bed does ok. I think it's about 90hp. I don't overload it but I can put on a half cord and it gets it home, albeit sedately.

 

[olyman]

zo----sometimes sedate is best!!!!!!!!!

 

[slowp]

It seems a pretty wimpy pickup to me. It does go up the hill on the highway loaded ok if I get a run. All it is is an S-10 with a different name. Even has the same squeaks. I needed a pickup but wanted good gas mileage too. It gets good gas mileage out on the highway 27 to 29 if you drive around 60. Less going faster. I've been cutting heavy green wood so it can't haul much. I also got the short bed because when I cut wood with the cantankerous Old Sparkless Saw, I got tired out from cutting fast. With the Barbie Saw, I could probably fill a full size pickup ok.

SI logger, yup. Some trees have to be marked. Today, if the snow hasn't come back, I'll go up a road that was just opened for cutting. It is listed on a monthly report handed out and you can cut 100 feet from the road. If the tree you want isn't on that list, somebody (me right now) has to go out and look at it and paint it if it is ok. I bought enough tags for 6 cords, if I had a full size pickup. The price is $5.00 a cord. The tags are for a half cord or in my case, a load. We use woodcutting as a way to keep roads cut open. There's other roads on the list where you can only take what is IN the road--edge to edge.

I'll open up a logged area for firewood also but there isn't much logging going on here and I have to have the loggers block the roads they build so access to the landing piles is non-existant unless they yarded to a main road.

This is the best time of the year to hunt firewood. The winter storms blow down a lot of trees and it takes too much time to put up a timber sale. Then we have time to season the wood too. I'm putting mine in the big shop at the Moneypit. I'll build a woodshed out there one of these days. All that green DF wood sure improves the smell of the building. I also don't have a house or woodstove out there, so I'm cutting the wood in small lengths.