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Another day, another dollar.
Firewood the easy way...
Firewood the easy way...
Load of Oak
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Slamm
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What will that load scale out to?
Sam
Sam
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I would guess it will scale out around 2900 - 3100 feet. He's well overweight there..he weighed almost 90,000 with about 3800 feet of oak from my previous lot.
Yes, all cut with a 372 and a 357.
Yes, all cut with a 372 and a 357.
gsg
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Have you found any tires with good tread that will last on your f-550? Mine seems to eat them up quick!!
Oldtimer
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The F550s seem to eat tires like candy. It's just a part of ownership I guess.
I just bought 2 tires from Stratham Tire.
They recap tires with their own tread pattern, and this one is a super aggressive "old fashioned" snow tread.
These cost me $442 mounted and balanced. But they can re-cap your good carcass for $70 less per tire, so I think it's a pretty good deal.
The inside one is already cupping with under 2K miles on it...
gsg
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Those do look like good treads. I hear you about the 2k cupping tho. How has you luck been with the re-caps? I've skinned a couple in the past.
The woods are hard on tires. That's just a natural fact. I think I've been through 3 sets of Firestones on my work rig in the last 2 years. They never get worn out enough to drive funny when I put a new one on there. I always end up cutting the sidewall or something.
chaikwa
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What's NH allowing now with an overweight permit? When I was running my tri-axle there I think the most I could legally gross was 72,000. I was working my truck for the Hoyt boys down in Plaistow tho, so I was regularly crossing the scales at 130,000. The truck was built for it but NHDOT still didn't like it!
What's oak going for out there right now? The last time I checked with my forester here in MI he told me it wasn't paying enough here to even go out in the woods and saw any of it.
bitzer
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Around here (WI) we get about 98k on a truck and pup which amounts to about 4500-5000bf. About 80k on a flatbed. The road restrictions came off quickly this year.
That wood looks nice and straight and fits together pretty tight! My guess was 3mbf. I've hauled a few loads of firewood with a dump trailer and a dumper just like that. Kind of a pain to unhook and dump and re-hook, but whatever works.
Is there maple on there too?
That wood looks nice and straight and fits together pretty tight! My guess was 3mbf. I've hauled a few loads of firewood with a dump trailer and a dumper just like that. Kind of a pain to unhook and dump and re-hook, but whatever works.
Is there maple on there too?
Oldtimer
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So far so good with the recapped snows.
Don't hold me to it, but I think the DOT legal max GVW of a triaxle is around 76K here in NH. I don't think they will issue an over-weight permit to haul wood. Delivered in to the yard, the Oak is $275 for pallet, $360 for #1 sawlog, $460 for select sawlog, $560 for Prime sawlog, $800 for #2 veneer, $900 for #1 veneer, $1,000 for select veneer, and $1,300 for prime veneer.
This load scaled 3,190', and paid a total of $1,166.53.oo. It had 4 soft maples, and one yellow Birch. That makes an average of $365 per thousand. Not too bad, considering this wood wasn't all that great. Lots of mineral stain, bird peck, and some spider rot too.
Don't hold me to it, but I think the DOT legal max GVW of a triaxle is around 76K here in NH. I don't think they will issue an over-weight permit to haul wood. Delivered in to the yard, the Oak is $275 for pallet, $360 for #1 sawlog, $460 for select sawlog, $560 for Prime sawlog, $800 for #2 veneer, $900 for #1 veneer, $1,000 for select veneer, and $1,300 for prime veneer.
This load scaled 3,190', and paid a total of $1,166.53.oo. It had 4 soft maples, and one yellow Birch. That makes an average of $365 per thousand. Not too bad, considering this wood wasn't all that great. Lots of mineral stain, bird peck, and some spider rot too.
mingo
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In Massachusetts with an overwieght permit I'm legal for77,ooo on a triaxle plus another 5% if your not running over a scale which brings it to 80,850. They go by the bridge formula when charging for the permit with my long wheel base I pay $750. Triaxle dump trucks with shorter wheel bases pay $1000
chaikwa
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Thanks for the info. I'm working on a timber sale here on my property and was curious.
I remember those days well. I'm kinda glad I'm not running trucks anymore. Between the fees and the idiots on the roads, it's just not any fun anymore. Thanks for the info!
