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We take all hardwood logs right down to 9 10 inch and the rest of those trees go into pulp. Only smaller stuff goes into tree length. Dif elsewhere??? Up here hardwood pulp still pays pretty good and you don't chase your $
 
How do you get 9 cords on a tri-axle?, that's got to be a really heavy duty truck!

I get 5.5 cords of firewood on my tri axle dump and that's pretty near the GVWR of 50k.

We load about 9 cords that on a 5 axle setup, 80k GVWR... tri axle truck and dual axle trailer... log reach/stinger (whatever you want to call it) setup, like this put with a self loader...

WLC3.jpg
 
How do you get 9 cords on a tri-axle?, that's got to be a really heavy duty truck!

I get 5.5 cords of firewood on my tri axle dump and that's pretty near the GVWR of 50k.

We load about 9 cords that on a 5 axle setup, 80k GVWR... tri axle truck and dual axle trailer... log reach/stinger (whatever you want to call it) setup, like this put with a self loader...

WLC3.jpg
pretty sure they can tag for alot of weight there. there are no self loaders around here because you can't tag it for enough here. 80,000 is all you can put on a semi here no matter how many axles.
 
If that were all hardwood, I would pay good money for it. Stuff like that usually gets snapped up by major firewood producers with big processors (not if it's poplar though!). My niche tends to be the stuff that's a bit bigger/knottier since most processor guys don;t want stuff over 13".
 
I think Maine is a lot like where i live in michigan. Timber doesn't grow very big here. Short growing season, poor soils etc. Most of our stands are managed with a max stem diameter of 20-24 inches. Average diameter is a lot less than that. Optimum diameter/quality is supposed to be around 16-18 inch, then quality drops off pretty quickly.
 
image.jpg This tri axle when loaded head 4300 board feet of oak logs on it. That is over 8 cord. Is that not how you guys haul logs??? Never seen it different up here in maine unless someone got a trailer set up. Then your talkin 6 thousand board feet
 

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