Got a load of Limb wood Tuesday. Maple and locust mix. Buddy calls me up and says, I have a dump trailer load of wood, already cut up, laying where you can just pull up beside it with my trailer, do I want it. Foolish question, of course I want it. So I hook up my trailer and ask my brother to go with e to help load it. Brother had a 16ft 4x6 close by and I told him we could tie it on top of the wood to get it home. everything was going perfect until,,,, We drive up to the wood and say oh crap. If this was lib wood, I would hate to see the size of tree they came off of. Some 20-24 in dia. We had nothing to roll rounds up with so brother and I got on each end of a round and hoisted onto the trailer. To make things worse, My trailer sides are 2ft high. I made them that way because a 6x10 trailer load stacked 2ft high is right at a full cord. This isnt a problem loading logs with a loader, or stacking splits, but those side boards strike me right at chest high which meant we had to hoist those big rounds almost head high to get them in the trailer. Made for a good work out. Today, just a few min ago, sae buddy calls and ask if I wanted the rest of the wood that hadnt been bucked yet. I ask him if there isnt a tractor or something with a forks we can just load in log length instead of picking all those heavy pieces up by hand. Sure he says, they have a trackhoe with thumb in the shed. Now you tell me!!. Look I said, just buck the logs into 10ft lenghts so they fit on the trailer and let use the trackhoe to load those logs in the bed. I can buck them up when I get them home. It will save you climbing on the log pile bucking rounds and save me a lot of lifting loading on the trailer. He liked that ideal, so this evening I should pickup about a cord of maple and locust, and maybe I will remember to take a pic or two. Oh, I also want to see the trees those limbs came off of, must of been a duzzey.
