Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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I worked as a construction laborer during the summers in high school. We were pouring concrete down forms encasing steel structure beams one Friday afternoon. We were working on the 5th story of a scaffold, and pulling wheelbarrows loaded with concrete up to our level with a little gas powered winch. We had looped readi-rod to form a hanger for the wheelbarrows. We then wheeled around the outside of the building bouncing up or down over the planks that made the walkway on the scaffold. Near 5:00 our foreman climbed up to tell us we had to wheel faster, he didn't want to pay OT and he grabbed the next wheelbarrow and took off around the building with it at a higher rate of speed than we were pushing. He hit a bump up plank at a corner and dumped his whole load down the brick wall of the building almost a whole 5 story splatter. He turned around to the nearest of us laborers and said: "couple of you boys get a hose up here quick and clean that off". Then he climbed down and went into his trailer office and we didn't see him again for the rest of the day. Wheeling concrete on a scaffold with overlapping planks is not a race. And as a skinny high school kid, the load probably out-weighed me. There was more technique than brute strength involved. I still wheel, mostly mulch, with a commercial Jackson, but tractor pull my firewood.
It's yours if you want it, Tex! I'll dig it out of the returnables and send it to you. PM address.
I second that!is delivery extra??
Had some afternoon left after the bosses Dr appointment. Figured I better get started on this oak pile.
I'm just about to buy one of these for shifting logs. The problem I can see is that short logs will fall through the frame. Might have to add a plywood base to it.
https://thehandy.co.uk/product/log-cart-with-cover/
Yep, pram!
That handy cart looks good, sized to go through doorways I think, and the big wheels will help with steps, if the path to the wood pile doesn't dirty the wheels then the cart goes right to beside the stove I imagine.
I used to deliver wood to an older lady that had one similar. Her's had bicycle type tires on it. I would load it up and take it in for her to her stove. Had to go up a few steps but it rolled right up.
is delivery extra??
Tell you guys what, I'll only charge you guys for fuel. The excursion should get about the same loaded with firewood as with the tractor on the trailer, on our way home yesterday I filled the truck and reset the lie-o-meter, when we got home it said 8.3mpg, so probably closer to 8mpg or less. You do that math lol.
I know I spent around 200 in fuel between filling the truck and the tractor on Tuesday and Wednesday.
I'd like to build a wheelbarrow/ wood hauler with either spare tires(would need the hubs) or a set of motorcycle wheels(just need the proper sized axle). I think it would roll super easy with the tall tires and it would go over larger obstacles like a champ.
Mountian bike wheels and tires!
Once so farBummer about your phone.
Mines pretty trashed now too, forgot it was in my back pocket, good thing is was a cheapy and just so I could try out the service to see if I liked it before switching
That pup trailer looks pretty sketchy with that converter dolly setup, how often do they roll over.
I like the motorized wood locating tool.
Boss was driving. Might have been little overloaded, he had a hard time getting the logs to fit on a full size self loader truck later. Then he got stuck going over a mountain with self loader, those logs didn’t want to leave the woods, lol. 
He is a little on fast and wild side, been a few times going down hills around corners he said jake turned off because inside drive tires on truck came off the ground 
The last of what I had bucked and split. 
I had to buck some more while the wife wasn't home. Shhhh... She doesn't like that, so don't tell her.
I had to buck some more while the wife wasn't home. Shhhh... She doesn't like that, so don't tell her.
Your secret is safe with us!!
Maybe with you, he’s gotta bribe the rest of us.
Too right! A 'barrow load of cherry should do it.
Got a pic of that poplar before I dumped it. 
Neighbor just texted and said he took down a big dead pine. Would I like the logs delivered? Of course! Just dump them on any pile I have going. 
Awesome!Neighbor just texted and said he took down a big dead pine. Would I like the logs delivered? Of course! Just dump them on any pile I have going.
When you get on a roll, you gotta keep it going.
Well except like Nate's boss
.I find that as no surprise, top heavy load, on hills, angles multiplied because of the converter dolly, and a huge spread between the axles, sure, that will work out wellOnce so far
. I do get the purpose, not like it's easy to get them around on sites, and then you have axle weights to consider, just seems like there should be a safer way.Funny the dog is just hanging out in the snow
.I was a bit concerned about getting out of the site I was just on. It's right on the lakeshore which many times means a large hill either right before you get to the lakeshore, or just back a ways. This one was back a ways, down a one lane private drive that serves about 20 homes. When I drove in with the excursion and trailer with the tractor on it, it's a good thing I took it very slow as it was solid ice on a steep hill with nowhere to go, had I not been able to let off the brakes to keep traction on the steers I would have been in the trees. Nothing like you guys have out there for drops off the side, but those trees do a lot of damage even at 10mph with the tractor and trailer skidding behind. When I came home Tuesday I left the T&T there and I was just able to get out with the truck, I left early as I knew it would probably freeze back up since it was in the shade and there was snow above it and the cool air coming off it could refreeze it pretty quick(happens here at our place a lot). I made it out okay, but I hit it pretty fast for a one lane rd with a blind turn, especially considering if someone else came down they would have had nowhere to go
. I could just see having to stop on the hill and after watching someone else smash into me or a tree, my whole rig sledding backwards into the trees
. Glad no-one was there .Looks like in the pic with the dog that your boss slid backwards
, that could be real bad out there, can't make it up the hill means you also can't stop it from going down the hill. I used to run up north of here on a road that had a long steep grade(what I call a "Michigan mountain" lol), and at the bottom was a curve. I'd be fully loaded running 160k and hit the hill at 60-65 depending on what I could take the turn at/rd conditions, at the top I would only be running 15-20mph. I told a friend of mine, that if I lost traction I would set the parking brake and jump out with my stuff(I always stopped at the gas station just before the hill if the rd was bad), he said no you wouldn't, yes I would .@Lionsfan knows the hill, m-37 just north of m115, now it's straightened out and the grade has been dramatically reduced.
Don't you be hiding any of that pine in my cherry 'barrow!
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