So do you think I can haul a cord?

[alderman]

Got a call for some firewood I had for sale. Gal showed up in a little Ford Ranger and asked with all sincerity, "Do you think I can haul a cord?" I had to laugh and then showed her what a cord of wood looked like. She wisely decided to make three trips. I'm still wondering what would have happend if I would have told her, "You sure can get a cord on that truck."

 

[RatchetJaw]

hehehe

WOW well she wouldnt have gotten very far before crashing or getting nailed by the police.:notrolls2:

 

[treemandan]

Got a call for some firewood I had for sale. Gal showed up in a little Ford Ranger and asked with all sincerity, "Do you think I can haul a cord?" I had to laugh and then showed her what a cord of wood looked like. She wisely decided to make three trips. I'm still wondering what would have happend if I would have told her, "You sure can get a cord on that truck."

In all sincerity you CAN get that much wood on trucks like that. Once you are done getting it on you have yourself , in bare essence, a real tree truck. I mean that's all you see, a little truck, a whole lot of tree.
Does anyone know how to put regular pics online? I used a 4x8 light duty trailer awhile ago for limbs. The stake sides were 16 foot 2x4. It really was easy and quite and cheap. I could stack almost to infinty and then tie to a tree to unload. I unloaded the whole thing, right off a freaking cliff trailer and all, when I got my very first whisper AND let me tell you what a piece of crap that was.
Yeah that's was 16 feet of brush stacked and cinched tight each dam trip.

 

[ShoerFast]

If you stack every stick, stake-stack the sides, you can get a 1/2 cord in a Ranger. The headlights aim a little hi, you would not want to go far or hi-way speed that way.

I do want to get me one of these! link:

 

[Nailsbeats]

Sounds like a recipe for disastrous fun. I'll walk though.

 

[Ductape]

Was she hot ?????

I'm thinking this is why you had her come back three times !

 

[alderman]

I don't know how hot she was----

but she had a wad of cash!!!

 

[KRS]

What do you get for a cord in your neck of the woods?

 

[alderman]

Well----

If I'd told her her pickup would haul a cord I'd have been looking at about $525 per cord. In reality I'm charging $175 but up the road in the city of Portland its going from $200 to $275.

 

[Wood Doctor]

If you stack every stick, stake-stack the sides, you can get a 1/2 cord in a Ranger. The headlights aim a little hi, you would not want to go far or hi-way speed that way.

+1! My avatar is a '97 Ford Ranger. The racks allow it to carry 75 cubic feet of small logs and split wood, mounded safely as shown. Without the racks, 1/2 cord is about the limit.

 

[clawmute]

In the forest products industry of which I'm a part we use 5000 lbs as an avg rule of thumb wt. per cord of wood. Thats a good load on any truck.

 

[woodbooga]

No rails on my '00 Ranger with no rails. 1/3 a cord is about what I do in a trip unless I'm real close to home.

 

[sdaly]

Got a call for some firewood I had for sale. Gal showed up in a little Ford Ranger and asked with all sincerity, "Do you think I can haul a cord?" I had to laugh and then showed her what a cord of wood looked like. She wisely decided to make three trips. I'm still wondering what would have happend if I would have told her, "You sure can get a cord on that truck."

Been there too. I usually sell face cords around here, which I always have to explain is a 8'x4' stack of 16" split firewood and I'd get people showing up with little toyota tundras and such. They never seem to believe me when I say it won't fit. Now I make sure to tell them ahead of time on the phone to either bring a full size truck or a trailer. I try to refrain from laughing when they say they have a toyota and ask if that will work.

 

[ShoerFast]

Been there too. I usually sell face cords around here, which I always have to explain is a 8'x4' stack of 16" split firewood and I'd get people showing up with little toyota tundras and such. They never seem to believe me when I say it won't fit. Now I make sure to tell them ahead of time on the phone to either bring a full size truck or a trailer. I try to refrain from laughing when they say they have a toyota and ask if that will work.

A 1/3 cord is a good fit in a Tacoma, stacked.

I sold a 1/4 cord to some people with PT Cruzer once,,, but could not stick around to see them haul it, or find out how many trips it took.

The trusting sort, there money was in a coffee can right were we agreed, I gotta see this next time!

 

[Wood Doctor]

No rails on my '00 Ranger with no rails. 1/3 a cord is about what I do in a trip unless I'm real close to home.

I tend to overload her. However, I'm also running on 265 Bridgestone tires at 45 psi. The racks, the big tires, and the 4.0L V-6 make it possible to exceed 1/2 cord. I seldom carry that load over 15 miles one way. But, she can do it if I talked to her once in awhile. I carried this load to a customer 37 miles:

 

[Crofter]

Wood Doctor, like the nice rack!

 

[cityevader]

In the forest products industry of which I'm a part we use 5000 lbs as an avg rule of thumb wt. per cord of wood. Thats a good load on any truck.

I'm assuming that is a green cord? That's based on my recent near cord of just-cut White Oak, compared to how it felt with a measured load of concrete rubble. Any figures on what a dry cord would weigh?

 

[Wood Doctor]

I'm assuming that is a green cord? That's based on my recent near cord of just-cut White Oak, compared to how it felt with a measured load of concrete rubble. Any figures on what a dry cord would weigh?

A dry cord of processed firewood weighs anywhere from 15% to 30% less than a green cord, depending on wood species. Some species, such as the berry woods (mulberry, hackberry, etc.), take on an enormous amount of water. Green mulberry and hackberry weigh as much, if not more than green oak or locust. Dry, however, they would weigh 25% less.

Clawmute's 5,000 lb would be pretty close for dry white oak, locust, or hickory--the three most common dense hardwoods. Live oak and hedge might even be heavier.

The heaviest four loads of wood I have ever carried in my truck were green locust, green hackberry, green mulberry, and green pin oak, all unsplit rounds. I didn't even stack those loads cab high, but the truck told me, "Hey, Ed, that's enough--give me a break."

 

[HittinSteel]

WoodDoctor, you give me hope. I have been pretty disappointed with how squatted my F150 looks with a 1/3 of a cord onboard. If I could get up to a 1/2 cord that would save me 5 or 6 trips a year.

 

[Zodiac45]

My old 86 Ranger 4x4 (Tonto) will do a similar load too Doc Ed's. Mine is a long bed and has the airbag (airlift) kit front and read though. The rule of thumb for me though is 3 loads too the cord so alderman had it just right.