The War Wagon Chronicles

[AmishKyle]

That is what folks do not get. They hear Arizona or New Mexico and think warm desert. I remember a guy in Flagstaff sending me some pics of being snowed in. He said the great thing was drive down a bit...no snow....

Yessir! there has been a cold snap here last two days highs of 30 lows 5. If you drive down the mountain one could find 60-70* weather when you scrub off 6K feet of elevation. An old pic but we def regularly get snow.

 

[Campbellcontractlogging]

Oh yeah?! Interesting! That's pretty much how most people haul their wood.

I use the "War Wagon" to haul mine! View attachment 1038780View attachment 1038779

You ain't loaded unless you're overloaded!

The wagon bearings are screaming

 

[Kodiak Kid]

The wagon bearings are screaming

On your Dodge Power Wagon? Perhaps they are!
On WAR WAGON? Never, because she ain't loaded unless she's "OVERLOADED!!!"

However, that is an impressively "OVERLOADED" Power Wagon! Good on ya!

 

[Kodiak Kid]

This guys "LIVES" by the rule...

 

[JRM]

Nice! However, being as Im not familiar with your truck or trailer's safe max OVERLOAD capacity? Wood you merely call that loaded, or "OVERLOADED"?!?!

The dump trailer heavy but not overloaded. I'm height limited until I get some heavier sides on it, a project I'm looking into over the winter.
The flat bed, I'd say was another story. Struggled pulling the hills and when I got home it wouldn't even think about dumping. I had to push a good portion of the front over the sides with the tractor before it would lift. This was all green hard wood. Heavy stuff.

 

[Kodiak Kid]

The dump trailer heavy but not overloaded. I'm height limited until I get some heavier sides on it, a project I'm looking into over the winter.
The flat bed, I'd say was another story. Struggled pulling the hills and when I got home it wouldn't even think about dumping. I had to push a good portion of the front over the sides with the tractor before it would lift. This was all green hard wood. Heavy stuff.

Well then the truck is nicely "OVERLOADED!!!" Good on ya!

As fir the trailer? Until you get "OVERLOAD" bunks fitted on that Wagon? Throw some big ol wing logs on that bad a** Moma hauler, stack up them center logs high and tight till she's safely and severely "OVERLOADED!!!" Secure them heavy match sticks down hard and fast with chains and binders! Then tow 'er on down the line brother! Because....

You ain't loaded unless you're "OVERLOADED!!!"

 

[snobdds]

My folks have a cabin in the Snowies.
I'll never forget the first time I saw the Park Ranger's vehicle, a Chevy Tahoe on tracks. He rolled over a large snow pile pushed up from the plows and crossed a short meadow in knee deep snow like he was idling through a Walmart parking lot.

Would that be the snowies of Wyoming?

 

[JRM]

Would that be the snowies of Wyoming?

Yes sir. SE Wyoming.

 

[snobdds]

Yes sir. SE Wyoming.

My cabin in the snowies. Right on the Medicine Bow river...

 

[JRM]

My cabin in the snowies. Right on the Medicine Bow river...

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My folks are south of you almost on the Colorado border. If you know where the WyColo Lodge is on 230 they are within a few miles of there.

 

[snobdds]

My folks are south of you almost on the Colorado border. If you know where the WyColo Lodge is on 230 they are within a few miles of there.

I do know eactly where that is at. I drive by there on my way to Steamboat. Nice area for sure.

I am on the, what I call, the sleepy side of the snowy range, the north side. Not much traffic through there.

It's a wonderful area of the world.

 

[Bill G]

Yessir! there has been a cold snap here last two days highs of 30 lows 5. If you drive down the mountain one could find 60-70* weather when you scrub off 6K feet of elevation. An old pic but we def regularly get snow.

Well here our weather changes damm nearly hourly. Yesterday was horrible cold and rain. Today I was working on a tractor in a light shirt and no gloves at 55 degrees. The forecast shows us hitting 0 next week just in time for Christmas

 

[Kodiak Kid]

My cabin in the snowies. Right on the Medicine Bow river...

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My folks are south of you almost on the Colorado border. If you know where the WyColo Lodge is on 230 they are within a few miles of there.

Its a small world as they say!

 

[Kodiak Kid]

A weak mediocre trailer load of split wood at best! However, the weight of the splitter makes up fir the loss of wood volume! Therefore producing an "OVERLOADED!!!" towing capacity! In short...

You ain't loaded unless you're "OVERLOADED!!!"

 

[JRM]

I do know eactly where that is at. I drive by there on my way to Steamboat. Nice area for sure.

I am on the, what I call, the sleepy side of the snowy range, the north side. Not much traffic through there.

It's a wonderful area of the world.

Did you recently get cell service on your side of the mountain?
I know they did over near my folks within the last year, I guess for emergency purposes. The "Greenies" flock to that whole area during snow season, there's no shortage of idiots on sleds.

I spent the first half of my life in Laramie and Boulder, WY, just outside of Pinedale.

 

[snobdds]

Sorry for disrupting the war wagon thread...I was thoroughly enjoying it.

 

[snobdds]

Did you recently get cell service on your side of the mountain?
I know they did over near my folks within the last year, I guess for emergency purposes. The "Greenies" flock to that whole area during snow season, there's no shortage of idiots on sleds.

I spent the first half of my life in Laramie and Boulder, WY, just outside of Pinedale.

I do get cell service at my place. Don't know how or why, but I do. I can sit on the front porch and have great service. The data is weak though...

I don't snowmobile. Everyone gets mad at me that I don't snowmobile with having a cabin. They would die for that. I have always been a snowboarder since I was 10. Went to steamboat every winter and now have my own place there. So that is where I go in the winter.

Went to undergrad in Laramie and when we go to my old ladies relatives in Pinedale...we go right by Boulder. I love Wyoming...it is what America was.

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Sorry for disrupting the war wagon thread...I was thoroughly enjoying it.

Ahhh! No worries man!!! Come one! come all! Everyone is welcome on this thread. Especially if they post a picture of a good ol fashioned "OVERLOAD!!!"

Because...


You ain't loaded unless you're "OVERLOADED!!!"

 

[Kodiak Kid]

This woman FIRMLY lives by the rule, and in more than one A**pect mind you that...

She's right! I mean lets face it, because...

You ain't loaded unless?
You're "OVERLOADED!!!"

 

[Billhook]