Wood Hauler Pics

[RAMROD48]

You would have to ask that wouldnt you....DOH....ummmm

Prodigy Primus...I think...it was on sale and it works great...

 

[treevet]

A blast from the past, very cold morning in Dry Creek Hollow:

Nice ole Ford (dumper I hope....can't imagine unloading that trailer).

 

[GrizzlyAdams86]

Dakota with a load of poplar.

 

[LAH]

Nice ole Ford (dumper I hope....can't imagine unloading that trailer).

Geez I hate to admit but never had a dump anything.

 

[treevet]

Geez I hate to admit but never had a dump anything.

Cheer up :greenchainsaw: ...still a great truck!

 

[grandpatractor]

The motor will definatly outlast the truck, still managed to get about 17-18 mpg with it coming back from the charity cutting. Hey Grandpa you guys get that line fixed on the old skiddey?

Beefie

Skidsteer is fixed, just haven't made it back up there yet.
Maybe tomorrow.

 

[ropensaddle]

81 Mack 12,500 bought in 2006

 

[ropensaddle]

79 ford f 350 pto twin cylinder dump
4000 in 2010

 

[treevet]

I like the look of that tw6 and the creative use of the log lift

 

[ropensaddle]

I like the look of that tw6 and the creative use of the log lift

Using it on the job can attract wood boogah's just warning ya lol. It also gets the community checking you out bro!

 

[treevet]

Using it on the job can attract wood boogah's just warning ya lol. It also gets the community checking you out bro!

yeah Rope, I have taken mine out on the job and with the conveyor it attracts mass attention.

 

[ropensaddle]

yeah Rope, I have taken mine out on the job and with the conveyor it attracts mass attention.

Many times you don't have to haul home the wood "unless you want to"

 

[treevet]

yeah if you charge them for the service of splitting you are virtually charging them for their own firewood and you don't even have to transport it, store it, season it, or deliver it, I suppose.

Only consideration is....would you be making more bucks doing something else you have on the books in that amount of time that encompasses the whole process. Or do you have the time and ability and manpower to do both.

 

[RAMROD48]

yeah if you charge them for the service of splitting you are virtually charging them for their own firewood and you don't even have to transport it, store it, season it, or deliver it, I suppose.

Only consideration is....would you be making more bucks doing something else you have on the books in that amount of time that encompasses the whole process. Or do you have the time and ability and manpower to do both.

If you charge to do it, than I think that is null and void....just figure it into you total price equation..

 

[komatsuvarna]

My Dodge runs and starts just fine, and thats with 243,000 miles on it to.

Beefie

Nice job on the side boards for the trailer. Im looking to build me some.

 

[treevet]

If you charge to do it, than I think that is null and void....just figure it into you total price equation..

If you have a big high dollar removal or pruning job for another client and the one we are speaking about WANTS you to split and leave the wood it may make more sense to

bid to boom out the wood without cutting and even throw it in the dump if it is an undesirable wood and then try to sell them wood you have in your lot.

And go and do the high dollar work with the time it would take to do the (lower paying) splitting.

If they don't go for that then it may be more sensible to opt out on that job unless they are a very desirable customer with much future work. Just saying....

 

[RAMROD48]

If you have a big high dollar removal or pruning job for another client and the one we are speaking about WANTS you to split and leave the wood it may make more sense to

bid to boom out the wood without cutting and even throw it in the dump if it is an undesirable wood and then try to sell them wood you have in your lot.

And go and do the high dollar work with the time it would take to do the (lower paying) splitting.

If they don't go for that then it may be more sensible to opt out on that job unless they are a very desirable customer with much future work. Just saying....

I don't disagree with what your saying, but I don't see the local guys so busy that they wouldn't bid that high dollar job for the next day....

Scheduling is an art that seems to have been lost on the money hungry....

 

[treevet]

I don't disagree with what your saying, but I don't see the local guys so busy that they wouldn't bid that high dollar job for the next day....

Scheduling is an art that seems to have been lost on the money hungry....

I agree with you first assertion but the second one well....

Supply and demand takes place here and if you run a small entity like I do and being chief cook and bottle washer...you simply cannot do everything.

You have to take in the big money when it is there and buyers are willing to give it to you. Everyday at this time of year for my company has to take that buyer's money or it may be lost forever. No different than selling a Christmas tree (artificial) in January as opposed to in December.

 

[ropensaddle]

I agree with you first assertion but the second one well....

Supply and demand takes place here and if you run a small entity like I do and being chief cook and bottle washer...you simply cannot do everything.

You have to take in the big money when it is there and buyers are willing to give it to you. Everyday at this time of year for my company has to take that buyer's money or it may be lost forever. No different than selling a Christmas tree (artificial) in January as opposed to in December.

Eeeeeyup some jobs cost you if you are not careful and many customers wont adhere to schedule.

 

[STLfirewood]

That's a good looking truck and splitter. Is that the truck your going to drive to STL.

Scott