Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Green Acres Homestead]

By "todays standards", the "B" in my dodge, (with Banks stage 3) is 224 hp and 643 on torque, doesn't sound so high powered.

AT least a guy I knew had the exact same truck and set up as mine, and that's what his did at the rear wheels. He also told me, they had trouble keeping the duals from slipping a bit, at full torque...

It does pull loads pretty good.

SR

Looks like there is over 1/2 cord in box and almost 2 cords on trailer. If that is the case there would be about 10000 lbs in a trailer that weighs 3000 lbs and 2500 lbs in the truck. That's if the wood is green. That's a load alright.

 

[John_Mc]

Looks like there is over 1/2 cord in box and almost 2 cords on trailer. If that is the case there would be about 10000 lbs in a trailer that weighs 3000 lbs and 2500 lbs in the truck. That's if the wood is green. That's a load alright.

I can never manage to fit a half cord in a full sized pickup unless I stack neatly. Thrown in, I'm closer to 1/3 cord, unless I mound it up enough to risk getting pulled over for an unsafe load.

 

[Loaderman22]

Looks like there is over 1/2 cord in box and almost 2 cords on trailer. If that is the case there would be about 10000 lbs in a trailer that weighs 3000 lbs and 2500 lbs in the truck. That's if the wood is green. That's a load alright.

2500#'s in the truck & she's not even squatting. Man they don't make them like that anymore... My Brother in Law has a 2500 with the 12V Cummins, I want in for myself!

 

[4570Man]

2500#'s in the truck & she's not even squatting. Man they don't make them like that anymore... My Brother in Law has a 2500 with the 12V Cummins, I want in for myself!

Any modern dually would take more than 2500 on the bed.

 

[Loaderman22]

Any modern dually would take more than 2400 on the bed.

I didn't say it wouldn't handle it, but it wouldn't be sitting like this one in the photo. at least not without airbags or reworked springs. New manufacturers put more into "ride quality" than level hauling stance. Always see brand new HD trucks around here hauling 5th wheel trailers, dragging bumper. I have an 87 GMC 2500 HD with 8 leaf springs in the rear, it will hold 2000#'s all day long without breaking a sweat & getting 8 miles to the gallon. It will knock your teeth out on a speedbump, my new truck squats a tad with the 900# 4 wheeler in the back, but glides over rough terrain.

 

[Gordon Gould]

Still to wet for me to put the tractor in the woods or any where else for that matter. But I can't stay in doors so I am doing some thinning by hand. Got some 6" poles out of this young yellow birch stand this morning. Then it started raining again. Weather man says almost no sun for the next 10 days here. Ugh. When the black flies come I bet they will be thick. Before and after.





gg

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

I can never manage to fit a half cord in a full sized pickup unless I stack neatly. Thrown in, I'm closer to 1/3 cord, unless I mound it up enough to risk getting pulled over for an unsafe load.

Correct. Thrown in it has to be heaped. Tightly stacked will make a 1/2 cord in an 8 foot box

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

Still to wet for me to put the tractor in the woods or any where else for that matter. But I can't stay in doors so I am doing some thinning by hand. Got some 6" poles out of this young yellow birch stand this morning. Then it started raining again. Weather man says almost no sun for the next 10 days here. Ugh. When the black flies come I bet they will be thick. Before and after.

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gg

Nice work. Here is the east coast Canada it was wet but my road stayed pretty good because I mostly used my atv.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

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[4570Man]

I didn't say it wouldn't handle it, but it wouldn't be sitting like this one in the photo. at least not without airbags or reworked springs. New manufacturers put more into "ride quality" than level hauling stance. Always see brand new HD trucks around here hauling 5th wheel trailers, dragging bumper. I have an 87 GMC 2500 HD with 8 leaf springs in the rear, it will hold 2000#'s all day long without breaking a sweat & getting 8 miles to the gallon. It will knock your teeth out on a speedbump, my new truck squats a tad with the 900# 4 wheeler in the back, but glides over rough terrain.

My buddy owns a 2013 dodge dually another one of my buddy’s owns a 2005 Chevy dually and one of my family members owns a 2005 dually and I own a 1992 dually. They’re all about the same level truck and if I had to pick I’d say the 2013 is the stiffest. We put two 3000 pound pallets on the 2013 and it squatted maybe 3 inches. I put 8,000 on mine pretty often. The other 2 trucks don’t get worked much but they’re comparable in suspension.