Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Oldpath05]

So what are you looking for, I'm in SC.. I'll have a look for you.

Something like this for 5k or less will suit me just fine!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[fruitcakesa]

Yeaaa well, when I bought that wagon body, it was really nice, I hauled grain in it. It's been a LONG time since I needed it for grain, so I just quit putting all the work and time it takes into it, to keep it nice.

I just figured the he!! with it, and started using it for wood and it didn't take long it to start getting dented and bent up, but who cares, it's just piece of machinery, and I'm using it for it's best use around for here now. This thing is saving me money every time I use it, especially when I

and haul loads like this,

SR

Ratchet straps are always handy.:laughing:

 

[Gordon Gould]

For what I can sell all saw logs, both HW and SW, are scaled using the International 1/4 rule and everything else like pulp, long groundwood aspen, bio-mass, etc is all by the ton. No cord conversions any more like they used to. And for HW pulp, which can be birch, maple, beech, ash, or aspen, any mix or a single species, it's all the same rate per ton. The international 1/4 scale for saw logs is a better ( more fair ) scale for smaller logs which we typically have in the NE.

gg

 

[Jstpssng]

So what are you looking for, I'm in SC.. I'll have a look for you.

I've been looking for a 3/4 or ton truck with a manual transmission, mostly for local use but also to run 200 miles to my mother's house if needed.
Preferably with a dump but I could add one if the truck price was right. I think that I need to add to my budget though... I was hoping to pick something up for under 8K.

Something like this for 5k or less will suit me just fine!!!!!!!!!!!!
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How about this one! Although 5K would only buy you the tires.


If I was good at working on things I would try to buy my father's old KB5 back. He sold it about 10 years ago for $500, the last time that I knew it was parked in a gravel pit.

 

[two_bit_score]

It is completely legal to sell wood by the cord in Maine. You can sell by volume (cubic feet or cord) or by weight. What is illegal is to weigh the wood then use a volume conversion factor and sell b that converted volume

From the State of Maine Revised Statutes:
Title 10: COMMERCE AND TRADE
Part 6: WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
Chapter 501: WEIGHTS AND MEASURES LAW
Subchapter 2-A: MEASUREMENT OF WOOD
ｧ2364
ｧ2363-A. Measurement of wood
1. Cubic measure and standard cord. In all wood transactions the volume of wood may be measured in cubic feet or by the standard cord as provided for by the state sealer.
[PL 1983, c. 804, ｧ6 (NEW).]
2. Weight scale. When agreed upon by the parties, weight measurement may be used in all wood transactions, under the following conditions:
A. The weight measurement may not be converted to volume...

link to the applicable Maine Statutes

What is the rationale behind that? Must be an interesting story.

 

[Oldpath05]

I've been looking for a 3/4 or ton truck with a manual transmission, mostly for local use but also to run 200 miles to my mother's house if needed.
Preferably with a dump but I could add one if the truck price was right. I think that I need to add to my budget though... I was hoping to pick something up for under 8K.



How about this one! Although 5K would only buy you the tires.


If I was good at working on things I would try to buy my father's old KB5 back View attachment 653123 He sold it about 10 years ago for $500, the last time that I knew it was parked in a gravel pit.

I've been looking for a 3/4 or ton truck with a manual transmission, mostly for off road use, and I was hoping to pick something up for under 2k.
If it isn't 4 wheel drive it isn't worth $5.00 to me, 4 wheel drive is all I'll drive, unless it's a clasic car from the 50s and 60s.

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^^
The trouble with anything around here is it's rusted all to cat crap and they still want an arm and a leg for it. I looked (briefly) at a GMC ton truck in Auburn last weekend; no sticker, no rocker panels, the dump body was all rusted yet they still want $8K for it.

 

[Skeans1]

I've been looking for a 3/4 or ton truck with a manual transmission, mostly for off road use, and I was hoping to pick something up for under 2k.
If it isn't 4 wheel drive it isn't worth $5.00 to me, 4 wheel drive is all I'll drive, unless it's a clasic car from the 50s and 60s.

Just an idea for you guys why not a forwarder trailer for the back of your tractor then build a manual dump box you can dump with the crane on the trailer?

 

[Jstpssng]

^^^
I can't take it on the road.

 

[Skeans1]

^^^
I can't take it on the road.

Why can’t you? They make them that are on legal.