Post a pic of your woodhauler

Here's a couple of my haulers.



Hauled 6-7 loads in my truck in the past two weeks. Last pic was this morning. Snow is pouring and they're calling for 6-12" here in central NC tonight and I needed a little weight for the back of the truck.

bwise.157 said:

Married the girl and the 4x2 truck was part of the package.

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With a dowry like that, she must've been cute.

Joful said:

With a dowry like that, she must've been cute.

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Let's just say I didn't marry for the money!

Joful said:

With a dowry like that, she must've been cute.

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Let's just say I didn't marry for the money!

Joful said:

With a dowry like that, she must've been cute.

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Let's just say I didn't marry for the money!

gzecc said:

That elm almost looks like BL

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I agree

bwise.157 said:

Let's just say I didn't marry for the money!

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You can say that again ... never mind you did ...,and did again.

firefighterjake said:

You can say that again ... never mind you did ...,and did again.

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Darn phones!

A couple from this weekend.

I'm pretty happy with this F250 I found on CL over the weekend. It's a '91 F250 4x4 Long Bed with a 5 Speed Manual Trasmission, 302 V8 Gas Motor, 139K miles, just got it on the road yesterday. I'm going to build some wood sides on it like my 2WD '86 Chevy C20. This truck will allow me to get into a bunch of spots I can't get into with the C20. Interior is in nice shape and everything works, heat and AC included. I want to install a dump kit for the bed by next fall so I can really move some wood.

I bought that same truck brand new in 91, black with silver in the middle. Nice score, how much?

D8Chumley said:

I bought that same truck brand new in 91, black with silver in the middle. Nice score, how much?

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Got it for $2800

Good deal

87 3500 4x4 with a crate 350.



selling it for a 87 f350 6.9 diesel with no rust and a bigger bed. Photo's soon.
Anybody want a old truck

Got this Ford Sport Trac in 2001 long before I ever thought about hauling wood. It is a good city pick up and has seen a lot of camping adventures. Sane capacity is about 1/3 of a cord.

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That is badazz

D8Chumley said:

That is badazz

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Yup, get some wood cuttin and some hawg ridin done all at the same time. Me thinks rear-ending a car/truck would be a bad deal though!

This year's wood hauler - early 70's Sears GT18. Slow but plenty of grunt.

'99 Silverado. Bought it new. 250k miles on it now.

Great truck.

Here it is full of wood.

Yesterday.

Anumber1 said:

'99 Silverado. Bought it new. 250k miles on it now.

Great truck.

Here it is full of wood.

Yesterday.

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Oh yeah, that's loaded but good. I don't know how you guys get the mileage out of your trucks, the most I ever got was 90k, and from there they were money pits. my '13 Silverado looked like that a few times....had 2,300 lbs. of 3/4 inch process....5 times in a row....my '15 Sierra has yet to be maxed, but has had a few loads of wood....I know...pics or it didn't happen

Beer Belly said:

Oh yeah, that's loaded but good. I don't know how you guys get the mileage out of your trucks, the most I ever got was 90k, and from there they were money pits. my '13 Silverado looked like that a few times....had 2,300 lbs. of 3/4 inch process....5 times in a row....my '15 Sierra has yet to be maxed, but has had a few loads of wood....I know...pics or it didn't happen

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Honestly, its starting to get rusty. The rocker panels on both sides are getting pretty bad and the rear wheel wells also.

I put a few parts into it over the years but nothing major. Brakes, tuneups, fuel pump, belts/hoses, U joints, front wheel bearings, I rebuilt the entire front end last spring.

I was a GM certified technician in the '80s.

I do treat the "severe service" maintenance schedule as my normal sevice and if its broke, I fix it (immediately). Original motor, trans, t-case. It is 100% fully healthy.

Loaded like pictured does happen every few months but I am also not gonna take it very far or very fast loaded like that (10 miles yesterday, didn't go fast, didn't go hard over anything lumpy off the road).

It's been paid for so long that I cannot bear to give up on it now. A new one to replace it seems out premature.

The 1985 GMC K10 this Silverado replaced had 425k on it when the frame became too rusty to salvage (as well as the box).

Probably gonna fix the body next spring...

Beer Belly said:

Oh yeah, that's loaded but good. I don't know how you guys get the mileage out of your trucks, the most I ever got was 90k, and from there they were money pits.

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My 15 year old truck is nothing special, but with the cost of vehicles now it would still be $50,000 to replace with an equivalent brand new one. Even with 210k of towing an hauling on it I don't spend remotely near what it would cost to replace it on maintenance. If you're having all your work done at a dealership it can certainly get expensive, but I do much of the work myself. I think using good parts is important as well. Nothing turns your vehicle into a bigger pain than using inferior replacement parts and having to do jobs twice as often.

I had a 2006 that I loved, but the last 2 months of ownership (93,000miles) the Front Diff went, then the Transfer Case, and within a week of that, the Right Front Wheel Bearing, which also took out the Axle Seal, and ruined the new Front Rotors and Pads......Wife said (as the truck was on the lift) "Pick out a new truck".....that truck (2013 Silverado) had the frame get bent when I had to climb a curb because some idiot didn't see me in his mirror (1,800 miles), then around 16,000 miles had an Engine Knock that they had to call an Engineer from GM to look at....had the engine on the floor in pieces....fast forward to about 3 weeks ago, and 28,000 miles, the engine is knocking again....time for another truck

Beer Belly said:

I had a 2006 that I loved, (snip)....time for another truck

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Wow! Yep. Time for a new truck!

If I would have had major mechanical issues that soon in my trucks life, I would have been worried also.

I put new front wheel bearings in mine when I noticed (while rotating the tires) an enormous amount of slop in the left and some slop in the right wheel bearing. No noise, no telltale sign of impending failure. If it were to have let go, well, that would have gotten expensive.

There is real value I feel in doing my own maintenance. I can find and fix a minor problem way before it becomes a big problem.