Here is a load!!!

I got another load from the same place as the 8 loads of red oak. I think this is ash? Here is a decent load to show the nay-sayers that there is nearly a face cord on the ranger. Am I all wet or is it about a face cord? My first attempt at pictures using Picasa2 so bear with me.

 

Here is another angle...

 

:cheese: Luckily it is 6cyl and automatic. Luckily, who am I kidding I paid for it! I do drive it in low 2 or drive with the overdrive out though to keep the tranny cool. I had a thread earlier that said I got a face cord on a ranger and people did not believe the truck would take it. I actually have coil springs over the shocks to add 1500 pound capacity. I take it slow and steady and make sure I have a space cushion because stopping is more difficult. So what do you think, is this a face cord or there about?

 

Ash is just my guess, it is hardwood but not sure.

 

I was thinking the same thing but since its 85 degrees and way humid and my wife is about to go bonkers watching the kids all day its time for jungle gym dad Only a few more years till the 3 year old can help :lol:

 

Thats why the coil helpers. The factory springs would drop down to the frame stops long before the truck was loaded. I was going to add a leaf to each side but was told that it would be so firm that it would be dangerous to drive in the snow because it would fishtail on every bump. This is somewhere around the 30th or so load like this.

 

Like I said stopping is where you need to be carefull. The ranger has served me well until I buy the newer f-150, with gas prices I just keep holding off...with the 2 little ones the wife keeps pushing! Either way the new truck will get the coil over shocks like the ranger...that is for sure! It looks loaded down but the body does not have the sway and shimmy with the coils installed. So is it ash I have or does someone else have a definite id?

 

I will take a pic after work. The reason I am thinking a type of ash is that the center was dark when I cut it, and the same type of grain. It does not have the regular bark I see in the ash I usually cut. As for how much I paid, well, free! I pick it up at a church community that has a very old establishment. Probably a hundred years on the same lot of at least 75-100 acres. The first time they called about the oak I busted my tail 2 or 3 times a week for 3 weeks to clean it up and they took the brush. Now when a tree falls they call me and if its good stuff I make a point to go there 2 or 3 times a week. The get free clean up and I get the wood. I wish some of you guys could drive the truck loaded, it really drives better than the stock shocks with a lot less weight on it! The shocks reallly eliminate the body roll all together. I actually have been next to a few cops and they do not even pay attention, not that I am doing wheelies to get there attention, I drive it easy so I do not tax the tranny!

 

I cropped a pic and I think this will help show the bark? I could be wrong on the species. I know it is a hardwood of some type. Take a look!

 

Shocks and leafs are fine, axle would be the weekest link.