Pics & Update on the Logging truck VS waterpipes

[michaelthomas]

He did have to park the nose of his truck over the area where the water pipe is or else he would have had to drop the wood in my front yard. The wife would rather replace a water line at tremendous cost and inconvenience than have my front yard piled high with magnificent firewood logs. The logger said that he was not very concerned as most of the weight was no where near the water line and the outriggers offload the front quite a bit. He said that I have a solid 8 cord of wood. A-lot of it was smaller than I had imagined but nothing under 4 inches. The 4 inch stuff you don't have to split, just cut. I have some pictures of the load below. The guy was like a surgeon with that grapple. I had my trailer snow bound and filled with 3/4 cord of oak rounds in the only place that he could lay the logs without blocking my access to the back yard. He hooked a chain to the trailer tongue, hooked it to his grapple and pulled this trailer, filled with 3' of snow and loaded with wood, out of 3' of snow and ice, and whipped it around in my driveway like it was a toy. Parked it perfectly to the side after turning it all the way around! It was pretty amazing to watch. Keep warm

Michael

 

[Wolves-Lower]

How much did that load cost you?

 

[michaelthomas]

$750

 

[dsil]

I am so jealous. SWMBO said I have enough work to do on this old house this summer, and i will not have time to cut and split all that wood. So, I will be in the cut split delivered price group this year. Enjoy your logs!

 

[fespo]

Wow, around here in the Chicago land area almost of that wood would have been chipped up. Most tree services chip everything up to 18 , the big companies chip-up almost everything they can.

 

[pulldownclaw]

The wife just came by the computer, saw those pictures of the load you got delivered, and said "don't even think about it"! :lol:

She thinks I'm already crazy with the scrounging I do....maybe I should strategically have us "run out" of wood right at the end of winter so she'll stop giving me a hard time. ;-P

 

[kjklosek]

So the water line is OK?

Good news!

Happy cutting/splitting.

J.P.