Timber Lorry Load Dimentions and Payloads

[hawthornheavyhorses]

Have always enjoyed reading how people playing with words

 

Sadly it wasn't intentional, but glad it tickled you

[hawthornheavyhorses]

It might pay to get a load collected by a timber haulier, most have on board weighers so you would be able to gauge volumes off that.

 

That's what I thought too, but need to sell it on straight from site so need to judge what the customer is going to get before the lorry turns up if I can.

[County 764]

I always use to use a conversion factor of .7 or .75 so measure your stacks get a volume and you should have a good idea of the tonnage

[Hiluxr]

Was about 29-30 cubic metres of seasoned wood i had from an 8 wheeler load, if that helps

[Treecreeper1961]

Matt,

 

According to Forest Mensuration in general conifer stacks require a con\/ersion factor of 0.7 to allow for air and hard wood between 0.55 and 0.65 depending on the form of the timber.

 

To con\/ert \/oume to weight, if felled recently and for timber with a mean mid diameter of 20cm the following is recommended:

 

Oak 0.94 m3 to 1tonne

Ash 1.28 m3 to 1 tonne

Sycamore 1.2 m3 to 1 tonne

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

firewood at 3.75m for two bays on an 8 wheeler or 3 bays on an artic.

 

Ditto or we do 3 x 2.2m for an 8 wheeler and 4 x 2.2m for artic. My forwarder is annoying in that I can sling on 2m roundwood fast x 2 bays whereas 2.2 I have to make more effort to make the back bay sticks neat. 8 wheeler doesn't mind as just goes higher on the pins upto 18t or 26m3. Artic gets 35m3 on 2.3s x 4 rammed. Edit, this is for softwood roundwood.

[hawthornheavyhorses]

Matt,

 

According to Forest Mensuration in general conifer stacks require a con/ersion factor of 0.7 to allow for air and hard wood between 0.55 and 0.65 depending on the form of the timber.

 

To con/ert /oume to weight, if felled recently and for timber with a mean mid diameter of 20cm the following is recommended:

 

Oak 0.94 m3 to 1tonne

Ash 1.28 m3 to 1 tonne

Sycamore 1.2 m3 to 1 tonne

 

Great. Ok, so assuming 100m3, and a conversion of 0.65 (it is all pretty straight), I have 65 solid cube. 20cm mid diameter is about right and was felled last week so that gives me:

 

39m3 Oak = 41t

13m3 Ash = 10t

13m3 Syc = 11t

 

Total= 62t

 

So enough for at least 2 arctics with a little contingency which is basically what I was trying to work out.

 

Thanks all!

[TobyAllen]

Hello Matt. We had 2 loads picked up last week, 25.5 t (33 m3) on each. I always go by volume as you don't get penalised if it takes a while for the wood to be picked up, and you and the buyer can stand next to it with a tape measure.

 

I add 40% for air in the stack, is your's hand stacked ?

[hawthornheavyhorses]

Hello Matt. We had 2 loads picked up last week, 25.5 t (33 m3) on each. I always go by volume as you don't get penalised if it takes a while for the wood to be picked up, and you and the buyer can stand next to it with a tape measure.

 

I add 40% for air in the stack, is your's hand stacked ?

 

Yes hand stacked to 1m, although some of them have taken 4 of us to roll/lift on!

 

Is the 33m3 before or after the 40%?

[big chris the log]

Hi Mat

If I were you I would sell by the ton get a printed ticket from the driver or public weighbridge ticket you all know where you are then.

As for stack measure for hardwoods it was always length x width x height x 55% =volume of wood this is quite easy if the driver loads level to top of pins just measure and get your calculator out.

Hope this helps. pity there is so much oak or I would be interested.Chris.