Some photos. I accept in advance the irony of being a man who makes fun of people putting their lunch on social media yet posts photos of firewood and flat tires.
A modest trailer load of small “cookies”. Taking the cookie to the splitter will never wear out your splitter tires. Also, loading a small trailer means you don’t have to lift the weight so high.
A modest truckload of medium cookies. No biggie but after a couple truckloads I start needing Ibuprofen. (Nothing says “classy” like a bag of chicken feed tossed on top of firewood.) I often carry have a truck and trailer of firewood at the same time. I’m mystified why I have photos of little wood on the short trailer and heavier wood on the tall truck; hopefully they were taken on different days.
Little tires (no lug nuts!) are the work of Satan. In this example the tire has “popped a bead in low temperatures”. This only seems to happen when the tire is parked many days in a row at temperatures around -25 or so. (If you plan properly you’ll never be splitting wood in -25 weather anyway.) This photo is unrelated to the patch job I did before “the event”.
You could at least have put the cat under one of those log piles. Mankind would be far better off…
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Wow, man, I would certainly class that as “Wheel not meant for the highway.” Does the next exciting episode involve you finding a way to upgrade the wheels/axle? Maybe mount the whole thing on a trailer body or something?
Bingo!
Can’t wait for the upgrade! I replaced 2 tires and one wheel on mine in 16 years. Nice picture of the fender “before.”
Hey at least the feed is above, not below, the wood. That means you loaded it, not some idiot.
Better flat tires & firewood than some grazer’s daily intake of clover, kale, & quinoa, or whatever’s the latest fad. ( If I cared, I’d feel good about so many recent findings. I’ve always believed cholesterol to be something cooked up by the health nuts, & therefore paid no mind.)
Mr. Matis, you don’t know my cat. He’s wedge-shaped. I call him my “pit bull kitty”, & he’s as territorial as the canine ones. I had an APBT for the 16 years he lived, & pound-for-pound this thing is as strong. He is meaner, though. Cerberus was a sweetie; an 80-lb brindle fence-destroying sweetie, but a good dog. Cats are always meaner.
Mudge, that bites. My trailer uses 4.80x12s, but at least they’re little 5-lugs. I remember from my misspent youth that you don’t really require the full complement in dire straits.