My wood hauler goes...........KABOOM!

[ironpony]

after reading the post.....
I would have to say it was more of a screaching squealing than a kaboom
glad it was easily fixed
well cheaply
good work quads
around here someone would of listed it on craigslist as a parts quad

 

[quads]

Interesting post, thanks for sharing.

I have an '01 400 Sportsman that I use almost exclusively for hauling wood with. The homemade trailer will hold 1/4 cord if I deadpile it or about 1/3 cord if I stack it neatly. For green hardwood on a 5,000lb/cd scale that's around 1,500 lbs + 500 lb trailer = 1 ton total towing weight. I am amazed at how much weight it will move for a belt driven ATV. It has 450 miles and 120 hours so you can compute my average speed when hauling a load. Getting it to stop can be another story sometimes!

I often wonder how people got anything done without ATVs, they did but just a lot slower I guess. They are must-have tool for any landowner.

My trailer holds 1/6th of a cord, I bought it at Harbor Freight many years ago for $100. It has hauled A LOT of firewood, without so much as a flat tire. The wood I usually cut is dead fallen oak, with no bark on it. The pine in the picture was even lighter than that. But, when I do haul green oak, I try to haul a smaller load, because green oak is really heavy.

Before this ATV (Polaris Hawkeye), I had an early year 1998 Polaris Sportsman 500. It had way over 10,000 miles on it when I traded it in on the Hawkeye. Before that I used a 1950 Chevy pickup. And even before that I used a 1949 Willys Jeep with a homemade pickup box type trailer for hauling wood.

 

[quads]

after reading the post.....
I would have to say it was more of a screaching squealing than a kaboom
glad it was easily fixed
well cheaply
good work quads
around here someone would of listed it on craigslist as a parts quad

HAHA! The KABOOM in the thread title was meant more as a noun than an adjective. It was definitely a long CRUUUUUNCH sound. ;-)

 

[firefighterjake]

I took my wood hauler ATV for a ride in the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge on Saturday for the Whooping Crane Festival. As I was returning to the truck at the end of the day, I noticed an odd vibration. Unloading it from the truck back at home, I looked it all over and couldn't really find anything out of the ordinary, so I chalked it up to my imagination.

Sunday I headed out into the woods to work on a custom order. (pine firewood by special order only):
. . . !

Proof postive that burning pine is dangerous . . . it leads to chimney fires, male baldness and causes ATVs to break down.

 

[quads]

I took my wood hauler ATV for a ride in the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge on Saturday for the Whooping Crane Festival. As I was returning to the truck at the end of the day, I noticed an odd vibration. Unloading it from the truck back at home, I looked it all over and couldn't really find anything out of the ordinary, so I chalked it up to my imagination.

Sunday I headed out into the woods to work on a custom order. (pine firewood by special order only):
. . . !

Proof postive that burning pine is dangerous . . . it leads to chimney fires, male baldness and causes ATVs to break down.

You could be right because I have/had all of those! Except that I think just cutting and splitting pine is dangerous, because I never burn it myself. Haha!

"Proof positive that merely cutting, splitting, or hauling pine is dangerous!"

 

[Flatbedford]

Quads, While you may not actually burn the pine, you are an accessory to the act, and therefore subject to the consequences.

 

[quads]

Quads, While you may not actually burn the pine, you are an accessory to the act, and therefore subject to the consequences.

Darn pine, I curse you! ARGGH!