Help with increasing pay load

This was about 1400lbs of lumber



How exactly did you manage to fit over twice as much in your truck ?

What species of logs ?

 

I agree that I would be a crazy fool to load that much. The species was birch. I am really second and third guessing the reliability of the measurement. Especially after seeing ozs post. I think the dump scale was either wrong, or the guy behind me was on it a bit. The wood was certainly green making it very heavy though.

 

There is not a shot of even getting a cord of wood in a Tacoma (one cord of wood is 128 cubic feet or 4'X4'X8'). Even a 1/2 cord of very dry soft wood is going to weight at least a 1,000# green soft wood is going to be closer to 2,200# per 1/2 cord. I burn a lot of maple it goes about 5,000# a cord. Once you have overloaded your truck using heaver springs what are you going to do about the tire rating and axle bearings?

 

It looks in your picture that you cram a bunch of it into the backseat too. As tightly as it looks like you are cramming wood into the truck I'd say you have a bit more weight than Oz has. Maybe not double, but definitely more. Those big chunks in the backseat have to be at least a couple hundred pounds. Not sure I'd do that too often.

 

You guessed right the wood in that truck was a good bit less than a 1/2 cord even if you filled the back seat but you were still overloaded. 1/2 cord of white birch goes about 2,250# yellow birch 2,600#. OZ has a lot of weight in his pickup but it most likely is an accurate weight. It is hard to judge weight by looks and easy to overload.