Pulp weight

[loggerman1959]

Which is more profitable these days , pulp or firewood for the low grade hardwood ? Also can anyone tell me how many tons of hardwood pulp the average triaxel holds ? Thanks .

[BargeMonkey]

 I only send hemlock on a truck and pup, roughly 34, sometimes 36ton. Firewood here pays alot better but your trucking it. 

[thecfarm]

I am no logger by a longshot. I use to cut on mine land,so I got all the money,except for trucking. I always felt I could push the hardwood into a pile,and cut it 8 foot for pulp and go get some more. Way back in the late 90's,I got $40 a cord on the landing,that was after trucking,so $40 in my pocket. If some pieces was only 4 feet long that fine,if some was 5 feet long that was fine too and so on.

[Mountain_d]

Around here (about 2 hrs north of Ottawa) firewood is worth $600 on the landing for a tandem load. The landowner and logger usually split that to get $300 each. Tandem holds about 6.5 bush cords and would be about 16 ton of wood. Hardwood pulp is worth a bit more (5% or 10%) but requires more species sorting. In the end firewood seems to be best option in these parts if your trucker can manage your volume. The usual setup is the trucker arranges the buyers and deals with everying that happens when the wood leaves the landing. 
Mountain.