Hey you loggers, I've got a question for you.

Depending on direction of the slope, can a log be laid, parallel with truck then 2 logs laid perpendicular on each end of log, sort of chocking the pile on the slope? Dependant on how much slope??
If I am understanding, will this help?
Speaking from my observation, tell the driver what your looking to do and he will put decent effort to accommodate, the best the site will allow. I'm sure the driver will appreciate your thinking ahead, hopefully making his job alil easier.
Good luck with your project.

 

Any time we get firewood we have the driver put 2 logs perpendicular to the truck, then set the load on top, parallel to the truck. Makes it easier to buck up the bottom row without putting the chain into the dirt.

 

I’m sorry, but pine as firewood? My eyes are watering already.

 

The pine here in MS is prone to coat your flue (12 clay pipe/12" tin pipe) in a built around enclosure,
with a lining of creosote that you have a real chimney fire danger. Fireplaces are usually fairly small
and actually not well designed in recent years. 70 years ago (me 15) my uncles and cousins could
cook a whole hog on theirs and you could stand in the middle of a 20' square room and feel heat.
Something about the way they are built make them draw and still heat the room. Others, just send the
heat up the chimney.

 

Thanks, I missed that.
There is a reason we call pine 'poof wood' while at camp. Place it on the fire pit and poof, it's gone before you can sit down.
The only places here that sells firewood are all hardwoods, with most advertising oak. I can get a full cord for less than $200 of oak already cut and delivered (to the driveway, I can pay more to have it delivered and stacked).

 

It depends on the kind of pine and how green or dry it is. Ponderosa or sugar pine like we have around here usually has a lot of pitch and makes a lot of soot unless you're burning it full blast. If you try to burn it slowly in a choked off airtight stove you'll be setting yourself up for a chimney fire.
I can get all the oak and Doug fir and cedar I want on my own place so I don't use pine for anything but kindling and starter wood.
Lodgepole is pretty good for firewood. It's not the best but a lot of people use it and seem to do okay with it.
My brother is a logger and when he lived in Montana and Idaho he burned a lot of lodgepole with no problem.

 

If you're not getting the wood until next year maybe you could invite the trucker out for lunch at your place and see if he has any good ideas about what to do. It sounds like you're savvy enough to figure this stuff out but sometimes another set of eyes helps.
We didn't do a lot of homeowner deliveries with our self loaders because for the most part they were a PITA...no room to work, tough to get in and out of, and unrealistic expectations on the part of the customer.
A good customer could get us back anytime.

 

Too add to @Cattleman84, pine isn't pine isn't pine. Southern pine that grows an inch in diameter a year is far lighter than western lodgepole that grows at about a tenth of that rate. Much denser wood. When I lived in Grangeville, we could get tamerack, and that was slightly better. I've even burnt quite a bit of aspen. It's almost as dense as pine, but burns much, much cleaner, so when you choke off the damper for an overnight burn, you don't create creosote.