Nice load O logs

[Sharky]

I see Dwan posted some pics in another thread of my old boss' truck and one of the shovels I moved many times in the 12 1/2 years I worked there.

Here is one my beauty loads. Had a nice 3 log load years ago, but never had the digital. This one was a "Stop light dodger" Over 17' high.

[HeyUvaVT]

looks like that thing would roll over in a heart beat

[woodchuck2]

X2, whats a load like that weigh in at?

[Tri-Star]

If DOT seen something like that around here they would put you under the jail!!!

[Sharky]

About 135,000 gross. We never worried alot about weights until a couple years ago. I mean, we would get checked and occasionally busted, but 80% of the loads I hauled were WAY over.

It was the 200k gross loads that a guy sweats on a little, but still did them more times then I could ever remember. We had 3, 63 ton hoes, and 2, 70 ton shovels. Permits were something we would get regularly, but many times would not. Though I moved the stuff for years, all the time. Also tons of other gear, being we were the only "Heavy" move outfit in town. Logging was going big in Southeast and Driving the lowboy was a near full time job.

Here is another machine I have moved several times and still run on a regular basis. 14' wide, 120 ton Peerless lowboy. C 500 K Dub, Gross out at about 220,000. 75 ton Hoe, and the tractor/trailer combo is about 75,000 (empty).

Just dont look back:Banghead

[stepp3360]

sharky, any more pictures of the Peerless 120 ton lowboy? Side view or the goose neck? Please keep up great post.
John

[Sharky]

sharky, any more pictures of the Peerless 120 ton lowboy? Side view or the goose neck? Please keep up great post.
John

Here are a few of the 120's. We had 2 120's, one 100, a 70 and a couple 60's.

Also attached is the 1951`60t peerless with the shovel and shear attachment on it. Close to a 100 ton gross load.

[Sharky]

:bash

[Sharky]

:usa

[OCR]

Really nice pictures Sharky... another thing, and I don't know what time of year the pictures were taken, is your weather and terrain.

On any given day from late fall, to early spring... if I were some how transported to your area... and didn't know it... I'd swear I was within a
quarter mile of where I sit right now.

It's amazing how similar every thing looks.

Keep the pictures comming... :thumbsup... :thumbsup


OCR

[stepp3360]

Sharky,
I really appreciate you posting these extra pictures. I'm a fan pf Peerless lowboys.

Never made it to the Panhandle area in all my years in Alaska, sorry to say.
Thanks,
john

[Sharky]

I enjoy taking pictures, however, I just recently got the digital a few years ago. I have hundreds of others in boxes from over the years that just take up space, I wish I could transfer them somehow. I have some good ones.

The one posted here, came out of Kake originally I believe, the other (With the addition above the gooseneck) is one that whitestone logging used for years, and when they sort of went belly up, we got it. Nice trailers, except when you gotta fix a flat, and being the tire guy too, I did several:mad:

You gotta be on the ball on most of the logging roads we use them on. Average width was 14-16' with turnouts. At 14' wide, it dont leave much room for error. We had a mechanic flop out portable Extec jaw off the side of this one when he got too close to the shoulder.:Banghead

Here is an 8R I was moving with it at the Greens creek mine.

OCR, these are all S.E. pics, Similar to montana in some ways, except elevation, Most mountains here rairly exceed 3500'. And if they are any higher, nobody ever goes there.

[RonG]

Scanners are cheap these days Sharky.You can scan pictures or negatives with a transparency adapter.Many folks are just taking photos of their old pics with a digital camera too and I have seen some good results from that effort.Hope to see some of yours,I do enjoy seeing the older equipment in use.Ron G

[Iron Horse]

This is a 280 hp M.A.N i used to drive when i was 18 , 49 now . This load is two pieces of the head of a tree , the center of the tree was a 1 log load and the butt was a 1 log load , 3 loads from the 1 tree . There was a big "greenie" march in our town , they where trying to stop us logging . My truck and the other two parked in the middle of the parade end to end in defiance , if looks could kill i would not be typing this .

[Wolf]

Iron Horse:

That is one heck of a tree. How old do you think that tree was, and what kind of tree is it? I think that is so funny how you handled the "greenie" march against logging. I guess you gave them a good look at the tree, considering they had probably never been out of the city and into the forest to know what they were talking about. Good for you. Have you had any other good encounters with the "greenies" since then.

[Iron Horse]

Wolf , from memory it was a Black Butt . I could tell a few stories about "Greenies" . A couple that spring to mind , a Dread Lock headed grub of a thing decided it would be a cool idea to dig a hole in the middle of our main access road . I'll give him one thing , he was a good worker . He had dug a hole 6 feet deep and stood a concrete pipe on it's end in the hole .The forestry was going to put it and another under the road end for end for drainage . He got inside and chained himself to the lifting eye so our trucks could not pass . One of our old guy's who had a zero tolerance and would put you on your back in a heartbeat tipped the sugar out of his glass jar and walked into the bush . He came back with that jar filled with very angry Bull Ants and tipped them into the hole . Old mate in the hole was yelling out in pain and the funniest thing was that his stupid mates could'nt find the key to the lock .:D:D Another clever chap cut 3 poles about 20' long and made a tripod and made a nest for himself at the top of it . He was sitting at the top giving cheek to some pretty hard truckies at the bottom . It was only a matter of time before one of them grabbed the bottom of 1 pole and walked away , gravity is a wonderfull thing .:drinkup

[Wolf]

Wolf , from memory it was a Black Butt . I could tell a few stories about "Greenies" . A couple that spring to mind , a Dread Lock headed grub of a thing decided it would be a cool idea to dig a hole in the middle of our main access road . I'll give him one thing , he was a good worker . He had dug a hole 6 feet deep and stood a concrete pipe on it's end in the hole .The forestry was going to put it and another under the road end for end for drainage . He got inside and chained himself to the lifting eye so our trucks could not pass . One of our old guy's who had a zero tolerance and would put you on your back in a heartbeat tipped the sugar out of his glass jar and walked into the bush . He came back with that jar filled with very angry Bull Ants and tipped them into the hole . Old mate in the hole was yelling out in pain and the funniest thing was that his stupid mates could'nt find the key to the lock .:D:D Another clever chap cut 3 poles about 20' long and made a tripod and made a nest for himself at the top of it . He was sitting at the top giving cheek to some pretty hard truckies at the bottom . It was only a matter of time before one of them grabbed the bottom of 1 pole and walked away , gravity is a wonderfull thing .:drinkup

Great stories. You really put those greenies in their place. That is too funny. Any more good stories like that? Did they ever stop your logging? Probably not--the trees come down in the end, so what is the point of all their nonsense?

[OCR]

a Dread Lock headed grub of a thing

:pointlaugh :falldownlaugh



OCR

[Dwan Hall]

OCR you from any ware around the Flathead? I know that area sure looks a lot like here except it is a bit dryer. I have seen some big loads there in my time.

Sharky, is there still any old equipment around Whitestone? I was told there use to be an old AW grader out there that belong to Bicknell.

[OCR]

OCR you from any ware around the Flathead? I know that area sure looks a lot like here except it is a bit dryer. I have seen some big loads there in my time.

No Dwan... I live on the other side of town... :) _______ State of course... ;)

Just a bit east of I-90... and just a little more east of the Big Horn Mountains,
about 20 miles from the Wyoming border.

I actually live in what is called " The Wolf Mountains ".

Now don't you go and try tracking me down with Google Earth... :nono... :laugh

There's kinda' a micro climate in a small area here and we have some good
ponderosa pine... probably not like your area... but I've cut a lot of 30 inch
DBH...and some bigger. Another thing is, they're tall and straight, few limbs... not bull pine, like in a lot of the rest of the area, a little farther away.

Take care,


OCR

[OCR]

Dread Lock headed grub of a thing

Just saw that again Iron Horse... that's almost too good of a description.

I think I'll remember that for a long, long time... :laugh... :laugh


OCR

[Iron Horse]

And that's the politically correct term for them ...

[OCR]

And that's the politically correct term for them ...

Gotcha, Iron Horse,

And, too good just means; you couldn't have said it better... politically correct ... or other wise... :thumbsup... :thumbsup

How did the... grub of a thing... :laugh... :laugh... ever get out of the pipe?



OCR

[Sharky]

OCR you from any ware around the Flathead? I know that area sure looks a lot like here except it is a bit dryer. I have seen some big loads there in my time.

Sharky, is there still any old equipment around Whitestone? I was told there use to be an old AW grader out there that belong to Bicknell.

I dont recall seeing one, though we did haul alot of scrap out of there, it may have got loaded on one of the many bargeloads. I worked for Bicknell back in 92,93 and remember the old AW they had then, wonder if it is the same one your thinking of. Most of their old iron got sold, went to Afognak, or we scrapped it. Barney got the rest of it after he bought the shop and stuff. I have some old Pacific log truck pics and a few 850 K Dubs that were still around a little over a year ago.

[Iron Horse]

How did the... grub of a thing... :laugh... :laugh... ever get out of the pipe?



OCR

:D:D One of the stupe's realized he was the one trusted with the key and unlocked him .

To get an idea of how far these vermin will go , a guy from different logging company tried to push a track around a similar blockade so the trucks could get through . Another grub got up into the tree so he could'nt push it over while his breeding partner put her baby behind the track so he could'nt reverse the tractor . Grub in the tree then proceeded to urinate on the bonnet of the dozer . I think if it were me i would have dug a big hole for the caring parents and taken the baby to a orphanage .

[OCR]

:D:D One of the stupe's realized he was the one trusted with the key and unlocked him .

To get an idea of how far these vermin will go , a guy from different logging company tried to push a track around a similar blockade so the trucks could get through . Another grub got up into the tree so he could'nt push it over while his breeding partner put her baby behind the track so he could'nt reverse the tractor . Grub in the tree then proceeded to urinate on the bonnet of the dozer . I think if it were me i would have dug a big hole for the caring parents and taken the baby to a orphanage .


:falldownlaugh... probably forever... :laugh... :laugh


OCR... :laugh

[Paul W]

Sharky, I thought that trailer with the rack on the front looked familiar..... I worked for Whitestone in the '90's.... Didnt know they had gone under. Sad thing to hear. Worked with some really good people. Whitestone has just started logging at Kake when I moved on..... Probably '99 or 2000....
I remember the name you mentioned "Greens Creek Mine". Always sounded like a good outfit to work for. Is there still much logging going on in Southeast? I'll have to see if I can dig up some of my pics.... Paul

[danocheese]

Couple of greenie stories:

I was doing some communications work out in Quincy California and the manager told me about an episode. The greenies steal a brand new Fo service truck Yank down a gate and drive 14 miles up to the top of Claremont. They then take a saw and notch all three legs of a joint UP railroad/Forrest service wood tower. They break into the communications room and take an axe to the equipment. No train dispatches and worse no cable TV for Quincy. They then drive the truck back down to the gate dropping trees behind them as they go. The last deed was to pull the oil plug and let the truck run.

I received a ticket from the Kaliphoney pine cone cops for cutting 14 small trees instead of 11 as the permit said. Funny thing is 6 weeks later they cleared the lot for a building and cut the rest. I had to pant two trees to recover the mistake.

[thejdman04]

Great pics