Pacific trucks in the logging industy

[skadill]

Took this at an Interfor sort yard in 93,while waiting to get unloaded next.Never saw the truck much after,It was a local truck,but either was sold or retirement i'm guessing.

[Hayesno1]

Pics of P16 preloder with huge lowbed - Cortenay BC 2005

[Hayesno1]

More P16 logging trucks, orange being scrapped has old type of fenders

[Hayesno1]

Pacific P16 preloader logging truck ex MB unit #H61 now used as tractor pulling lowbed

[skadill]

Pacific Dump Truck,taken last year,truck is still resting peacefully.

[075]

The bullet holes in the windshield are a nice touch

[KW850&T800H]

I've never seen those front wheels before, any difference with them against the normal ones?

[HDX]

H61 was originally a Kelsey Bay Division truck (MacMillam&Bloedel) was transferred to Northwest Bay Division around 2000-2001 as a low-bed truck The reason the front wheels look funny is because that truck sometimes runs on the Highway and because of the weight is over on the front axle They had to go to 16:00X25 tires for more weight distibution All these trucks had 14:00X25 tires but due to being used as a lowbed truck ,she has to cross the highway as well as travel on it from time to time (Empty of coarse) Thus the reason for the strange hub/tire arrangement Note the rear tires are still 14:00X25

[KW850&T800H]

H61 was originally a Kelsey Bay Division truck (MacMillam&Bloedel) was transferred to Northwest Bay Division around 2000-2001 as a low-bed truck The reason the front wheels look funny is because that truck sometimes runs on the Highway and because of the weight is over on the front axle They had to go to 16:00X25 tires for more weight distibution All these trucks had 14:00X25 tires but due to being used as a lowbed truck ,she has to cross the highway as well as travel on it from time to time (Empty of coarse) Thus the reason for the strange hub/tire arrangement Note the rear tires are still 14:00X25

Thanks for the info. That's an obvious answer. Very heavy, what is the unloaded weight? The TARE weight is it?

[trakloader]

Pics of P16 preloder with huge lowbed - Cortenay BC 2005

What the heck is that big framework on the gooseneck?

[trakloader]

Here, Nigel, a 1972 P-9.....

[trakloader]

The owner says this was one of the last Pacifics built.

[trakloader]

P-9 chunk truck.

[trakloader]

Two more P-16's, the huge backhoe in the background is a Komatsu 1100, undergoing conversion to a log loader.

[075]

What the heck is that big framework on the gooseneck?

ITs for power line clearance, when you are moving a grapple yarder say 144, you boom down on the bracket on the lowbed then you lower the gantry and it sits on the boom.And you get your clearance and still can move the lowbed. Otherwise you have to get off the lowbed and boomdown on logging truck trailer to get under the lines. Both of them are pain in the ass moves, the lowbed one just least painfull if you have many crossings.