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    Jumbo replied to the thread Broken rear axle Mack dump truck.
    Looks like a break on a Weyerhaeuser truck with the scored axles. It obviously isn't because you cannot see the indent of the scoring...
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    Jumbo replied to the thread Overload of the Day.
    Interesting how they define in practice "Quality Solutions Delivered."
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    Jumbo replied to the thread Water Truck Chassis.
    Personally, I prefer any old off highway log truck. Most seem to have shop built tanks which seem to exhibit some mechanic's inner...
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    Jumbo replied to the thread Broken rear axle Mack dump truck.
    Yes, the shafts were the axles in our parlance.
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    Jumbo replied to the thread Broken rear axle Mack dump truck.
    I bet it is an axle. At Weyerhaeuser with the Macks from '73 into the '80s, we broke axles regularly. They were a weak link. All the...
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    Jumbo replied to the thread Overload of the Day.
    He does do a good job of building tension although I pretty much knew the end event when I watched the loading.... Just more proof that...
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    Jumbo replied to the thread Any brand log trucks.
    Braking was my real curiosity. The photo from the background was just south of the old Jennings reload headed towards Ripley north of...
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    Jumbo replied to the thread Any brand log trucks.
    I've never seen that one. So, he is "pulling" down grade in pine country. Just what are they using for brakes? Or, is it just a static...
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    Jumbo replied to the thread TRAIN LOGGING.
    The reason there was a fire truck and not a fire car in the train was a result of this being a last minute plan. Weyerhaeuser about a...
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    Jumbo replied to the thread Overload of the Day.
    With a driver like that I would strip off any identifying marks I could. Not very good advertising.. Cheaper yet, just take him out back...
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    Jumbo replied to the thread Overload of the Day.
    Is that the dealer's truck???
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    Jumbo replied to the thread "Back in the Day".
    In 1978 I was working in the overhead of the Cornish School of Arts in Seattle. My journeyman and I measured the ridge piece that was...
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    Jumbo replied to the thread Any brand log trucks.
    Based on the idea that it is a coast grown Douglas Fir (guy is wearing rain gear like he lives in it) and it is a 32' log 96" both ends...
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    Jumbo reacted to Truck Shop's post in the thread Any brand log trucks with Like Like.
    Not sure but I think these two photos belong together. It's a IH West Coaster. *
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    Jumbo reacted to Truck Shop's post in the thread Pacific trucks in the logging industy with Like Like.
    One thing I can think of is frame width and the ease of matching up steering and clutch components possibly.
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