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Recent content by Jumbo

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    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. They used to score them about a 1/32ed deep and about 2" in from the spline. Scoring them and putting the scored end at the hub reduces searching for parts in...
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    Overload of the Day

    Interesting how they define in practice "Quality Solutions Delivered."
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    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 artist. All are highly functional, but the "accoutrements" are just cool. I realize I'm being rather specific, since they are all pretty much fire tankers. A...
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    Broken rear axle Mack dump truck

    Yes, the shafts were the axles in our parlance.
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    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 trucks carried a set, you could change an axle in about 5 minutes if you had a shop modified axle. The truck shop had the machine shop score each axle about an...
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    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 money doesn't equal brains.
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    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 Libby MT. There is a photo of a '75(?) Pete pulling a 10 trailer train on the same mainline. it is something like a .02% favorable down to Libby. the background...
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    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 photo shot?
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    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 month before turning over the line to Tacoma Rail got the bright idea of cleaning out the ROW. Everything had pretty much been scrapped by then. All the fire cars...
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    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 and shoot him.
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    Overload of the Day

    Is that the dealer's truck???
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    "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 30"x40" x 96' one piece. It ran longer, but we could not measure the overhang outside. The ceiling joists and rafters were 4x12 on 16" centers. All rough cut, no...
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    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, no taper, the calculator says it is 79,184 pounds. Which seems a little heavy for the era. ('50s, early '60s) 68,000 being the "normal" weight with a permit...
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    Pacific trucks in the logging industy

    Just out of curiosity, what is the major reason for making off-set cabs. I drove a DM800 for a few years interchanging it when it was broke down with a R600 and I never saw or felt any reason to have an offset cab. Pacifics, Hayes, Mack all used offset cabs. The KW 848 I drove for a short moment...
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    Any brand log trucks

    Nope, that is a full load, 32s perhaps but a full load. Now, when you refer to a pup, I immediately think of a short logger trailer. What I'm seeing is two long log loads powered by the Pete in the foreground. You didn't need a lot of power, there was no adverse in those days it was always...
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