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camptramp said:
I totally agree with you . With 15-16 ft. bunks and 8 ft. stakes peaked up , it would take a good man to get a wrapper over the load , I used the loader to do the work . 14 ft. bunks and 6 ft. stakes peaked up I could do it . If you can get the chain over the peak , you could flip it and get it to fall down opposite side . A flat load like those Northern Alberta loads , It would be quite a feat .
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Believe it or not but i could throw a 5/16 chain over top of a load of cars stacked 2 high. I dont know why i never thought about using a rope to pull it over.
 
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1961 Pacific that was built as a 4 x4 arch truck for skidding logs and sold to a logging company in Clearwater, I heard that this truck hauled logs but I have not seen any pictures of that by looking at the back end I believe it did. This truck is still around until 2013 it was used as a water truck for the local stock car race track.
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My dad had a similar pacific a 65 I believe. It started life as an arch truck skidding logs.
It was fitted with 16' bunks. It did not do well in the steep coastal mountains as it had no
Jake and no water tank.

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Arch trucks were used in some parts of BC in the 60's Norm Simmons used 2 arch truck north of Prince George. His first one was a EX Mack iron ore mine truck and he built the Arch on it with a winch off a D-8, In winter near a lake when Ice was thick they used Arch trucks like skidders they would log above a lake and pull logs onto the ice near the lake they started grabbing gears to get a longs ways out then in the spring the logs would be floated down to the mill.14.jpg 4.jpg 6.jpg 7.jpg
 
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Somewhere within these threads is a LeTourneau skidder mounted on an ex WW II KW. I think it was used in Idaho. But, since I cannot find it, I cannot say for sure.
 
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Skadill has a YouTube video of a conversion unit that he found in the woods.

 
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Skadill have another video showing a different type which is more a forwarder than a skidder. This one looks like the unit in the Hemmings article above.

 
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I couldn't find anything about a Letourneau using a KW frame or using a KW cab.
 
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I have only seen 1 Letourneau skidder, and not close up. From what I remember it was a big ugly thing twice the size of anything else i ever seen it was down by the Port Mann bridge NW of bridge in a yard one could see from the highway .
 
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