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Highway log trucks.

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Choker man

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It used to be one hell of a show at the Bayshore when the major players put machines on display. That was back when the Tree huggers were not as active, or maybe the industry wasn't ramping up to logging standards and taking the extra step to show people how the wood got to be ready to assemble into houses. This is just my take on how I saw how things were going in the late 60's into the 70's. Vancouver Iron Engineering, Skagit, Northwest, and the rest of the players had rooms and deals were made then and there.
This is how I saw things coming down. You ran what you had and if at the end of the day you got in logs with an old Mack chain drive truck with a small tower on it and you still made money you were doing quite well.
 
Doug1966

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Some of my Highway logging trucks.

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If would like to see more check out www.dougsscaletruckreplicas.com Thanks. Doug.
 
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that last pic is a nightmare of mine. Never stand by and let them just pizz on the ground. find something ANYTHING to start plugging the holes with. Bark from the logs would be my FIRST go to in a panic.
 
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2 or 3 of the drivers from trucks waiting were smoking about 10 feet away. Apparently it's cold or something, so diesel ain't so combustible.
 
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Dualie

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Im sure its #1 diesel so its flash point is lower than regular diesel. I would be more concerned about the cost of the environmental cleanup of having to suck that fuel outta of the ditches and the snow.
 
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The diesel we get today is so close to water you can use up a box of matches trying to get a fire stared with it! A weed burner is about the best way to get it going, and even then you gotta be patient!
 
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Looks like they have spill pads on the ground down hill from the leak. Still slowing down or stopping the leak would be a good idea.
 
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Hiway truck that wants to pack wood like the off hiway trucks. The loader operator did get his pee-pee slapped from the truck foreman :rolleyes:
 

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Born2clearcut said:
Hiway truck that wants to pack wood like the off hiway trucks. The loader operator did get his pee-pee slapped from the truck foreman :rolleyes:
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Weyerhaeuser Snoqualmie in the mid ‘70s was down to only two off highway trucks of their own and three contract off highway trucks (Emrick if I remember correctly.) So, all the highway trucks us young guys drove (we never got out on the pavement for the first two or three years) were always loaded similar. We never came into the yard with less than 110,000 gross. This was done with late 60s KWs and a biscuit suspension along with 3-foot stake extensions. I came in once with 135,000 gross, it was a little tippy, others came in with more. It was what was expected of us. If you wanted to drive log truck, then that is what you did; or go back to the rigging.
 
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How did the trucks hold up to those kind of loads, any premature failures? They were designed for around 80,000 gross, so lots of stresses and strains on the frames and suspension, let alone transmission and rear ends. Of course when I say that, in Calif the truckers were limited to 78,000 and wanted to haul more, but they hated overweight tickets.
 
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Dualie said:
that last pic is a nightmare of mine. Never stand by and let them just pizz on the ground. find something ANYTHING to start plugging the holes with. Bark from the logs would be my FIRST go to in a panic.
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That reminds me of one of my 'favorite' days this summer ha ha!
 
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Sidney43 said:
How did the trucks hold up to those kind of loads, any premature failures? They were designed for around 80,000 gross, so lots of stresses and strains on the frames and suspension, let alone transmission and rear ends. Of course when I say that, in Calif the truckers were limited to 78,000 and wanted to haul more, but they hated overweight tickets.
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We were only hauling off road so laws were not an issue. As for breakage, hard to break a walking beam on biscuits, a 5X4 transmission was fairly indestructible also. We did see cracked frames although not a bad as the DM 800 Macks they had. I think Kenworth had better engineering then, all their people had to calculate with were slide rules. With CAD, you can engineer to just a hair above the breaking point. I would never want to do it with a “modern” truck. The trucks all had 250 Cummins, no adverse, all down hill. That also relieved some stress on the drive train.
 
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