Birken Vogt
Charter Member
Lately I have been seeing a number of various fancied out log trucks around here that are not like anything I have ever seen before.
Petes with fancy flake paint jobs, polished aluminum/chrome all over, name/number printed on the fuel tank in fancy script that you cannot read with nothing on the door. Lower profile tires, and a headache rack that holds the stinger where the sides slope down/out rather than in so it is not seen as much.
My question is why would somebody go to all that trouble for something that gets beat through the woods, and how do they keep them so clean? They must spend hours washing them in the dark after work, or maybe in the heat of a hoot owl afternoon.
It seemed like in the past log trucks were strictly utilitarian, with the expectation that they would be beat to death before they got real old, and the independents' trucks were usually second hand and more so than company trucks.
Petes with fancy flake paint jobs, polished aluminum/chrome all over, name/number printed on the fuel tank in fancy script that you cannot read with nothing on the door. Lower profile tires, and a headache rack that holds the stinger where the sides slope down/out rather than in so it is not seen as much.
My question is why would somebody go to all that trouble for something that gets beat through the woods, and how do they keep them so clean? They must spend hours washing them in the dark after work, or maybe in the heat of a hoot owl afternoon.
It seemed like in the past log trucks were strictly utilitarian, with the expectation that they would be beat to death before they got real old, and the independents' trucks were usually second hand and more so than company trucks.