camptramp
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- Joined
- Aug 13, 2013
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- Location
- The warm land on Vancuver Island
- Occupation
- Retired Logger Retired Part time pebble hauler
Stopping to take a picture of a picture load is more of an exception , than an every day event . Many are the times , when I got to the DLS , the DLS crew were not pleased at some of the loads I hauled from Les Hillyard . I would return for my next load and Les would sheepishly say " that last load was to big " the DLS crew complained again . So Les would cut back the loads for awhile , then start sneaking a couple more logs per load again until he got told to cut back . Those loads and many others were never recorded on film .I can just imagine these guys, hey will you take a picture of me with this load?
Sure! It's more like family and less like company out in the camp life.
It is a Wagner and it looks like a L90 model but I have been wrong beforeIs that an L90 Wagner having to split a load?
I'm not sure what size of a Wagner it is , it use to take 3 bites to unload most "Off Highway" trucks 16 foot bunks and 8 foot stakes "Peaked up" . Part of that reason being that the operator would try not to spear any logs trying to push the Forks through the load . That machine has no trouble lifting a load off a 7 axle highway truck . At one time the Caycuse Div. DLS hard a larger Wagner Stacker that could get its tusks around an Off Highway truck I drove with 13 6 foot bunks with 8 foot stakes with the load rounded off . The stacker would put its forks and tusks around the load and take a lift . It could not lift the load , but we would trip the stakes and the stacker would drag the load off the bunks . I'm not sure what an Off Highway load of logs would weigh , but we averaged 95 plus Meters per load . A highway tridem tridem use to average around 42 meters per load .Either way, why would it need to split a load? The L90 capacity is 90,000 pounds while the L120 is 120,000 pounds.
Within the Tree Farm license's we operated in , we ran on a VIH 2 way radio channel federally issued and controlled in that area . To legally use that radio channel required a letter of permission from the holder of the license . Some people that used the road net work on a regular basis would get permission and have the channel installed in their personal VIH radio , some others would fudge the system and have the channel installed . As access was uncontrolled to the Industrial Roads we used , there was a lot of tourist traffic . We have check points that we called out on our radio channel to keep track of where the logging trucks were , but one had to drive into the corners with the attitude that there would be a vehicle coming at you faster than road conditions would allow . Not often , but sometimes things didn't work out in every ones favour .No CB radio?