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  1. J

    Any brand log trucks

    Looking at the Reading Railroad boxcar in the background makes me wonder if those aren't mine stulls for the coal mines of Pennsylvania, Ohio or someplace similar.
  2. J

    Overload of the Day

    You are correct in your basic observations. It is much more complicated than that though. The causes of these transportation woes date back to the Staggars Act of 1980 for the RRs and The Motor Carrier Act of 1980 for trucking. Hundreds if not thousands of PhD dissertations have been written...
  3. J

    Overload of the Day

    I'm guessing in the late '30s here in Washington. I have a book written by one of the first truck loggers out of Peshastin WA. He hauled out of Ingalls Creek down what is now US 97. He never mentions scales until just before the war. Then he complained inconvenient they were to making a profit.
  4. J

    Hayes trucks in the logging industry

    Either 18" or 24" stakes. The first move from cheeseblocks. Timber is getting "smaller".... Good photo.
  5. J

    Overload of the Day

    Neither could anybody else in the building. the echo of the crash brought close to 500 instantaneous lookie -lous from all over the building. And that was before the cell phone, so no viral photos.
  6. J

    Overload of the Day

    The comment reminds me of a dumpster inside a Boeing building during the 757 ram-up. A laborer had filled the dumpster with concrete rubble, closed the doors and called for a haul out. Driver arrives grabs the dumpster and starts to pull it up onto his truck. Truck and dumpster fall over...
  7. J

    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...
  8. J

    Overload of the Day

    Interesting how they define in practice "Quality Solutions Delivered."
  9. J

    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...
  10. J

    Broken rear axle Mack dump truck

    Yes, the shafts were the axles in our parlance.
  11. J

    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...
  12. J

    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.
  13. J

    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...
  14. J

    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?
  15. J

    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...
  16. J

    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.
  17. J

    Overload of the Day

    Is that the dealer's truck???
  18. J

    "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...
  19. J

    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...
  20. J

    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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