Any brand log trucks

[skadill]

 

[skadill]

last of the shiny Westerns stars

 

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"Boulder " Bill Elliot Collection

 

[Hank R]

 

[skadill]

 

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This "Jewel" had the emblems of Autocar , GMC , Volvo and White on it . They took the worst components of 4 makes and put them in one truck . The only good thing about it was the 3406 Cat and the 18 seed trans . It would have made a great Furniture Van , it had a wide cab for a driver and two swamper's . It rode on gravel roads like a buckin bronco . You didn't wear a seat belt for safety , you wore it to stay in the drivers seat .

 

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"Boulder" Bill Elliot Collection

 

[Birken Vogt]

I also once saw a White/GMC/Volvo/Autocar. It was a dump or water truck (can't remember) for the USFS in eastern Oregon. Something the govt would buy.

 

[Jumbo]

This "Jewel" had the emblems of Autocar , GMC , Volvo and White on it . They took the worst components of 4 makes and put them in one truck . The only good thing about it was the 3406 Cat and the 18 seed trans . It would have made a great Furniture Van , it had a wide cab for a driver and two swamper's . It rode on gravel roads like a buckin bronco . You didn't wear a seat belt for safety , you wore it to stay in the drivers seat .

I like the subconscious typo; 18 seed trans. It would appear that 18 seeds would match the rest of the truck from the description.

 

[camptramp]

A spelling error LOL . It had some kind of a torsion bar under the back of the cab and it rode terrible . The truck was leased to Timberwest , I made my trips with it , I did okay with it for hours , so the owner did okay too . Eventually he replaced it with a new Mack . During the 1990's we were usually on Off Highway Log Trucks hauling into Honeymoon Bay DLS , but there were some area's that were being logged and the timber was being hauled on the highway to the Shoal I. DLS with "lease-a-wrecks" eventually everything was hauled on Highway Trucks to Shoal I. and we ended up on new Western Stars .

 

[Truck Shop]

The Volvo/White/GMC combination produced some of the poorest designs ever. And tough to get
parts for later.

 

[Hank R]

 

[Old Doug]

The Volvo/White/GMC combination produced some of the poorest designs ever. And tough to get
parts for later.

A place i worked at had one that had been a glider. It was put together out of well used parts. The axles were worn bad were the bearings rode will had a lathe that could handle them so we welded them up and turned them down. I think it had 3.40 gears with a 13 speed we run it in direct most of the time i put a few pistons and sleeves in it from guys lugging it in OD before we went to 4.11. I never liked the cab but we took care of it keeping up on repairs and it ran alot of trouble free miles.

 

[skadill]

 

[camptramp]

A place i worked at had one that had been a glider. It was put together out of well used parts. The axles were worn bad were the bearings rode will had a lathe that could handle them so we welded them up and turned them down. I think it had 3.40 gears with a 13 speed we run it in direct most of the time i put a few pistons and sleeves in it from guys lugging it in OD before we went to 4.11. I never liked the cab but we took care of it keeping up on repairs and it ran alot of trouble free miles.

I made my trips and I never had any trouble with it . But I won't even get in the cab of another one .

 

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Note the Hayes on the left , that is Rich Bennett's Hayes before he had the bigger loader mounted on it and the tandem front steering axles installed to handle the extra weight on the front axle .

 

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"Boulder" Bill Elliot Collection

 

[Hank R]