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Any brand log trucks

kshansen

kshansen

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92U 3406 said:
I think its a Mack engine. Watched a video or read up on it a while back.
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I pretty sure it's a Mack E-9 not sure but somewhere I believe I heard that it was actually a Scania engine used by Mack. Years ago we had two Superliners with that engine. First one was going strong until a pick-up pulling a trailer crossed the centerline and hit the Mack head on. Hard enough to bend the frame crossmembers of the Mack. As you can imagine the pick-up driver did not survive.

The second Superliner a 1993 RW713 was bought to replace it and up till a year ago was still being run hauling heavy equipment and hauling road materials over the road. As of a couple days ago I learned it was just parked when driver retired and has been sitting unused.
 
camptramp

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Hallback said:
What is it?
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The #208 HDX Hayes hauled logs at Caycuse for a good many years . When it was retired from the log haul , it was repurposed for carrying a water tank for fire protection in summer and swapped over to a "sand truck" for Winter months . Any decent gravel can be poured into the box with a front end loader a grade shovel or excavator . The screens are "peaked " to allow finer sand and gravel to pass through into box and larger rocks to roll off to the side . The exhaust is directed through the box to keep it warm , the floor of the box is divided in the center and is sloped to the front to direct the sand out of a small opening on each side on to spinning disc's on each side spreading sand on road bed in front of truck "drivers" . The box can be lifted with a ram on the rear to control the amount of sand passing through the spinner's . With good sandy material it works very well . After a snow fall and roads were plowed , a dusting of sand got the logging trucks mobile again .
 
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