Logging Equipment Pictures

[skyking1]

that looked stinky!

 

[camptramp]

that looked stinky!

The "Smoke" you see is actually steam . Most Off Highway Logging Trucks are equipped to apply a small stream of water on to the outside brake drums to keep the brakes cool when traveling down hills that require braking . You will notice there is more steam coming off the trailer brakes than the truck brakes . The driver sets the trailer brake hand valve to keep a set amount of braking on trailer and uses the engine brake and / or retarter to do most of the braking on tractor , using enough braking on truck to keep the brake drums warm and holding . By using more trailer brakes it keeps the shop crew happy , as its usually easier to reline trailer brakes than truck brakes . In Winter weather the same truck would travel down that hill loaded a lot slower without using water , as the water would cause the road surface to ice up .

 

[treemuncher]

I did not see the first chain or binder on that rig while on the road.

I may be guilty of using too many chains but I never move anything unless it's been bound down to the carrier, tightly. I suppose life is different in the bush on private land.

 

[Mike L]

 

[Mike L]

 

[Mike L]

 

[Tugger2]

I did not see the first chain or binder on that rig while on the road.

I may be guilty of using too many chains but I never move anything unless it's been bound down to the carrier, tightly. I suppose life is different in the bush on private land.

Out in the bush here you generally dont want the machine to drag the truck and the lowbed down a mountain side when things go wrong. Those things will never move on road where there could be other people traveling.

 

[Camshawn]

Came around a corner on a wide bush road on Northern Vancouver Island with the truck and camper and a there was a low bed and log loader coming towards us. The lighting on that old very large log truck had all be updated to LED light bars and even in the bright sun........that was a small road. One has to see up close and personnel to get the full measure of the size of the off-road trucks.
Cam

 

[camptramp]

In the following pictures are of an Off Highway HDX Hayes pulling an Off Highway lowbed with an American 7220 Log Loader on board . Which was tied to the lowbed with a heavy duty turn buckle connected to center of track frame on loader to a tail hold welded to the goose neck on lowbed just above deck of lowbed . The driver hit the corner to fast , the loader "laid over" as it got to the point of no return , the "King Pin" pulled out of the "5th wheel table" on the truck . The HDX Hayes remained up right , but the log loader ended up in the ditch on its side , still tied to the lowbed . When I first seen it the lowbed was standing up on its side still tied to the loader . By the time I got back with a camera , they had used the Washington TL 6 to secure the lowbed while a welder cut the turn buckle.

 

[DCT]

My old by todays standards that I’m running everyday

 

[DCT]

I grew up on this old 955 my dad put together and after my dad passed I was able to buy it from his estate, haven’t used it much other than digging stumps out of my backyard and remembering the good old days when I was a kid riding on it.

 

[hoechucker]

I grew up on this old 955 my dad put together and after my dad passed I was able to buy it from his estate, haven’t used it much other than digging stumps out of my backyard and remembering the good old days when I was a kid riding on it.

First machine I ever got to run was a very old 977. Hand clutch and a pony motor. That was probably 35 years ago. Damn if it didn't get me hooked. Now I went and did it to my kids. Vicious cycle