Your Lowboy Pictures Wanted

[mike in idaho]

Not too bad, it did take the rest of the day.

 

[JDOFMEMI]

I would say if you made it with everything still shiny side up you were doing good.

 

[mitch504]

Yep, reminds me why I live in the land of flat dirt

 

[JTL]

Where ya at in the Panhandle Mike? Looks to me like the Floodwood country. Im from up Sandpoint way.

 

[mike in idaho]

I'm a ways south of there, the picture was taken in the Maggie Creek drainage, off highway 12 east of Kooskia.

 

[Oxbow]

Sometimes it takes afew hours to get there and sometimes it takes all day:

Hindsight is wonderful isn't it Mike. May have saved time to unload and reload or just walk the machine farther. Oh well, without days like that you wouldn't appreciate the good ones as much. Starting to feel like spring around the Lochsa/Selway yet?

 

[Mike Mc]

Mikee, share the good stuff with us. Our curious minds want to know how you got the trailer back up on the road? Got any more pictures?

 

[Oxbow]

Yep, reminds me why I live in the land of flat dirt

That might strike some of us as boring! Steep ground - snow - life is good.

 

[mike in idaho]

We used a D6C cat, tied to the track frame to hold it from tipping over, then swung the house around and put the bucket on the ground below the road. Tipped the machine up on its nose, on the edge of one track, pulled the trailer out from under it sideways with the cat.

 

[JTL]

I'm a ways south of there, the picture was taken in the Maggie Creek drainage, off highway 12 east of Kooskia.

Gottcha. If you work for who I think you do, you might know my old friend Todd Osborn. He run shovel for them for a few years, but moved back to Sandpoint about a year ago. I met Todd 10 or 12 years ago when we worked together. Have another good friend that was down that way a couple years back cutting under that yarder in your pictures, then cutting oversize on the Cat crew.

 

[mike in idaho]

I haven't seen Todd since the day he quit. He was fun to be around and was a good hand to work with, we all miss him.

 

[CascadeScaper]

Cool photos. Lowboy work is something I feel like I should dabble in before the end of my career.

JTL - Empty your PM box, been trying to send you one but it says she's full up.

 

[bernardkennon]

Those Lowboy are very cool! My brother told me they are more used on heavy hauling services because they can carry heavy loads. I wish I can have those kind of trailers!

 

[HATCHEQUIP]

modified 465 komatsu bed going to birmingham al. we did 3 of these for steel mill

 

[JDOFMEMI]

Up in the woods again. Brought the little truck to nurse the Cat and drive home if I could not make it through the snow.



Taking 2 with me.

 

[mitch504]

Boy Jerry, you must have a lot of confidence in that pickup if you brought it in case the Cat can't make it through the snow!

 

[JDOFMEMI]

Good one Mitch.

The Chevy is to go home and rest while the snow melts.

 

[Truck 505]

Have you ever seen a paver special with a boom trough. This is the most versatile trailer I have ever pulled. It was brand new August 2012

 

[JDOFMEMI]

That looks handy. The wood looks too nice to let steel tracks on without mats though.

 

[Truck 505]

I have not torn it up yet. Sheep foot compactors are what tear up our trailers the worst even with belting laid on the deck. This trailer will never haul one though so that deck should last for a long time hopefully.