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Beats the crap out of me, Came from photos marked 47.Post war Sterling, Vancouver Is. 1947.
Interesting seeing what appears to be a two way radio antenna in 1947.
Beats the crap out of me, Came from photos marked 47.Post war Sterling, Vancouver Is. 1947.
Interesting seeing what appears to be a two way radio antenna in 1947.
My first thought was they were moving ahead faster than we were here in the US. My second thought was that was a pretty rugged radio to survive in a truck like that. I know transistors were used back then, but they were moderately expensive.Beats the crap out of me, Came from photos marked 47.
Sterling was it's own in the those days, not a has been ford conglomeration. Rest assured the dashI wonder if the dashboard in those trucks fell on the floor like the newer models?
The M&B on the door stands for MacMillan & Bloedel , a company that was created in 1951 . So the picture is after 1951 . The radio antenna and base look to be like an early CB style. Most Trucks and Machinery of that era had "straight pipes" , due to fire hazards during Fire Season ( May - October ) Trucks and Machinery were reguired by Forest Service regulations to have Spark Arrestors on exhaust pipes . When mufflers with built in spark arrestors were developed in the 1960's , this policy was changed.Post war Sterling, Vancouver Is. 1947.
Interesting seeing what appears to be a two way radio antenna in 1947.
That guy couldn't give a crap he just wants those logs down the mountain. lolNow that looks safe. What could possibly go wrong?
Production first, production second and keep the equipment running third. There's no safety in those top three.That guy couldn't give a crap he just wants those logs down the mountain. lol
Some outfits started out on a low budget , a little haywire with less than premium equipment . Some survived and prospered . Some went broke and fell to the way side or worst . To appreciate what these fellows accomplished with what they had to work with , one would have had to work through the 1930's and 1940's in the "Woods" .That guy couldn't give a crap he just wants those logs down the mountain. lol
Judging from the trees in the background, it's Mississippi, Alabama or some similar southern tier state. There are no mountains. As far as safety goes though, he is operating a truck with cutting edge AC (pun intended) to combat the heat and humidity of those states. It does a great job of fending off heat stroke.That guy couldn't give a crap he just wants those logs down the mountain. lol
That's what I got out of it too, the man is making forward progress so nobody should be knocking him. I started out with $643, a worn out Toyota pickup and a chainsaw.One photo five replies, to me it's a guy working his a$$ off no matter where he's at.
You got to do whatever you can do to get by. Unfortunately today's society just wants to give you an EBT card and get your vote.In the early 80's I was between jobs, this guy I knew was a old faller. He had been injured and
hadn't worked for sometime. He knew of a stand of Larch in a area he had worked years before.
He had the saws I had the the 2 ton, we hauled 6 cored a day out and it was a distance to get
there. But that guy knew how to fall a tree, he had a few photos of when he worked the Olympic
Peninsula and the Oregon/Washington coast in the early 60's.