Highway log trucks.

[skadill]

LW Kenworth

taken a few weeks ago

 

[Sidney43]

I had to smile when I saw the picture of the log trailer backed off a bank and read that the loader had to walk three miles to get him pulled out. Back when I was working summers logging with my Dad in N. Calif, we were up above Callahan at the SW end of Scott Valley, about forty miles West of Yreka. We were logging up under a mountain lookout named Bolivar and did most hauling off of a new road built to modern (1960's) specs. However we had just moved out near the end of the sale and an older road down the hill that was built in the 1940's was shorter.

I was doing fire watch after the crew had gone home the first day we used the new road and was fueling a D7 when someone spoke to me and I just about jumped through the canopy, because there was not supposed to be anyone within fifteen miles or so. Turns out it was the last log truck driver who was loaded that day. There was a big switchback down about a mile and he had not swung wide enough before making the left hand corner. When he got his Pete stopped, only the drivers were still on the road and everything forward was sticking out over thin air. He was a little white around the gills, but we walked the Cat down to where he was sitting and hooked some chokers around the trailer. He clambered gingerly up on the drivers and forward into the cab and told me not to pull too hard because that would pull the trailer out from under the load. I pulled while he reversed and we got him back onto solid ground and then he was off down the hill.

It made a great story that night where we were staying and I felt pretty proud as a 17 year old kid. Sorry no pictures to show, as there was no camera and the driver declined to re-stage the event for posterity.

 

[mahes111]

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[skadill]

Waiting and Wondering

A couple long parked trucks.taken last winter

 

[SPMiller]

 

[Hayesno1]

Some highway logging trucks from Vancouver Island

 

[Hayesno1]

2 logging trucks - KW and Western Star - from Fort St. John area - Northern BC

 

[KW850&T800H]

I was just in FSJ 2 days ago!

 

[JeremyM70]

Anderson Logging trucks

Nice looking KW's owned by Anderson Logging of Fort Bragg, CA

 

[gologit]

Just an average load of California cedar

Headed for Oroville. July 2011

 

[bryanparsissons]

how do i insert photos guys?

 

[KW850&T800H]

The Mack logs every once in a while.

 

[jackd]

Great Line-up.

I've never been too thrilled by the highway truck end of things - I saw them as the reason for the end to the bigger trucks, but this line-up of loaded trucks in the yard caught my eye. At Mesachie Lake.

 

[95zIV]

Here's one I used to run, Highway, off road and railroad:

 

[bryanparsissons]

nice westernstars................

 

[rangerthug]

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[SPMiller]

One of our two Kenworth Loggers retired to Lowbed duties. This ones delivering a brand new 350-8, hour meter rolled over 150 this afternoon. It's getting double shifted we've had it 8 days. I'll try and snap a picture of the other kenworth, it looks a little more BA.

 

[Tinkerer]

how do i insert photos guys?

Here is a link to a detailed thread on how to post pictures.

https://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/showthread.php?2284-Posting-pictures.

 

[Kiwi Logger]

Just a couple of pics on our job the other day not that great as was raining pretty heavy.

 

[skadill]

Old Western Star

Shared pic