Humonguous off road logging truck (again)

[Okanagan]

A cougar hunter friend sent me this recently taken photo from Vancouver Island, along with some pics of a treed lion.  I posted some on these big trucks a year or two ago.  The man in this one gives some idea of size.  Pretty good sized logs as well.

[JohnP]

WOW!  Sure could make a lot of toothpicks.

[FinsnFur]

Wow!
I was told there's not a lot of hardwoods further north. What kind of trees are those, do you know?

[Hawks Feather]

One of the logs must have needed adjusting.   

Jerry

[Dave]

They must be 5-1/2 to 6 feet in diameter!

[Okanagan]

Douglas fir is the majority tree in that country and I'd guess that most of these are fir.   Spruce, hemlock and western red cedar are also abundant and they grow big as well. As noted, the big ones in this load are close to 6' diameter, very common size.   Fir over 8' are getting more scarce nowadays.   The really good old growth fir trees don't taper much for a long ways.   While elk hunting on the Olympic Peninsula I found a live spruce that I studied for awhile and decided that it is at least 14 feet diameter at shoulder height to me.  Near Port Angeles, WA there is a huge old cedar beside a back road that has a sign by it saying that it is 17 feet diameter.

Looks like he is losing a mud flap!

[Okanagan]

Note as to size:  the standard for those trucks is 16 feet of width between the bunks.  That load of logs is 16' wide, inside the uprights holding them in.

[Okanagan]

Video gives size perspective.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roHUXKJhL6o&list=PL01644F9E200B572A&feature=player_detailpage

[FinsnFur]

Interesting!
Boy you better trust that guy on the Cat Loader

[Okanagan]

Interesting!
Boy you better trust that guy on the Cat Loader

!!!  That looked a lot more dangerous than I would expect.  I am surprised at how they released that load of logs.

Here's another one that shows how they load the truck and cinch it down.  At the 4:45 mark it shows the loader placing the cables and chains over the load, too high and too heavy to throw over.

[Hawks Feather]

I think that I will take a pass on unloading those trucks.

Jerry

[Okanagan]

Oops.  Didn't paste in the link.  4:45 is where they put wraps over the load.  Logging is dangerous!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIV11KXod3Y&list=PL01644F9E200B572A

Here is a video showing dumping the logs down a slide into salt water at about 1:50  into the video.  Check out the waterfall beside the log dump, shown about 1:40 I think.  about Such log skids into the water are common on Vancouver Island.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vth5lY6u7ZE&feature=player_embedded

[FinsnFur]

Interesting as "L".
That must be what Shelby's referring to when he mentions the "log raft"
I see they use pre-Christ trucks on the dangerous roads.  LOL