Oldtimer
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Out the door this morning.
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8,100 feet of white pine...
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imagineero
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That's pretty good, for an oldtimer
treeslayer2003
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way to go ot. they do look bigger in that pic. 8100 ft. big load, almost twice what we can haul.
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jrcat
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Nice job Oldtimer.
Oldtimer
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He was actually running down on the stakes to avoid DOT hassle. The biggest he has taken from my landing is 9,840'. The biggest he has ever put on that trailer is 10,400'. That was a little absurd, even he admits. But, he was running from his landing to the mill that was about 1/2 mile away- at night. I call him "Captain Greedo"....never leave a log behind.
DavdH
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We call the big loads off-highway loads, we can't go out on the public roads over 80k well I mean legal like.
treeslayer2003
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same here 4500ft bout as much as we can scale legal. I know some states go by axles
Fifelaker
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MI is one that goes by axles and we have the potholes to prove it.
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jrcat
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I have seen some dumps that came from MI at local auctions. I could not believe all the axles under those things like 3 pushers then the drives and a tag behind them. Most powered by little tiny M11's or C12's talk about under powered.
The truck in this picture has 4100 feet on which is plenty to be on the safe side. Its a 379 pete with a 550hp C15 cat and an 18speed.
Not the first time, either.
From Lewis County Sirens:
OOPS
• A load on a log truck struck the Chamber of Commerce Way overpass on northbound Interstate 5 in Chehalis yesterday afternoon spilling at least some of the logs onto the roadway. Troopers called about 4:15 p.m. cited the driver, Curtis G. Fasano, 50, of Chehalis, for carrying a load over the legal height, according to the Washington State Patrol. There was no damage to his Kenworth truck or the trailer, according to the state patrol.
From Lewis County Sirens:
OOPS
• A load on a log truck struck the Chamber of Commerce Way overpass on northbound Interstate 5 in Chehalis yesterday afternoon spilling at least some of the logs onto the roadway. Troopers called about 4:15 p.m. cited the driver, Curtis G. Fasano, 50, of Chehalis, for carrying a load over the legal height, according to the Washington State Patrol. There was no damage to his Kenworth truck or the trailer, according to the state patrol.
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jrcat
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OOps is right. Here in NY I think they call in engineers to make sure the bridge is still sound at the owner/operator expense I believe.
chaikwa
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Spoken by someone who has never been in New England! LOL!
Not meaning to pick on ya Fifelaker! I come from New England and the roads here in Michigan look pristine compared to those back east. I go back there twice a year and dread pounding my semi over those roads.
Fifelaker
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Do you ever get up north? This spring I seen some that would swallow a VW microbus.:hmm3grin2orange: One of the back roads to Traverse City I use had alot of abuse this winter. The oil field uses this road alot but I never seen the "Diesel Police" busting their nads during frost law time just freighters and little straight jobs. There ars some new patches that are all of 6' dia. in spots.
They already have plans to replace a girder in that overpass that was already damaged by last year's over height log truck.
Just about every bridge around here has a dent in an overhead support. Not from log trucks, but from the large yarders that used to be hauled around, sometimes at night.
chaikwa
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No, I don't get up north much. I was in Luther last week but that's about as far north as I get on a regular basis. I was in Muskegon a month or so ago. Roads weren't bad but the rest of it was kinda slimy.
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jrcat
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They already have plans to replace a girder in that overpass that was already damaged by last year's over height log truck.
Just about every bridge around here has a dent in an overhead support. Not from log trucks, but from the large yarders that used to be hauled around, sometimes at night.
I thought night was the only time to move large pieces of equipment lol
DavdH
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I don't remember a log truck hitting the over pass but it has been nailed by a lowbed w/ a heel boom on it (took out the first beam). Ya gotta lay that boom out or it can be over height. I've arrived at the landing to unload the loader and discovered miles of phone wire following!! The log trucks would have gotten them as soon as we started to load out because they were not high enough. They put them up higher when they replaced them.
Yup, phone lines are bad but try taking out all the cable TV drops for about thirty houses sometime and see what happens. It was a new service put in by a contractor and he didn't figure on loaded trucks on that back country road. Some of the drops were only 11 or twelve feet. The first 14 foot load of cold decked cedar ruined everybody's morning for ten miles.
Man, when those people couldn't watch Oprah, Judge Judy, and Say Yes to The dress they went absolutely insane.
