Not the most sensitive log hauling I've ever seen but what the heck.........get those logs to the mill. 
The Unstoppable Ural 4320 Off-Road Truck
Take care.
The Unstoppable Ural 4320 Off-Road Truck
Take care.
How To Cut Roadbuilding Costs.......vid..
- Thread starter Dave Hadden
- Start date
Help Support Arborist Forum:
Rookie1
Addicted to ArboristSite
They look like they could go anywhere.
This vid must have been posted 100 times on AS.
Nope, only about 95 times, ya old grouch. :smile2: Still fun to watch though. The guy that became a human counter-weight...now that is dedication. Or something.
Can you imagine Cal Fish and Game's reaction if we drove through streams like that?
I was thinking something similar. Evidently the Far East is the new Wild West.
coastalfaller
ArboristSite Operative
From what I hear.....absolutely it is!!
RandyMac
Stiff Member
Road trip anyone?
imagineero
Addicted to ArboristSite
I'm with ya!
6x6 all the way. Either that, or a minsk.
Wait... I just had a flashback of going to vladivostok in the the late 90's or maybe it was early 2000. Coldest winter in years, and the ocean froze over in places. Someone sucked all the color out of the landscape, and it was highly depressing. Police and mafia were hussling for bribes everywhere. The 'foreigner' price for everything was about 100x over the local price. I kept my mouth shut and tried to look russian. Worked a few times.
Loved that minsk though.
RandyMac
Stiff Member
I know just enough Russian to get slapped, shot or stabbed, so I'm not likely to pass as a local.
Our Finnish friend could sneak us in.
Our Finnish friend could sneak us in.
Samlock
Addicted to ArboristSite
I don't pass a local either. I speak Russian with an accent. But I have a good idea what the things are worth in the modern Wild East. Everything there has a price tag on it. Including your ass.
But, unless your ass is worth a lot, the only thing you have to worry about these days is the police. The corrupted cops want to have a piece of everything. They can make you pretty slick tricks and some of them are ready to give some shaking with their sub-machines. That's not a big deal. You just need to know how far they're ready to go.
Samlock
Addicted to ArboristSite
We'll need blue jeans and Marbs for bartering
That was 20 years back. We used to wear 3-4 pairs of jeans and pockets full off chewing gum on the way to USSR. The Soviet custom officers were extremely suspicious. I guess they thought that Finlanders feed their children quite well.
Now it's just cash.
Joe46
ArboristSite Guru
Neighbors boy was apparently banned from visiting Russia. He was a merchant marine on oil tankers. He was black marketing Levi's. Not sure if it's a true story or not, but if he was any thing like his Dad it's believable.
Samlock
Addicted to ArboristSite
C'mon man, don't kill my cold war buzz
Oh, apologies.
Here's a footage I like a lot. It's about an ordinary working day of the Ural truck drivers. They're basically picking up a load of timber. Well, a lot of things may happen on the road. Very realistic. I don't know the people who made this video, nor the exact location. That's what the things look like in nowadays Russia outside the cities. Roads, trucks on their sides, grocery, landing, everything. And that's exactly the way the things go out there. Not extremely efficient, yet somehow things are always working out.
[video=youtube;RmtopKjHDOk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmtopKjHDOk&feature=related[/video]
While ive never personally gone to russia, my cousin has been there maybe 15-20 times and i never heard of any problems with cops or anyone for that matter... He was in the european part of Russia though: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tambov, and Rostov i can think of the top of my head, Siberia and the far east could be different and maybe background plays a role to...
Steve NW WI
Unwanted Riff Raff.
I've done some semi-crazy stuff in a 5 tonner, but those guys are nuts!
Where do I sign up?
Where do I sign up?
Samlock
Addicted to ArboristSite
Tell your cousin he's a lucky bastard. And he didn't miss anything.
Yeah, the cops like messing out with the plebs, alright.
KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
Not the most sensitive log hauling I've ever seen but what the heck.........get those logs to the mill.
The Unstoppable Ural 4320 Off-Road Truck
Take care.
The road building brick wall I keep returning to like a fly's repeated suicide attempts against a closed window has my head wondering if those guys wouldn't mind a working vacation in NZ. How much would their trucks cost excess baggage?
