pictures of log loads then and now

[bigmac]

pictures of log and logs on logging trucks:biggrinbounce2:

 

[Husky137]

Times have changed I guess. Cool pics.

 

[turnkey4099]

Number 3 was typical of the loads coming out of the N. Fork of the Clearwater back in early 50s. They went right by our house.

Number 1; They still had one of those big ones on a display trailer showing up at county fairs back in the 40s and early 50s. Had a small office with window and door hollowed out of it.

Harry K

 

[SmokinDodge]

Bigmac you sure do have a lot of good ole pictures. Please keep postin!

 

[LightningLoader]

those are some unbelievable pictures. I have an old piece of cypress board that came from a tree almost that big around. It's hard to imagine trees that big around nowadays, especially here in Fl.

 

[LightningLoader]

how would they even go about getting such a big log onto a truck? Crane?

 

[slowp]

January, I believe. The snow is gone now. And, sorry, the truck is not loaded. But it was a rare, non-rainy day--unlike today.

 

[wdchuck]

Cool pics, the truck in #5 looks about the same vintage as in #1.

 

[bigmac]

more pictures of log loads

 

[Husky137]

A little top heavy in that last pic.:jawdrop:

 

[PA Plumber]

Cool thread: Thanks for posting.

 

[Wismer]

how would they even go about getting such a big log onto a truck? Crane?

In those days heavy duty cranes were rare

most likely a bulldozer pushes it up a ramp of logs leaned against the side of the truck and the log rolls up

 

[slowp]

I have an old photo of a 3 log load on a flatbed railroad car. There is a large crane, probably steam, in the background. The old grapple loaders could handle some pretty big logs. The guys that ran them had to be pretty coordinated. They didn't seem to bang up the trucks any worse than the guys running the hydraulic loaders do. But, they only had to load a few logs on a truck to get a load.

 

[Treeman587]

That is pretty cool. I need to go to the west coast. I wanna see some trees like that

 

[lawson's tree s]

wonder how much a load of those logs would bring at today's prices. 1 log would make alot of lumber.

 

[ray benson]

Michigan Log Trucks

 

[yooper]

Cool old West coast photos.

 

[Cedarkerf]

Thanks for sharing the pics.
Looks like they kill the trees in michigan before they can grow up.

 

[windthrown]

Logging trucks...

Amusing. I see so many logging trucks and logging operations here that I do not even think about them any more. Weird photos of the trucks in Michigan. 90 degree difference in loading than we have here in the west. We live in a small remove valley on a remote highway spur that turns to rock and dirt logging roads about a mile up the road from us. Last year when the price of doug fir peaked, there was a logging truck every 30 minutes. Mostly smaller stuff, but they also cut old growth around here. Every so often there will be a one, two or three logs per rig roll by. I still see a lot of the large logs being trucked up and down I-5.

 

[Husky137]

Weird photos of the trucks in Michigan. 90 degree difference in loading than we have here in the west.

Those are pulp logs.