Radio Language

[slowp]

Things are slow here. Actually slow is an understatement. The snow level goes up, then it comes back down. Kind of an Ooooh, I can maybe get to there, and then Ahhhhhhhhh, I can't go where I was yesterday even.

So, I've got some time to spare for once. I've decided to dumb down my already low IQ and add an antenna to the pickup and put in a CB. No more running log trucks off the road, unless I want to.

My question is. Has the log truck lingo changed in 20 years? Or is it still Wallllll walll wal walllllllllll wa mile marker. Are there interestiing discussions about running the hippie van off the road? Killing the wife? These were a couple of exceptional discussions I remember that I could understand a bit of. Then the rest were Waaaaaaaaaal waaah mile loaded. :greenchainsaw:

 

[2dogs]

Learn Spanish if'en you want to use a CB down here. Not much air space during the day.

 

[Gologit]

Things are slow here. Actually slow is an understatement. The snow level goes up, then it comes back down. Kind of an Ooooh, I can maybe get to there, and then Ahhhhhhhhh, I can't go where I was yesterday even.

So, I've got some time to spare for once. I've decided to dumb down my already low IQ and add an antenna to the pickup and put in a CB. No more running log trucks off the road, unless I want to.

My question is. Has the log truck lingo changed in 20 years? Or is it still Wallllll walll wal walllllllllll wa mile marker. Are there interestiing discussions about running the hippie van off the road? Killing the wife? These were a couple of exceptional discussions I remember that I could understand a bit of. Then the rest were Waaaaaaaaaal waaah mile loaded. :greenchainsaw:

Sorry kid, same old stuff. Mile markers, sex, mile markers, food, mile markers, sex, mile markers, hunting, mile markers, sex, mile markers, fishing, mile markers, look out there's a piss fir at the five and they're too busy figuring which trees not to cut down to be watching where they're going so I ran em up the the bank,mile markers, sex, mile markers, look out the fallers are headed in/out...let 'em go. At least they watch where they're going. Mile markers.... Occasionally somebody will mention whether he's loaded or empty.
Occasionally somebody will attempt to direct the radio conversation away from the above listed topics. This is greeted with various primal utterances and grunts, hoots of derision and is usually obscene in content.
The haul rate is a big topic of conversation. It's never high enough. Ever. Road maintainance is another favorite...as in "If I wanted to buy a good lightly used road grader I'd buy it from...insert logger's name here...because they sure as hell don't use it much and this road is tearing up my truck"
Driver skill is another common topic...as in "I wouldn't hire that kid to drive a skateboard...he's all right foot, big mouth, and he came to work yesterday wearing a nose ring".

See...just the usual stuff.

 

[jeremym]

I have a scanner radio that listens to police, fire, planes, trains, and automobiles....and cb's. So when I get really bored with the accidents, fires, and car chases I will occasionally tune it to the scan the cb band. Today I followed a couple of log trucks on the freeway and they were having an actually intelligent conversation/debate about politics and world events without the usual "axmen" language. I was surprised to say the least.

My work vehicle has a small forest of antennas on it related to my employment and has govt. plates. I saw two dump trucks yakking on the CB and was nosy so I tuned in my scanner to their conversation. They saw the antennas, the govt plates, and the scanner in my hand and they assumed I must be the FCC even after the read the decal on the vehicle. They proceeded to make various colorful comments about what a waste of taxpayer money the FCC was spending drive around with antenna covered vehicles and harass truckers that were running illegal amplifiers and/or extra illegal channels such as themselves. I almost drove off the road laughing at them

Good times!

 

[slowp]

The one thing that has changed is the condition of the roads around here. They are so bad that there's no way a truck is going to get up enough speed to run you off the road. You'd have to try real hard to get run off the road.
Maybe park and direct them in to the right angle to do it., or paint a target on your rig. So I haven't bothered with a radio. But, I have to check more loads for proper branding and painting--so sayeth the auditors. I once tried to get a guy to pull over by turning the windshield wipers on, and to no avail. They tend to ignore me when they are heading down the road. Too much attention is required to avoid the holes, dips and rocks in the roads.

So, today we went down and bought an antenna. I got a radio that looks like the one I had 20 years ago. I've given in.

 

[jeremym]

Years ago we did some radio installs on-site in some log loaders, forwarders, and feller-bunchers up in the Weyco St Helens Tree Farm. I was in a van following one of the operators who was calling out the mile markers on the CB as we headed up towards the landing. Next thing we know a loaded log truck came rippin down the hill at us. We both went for the ditch as the truck went by. I had to get pushed out as I got my van stuck. We found out his CB had a bad mic or antenna and the log truck never heard him talking. Needless to say we got to the landing, fixed his CB, and tested it before we headed home.

 

[Gologit]

The one thing that has changed is the condition of the roads around here. They are so bad that there's no way a truck is going to get up enough speed to run you off the road. You'd have to try real hard to get run off the road.
Maybe park and direct them in to the right angle to do it., or paint a target on your rig. So I haven't bothered with a radio. But, I have to check more loads for proper branding and painting--so sayeth the auditors. I once tried to get a guy to pull over by turning the windshield wipers on, and to no avail. They tend to ignore me when they are heading down the road. Too much attention is required to avoid the holes, dips and rocks in the roads.

So, today we went down and bought an antenna. I got a radio that looks like the one I had 20 years ago. I've given in.

LOL...We really don't run FS workers off the road. There's so few of them in the woods anymore that it's kind of like seeing an albino deer or spotted owl...we just remark on it and drive on.
And it's not true that we use a point system for running them off the road or up a bank...1 point for summer help clear up to ten points for a sale administrator. Now we just measure tire tracks in the ditch and bumper marks
on the side hill and compare distances and depth of cut. Skid marks are a good indicator, too, except most of them never drive fast enough to leave any good marks...especially when you're following them in and they haven't looked in thier mirror for ten miles and don't know you're even there. Besides, the way some of them drive we don't have to edge them off the road...they do just fine at that all by themselves.
We do get extra points for towing them out of the ditch, though. Bonus points are awarded if the whole pickup comes out of the ditch at once.

Oh..did I say points? Never mind.

 

[hammerlogging]

We have chest radios where I'm working and the banter can be a good time. Plenty o' *** talking, gotta give it, gotta take it.

 

[slowp]

LOL...We really don't run FS workers off the road. There's so few of them in the woods anymore that it's kind of like seeing an albino deer or spotted owl...we just remark on it and drive on.
And it's not true that we use a point system for running them off the road or up a bank...1 point for summer help clear up to ten points for a sale administrator. Now we just measure tire tracks in the ditch and bumper marks
on the side hill and compare distances and depth of cut. Skid marks are a good indicator, too, except most of them never drive fast enough to leave any good marks...especially when you're following them in and they haven't looked in thier mirror for ten miles and don't know you're even there. Besides, the way some of them drive we don't have to edge them off the road...they do just fine at that all by themselves.
We do get extra points for towing them out of the ditch, though. Bonus points are awarded if the whole pickup comes out of the ditch at once.

Oh..did I say points? Never mind.

I thought about stamping a picture of a loaded log truck on my door for the one I sent into the ditch last winter. But we have no artists.:hmm3grin2orange:

I was able to check his load at a leisurly pace too.

 

[Roy M]

I had to use some radio language once.:hmm3grin2orange: I was monitoring the radio on a logging road as I was going up, this was normal procedure as the 'downs or 'loadeds' had priority and were to call their markers. I did call about every 6km or when I entered another road.
I met a gravel truck cutting a corner, he ran me off and never slowed down. I called him a :censored:rock jockey and asked him if he was waiting for somebody to invent the :censored:radio. No response. Grr.
Another time we were coming out and heard a 'loaded' calling. We were too tired to notice his numbers were going up, not down, and met an over wide low bed on the narrowest stretch of road during a heavy snow storm. Not fun at all.

 

[Kunes]

i hear people are switching over to there digital radios with a baziilion channels for a bazzilion dollars.

or just the cops and fire.:monkey:

 

[GASoline71]

You wanna hear some fun stuff... wait until a couple of logtruckers get on the highway, and start messin' with the over-the-road truckers on the "highway" channels... there's some inults from those conversations that would make a drill sergeant blush...

My uncle Hal was a master at messin' with the long-haul guys...

Gary

 

[Gologit]

You wanna hear some fun stuff... wait until a couple of logtruckers get on the highway, and start messin' with the over-the-road truckers on the "highway" channels... there's some inults from those conversations that would make a drill sergeant blush...

My uncle Hal was a master at messin' with the long-haul guys...

Gary

LOLOL...The highway haulers usually start it though, without meaning to. They call the log truck drivers " stick haulers" and boy does that get a response. That and turning onto the freeway after thirty miles of dirt roads, running it up to sixty, and blowing dust, dirt, pebbles, pine needles, and loose pieces of bark all over some freight hauler tends to really get things going. Having little pieces of Ponderosa bark stuck all over the front of their truck like little organic refrigerator magnets really riles up those boys from East of the mountains. Poor babies.

 

[slowp]

My IQ is now lower than it was before (see the flippy cap thread in chainsaw.) The radio was installed and another antenna is on the roof. Trouble is, there is nobody else out in the woods to try it out on.

 

[slowp]

I finally heard something on the CB today. It was a discussion about fishing and how it was all :censored:. They are dumptrucks and are not from here so don't call out where they are because they don't know where they are and they are using a different channel. But the radio has passed the test.

 

[2dogs]

My wife is a 911 dispatcher and when I was an engine captain we would have some pretty funny conversations when we were the only engine in the county on a call at three am. I played the annoyed fire officer with an Elvis voice to her crabby demeanor. Cal Fire, then CDF monitored the county channel and got so upset one night they lodged a formal complaint against me. CDF ended up talking to my wife who straightened it all out but for a few hours they thought they had my job.

 

[Roy M]

That is too funny.