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Well, we got the truck all finished up, went to fit the pole in the bunks and had to move the loader out of the way..... never thought about the grapple bed and making sure we had enough room for it to sit in the bed right, since the last bunk is the same size cross tube.... long story short, this bed is 8" longer, so we split the difference front to back, which put the last bunk even with the rear of the frame, which changed the pivot point for the grapple bed. So now when you go to lower the boom, the grapple doesn't rotate around the tube right and catches. 🤦🏻 neither of us ever gave that a thought. So, we're going to have to lower the bed plate down. Which means I need to remove some wiring for the lights that go through a pipe that attaches to the bed plate.
Not a difficult job, but really put a damper on our mood. Guess it technically only matters when the truck is empty, and you can still chain the grapple down to the back bunk, but definatly not ideal. We'll fix it here this afternoon.
 
For strange things happing, this former Alaska Railroad GP49 wandered through WI 4 years ago:



On the scanner I heard the crew from that train talking to a eastbound it met a few miles away. The eastbound had a Quebec, North Shore & Labrador SD70ACu possibly rebuilt from a SD90 from BHP in Australia on it's way up to Canada.


Been a number of years since required but it still seems strange not to see a caboose
 
Had an interesting conversation with my son last night. He got home from school, basically tossed him in the car and ran down to my logging buddies place. Asked him how his day was, he said his teacher was sad because of the election. I was a bit p.o. about that, as I strongly feel personal politics have zero place in school out side of political science/ history class. He went in to say she just told them that this is how the system works, the person you vote for doesn't always get elected. My boy claims that was as much as she said. If so, I guess that's OK. Still kinda annoyed me, but oh well, glad it wasn't worse then that.
That seems ok to me if that's as far as it went. Would have been a good time to talk about elections, electoral college, polls and why they were wrong etc.
 
That seems ok to me if that's as far as it went. Would have been a good time to talk about elections, electoral college, polls and why they were wrong etc.
He's 6, so not really interested in politics just yet lol. All he knows is the guy dad voted for got elected or "in" as he keeps telling everyone.
 
Been a number of years since required but it still seems strange not to see a caboose



Not counting a welded rail/MW work train I've seen 2 or 3 cabooses on road trains, though most are DODX cabooses going somewhere. The caboose in the video belonged to the same railroad that owned the ex-Alaska unit.
 


Not counting a welded rail/MW work train I've seen 2 or 3 cabooses on road trains, though most are DODX cabooses going somewhere. The caboose in the video belonged to the same railroad that owned the ex-Alaska unit.

I pay attention as my father worked for CPR.
 
Drove the 68 today brakes are now great ,no more standing on the peddle to stop . I do like the 2 1/2 inch drop spindles and 3 inch drop springs up front . The rear has 4 inch drop springs and I’m contemplating a set of one inch drop blocks . View attachment 1217368
Looking good! It's hard to tell from this angle but I think it looks good as is. I prefer trucks that are a little higher in the rear so when there's a load in the bed it doesn't squat so bad. Damn fine truck sir!
 
Looking good! It's hard to tell from this angle but I think it looks good as is. I prefer trucks that are a little higher in the rear so when there's a load in the bed it doesn't squat so bad. Damn fine truck sir!
Thanks . This is a play truck the most in the bed will be a cooler and a couple of folding chairs
 
Mark, I agree. I like the way they look with a little rake to them. When I was a teenager we called that “the SoCal slant”

Looks nice just the way she sits
The kids like it a little backwards these days.....
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Well, the log truck is done! My buddy ended up, tieing down the grapple to the bed to get it inspected. He was thrilled with how the truck drove and Becker was very happy with the work we did.(the inspection guy.) We made the grapple fit it's bed after I got off work, and give her a bit of paint.
 
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