The "Busted Up Loggers" Thread

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Logs piled up on the side of a dirt road.

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Bad? That looks like one passible road to me. I see no trees across it, no real ruts, and no water flowing over it. Looks like a lot of roads I have driven over in the coast range and the Cascades the past 5 years. I would just reach over and punch the 4WD button in my Tundra and roll on through.

That is one bad looking road, Better have some good tires. Looks like some of the roads around here.

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Bad? That looks like one passible road to me. I see no trees across it, no real ruts, and no water flowing over it. Looks like a lot of roads I have driven over in the coast range and the Cascades the past 5 years. I would just reach over and punch the 4WD button in my Tundra and roll on through.
Yeah, Ive seen a lot worse too. It just looks like it could have the potential to be really nasty. Especially if some heavy equipment rolled over it a few times.
 
Bad? That looks like one passible road to me. I see no trees across it, no real ruts, and no water flowing over it. Looks like a lot of roads I have driven over in the coast range and the Cascades the past 5 years. I would just reach over and punch the 4WD button in my Tundra and roll on through.

Looks like a fun road if it was on my property.
 
Looks like a fun road if it was on my property.

The ex-GF had about 3 miles of skid roads like that on her property. I tried to take pictures of how bad they were some years, but they just look flat and nondimentional. Like anyone's backyard. I had fun running them for about a year, in my truck and the Polaris ATV, then I got tired of the mud and having to rock the bad spots, and then re-grade them and brush-hog them, and cut the fallen trees off of them, and get the :censored: Ford PU unstuck from them, or the tractor... the ex-GF was good at getting the tractor stuck. Even a 4WD Kubota :cry:

They are great to run when they are someone else's roads to maintain though!
 
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These machines amaze me.

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That is a great video...but they broke the stem...
 
you can smell a busted up logger a mile away by how much booze they been drunken:clap: me i know pain, blew both hips and knees out of socket when my spurs failed 120' up a tail hold i just rigged with tackle. had to crawl about 2 miles up a steep mountain to get to the truck to get a radio to get a ambulance to come get me. quit climbing after that, i climb once or twice a year for health reasonz. falling timber is no cake walk. had many close calls in the bush. pain is a thing you hope to never live with:givebeer:
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Bad? That looks like one passible road to me. I see no trees across it, no real ruts, and no water flowing over it. Looks like a lot of roads I have driven over in the coast range and the Cascades the past 5 years. I would just reach over and punch the 4WD button in my Tundra and roll on through.

Yes. That is the good section. The bad section was the steep switchback at the bottom. We all had to floor our pickups and get a run to make it. Sometimes it took more that one attempt, and then we were blading it with out pickups too. The log trucks had to be towed. Some rock got dumped in it but that just made it more interesting noise wise to be "blading." The new Chevy I got will blade more than the old Ford. :) No creeks nearby so mud wasn't hurting any fishies.
 
Well, then it was passible. Even in the bad stretch. On the ranch with the old Ford :censored: PU, I had to rev it up the muddy hill and slide back down 3 or 4 time before I got it over the humps. Even with the hubs locked. My Tundra has a far better 4WD system, and rarely has failed up many a bad road in the past 8years or so. Good tires makes a huge difference. I swear by Michelin LTXs. I have taken that thing on some pretty wild 4-wheeling rides too, including Moab, Utah. They are also great in the snow.

Roads here and where I lived last year were washed out left and right in the storms during and after the 'hurricane'. Go around a random corner, and a culvert was washed out in a draw, and 50 ft of road with it. Turn around, and try another route. A lot of roads are still closed now from those storms with the logging being 'light' this year.

Here in OryGun they have a saying: having a winch will get you stuck about 50 feet farther than you would have gotten stuck without one.
 
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On the ranch with the old Ford :censored: PU, I had to rev it up the muddy hill and slide back down 3 or 4 time before I got it over the humps. Even with the hubs locked. My Tundra has a far better 4WD system, and rarely has failed up many a bad road in the past 8years or so.

Something sounds wrong here..."even with the hubs locked." If you have manual-locking hubs and they AREN'T locked, it doesn't matter whether the transfer case is in 4WD or not...you are in 2WD.

The Ford and Toyota have identical 4WD systems (when the hubs are locked), but your Toyota probably has LS. That was an option on the Ford...how come you didn't get it?




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Something sounds wrong here..."even with the hubs locked." If you have manual-locking hubs and they AREN'T locked, it doesn't matter whether the transfer case is in 4WD or not...you are in 2WD.

The Ford and Toyota have identical 4WD systems (when the hubs are locked), but your Toyota probably has LS. That was an option on the Ford...how come you didn't get it?

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Yah yah... bash me for saying I locked the hubs, meaning it was in 4WD. Give me a :censored: ing :censored: break dude. The POS Ford has stone age locking hubs, and a lever to stick it into 4WD. Though that lever likes to slip out of 4WD. I did not buy it, it was the ex-GF's. I would have never bought a POS like that (I have owned far better Ford PUs).

The Toyota has a button on the dash that does it all. I have driven Fords that have a similar button, but off-road they are no match for the Tundra. Sorry. Ain't the same. The Tundra does not have a limited slip diff. I thought about getting one, but in reality they do not do that much and they are hard on the diff (I had one in my BMW and the diff burned up). Better off with a locking diff. I do not have a locker either though. No real need for it. Need a compressor, and all that crap. That truck as it is in 4WD will outrun a lot of other stuff on icy roads, and in mud, and a lot of other places. I have off-roaded that thing many many places all over the west, even in Moab. Moab Rim trail and Crane Creek. Also in deep snow it does great. It is as good as my Range Rover was off-road and in snow, without having to do all the repairs repairs (and I prefer part time 4WD).

But that Ford? Even a small rise in wet conditions and it fails. Has to have rocked roads and dry conditions, or it will skid and slip and get nowhere. POS... plain and simple. Newer ones are said to be better, but I have not driven any new models in the past few years. My Toyota is an '00 model, and it has 130k miles on it, and it runs like it was when I bought it new. I have never been stuck in it, or high-centered it. In low range it crawls out of anything. The tires are a key element, and the GF's Ford has some Toyo so-called AT MS tires on there. No good though. The Michelin XLT A/Ts are good tires, and I ran them on the Range Rover.
 
Yah yah... bash me for saying I locked the hubs, meaning it was in 4WD. Give me a :censored: ing :censored: break dude.

Can you point out where I "bashed" you? Cause if you can, I'll apologize.

But that Ford? Even a small rise in wet conditions and it fails. Has to have rocked roads and dry conditions, or it will skid and slip and get nowhere. POS... plain and simple. Newer ones are said to be better, but I have not driven any new models in the past few years. My Toyota is an '00 model, and it has 130k miles on it, and it runs like it was when I bought it new. I have never been stuck in it, or high-centered it. In low range it crawls out of anything. The tires are a key element, and the GF's Ford has some Toyo so-called AT MS tires on there. No good though. The Michelin XLT A/Ts are good tires, and I ran them on the Range Rover.

So you have crappy tires on the Ford, and you complain about it being a POS because it drives poorly on crappy tires? (Do I have that right?)




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