The forestry and logging pictures thread

[Dub11]

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Hey @chipper1 is this how your trucks roll in Michigan?

 

[Skeans1]

Hey @chipper1 is this how your trucks roll in Michigan?

All axles no gaps? Imagine the scrub on the tires.


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[Dub11]

All axles no gaps? Imagine the scrub on the tires.


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Hopefully it stays off paved roads.

 

[ajschainsaws]

Do you have an info on this machine? It’s an interesting setup


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Yes it sure is

 

[Skeans1]

Hopefully it stays off paved roads.

If it is a Great Lakes logger it’s be a highway truck, it’s weird to see logs piled sideways.


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[Dub11]

If it is a Great Lakes logger it’s be a highway truck, it’s weird to see logs piled sideways.


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Not sure of its location. I was just paging Brett since he used to drive trucks and Michigan has frost rules so the truck have 37 axles.

They all look skinny so maybe their fence posts?

 

[Skeans1]

Not sure of its location. I was just paging Brett since he used to drive trucks and Michigan has frost rules so the truck have 37 axles.

They all look skinny so maybe their fence posts?

A lot of that wood up there is pulp not much else you can do with it. How much of the wood back there can you get more then a straight 17’ log out of?


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[chipper1]

If it is a Great Lakes logger it’s be a highway truck, it’s weird to see logs piled sideways.


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They haul them like that sometimes, usually eight-axle doubles though, they get around in tight spots a bit better.

Hey @chipper1 is this how your trucks roll in Michigan?

Probably an old picture would be my guess, but yes, 8-axles is normal in Michigan. The front trailer axle is usually a 9' spread so they can get more weight on them, and the back two axles are lift axles along with the 7th axle on the front(the one behind the spread axle), this way you are pivoting on 4 axles.

All axles no gaps? Imagine the scrub on the tires.


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If you forget to lift your axles on a slow turn the scrub/roll of the tires will stall the truck and will back you up as far as you made it around the corner, if you have them down on a more open turn and you come in hot or have two much pressure on the spread axle the trailer will go in a straight line and the truck will jackknife.
Not logging, but..
Heres a truck I drove for a while.

This one I drove for a couple years then the boss said I was costing him to much money. He put a green guy in the truck(looked like the one behind my trailer), the guy had a light load and made it to the first wide turn and jack-knifed it, had to much pressure for the load in the spread axle lol.
Each one of the larger rounds is 17-18k, better have that load on there right before you hit the scale .

 

[stevegodseyjr]

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This is the Butler Bros. Logging truck. I have done a lot of reading about them. Very interesting ideas for the time.

 

[Skeans1]

They haul them like that sometimes, usually eight-axle doubles though, they get around in tight spots a bit better.

Probably an old picture would be my guess, but yes, 8-axles is normal in Michigan. The front trailer axle is usually a 9' spread so they can get more weight on them, and the back two axles are lift axles along with the 7th axle on the front(the one behind the spread axle), this way you are pivoting on 4 axles.

If you forget to lift your axles on a slow turn the scrub/roll of the tires will stall the truck and will back you up as far as you made it around the corner, if you have them down on a more open turn and you come in hot or have two much pressure on the spread axle the trailer will go in a straight line and the truck will jackknife.
Not logging, but..
Heres a truck I drove for a while.
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This one I drove for a couple years then the boss said I was costing him to much money. He put a green guy in the truck(looked like the one behind my trailer), the guy had a light load and made it to the first wide turn and jack-knifed it, had to much pressure for the load in the spread axle lol.
Each one of the larger rounds is 17-18k, better have that load on there right before you hit the scale .
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One thing I’ve noticed is I don’t see any drops in the pictures of trucks from back there do you guys run them?


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[Stihl working Hard]

Do you have an info on this machine? It’s an interesting setup


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Will see if I can find anything on it

 

[Stihl working Hard]

If it is a Great Lakes logger it’s be a highway truck, it’s weird to see logs piled sideways.


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Definitely a few chords there

 

[Skeans1]

Definitely a few chords there

That’s another good question what the heck is a cord in a measurement I know you have a foot measurement but how does that give you footage of the log?


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[bitzer]

The conversion that is mostly accepted here is 2.2 cords/mbf.

You'll see a lot more logs piled sideways in this state then the long way. When they're the long way they're all randoms except for some special purpose. Most of my logs go out stacked the long way.