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Thread: Moving 160-foot DF Sticks
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1st August 2004, 02:48 AM #1
Moving 160-foot DF Sticks
From the album of a neighbor ...“Buckshot” Christopher, an 82-year-old retired logger. 160-foot logs hauled on two ton-and-a-half trucks on their way to a saltwater log dump.
It's 1929 and the logs are a special order for saltwater pilings in deep water.
The rear rig was kept in neutral and functioned only as a steering trailer.
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1st August 2004, 08:45 AM #2Retired
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It's 1929 and the logs are a special order for saltwater pilings in deep water
Oh Bugger and I thought it was a recent pic!
And then I remembered that it would be near impossible to do that with a modern vehicle
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1st August 2004, 08:54 AM #3Originally Posted by
You wouldn't find the Timber
WELL!! Not here abouts anyway.
Count
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1st August 2004, 09:13 AM #4
They don't make suspension like that nowadays. :eek:
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To carry that weight they would have added wooden overriders. Its a great photo Bob.
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1st August 2004, 12:36 PM #6
Very nice picture of people solving problems in the work place.........I can just see todays lawmen and OH&S reps lining up for a piece of the action.
Macca
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1st August 2004, 02:15 PM #7
Why aren't the front wheels of the front truck lifting off the ground? :confused:
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1st August 2004, 05:19 PM #8Originally Posted by Bob Willson
You know when someone says "You're not going to believe this BUT!"
There are two 'old' Chev Bulldog Blitzs, not 500mtr from here;
if you know the old snub nosed trucks;
which are setup not all that much different to those.
NO, they don't run in tandam.
No they don't do wheelies, Nearly, but NO!
BUT Boy do they load them up to the Gunwales.
http://www.ebroadcast.com.au/ecars/M...hev1943C8A.jpg
This is not one of them...........................
Count
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1st August 2004, 07:02 PM #9
Yes, but that still doesn't answer the question does it? With all that weight hanging out the back of the truck I would expect the front wheels to lift up at least a bit, but I can't see any movement in the front at all.
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Looks like the weight is directly over the rear axel.
Dan
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1st August 2004, 07:13 PM #11
Bob (not Bomb On Board!)
If you look at the front truck, you'll see that because of the narow frame the logs are resting on, the logs don't have enough leverage to lift the front wheels.
Ben.Last edited by Ben from Vic.; 1st August 2004 at 07:14 PM. Reason: I must have been typing at the same time as Dan.
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1st August 2004, 07:23 PM #12
OK, but that frame appears to be mounted behind the rear wheels.
It's too hard to see, but the frame must be over the wheels else it would HAVE to lift the frontBob Willson
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1st August 2004, 07:52 PM #13
They may have Blue Tack on the front tyres or maybe heavy weights on the front bumber bar.
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Bob,
If you look closely the crossmember is just ( and I mean just) ahead of the rear wheels much like a turntable on semis.
Load distribution would be fairly well balanced due to the motor gearbox etc at the other end of the truck.
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31st August 2004, 10:28 PM #15
Would you believe that the front truck is actually the middle one and there is another 160 foot load sitting on its front bumper,
that'd keep it down nearly as well as my mother in law sitting on the front bumper. :eek:Cheers
Jim
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