logging pics

[squisher]

Almost all of the camps I worked in on the coast were off-road trucks, the logging roads seemed huge compared to the roads here in the interior, until the first time I saw a off-road low bed come around the corner with a giant yarder on the back.

 

[sotc]

My friends had a lowboy hauling a 188 washington yarder upto a new job a few weeks ago and it rolled over the bank 140,000 pounds or so. Wheels up and they were lower than the road. They hauled in a 325 cat loader the excavate the road down 15 feet so they could roll it back on it's wheels. Let it sit a day and got it to fire up. Removed the boom/gantry, made a road to get it up on the road and then hauled it home on another lowboy. Exciting weekend to say the least. They got some good shots so I thought I would share. They used the shovel, a d7 and a d8 with at least 1 block purchase.

 

[sotc]

Bananaed the boom

 

[stehansen]

Wow, was there much damage to anything?

 

[sotc]

Boom needs to be completely rebuilt, they have another slightly damaged boom. They think they use both to make one. Swing motor is shot. Bunch of tinware is shot. Few other things and i'm sure more will surface as time goes on. That's the first yarder I set chokers under. I also repaired cracks at the base of that boom about 10 years ago. I spent nearly a week airarcing and welding on that sucker

 

[thattreeguy]

didnt ya see that boom,
god what a pita,
well thats logging for ya
engineering bastards i tell ya, so man people wouldnt have a clue what to do

bet they have it up or parted out in a few weeks time
i know the old boys i work with tore the boom and cab off the prentice loader and had it up in about 2 weeks, blew me away how quick those fellas can tinker

cool pics willie

 

[NeTree]

Holy crap! Now that's a bill I wouldn't wanna have to foot, for sure.

 

[sotc]

Holy crap! Now that's a bill I wouldn't wanna have to foot, for sure.

lowboys insurance company

 

[stehansen]

Oh so that's not his lowboy he was having it moved. Much better.

 

[NeTree]

Not for long, I'd bet.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I wonder what the total cost of that misadventure was.

 

[gf beranek]

Great pics, Willie. Good thing it wasn't raining.

 

[sotc]

Here it is 9 or 10 years ago after we spent all winter painting it. Then off to work, same lowboy company, maybe the same trailer

 

[Bodean]

Awesome pics, looks like fun.

 

[thattreeguy]

the lowboy and truck didnt go over with it?

 

[sotc]

Part of the lowboy did

 

[Al Smith]

That's about the only way to get a big piece of equipment recovered .With another big piece of equipment or several as be the case .

I imagine that driver might have soiled his BVD's . Perhaps even sought employment elsewhere .

 

[Dave Shepard]

Was the driver at fault, or was it just his turn?

 

[gf beranek]

Those lowboys cheat like mofo's. You got to have your front wheels in the ditch when making turns like that. He might of been daydreaming.

 

[NeTree]

They sure do, Ger.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I wonder if he still has his job?

 

[Reddog]

MB, alot of those heavy hauling outfits are owner operators. So he would have to fire himself.
Have to wait and see if Willie knows on this one.

 

[sotc]

He is an employee, I don't think he was fired. I think the jeep hit the high side of the road about the time the trailer hit a low spot on the inside corner. Chance was to blame I beleive

 

[Burnham]

hard to beleive but most of that big wood is forest service! recognize the yellow paint burnham?

Not being able to see the pics at all, Willie...how are you attaching them?

 

[MasterBlaster]

It appears they are being posted as attachments, as normal.