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Showing posts with label logging trucks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label logging trucks. Show all posts
Why did they think this would work? That's way to top heavy to take a corner
It's obvious from just the top photo, isn't it? That this wasn't going to end wellhttp://www.blackdiamondnow.net/black-diamond-now/2012/12/the-hazards-of-driving-a-log-truck.h...
logging truck photographed with some sharp focus and large format for a change
looks like a spotlight on the far sidehttp://www.blackdiamondnow.net/black-diamond-now/2013/04/early-log-trucks.h...
logging truck 1921, I'm wondering how they got those logs up onto the truck, push? pull? roll?
notice the plank road, necessary to get the heavy truck with the skinny damn tires out of the woods. It's been a while since I posted about plank roads, but what little I learned about them never mentioned...
Logging truck, 1930
http://www.blackdiamondnow.net/black-diamond-now/2016/07/loggin-on-the-sunset-highway-circa-1930.h...
Kelly-Springfield Motor Truck Co was established in about 1910 when the Kelly-Springfield Tire Company decided to enter the truck business,
Wilbur Sandison photographer, circa 1925The trucks were either 5 or 6 ton, and had about 30hphttp://www.blackdiamondnow.net/black-diamond-now/2016/11/kelly-springfield-motor-truck-company-circa-1925...
logging tractor and trailers, 1900
http://www.blackdiamondnow.net/black-diamond-now/2016/11/steam-tractors-in-the-woods-circa-1891.h...
David just sent me a link to the Van Atta Brothers logging museum and website... cool stuff!
No rail cars, just loooong logs between bogeyshard rubber tires, probably no seat cushion for the tractor operator and passengers eitherAbove, a Shay type locomotiveBut the angle on the drive shaft in...
