Logging Trucks?
- Thread starter rick1958
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You mean these two from me:
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Bob
Yeah they're great. Got 'em both. Perfect for a small mill like Slugsmashers Clear Lake, but I'm looking for the semi's that used to haul Sugar Pine to the reload. Like an off road Tractor Trailer.
The West Side used them at the end of their operations. Logs were trucked to the Camp 45 reload where taken to the mill by rail. The railroad and mill closed 1961
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It looks like from the photo that you are looking for the pole trailer style frequently found on the West coast, not the big "off high-way" trucks we have/had on the Golden Road here in Maine. An Autocar Constructor is a good stating place for the tractor.
So everyone has an idea of how oversized the Golden Road trucks are/were, for a time in the '80's the companies hauling on that road would run triple trailers (but now it's mostly doubles), 12' wide and 14'+ tall (3.65m by4.26m), with tree length spruce, buts to both ends, and would gross out between 275,000-300,000lbs (125,00kg-136,000kg); compared to the US interstate limit of 8.5' wide, 13.5' tall and 80,000lbs gross weight (2.59m by 4.11m and 36,287kg). As I recall the preferred tractors were Autocar and Mack with a "quad box" (or similar) transmission. They ran all year except during the spring thaw (when the roads wouldn't support a large truck), had the right of way and were a sight to see flying down a gravel road at 50+ mph (80kph).
So everyone has an idea of how oversized the Golden Road trucks are/were, for a time in the '80's the companies hauling on that road would run triple trailers (but now it's mostly doubles), 12' wide and 14'+ tall (3.65m by4.26m), with tree length spruce, buts to both ends, and would gross out between 275,000-300,000lbs (125,00kg-136,000kg); compared to the US interstate limit of 8.5' wide, 13.5' tall and 80,000lbs gross weight (2.59m by 4.11m and 36,287kg). As I recall the preferred tractors were Autocar and Mack with a "quad box" (or similar) transmission. They ran all year except during the spring thaw (when the roads wouldn't support a large truck), had the right of way and were a sight to see flying down a gravel road at 50+ mph (80kph).