jeeper61 Posted July 10 Posted July 10 Mack RM 685 R= R cab M=Municipal Multi drive 6=600 series chassis. 85 = Mack Maxidyne 237 hp Diesel. 4 Quote
td9bcf180 Posted July 21 Posted July 21 1 hour ago, jeeper61 said: Maybe this will help with Mike's winter blues Why the tall pipe on the breather intake? Submersible (hmm, hmm) ?😁 Quote
jeeper61 Posted July 21 Posted July 21 6 hours ago, td9bcf180 said: Why the tall pipe on the breather intake? Submersible (hmm, hmm) ?😁 Mike has a lot of water crossings in NZ that could be useful 🤣 That would appear to be a Ag crawler the tall intake could have been an option to get the intake out of the dust cloud. 2 Quote
jeeper61 Posted July 21 Posted July 21 Couple of old KW log trucks Ex Collins Pine-Chester, CA 2 Quote
ray54 Posted July 22 Posted July 22 6 hours ago, jeeper61 said: Mike has a lot of water crossings in NZ that could be useful 🤣 That would appear to be a Ag crawler the tall intake could have been an option to get the intake out of the dust cloud. That would be a likely reason to do the high intake. 1 Quote
jeeper61 Posted July 22 Posted July 22 Pinky Delbert Anderson poses with his haul in WA circa 1930 Truck appears to be a chain drive Mack 3 Quote
td9bcf180 Posted July 22 Posted July 22 1 hour ago, jeeper61 said: Pinky Delbert Anderson poses with his haul in WA circa 1930 Truck appears to be a chain drive Mack Pinky's roof over his "cab" had a few "touches" with a log at one time. Good thing he had no doors so he could make a quick escape. 3 Quote
jeeper61 Posted July 28 Posted July 28 Photo of Bob Thorndike’s log truck driven by Bruce Ladd commuting to the job. Kennebec River and Swan Island in Maine There are no bridges to the seven mile long island One summer a massive wind storm took down hundreds of virgin pine trees. The only option was to send logging trucks over on the ferry and bring the destroyed trees back all loaded for the mills. Backing on the ferry https://www.facebook.com/jerome.patadis/videos/1714706389801690/ 4 Quote
jeeper61 Posted July 30 Posted July 30 This is the famous “Paul Bunyan Load” Sept. 10, 1952. The 40-foot logs were 7, 8 and 9 feet in diameter respectively 53,670 board feet . The total gross weight was 421 000 lbs (191 tons)! The driver is Wes Copeland , a WW2 bomber pilot. The load was hauled 26 miles to the Union Lumber Co. Fort Bragg, CA The truck is a 1949 Peterbilt 390 with a 300hp Cummins NHRS supercharged diesel engine, the most powerful truck diesel engine of its time, this was the only diesel capable of challenging the mighty Hall-Scott 400 gas engine, which was rated at 310hp and was also used widely in this type of extreme log hauling operations. 3 Quote
td9bcf180 Posted July 31 Posted July 31 On 7/29/2026 at 9:42 PM, DWF said: How is that guy going to get off of that top log? DWF Throw him a rope- right over the side- tie it off. He can shimmy down. Is that a D8 holding the log in place? Quote
jeeper61 Posted September 4 Posted September 4 The M100 resto is done https://www.facebook.com/reel/1505183737962477 https://www.facebook.com/reel/1687186709031171 3 Quote
jeeper61 Posted September 7 Posted September 7 Turbo TD 18-182? https://www.facebook.com/100000564740863/videos/pcb.28213887101607044/1123457030357805 2 Quote
jeeper61 Posted September 8 Posted September 8 What I believe is a NZ Binder a little overloaded 2 Quote
mike newman Posted September 8 Author Posted September 8 7 hours ago, jeeper61 said: What I believe is a NZ Binder a little overloaded Yeah....we certainly have a specific tree species , that will have that ''furrowed '' trunk look.....and had a lot of F1800 IH trucks...which that pictured one could well be.....and also a penchant for overloading..!!! I used to, as a very young bloke, help out at the local saw mill.....'tailing out'' , off the breast bench.. I well remember an F1800 coming in overloaded , and as he turned up the slope just beyond the mill....getting into position to unload off the old derrick crane ''creation '' that was used....the truck sat up on its back legs ..and created considerable issues re the off loading to the breaking down carriage etc.. It wasn't an "native timber ''' log ,as pictured above, but a huge Monterey Pine log... I guess that was over 65 yrs ago....!!!! Mike 1 Quote
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