Couple of old pictures, of interest........"Red " related !!......more pictures added...and more again

[g_man]

11 hours ago, Howard_P said:

Correct.  That is a 63-64 C-1100 4x4.

Sorry - I guess I miss heard him. I have that problem.

 

gg

[Howard_P]

Oh, what's 10 years?

[jeeper61]

@mike newman

I found you a pickup 

[Rawleigh99]

Sweet!

[jeeper61]

 

New at the Mack Dealer, Lynn Sand & Stone Swampscott ,Ma. Truck #23 1934 Mack with a Jaeger mixer. 

[jeeper61]

 

The old verses the new

Severino Trucking Co. Inc. of Candia, NH Celebrates 50 Years in business of serving the heavy construction industry in the State of New Hampshire on August 9, 2025 with a new International HX Series truck.

The vintage International 230 tandem dump truck in the photo is the truck Ron Severino started his Company with in 1975. It has been restored. 

Mike they also run a bunch of Mack's

Maybe they were looking to see I if VW has improved things at International

 

[jeeper61]

Millinocket, Maine. 1980 

American Loggers Show, Pelletier Family rig loaded with pulp-wood on the Golden Road and headed for Great Northern Paper Company in Millinocket.

382,000 pounds

[hardtail]

That's a name I've heard before, must be multi generation famous in those parts

[jeeper61]

7 hours ago, hardtail said:

That's a name I've heard before, must be multi generation famous in those parts

There are few families that ran the the supply chain or cut and hauled the wood from the north woods from the early days most started with one truck.

Tanker yanking became a big business as the logging operations moved from steam power to internal combustion engines 

  Dysart's and H O Bouchard still doing the fuel hauling 

Coles Motor Transport was a LTL carrier servicing northern Maine 

[mike newman]

8 hours ago, jeeper61 said:

There are few families that ran the the supply chain or cut and hauled the wood from the north woods from the early days most started with one truck.

Tanker yanking became a big business as the logging operations moved from steam power to internal combustion engines 

  Dysart's and H O Bouchard still doing the fuel hauling 

Coles Motor Transport was a LTL carrier servicing northern Maine 

Great picture......great Truck  MACK...and I assume that its not on the highway riding down from Bangor..(in the state of Maine....)...but on a private forestry track...?

th anks Jeeper

Mike

[jeeper61]

On 8/14/2025 at 2:50 PM, mike newman said:

Great picture......great Truck  MACK...and I assume that its not on the highway riding down from Bangor..(in the state of Maine....)...but on a private forestry track...?

th anks Jeeper

Mike

Mike yes a private road known as the Golden Road  

It is a 96-mile private logging road that stretches from Millinocket to the St. Zacharie border crossing with Quebec.

Named the Golden Road because of what it cost Great Northern Paper Company to build between 1969 and 1972

The Clean Water Act of 1972 banned the log runs on the Penobscot River which was the primary transportation of logs to the mill in Millinocket.

Before the Clean Water Act of 1972 most pulp wood was cut in shorter lengths and hauled to the river typically on smaller log trucks that could navigate the back roads better. 

The large truck loads started in the late 70s on the Golden Road to minimize cost  

This was a typical offloading method during the Penobscot log run days

Some times they just pushed the logs off the flat bed with a loader in to the river 

Photo down stream of the Dolby Dam on the West Branch of the Penobscot river 

 

[td9bcf180]

Great history and pic in that last one @jeeper61. Looks like 4 foot spruce/balsam coming out the back of that truck (Chev?).  45ish years ago I hauled 4 foot hardwood (maple, oak, basswood, beech, etc.) into a local P&P mill but it was pushed off the truck by a Cat 966 front end loader into a pond, not a river like your picture. It was a curse to haul that stuff- loader truck loaded 8 foot sideways onto trailer and a couple of guys with chainsaws cut it in half on the trailer as it was loaded. Wish I had a picture. Never put a slippery beech (in winter) on top of your load- I've seen a few in my passenger mirror fly off into the ditch on the highway. Fun times--- not.

[mike newman]

23 hours ago, jeeper61 said:

Mike yes a private road known as the Golden Road  

It is a 96-mile private logging road that stretches from Millinocket to the St. Zacharie border crossing with Quebec.

Named the Golden Road because of what it cost Great Northern Paper Company to build between 1969 and 1972

The Clean Water Act of 1972 banned the log runs on the Penobscot River which was the primary transportation of logs to the mill in Millinocket.

Before the Clean Water Act of 1972 most pulp wood was cut in shorter lengths and hauled to the river typically on smaller truck trucks that could navigate the back roads better. 

The large truck loads started in the late 70s on the Golden Road to minimize cost  

This was a typical offloading method during the Penobscot log run days

Some times they just pushed the logs off the flat bed with a loader in to the river 

Photo down stream of the Dolby Dam on the West Branch of the Penobscot river 

 

..another great photo...!!

Mike

[jeeper61]

Mack B-81SX tandem tractor & lowboy trailer with a Michigan 275A during the Spring of 1964 on Interstate 93 construction in Sanborton, NH

[jeeper61]

3 Clark 880 Skidders sitting in the "Dooryard" in Maine

One of the biggest skidders made last century 

A&A Brochu Logging of Maine bought 3 new and used them in the north woods of Maine.

Production numbers were very low I am told  

 

In 1989 one of the 880s was used to help assist in pulling a washed-out bridge from the Kennebec River in Skowhegan.

You can see the 880 on the right in this photo

One of the 880’s made it to New Zealand. 8v71 powered. In Rotorua, North Island 

Imported out of Papua New Guinea is the story.

Picture of the machine 

 

I understand there was a couple in western Canada as well

Specs

[td9bcf180]

Used to own a Clark 664B with 353 DD and I never heard of the 880. That's a big boy!

[mike newman]

1 hour ago, td9bcf180 said:

Used to own a Clark 664B with 353 DD and I never heard of the 880. That's a big boy!

...there was a bunch of them down under,back in those halcyon daze, also, Mike......early seventies ..

..made a lot of noise ...did a lot of great work in the hill country...and took a few lives of the young and fearless ...

...lot of noise from Health and Safety....it made little difference in those daze...now in the Logging Industry, it has gone to ridiculous lengths...

..guess it is the same in the Peoples Republic  of Canada...??

Mike

[td9bcf180]

16 hours ago, mike newman said:

 

..made a lot of noise ...did a lot of great work in the hill country...and took a few lives of the young and fearless ...

...lot of noise from Health and Safety....it made little difference in those daze...now in the Logging Industry, it has gone to ridiculous lengths...

..guess it is the same in the Peoples Republic  of Canada...?

Mike- I am just one of thousands of blokes who grew up around these screaming Detroit Diesels- like your self and many others on this forum, I'm sure. My truck driving days were in Ford Louisvilles or GM's with the famous 318 8V71's. No AC in summer so all windows down with 6" exhaust bellowing in your right ear, constantly. Then the Clark skidders with 353 DD's and we also had a Pettibone forklift Super 15 model with a 471 DD. Clarks and Pettibones built almost indestructable frame wise but weak on axles. So the noise factor- well- yes- that's the reason I have these cantankerous devices plugged into my ears.

As for H & S here in the P.R.C.- I have not dealt with them for 10 years now but it was getting a bit silly back then. Silly is an understatement and there is stronger vocabulary (not in the Websters dictionary) not suitable for this forum, that I will not repeat. But I do concur with your analysis!   

[jeeper61]

 

National Dog Day, here’s a look at some of the proud Bulldogs

[Dirt_Floor_Poor]

13 hours ago, jeeper61 said:

 

National Dog Day, here’s a look at some of the proud Bulldogs

They’ll have to change it to national Volvo day at some point. 

[jeeper61]

2 hours ago, Dirt_Floor_Poor said:

They’ll have to change it to national Volvo day at some point. 

Yep just a rebranded Volvo now 

And Volvo is a collection of 4 brands that couldn't survive on their own 

 

[jeeper61]

Some Rs running down the line 

 

 

[jeeper61]

It is Red in color 

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1167565445210205

[jeeper61]

And this one was turned up to much

I was told that was cylinder head.

The way up

The way down

[Alan Dinan]

On 8/13/2025 at 9:40 PM, hardtail said:

That's a name I've heard before, must be multi generation famous in those parts

There was a TV show about logging in the north east several years ago. I think there were several families included in that show. The Pelletier’s built their own trailers and they, or one of the other families, built a firewood processor from scratch.