in some ways this is my favourite sequence. I had to recce the hill first and stay ahead of them until the last tight bend when I let them get ahead of me
You've brought back some great memories from the 80's, logging up on the north of Vancouver Island and in Smith Inlet on the mainland. Nice clip and good explanation of the process involved.
Worked for McMillan Bloedel Eve River Division on northern Vancouver Island British Columbia seen this many times Love the Fat trucks Seen many tourist in the summer go in the ditch when they seen a low bed with a Grapple yarder fastly approaching them😎
I ve seen that unit a couple of years ago, driving on a bone dry and super hard compacted gravel road. You could see half inch deep tracks in the road surface afterwards. This is absolutely massive 👍
I was like 11 years old back in 1973. My stepdad had a trucking company house moving company, Cline trucking out of Shurz , Nevada. We had to bring a man camp dormitory down off the mountain, boundary peak, the B&B mine a cinebar mine. The man backed that building down the switchbacks my stepfather ( my real stepfather) was one of the greatest truck drivers John Aubrey Manhire.
I'm from BC, I've driven logging roads in ordinary pickups and they can be ungodly hairy. Sheer drops and definitely not 2 lanes wide--I don't like them. I don't want to imagine for one second how shit-scary it is to descend them in ANY kind of logging truck, let alone ~200 tonnes of Hayes. These guys had nerves of bloody steel, man.
when I was working there going up the roads in the two wheel drive van was a bit risky for fear that a truck would come down. I would wait at the bottom until a truck came along to go up one of the mains or spurs and then I would follow it up. The truckers were very nice men.. calm .. competent... polte, self deprecating.
My dad used to haul logs on the West Coast of B.C. used to take me for trips when I was a kid... those roads are unreal in a fully loaded truck. Coming down around a corner and all you see beyond the hood is blue sky and a sheer 500 foot drop...
To be the crew of guys that said "It won't work with two, but it will work with three." Amazing show of power.
in some ways this is my favourite sequence. I had to recce the hill first and stay ahead of them until the last tight bend when I let them get ahead of me
You've brought back some great memories from the 80's, logging up on the north of Vancouver Island and in Smith Inlet on the mainland. Nice clip and good explanation of the process involved.
the interview with the boss man was excellent. He knew his job that is for sure.
Worked for McMillan Bloedel Eve River Division on northern Vancouver Island British Columbia seen this many times
Love the Fat trucks
Seen many tourist in the summer go in the ditch when they seen a low bed with a Grapple yarder fastly approaching them😎
I ve seen that unit a couple of years ago, driving on a bone dry and super hard compacted gravel road. You could see half inch deep tracks in the road surface afterwards.
This is absolutely massive 👍
They are really big close up
I was like 11 years old back in 1973. My stepdad had a trucking company house moving company, Cline trucking out of Shurz , Nevada. We had to bring a man camp dormitory down off the mountain, boundary peak, the B&B mine a cinebar mine. The man backed that building down the switchbacks my stepfather ( my real stepfather) was one of the greatest truck drivers John Aubrey Manhire.
Incredible driving skill & teamwork. Much respect to those drivers.
I got to spend a lot of time with some really good men at the very top of their game
I'm from BC, I've driven logging roads in ordinary pickups and they can be ungodly hairy. Sheer drops and definitely not 2 lanes wide--I don't like them. I don't want to imagine for one second how shit-scary it is to descend them in ANY kind of logging truck, let alone ~200 tonnes of Hayes. These guys had nerves of bloody steel, man.
when I was working there going up the roads in the two wheel drive van was a bit risky for fear that a truck would come down. I would wait at the bottom until a truck came along to go up one of the mains or spurs and then I would follow it up. The truckers were very nice men.. calm .. competent... polte, self deprecating.
My dad used to haul logs on the West Coast of B.C. used to take me for trips when I was a kid... those roads are unreal in a fully loaded truck. Coming down around a corner and all you see beyond the hood is blue sky and a sheer 500 foot drop...
The size of those Planetary drive axles.
They barely leave enough room for the wheel lugs.
I love these Behemoths.
me too
A pusher *and* a puller. Steep grades! I miss logging already.
tough men doing tough jobs
Let's put in 10 switchbacks to ease the grade. Boss: No way, just 3 and we will deal with it.
COOP! Hope life is treating you well!
one of the nicest men you could ever hope to meet
Great video! Thank you for sharing!
Now it all belongs to google - in fact almost everything I have ever made now belongs to google. They did not pay for it of course
So proud of the White Men that built this country. I apologize for nothing.
Often drum brakes do not hold same power in reverse.
Rig will roll backwards if you lose power .
Ask me how I know that...😮
Hayes company, call gone now. The heli division and the machine manufacturing too. Is there still anyone building logging machines like this?
Time passes... skills dissappear. Aparently log trruck drivers were really in demand during ww2 as tank transporter drivers..... you can see why.
Pacific says, no big deal
they are astonishing trucks
Are those Pacific’s? You can’t duplicate the sound of shear torque and reduction gears working
Hayes wasrunning a mixed fleet of Hayes and Pacifics - probably more Pacifics
Perfect!
Ta!
Is the yarder even chained down?
it must be
It ain’t easy as it seems
here's one for Chase n crew #Edisonmotors
we will never see their like again - so many skills
Shout out to snowrunner bros
200 hours on that game so far