Sometimes, one truck just isn't enough - even when it's a monster 500hp Pacific. It turns out that to get a 150-tonne logging crane up a 30% slope you need three Pacifics - including one pusher and one extra puller:
This YouTube excerpt comes from a DVD about Vancouver loggers created by journalist Dylan Winter (you can often hear him on Radio 4). It's nice to see a video on a subject like this that is professionally produced and at the same time truly enthusiastic, but without the overdramatic tone of too many TV documentaries. Thanks to BigLorryBlog regular jerryburl for the tip-off.
After the break, you can check out another excerpt featuring helicopter logging - brilliant!
This YouTube excerpt comes from a DVD about Vancouver loggers created by journalist Dylan Winter (you can often hear him on Radio 4). It's nice to see a video on a subject like this that is professionally produced and at the same time truly enthusiastic, but without the overdramatic tone of too many TV documentaries. Thanks to BigLorryBlog regular jerryburl for the tip-off.
After the break, you can check out another excerpt featuring helicopter logging - brilliant!
And you thought it was expensive to run a truck...
Just a note to everybody that comes across this video, I have purchased a copy, an it is magnificent!
I grew up in Gold River on Vancouver Island and had a healthy respect for these large trucks. The drivers stopped for nobody and if you ran into one on a joint use road(which were roads shared by the pulblic and logging companies) your choices were to put your own truck in the weeds to let him by, reverse back to a turn-out, or get run over. Either of the first two choices had to be made in a split second. I don't think they could stop even if they wanted to! You just can't win a game of chicken against that much timber and tin. I don't think anybody is working up there now.