Crummy’s

[Skeans1]

What are you guys using? What kind of life do you expect to get out of them?How are you guys setting them up?

Here we have a 18 extra F150 XL extra cab short box, a 16 3500 cclb Duramax, a 15 ccsb Duramax, a 05 4500 duramax 4x4. All under 100k right now the last Duramax lasted about 350k on the pit run before that the fords lasted about 150 before the cabs were rattling off the frame and the frame was twisted. The f150 is just a 75 gallon slip tank with a tool box, the 3500 has a headache by wickum weld setup for the oversized load sign and light, the bed itself is 100 gallon tank, toolbox and fifth wheel hitch, the 4500 is a custom flat bed with fifth wheel, boxes, and fuel tank.

[mike_belben]

Crummys are whats left on the table/floor/wall any time my kids are near food.  What is this PNW term you speak of?  Fuel trucks?

[thecfarm]

A woods buggy? Made up from 2-3 trucks or just something that hauls wood out.

[barbender]

Can you drive a crummy to a job where there is hoe chuckin', or only shovel logging?

[Skeans1]

Crummy, crew bus, I'm sure there's a few I'm forgetting just another word for a work truck.

[mike_belben]

Thats a lotta trucks, how many guys are you hauling around?

[Old Greenhorn]

Around here is not like the PNW (Pacific Northwest), we have smaller hills, shorter skid roads, and a lot of family operations. The "doodle Bug" is a common thing to see back in the woods, carries some fuel cans, tools, etc, and rarely sees blacktop. Seats, body, and windshield are optional. Usually made from whatever was left over form a few vehicles, maybe an old Willys, likely 4wd and very nimble getting between the trees. I have seen some really great contraptions using a milk crate for a seat, and old milk can for a fuel tank (gravity feed, no fuel pump), etc. They function and get folks up to the cut or the skidder, or the landing. When they break, you just figure out how to make it run, or rip out some parts and make something else fit. Quite often these are built by 14-17 year olds as a way to learn how to make an engine run, weld, and think things thru. Some I have seen have been running in one from or another for better than 40 years. Most run tires chains on all four corners year round. It's rough ground we have here and steep. But these don't see the duty of a full blown commercial crew truck like you would in the PNW. Different coast, different needs.

[mike_belben]

I havent seen a doodlebug in a long time.  Seems everyone has a spare $20k for a side by side.

[nativewolf]

so more miles from the duramax than the f150s.  We're looking for a new used work truck ..interesting thread.

[Skeans1]

The fords before were the f250's F350's and F450's the pit run we run on out here is hard on the rigs, not uncommon to see a misaligned tail gate from running the roads.

[petefrom bearswamp]

No experience with crummys, most guys drive themselves to the job here, but d bugs yes.
Doodle bug, havent heard-that in a while.
MY childhood and teen pal had one his dad built from a 32 Chevy. big truck rear end single wheels and 2 transmissions.
If you put both trans in reverse you got a real creeper gear.
Quite a few folks in my area had them.
All were 2wd one guy ran chains and had a huge chunk of concrete on the back for traction.
He plowed his potato fields with it.
All woods work was dozer, some horses back then.

[BradMarks]

My time in the woods, a crummy is a crew hauler, usually a dbl cab with a crew carrier mounted in back, or a van that would carry 10-12 people.  We always called the 4 door pickups, 6 packs. And not a reference to libation.

[mike_belben]

The standard here is self transport also.  Ive only see one company rounding up their workers and it was because they didnt have licenses, needed to be chased down/woken up at home or otherwise wouldnt show up, etc.

[Autocar]

My crummy is a 1996 F-350 7.3 diesel , four wheel drive with a full size crew cab. Fuel tank in the bed plus saws.

[starmac]

I had never even heard the work trucks called crummys, until I went down to Icy bay and worked with a crew that was all from the pacific north west and south ease alaska. I took my own, and since we had to barge them in and was not sure I would ever bring it back, I took an old 89 F 250 and a honda 4 wheeler. 

[sawguy21]

We used crew cabs, we were working all over the province so nobody lived locally. The crew would come in by bus to the nearest town then transported to camp or to the landing and back each day if working close to the motel. They also used the etv (emergency transport vehicle) which was a plain jane Suburban but that didn't work well, the yahoos wouldn't look after it. I don't know how crew changes are managed now, Greyhound no longer runs in western Canada.

[starmac]

At icy bay, there was no actual crew changes, it was fly in only so most guys just stayed the season, but a few took a week or so off after a couple of months or longer, most did not make the whole season either, just a few was there from start to finish.

[quilbilly]

1996 7.3 diesel. 2wd with a 12 foot service body. Single cab. It's just me and pops though so no need for a six pack and we rarely get public land or industrial jobs so we are usually within a mile or two of pavement.

[Maine logger88]

Crummy, crew bus, I'm sure there's a few I'm forgetting just another word for a work truck.

I cant post on here what we call them but you can use your imagination lol! I have a 01 duramax extended cab long bed. Its quite a beater but i bought it hoping i could get 3 years out of it. 4 years later its still going maybe i can get another year or 2 out of it

[Firewoodjoe]

1996 f350 2wd crew cab. Just me though and two car seats in back 😁

[Logger RK]

94 Chev 4x4. Just me & my salimander heater in the passenger side. If it's colder then 0 out that is. It don't fire up if it's colder. Use it to heat a air cooled Skidder motor. I call my ride,My Hoopdee. 

[Cub]

Rotted out rusty old 1970 chev 3/4 ton 4x4 built like a 2 ton. It's not pretty by any means. But it plows snow like crazy n hauls a heck of a load. It's my main truck. Just me and the saws. Sometimes the dog. 

[Oliver05262]

 Had a bunch over the years. The first was '63 Ford F100 with a short utility body. 
Then a '69 F250 with the same body that I ran for 7-8 yrs. 
  Then a '79 Datsun with a cap on it that I ran for a year until I found an '80 Toyota 1 ton with another utility body already installed..
  Went 4WD with an '84 GMC diesel pickup, then a '94 Chevy 350 gas with a flatbed and boxes. That was my first new truck. I put a new Stahl utility body on it in 2000. Put a flatbed back on it when I got the 2002 and kept it as a plow truck until I got my Jeep in 2014.
  Bought a new

 

 

 

 2002 F350 with a 7.3 and put that same Stahl body on it for 9 years of so until the rust got too bad. Then I put an old Army contact maintenance body on it and ran the truck out. 16 years and 318k on it when I sold it.
  Found a 2015 F350 gasser (6.2) and a new body on it last December, and that's the one I'm running now.

[Haleiwa]

There's a touring company on Big Island (HI) that has built a fleet of four wheel drive vans.  They put a twelve passenger van body on a one ton chassis, and can take a lot of people through some pretty rough country.  I had them haul a bunch of people through some of the eucalyptus several years ago when a power company wanted to look at them as a fuel source.  Some of those roads were primitive at best, and they went right through them.  Always thought one of those rigs would serve well taking workers into the woods.

[mike_belben]

Ooh a powerstroke buried under the tin of a van with a leaking turbo pedestal, loose valve lash and a rotted oilpan with a huge diff under it.  Yaaas!  

And by yes i mean,


SHOOT ME NOW.  


Other than that, 4wd vans are pretty cool  ;D