Author Topic: Logging truck (Read 4622 times)

mike_belben · « **Reply #60 on:** July 10, 2018, 05:34:12 PM »

It doesnt happen to me often at all, but the hardest thing to do when you actually have money is to twiddle your thumbs and let all those great ideas marinate for a while. Money begets spending.

Satamax · « **Reply #61 on:** July 10, 2018, 05:44:36 PM »

I don't know how it is in the US, but here, there is an italian guy, who crosses the border every now and then, to fetch some larch, with a JCB fastrac, and a huge trailer. Agricultural plates on the trailer. He doesn't need the licence to drive this. Insurance and all that is cheap. The tractor has been modified a bit i think. Cos he does a good 35/40mph empty with the trailer. And he does a good 80 miles trip and return.

Bruno of NH · « **Reply #62 on:** July 10, 2018, 06:26:22 PM »

The trailer I posted a picture of is a big trailer.
The only reason it's not a goose neck is my friend had a chip truck to haul it with all ready.
I would look into the trailer if it was me.

Maine logger88 · « **Reply #63 on:** July 10, 2018, 08:28:27 PM »

Would your friend sell that tractor with the center mount flatbed? I’m with snowstorm and mike that would be better suited to hauling logs as well as the finished product. You could also pick up a flatbed without a loader for deliveries as well as pick up a low bed for moving equipment

4x4American · « **Reply #64 on:** July 10, 2018, 09:47:06 PM »

Tractor with wetline and a bunch of trailers would be ideal...but from the sounds of it you don't have enough room to park it in your yard let alone unload/load the thing. I reccomend get a cheap triaxle log truck with a decent loader on it. That'll get your foot in the door, help you get started and into wood. Easy to manuever in tight areas. You're talking about logging 8 acres, well, it'll be alot easier getting in and out of those jobs with a triaxle than with a TT. With a TT you're gonna either be building roads or pulling the thing out when it's stuck. My friend@Onlyonrubber will tell ya, he cuts company wood and they build the roads for him to get in and out of with tt's. Not to mention with their big equipment they need a 15 acre header to operate

. It's incredible how many uses you'll find for a log truck around the yard in general. Then take the extra capital and get a real loader (like a 544 JD or a IT28 Cat - skidsteers are for smalltimers

) and expand your yard because you're gonna need TT access and plenty of room for all your different sorts of logs and lumber and slabwood. And don't forget to leave yourself some money for buying wood.

Busysawyer · « **Reply #65 on:** July 11, 2018, 09:59:05 AM »

Bruno, I've looked into those trailers a little but so far haven't found any that can handle very much weight. What brand is that trailer? Will it lift a 6000 pound log? I closed the deal on a walnut timber job last night that will be substantially larger than the load I had delivered last night.

How many trips do you think it would take with that trailer to haul these 2 loads? Would that trailer handle being fully loaded with hardwoods?
Maine logger, he talked about selling it but he said that trailer wouldn't handle the weight that we would like to haul.
4x4 we are going to come back to the truck deal at a later date. Need some time to look around, consider options and I need to educate myself on trucks before I can make the best decision for us.
The guy that delivered that load for us was diving an 88 kenworth 800. He said he's had it for 12 years and has had very few issues with it. He said his opinion was guys that trash trucks run them hard, don't maintenance like they should and run in a different environment. He said around here is easier on trucks than northern MI. No hills, mostly highway and no logging roads.

Skeans1 · « **Reply #66 on:** July 11, 2018, 10:40:04 AM »

Have you looked into a self loading mule train?

Corley5 · « **Reply #67 on:** July 11, 2018, 11:41:55 AM »

Two machines pushing and one pulling to get 160,000 lbs of loaded truck through mud holes is probably considered severe service

thecfarm · « **Reply #68 on:** July 11, 2018, 02:11:07 PM »

Corley5,I would like to see a picture of that.

I have seen them push a truck up my small hill coming out of the woods. But no one was pulling too. And only one forwarder was pushing.

Bruno of NH · « **Reply #69 on:** July 11, 2018, 03:59:44 PM »

Busybeaver
It would take 4 or 5 trips with that trailer.
I think it lifts 4,000
I will check
I can't remember the make.
The sponsor Pickens Equipment makes them also.
If you got a short straight truck with log bunks you can load both.

4x4American · « **Reply #70 on:** July 11, 2018, 05:14:03 PM »

No offense but for the price of one of those gooseneck log trailers you could buy two decent triaxle log trucks! I have an ‘89 freightliner triaxle I picked up for 10 grand awhile back. I got mainly it for a yard truck to unload trailers and sort logs, but I think with some tlc I’ll have her on the road. Frame is in nice shape, bunks in good shape, new hydraulic pump, big cam cummins under the hood, Hood 7000 in decent shape. She’s a little rough around the edges. I got offered 15k for it today from a logger. Told him not for sale.

Corley5 · « **Reply #71 on:** July 11, 2018, 05:39:49 PM »

Quote from: thecfarm on July 11, 2018, 02:11:07 PM

Corley5,I would like to see a picture of that.

When this is going on there's no time for picture taking. The truck needs to get on the road and the machines back to producing wood

cashman234 · « **Reply #72 on:** July 24, 2018, 12:48:59 AM »

Thats crazy prices for the trucking. What is the cost per mile.

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