Pictures added!!!!Bad luck starting a new job on a friday???

[deastman]

Nice truck!! How much do you weigh with 6500bf on?

Legal!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D

Ya right, now that i know who's truck that is, legal my ##$!! Awesome lookin truck Woodhauler!  If you're up my way maybe u could grab a load off  me so i could check it out sometime!!

[snowstorm]

How heavy is the fram rail steel 5/8 inch ? Thats alot of rail but a dandy truck good luck with it.

its double. looked to be 3/8" with a 1/4" insert

[Woodhauler]

Nice looking Western Star woodhauler!! Do you know your light weight yet? Any load that makes it where it's going without problems is a legal load.

It weighs 32600 empty.

[lumberjack48]

thecfarm , I'm not talking about a semi. It don't take much more room to turn a tri-axle around with a pup behind it. They slide-em around, i pushed many 100 turn around's for-em. About 30' more where they pull in and 30' where they back up.

Around here you see, tractor trailer with center mount loader or tri-axle or tandem with a pup trailer. You can't afford to drive a single truck any distance. The truckers told me that was profit what they had on the pup or payed for the fuel.

Woodhauler i'm guising you weighted about 92,400.

[CTL logger]

That's a good lightweight, more payload are you glad you got the star?

[thecfarm]

I did mention the pups. I also talked about the trailers,tractor trailers, we have too.I don't see the pups in Maine.I'm just saying that's what I see around here. Trucks just like his.Woodhauler is doing it. Or is he just driving himself into the poor house.

[Woodhauler]

That's a good lightweight, more payload are you glad you got the star?

Yes i'm glad i stayed with westernstar! They are built to be in the woods!

[Woodhauler]

I did mention the pups. I also talked about the trailers,tractor trailers, we have too.I don't see the pups in Maine.I'm just saying that's what I see around here. Trucks just like his.Woodhauler is doing it. Or is he just driving himself into the poor house.

Ain't gone to the poor house in 30 years! May have knocked on the door a couple ofvtimes but that was years ago!!!

[thecfarm]

It must work,there's a pile of trucks around just about the same size as yours in Maine.

[OlympicYJ]

 These aren't my pics. Found em on the net. This is how our short loggers look. We either call em a short logger or a mule train. Long loggers have a different trailer set up for hauling 40 footers. Our landings are very tight. Mule trains pack their pup on the truck then it's lifted off with the shovel. 6400 BF is alot of wood. Even a long logger with 40 footers will only get around 4000 BF scribner on a truck. 4 thou is just an average. Can be more at times. More bunks could be added for the shorter logs you guys haul.

[DigDug]

I dont see many pups around either , but Robert Babb out of Windham Maine has one and seems to run it alot.   I think a pup would be a good idea , but not in the wood hauling business so just guessing.

[Maine372]

a guy in turner had one back around 2000. he spent the money to get it converted to a behind the cab set up. I forget whether that was before or after it got laid on its side.

[Woodhauler]

I dont see many pups around either , but Robert Babb out of Windham Maine has one and seems to run it alot.   I think a pup would be a good idea , but not in the wood hauling business so just guessing.

I think we runs his cause it may handle better hauling lond distance lioke he is.Bet he can"t haul anymore payload then me!!I just looked it up on maine state weight site, he is allowedm 88,000 pounds.so add the extra weight of vthe pup and we are even!

[lumberjack48]

A 4 axle pulling a pup can gross 25000 more here, 80% use the wagon type pup, weights about 7,500 lbs.

Michigan is where you can haul a real load, you don't put no green horn driver in that rig. And i hope nobody throws a hand full of roofing nails on the road.


 

[Ron Scott]

That's a normal Michigan load. ;)

[thecfarm]

And I suppose a normal truck?  Just a bit diffeant than what I'm use to seeing. ;D Use to be a guy here in town that had a truck called Centipede. He had a couple more axles than most truckers.

[snowstorm]

And I suppose a normal truck?  Just a bit diffeant than what I'm use to seeing. ;D Use to be a guy here in town that had a truck called Centipede. He had a couple more axles than most truckers.

i remember that. lt9000 ford had a pusher and a tag axle. 20sumtin yrs ago?

[treefarmer87]

that is a load cant do that here :(. a lot of axles on the truck too

[Timbercruiser]

A guy at home here in Ontario had a pup trailer like that come unhooked on the hwy. Went in the other lane and in the ditch. Lucky nobody was driving there pup had a ball hitch instead of a pintle hitch. The ball hitch got worn over time and got loose. Was a close call anyway

[thecfarm]

snowstorm,ayup.Probably 20,maybe 25. I can't remember if I was in school or not,that would of been before 1980. Close enough. I always wanted to get a picture of it,but never did. Seem like I saw it in Livermore Falls alot,parked in town.

[James Arsenault]

And I suppose a normal truck?  Just a bit diffeant than what I'm use to seeing. ;D Use to be a guy here in town that had a truck called Centipede. He had a couple more axles than most truckers.

i remember that. lt9000 ford had a pusher and a tag axle. 20sumtin yrs ago?

I remember it too. I had forgotten about the Centipede until it was mentioned here. It was a while ago!

[Kemper]

Started a new job on Friday. Got the cutting machine stuck right off the bat, then while pulling it out, broke a u-joint inthe skidder. I learned my lesson.

[sandhills]

A 4 axle pulling a pup can gross 25000 more here, 80% use the wagon type pup, weights about 7,500 lbs.

Michigan is where you can haul a real load, you don't put no green horn driver in that rig. And i hope nobody throws a hand full of roofing nails on the road.


 

I hate fixing tires......that's a LOT of tires to fix  :-\.  Very nice truck Woodhauler I hope it serves you well!