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Post by tufftin on Sept 23, 2012 9:53:51 GMT -8
A photo by Nick Sauer of truck and trailers hauling forest products thru the Redwoods on Hwy 199. Lead by an LT Mack of the early '50's and then a KW and a International bringing up the rear. Mike  Hosted on Fotki |
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Post by Muleskinner on Sept 23, 2012 12:22:16 GMT -8
Yep. Seen this pic quite a few times. East bound through the redwoods at Smith River above and East of Crescent City. Headed for Portland by way of Cave Junction and Grants Pass, Oregon. Strange to see a Cable binder and corner hogs on a lumber rig after all these years. From the looks of those loads they are hauling veneer, for plywood processing. Also notice how the units are sitting cross deck instead of in line side by side.
William
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Post by slurrydog on Sept 24, 2012 20:18:34 GMT -8
Why are the units sitting cross deck?
Dave
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Post by Muleskinner on Sept 24, 2012 20:37:59 GMT -8
Some Veneer mills back in the olden days did it so as to keep the open ends free of straight on wind which could bend it back and snap it off. Usually it was only the Unit behind the cab which was turned across the deck and the rear units put in the normal end to end configuration. It was a standard practice with a lot of mills until weigh masters and scalers started to complain about the front unit being hard to identify on a drive through scale, whether it was one 4x8' unit or two 4x4' units. The practice was soon stopped and they were made to load them head end on the flats, which contributed a lot to broken pieces of veneer laying along the highway.
I was following a truck load of veneer on the Avenue of the Giants and had a piece of broken veneer come over the back of the truck and hit the top of the car, back in the sixties. I have also witnessed rigs going through town in a high wind and seen those front pieces of veneer break of and go through a plate glass window of a building. A notorious area for this was between Brookings and Bandon, Oregon where the afternoon wind is really bad along the coast.
Most of the problem has ended with the mandatory tarpping laws which was put down on veneer trucks by the various DOT state units of the Pacific Northwest. Even now though you will find an untarpped veneer rig going down the highways and interstates.
William
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