Job site pics

I hauled mostly veneer grade hardwoods...oaks, hard maples, cherry, walnut. Didn't do too much with the soft stuff unless that was part of the deal to get the good hardwoods off a landowner's property.

What I always liked was when you turn in off the road, running between a corn field and tree line...down a muddy hill and through a ditch to the staging yard, where you'd get loaded and have to go back through the ditch, up the muddy hill, and back out to the road. But those never even came close to the jobs where you are driving in on a windy, twisty, hilly, curvy 2-track dirt road with tree limbs thumping both mirrors....and you gotta get turned around before they can load you.

One thing's for sure, driving that log truck did more for my truck handling skills than all the road driving I had done up to that point...and you learn to carry tools and enough air fittings to patch up your truck and get back to civilization because IF you can get a cell signal, you'll be lucky to find a service truck to come out to you...and if you need a wrecker, you may as well fughettabahtit.

 

The last time we had a truck die in the woods we just shoved the truck onto a double drop and brought it back to the shop.

 

Aint too bad

My father has to haul some house modules to Norway almoust every second trip.
The cabins are specially built high in the mountains, remote areas. And most of the work seems to be in winter .


But this makes difference between a driver and a good driver.

 

Me working around my diesel. Ok we all need a few toys.

 

A couple shots form my old Transporting days...... I didn't carry my camera too much back then. I wish I did now! "as long as it kept my hand green, I hauled those yellow machines"

 

I used to run class B straight truck back into the woods on a dozer trail till you get to the place they have the well set up. Sometimes its a nice road, dry and smooth. Other times the only way in is to get towed and pushed in at the same time. Dozer in front and dozer behind me. 8-10 trucks later run around setting up the fracturing equipment and frac the well. Run around crazy breaking it down and load the gear back on the trucks to get pushed and pulled back out to the road. Leave the site with a trail of mud down the highway... Mud up to my knees at the worst sites.... what fun!

 

It wasn't so bad really and I'm a better driver for it now since I never chained up once. Couldn't do it anyway, don't even own a set. .......... I've been in worse since this pic was taken.

Oh yeah and don't ask me how I got turned around right there in that pic you see, I #### near twisted the wheel off the dash that day. That little road (more like a path) off to the left was the beginning of the guy's driveway, and there was another even smaller path going to a house out of the pic to the right. It was a dead end, but shaped more like a Y than a T and iced up. To hell with that place lol.

 

Winter/Ice Road season up here was short this year. Not enough snow to level out the roads that go through the swamps and muskeg. Got warm quick and before you knew it it was over.



Note the office trailer is on skis




Snow bridge over a creek. This particular one was 8 feet wide and a couple of trucks a day were falling off the side. You can see a dozer on the other side.

Road was littered with cars and trucks that didn't make it all the way.



Now to be fair, I was not driving a big rig. I ran a few loads of groceries up north for a small grocery store in a cube van. I was carrying about 10,000 pounds in that little cube van. Going across the lake was the easy part, driving across the hummocks in the swamps was crazy. 10 km/h was too fast most of the time. Took 6 hours to drive 225km. The first 100km took 1.5 hours.

 

After looking at those pics I had to walk outside to warm up...

 

It was very warm when I went. About -15C