Tanker driver for a logging company?

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  1. AModelCat

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    I've got a buddy that puts up photos of his truck on FB regularily. In winter he's running in 8-10" of fresh snow, 6 sets of triples on the drives and a steer chain lol. To me that's trucking. Go to battle in the woods and make it home with no new scars.
     
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    Steer chain... Never lock the door or wear a seat belt.
     
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    When it gets bad enough to chain up the steer axle it's time to go home. If you can get there.
    I remember seeing D-6s and skidders turning brodies on glare ice where the snow had started to melt then froze solid.
    Running a '6 that's sliding sideways through a switchback--- and picking up speed--- makes you wish you'd taken that job at the shoe store when you had a chance.
     
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    WHEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
     
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    Dark30, Iron on ever corner, decked up then powered out on a beaver slide. And backwards you go. Where's that load light switch.
     
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    Oh yeah. The joys of being first truck in. If you're lucky you'll fetch up against the bank or maybe a tree or a stump but you won't hit it hard enough to knock your trailer ####-eyed.
    I've spent all the time I ever want to spend with a couple of bottle jacks, wooden blocks, and a choker putting a trailer back on.
    And if, on top of all that, you're stuck you get to watch the trucks behind you creep carefully by and take your loading spot.
     
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    Needs some grousers.....:)