What is either the driver or truck lacking here?

Here here I raise my glass to the lass who couldn’t haul ### but was driving a truck from the past !!

 

It doesn't matter if the steer axle is driven, or not.
It doesn't matter if there's an interlock
It doesn't matter if there's a tri drive or dual drive
It doesn't matter if there's full lockers or not.
It doesn't matter if there's chains on all ends.

If it's driven by a logger or a farmer, it will get stuck. The only question is how far into the mud it will get.....

 

One of our loggers says....
"You're not really stuck until you have to take the truck apart piece by piece and fly everything out with a helicopter.
Otherwise you're just terrain challenged."

 

As I tell my wife, in our personal vehicle, you're only stuck if you have to call for a tow... otherwise, you're just delayed.

 

Looks like a traction problem. Could use a good mud tire, something with a bit more bite. Would have had it no problem.

 

That truck seems just fine. The problem is that it is trying to climb a fairly severe slope, in a curve, on clay.

Based on slippage I can see, it does seem as if it might only have one rear drive axle, but I can't be sure.

I suspect they will need a dozer or another truck to hook up and drag him around that curve.

 

Sometimes, you just need a little help from a friend...


I had more than enough power (500 HP), gears (18), four-way lockers. Another set of chains would have helped, as would having the load a bit farther forward (stupidest trailer I've ever hauled), but it was steeper than it looks and sometimes you just can't do it on your own.

 

Big ol' bed truck!

When's the patch coming back? I'm ready to give up wrenching for a bit lol.

 

Just out of curiosity, how many people in the timber industry with log hauling equipment get into a side business of rough milling?

A small, portable Woodmizer horizontal mill can handle logs 12+ feet long and 36 inches in diameter. Use the equipment you have anyhow, cut and collect logs on the off season. Let them season a year, mill them, and sell planks, beams, etc. Especially if you have local timber that has interesting grain. Tabletops from 2" thick black walnut slabs, for example, seem to be a thing. Especially if there is branch/crotch figure/grain.

Furniture makers apparently like a lot of their lumber rough so they can shape it exactly like they want it.

I follow a fellow in Tennessee on YouTube. Out of the Woods.

I think he said his total investment for mill shed, milling machine, and drying kiln was around 40k USD. Not cheap, but if you have a facility for logging equipment already, you might have facilities you can use for the mill and kiln.

 

My LT40 woodmizer will handle a log up to 21 feet, and yea they are fun to play with.
Compared to just having a log truck, they can get kind of spendy. You have to have a way to unload log trucks, and a way to move logs around and then a way to handle material, it never stops.
If you want to cut your own logs, then you need a skidder and a loader. The list just goes on and on. lol