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CarolinaHD, the green one is a Sterling. I'm pretty sure I saw that truck still in service in the 70's on Rt. 128. If not that particular truck, one very similar. Nothing like the sound of a chain drive at 55 mph.
Davischevy, not only no Jake, you had to manage your brakes, clutch and transmission. Without AC, with sweat.

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[QUOTE=Davischevy, not only no Jake, you had to manage your brakes, clutch and transmission. Without AC, with sweat.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I've driven in these hills plenty with no Jake and no AC. Take it easy and don't get excited.

Last year a deputy sheriff had to "rescue" a rookie female reefer driver off a mountain near here. She pumped the brakes until she ran out of air, the brakes locked, and she was afraid to release them once she built air again. Luckily the deputy had grown up in the log woods.

There is a company north of here that sends rookie drivers through here on regular basis and it's interesting to watch them in these hills. Not fun to follow them though.

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You know the TV show, " Highway To Hell".....
The dangerous incline on Hwy1, British Columbia, Canada......

I went down that 11% grade, west bound..... Just a mile down from the top, my diesel engine through a rod..... Immediately lost all air brakes.
..... I was going for a ride...... I drove next to the right-hand cement barrier, turned my tire against the concrete and in about 200 yards, came to a stop.

It had no jake or even an electric brake on drive shaft......

Scared me to death, but saved the cargo ( & Me )

I was towed down to N. Vancouver for the fix.

( After driving from S. California, to St Louis , Saskatoon Canada.... I figured finally what that silly knock was !! )

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How long ago was that?

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Let me think..... ( I was hauling a 74' transport / registered motorhome )

A pair or F1 Tunnelboats...... About 2001 'ish'

( The red truck ) Only photo I could find at the moment...

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I'm loving all these pictures. #1356 is a Super Duty or Big Job and that scoop is factory. The Dodge Job Rated medium duty trucks were just as cool. Even the Heavy Bighorn used the pickup cab. Those c-cab rubber tire chain drives are a cool era in trucks. I've looked that heavy Sterling over before at an ATHS show before... Awesome! I never knew of those Eisenhauers… WOW! I spent some time in Humboldt County, CA in the mid-'70s and loved seeing the old needle noses hauling shaggy old Redwood to the mills. I was in Fortuna, so between Scotia and Eureka. Loads and loads up and down that stretch of 101 and down from the hills on 36. Those old Peterbilts with no polished up trim are ingrained in my mind forever

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Here is one of those from that era!

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The Pete's getting face time here got me to thinking about my 94. I can't believe I haven't posted it here before.

The time came to give it up. I sold it a couple of months ago. It was hard to do, but I haven't driven it much in a couple of years and it was a shame for it to just sit.

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Real nice truck !!

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Thanks for that picture. That's what I'm talking about. No 18" polished stainless bumper, narrow steel with diamond pattern for looks and greater visibility. I did not know it then, but I was there at the beginning of the end of a great era in NW logging.
I'm glad you finally showed it. Someone got a nice truck! Never drove it? You don't take your wife out to dinner?

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Nice!

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Not sure about the others, but those first 2 Fords are just a tab bit overloaded.

Reminds me of the story I told a time or two about the old '55 Ford 3/4 Flatbed my boss told us to use instead of the IH 2-Ton. After we loaded it, the truck wouldn't move. The Flatbed sat right down on the Tires, lol.

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A tad......:dohh:

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A couple from The Golden Road in the Maine woods.

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Man, some of us are getting old. I was looking at those Chevy dump trucks and thinking mine is too new to show. Then I realized the title to this truck is 29 years old. The reason I say title, it is in it's third incarnation since I bought it. The only thing left of the original 91 Kodiak I bought is the left fuel tank and the frame rails. 3126 Caterpillar with a 9 speed.

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IMO, they all seem to be overloaded. I bet they weren't to concerned about top legal speeds.

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Overloaded and oversized. No "wide load" banners or proper escort vehicles. Harvesting is a big part of that economy so I'm sure the Po Po look the other way. And all the locals know how to act when they see one coming. That's an old practice now that combines got so much bigger. Around here with smaller tracts, the combines get driven farm to farm, usually with a pickup leading with 4-ways on, getting people to pull over when needed.

This whole show truck pictures thing is getting old. Real old (with a touch of new)

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No one had to look the other way, The Golden Road was a private, mostly dirt road from Millinocket to Canada for logging. Trucks did what they wanted and trucks always had the right of way, Private vehicles had to pay a toll. You were required to get out of their way. It's still there but now with the decline of logging, it's open to the public.

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More wreckers...

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I really like any GM tandem dump. And they are all now bygone models. What you have is the last of them, and 29 years old ain't so new. That's a late great Chevy!
I did know that about the Golden Road. I have spent time in that area, many years ago. My post was referring to the medium duty flatbed combine haulers that other members had commented were overweight. I really have enjoyed looking at those special logging trucks you've shown.
Fantastic group of wrecker pictures. That twin boom hoisting two 1t wreckers is the best!

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1960 International and 1960 Diamond T

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I never knew those Diamond Ts had fiberglass cabs. That Diamond T wrecker hoisting the two 1 tons is just like the tractor my buddy's dad had to pull the lowboy for his loader. I remember we would hop up and bleed the air down in the evenings.

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I love the part of the ad that says "If damage should occur, it can be repaired quickly, and easily, and at very low cost.".
Every Corvette owner in the world wishes that were true. :lol:

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Found this old truck on the interweb and was impressed with the look of it., whatever it is.

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What a great looking grill......

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Another great photo from the interweb.

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No rear fenders..... ( not as if they haul Bentleys, but....)

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:devil: d.o.t just haven't got to him yet :lol:

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Big Jimmy!

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What are the odds this is under weight?

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That's a lot of weight on that amount of axles.

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I thought it was the Tweetsie locomotive but I found a picture of it being moved up the mountains by none other than a... https://tweetsie.com/explore-the-par...n-blowing-rock

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After some looking about I believe this may be the Lindbergh locomotive from the Pennsylvania Railroad. Weighing in at a svelte 243, 600 lbs.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn...a_Railroad_460

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Another beauty from the past. And how many gas pumps does this station have?

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Old school log truck drivers doing old school things.

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I know old Buicks are heavy but I never realized how heavy until now. :lol:

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Here is an old one I don't recognize.
Plus a second photo of what looks to be the same kind of truck. Looks like it says Bigge on the front, which is cool as they are still in business today. We do work with them from time to time. They seem to specialize in heavy lift work.