These are my favorite logging photos that I have managed to take.
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Darrel Triffit in Thunder Struck MAC500 Hauling up the Colebrook rise with a load of old growth on the way to the now closed down Triabunna mill.
I couldn’t have had a better shot if I’d a month to set this up…
Jeff…
Jelliot:
I’ve done a few loads of 18" steel pipe in my time Dave. It was usually about 26 ton for a load on a trailer with a dolly 40ish ton for truck trailer and load. We also used to run 18" plastic agg pipe but that was piled up to 4.5 meters.Jeff…
Jeff they were 20inch going down to Perth to have a concrete jacket fitted , they used to weigh 6 tons each then and 4 to a trailer, we couldn’t get them 4 wide so we had offset bolsters for them , I have some old pics somewhere . That timber looks pretty solid I have no idea what that would weigh but just looking at a couple of them I reckon you wouldn’t have wanted to see the mermaids LOL
cheers Dave
It wasn’t a bad guess at 18" then, I found the weight is mostly to do with the wall thickness. We were on a contract hauling gas pipe and we could only get 8 lengths legal on a 45 footer as they were so heavy. We tried to get overload permits but the RTA said there was a weak bridge somewhere on route so it was a no.
They usually let the timber sit for a while to dry out before moving it, the mills don’t like it coming in to wet as they pay by the ton. It’s not light though, I’ve seen us using 2 excavator loaders @15 ton each to get some of the big sticks on. It’s better doing plantation as you get a more uniform load, and it’s easier to get to as the roads have usually been better established.
Jeff…
Jelliot:
It wasn’t a bad guess at 18" then, I found the weight is mostly to do with the wall thickness. We were on a contract hauling gas pipe and we could only get 8 lengths legal on a 45 footer as they were so heavy. We tried to get overload permits but the RTA said there was a weak bridge somewhere on route so it was a no.Jeff…
Jeff the good thing about Oilfield casing and Pipe that has anything to do with the drilling of a well or for the production of oil or gas each joint/length has its weight in pounds per foot marked on it so then its a matter of getting the pocket calculater out and here in Aus converting to kilos. Its a worldwide standard the use of pounds per foot so no mistakes are made initiated in the US as they really were the ones who pioneered the drilling of oil wells and they still work in pounds and feet.The different thicknesses and the grade of steel used is all relevant to the weight.
Cheers Dave
Nice K1 Black shadow, at least you’ve got Air con. I think we all had some stinking hot nights out. Looks like you got it pretty straight on to the dock, is it Coles RDC by any chance?
Dave I use a rough conversion of 2000 lbs per ton.
I know there’s that long ton thing which is about 2250 per ton, but I can usually ask the yard boss if I’m in doubt. Or phone the TM and pass the blame on to him/ her.
Jeff…
Heres a different View and there is a clue on the photo as to where it was taken
I’m guessing it’s Fitzroy Crossing 110. I hope it wasn’t like that all the way. A few years back Katherine was flooded out and there were Bull sharks and salt water crocks ( Salties ) swimming up the high street. Any one on the northern part of the planet. Katherine is about 190 k’s in land from the sea. There were about 300 trailers sitting at Tenant creak waiting for the water to go down.
Jeff…
Jelliot:
I’m guessing it’s Fitzroy Crossing 110. I hope it wasn’t like that all the way. A few years back Katherine was flooded out and there were Bull sharks and salt water crocks ( Salties ) swimming up the high street. Any one on the northern part of the planet. Katherine is about 190 k’s in land from the sea. There were about 300 trailers sitting at Tenant creak waiting for the water to go down.Jeff….
Your guess is good Jeff,in another life before a sealed highway and about 12years before the Katherine flood I had taken a r/t of tankers to the Wyndam fuel depot and it bucketed down most of the way up and this pic was on the way back, this section of road was probably the highest part between F/C and Halls Creek also it was Christmass Eve but fortunately I managed to get home in time to watch the kids open their presents.lol
Cheers Dave
More from and thanks to Phil Schubert at Bindoon WA, if I remember rightly he mentioned these oversize are only allowed to move on a Saturday in that part of OZ.
Oily
Hi Jeff that is one cool photo of THUNDER STRUCK as you say right time right place, a one in a million shot. Eddie.
Hi All
This Mack Titan was our last long distance truck, 575hp V8 Electronic engine 18speed triple countershaft Mack Gear box and 52/180 Rockwell Diffs on a 6rod spring suspension chassis rated at 140 tons
Jelliot:
Nice K1 Black shadow, at least you’ve got Air con. I think we all had some stinking hot nights out. Looks like you got it pretty straight on to the dock, is it Coles RDC by any chance?Dave I use a rough conversion of 2000 lbs per ton.
I know there’s that long ton thing which is about 2250 per ton, but I can usually ask the yard boss if I’m in doubt. Or phone the TM and pass the blame on to him/ her.Jeff…
Thanks Jeff, No it’s not Coles it is Steggles at Hanwood ( near Griffin NSW) by the way this was my first time trying to reverse a B Double onto a loading dock, took a few shunts but I got it there, 
Ian
Eddie it was on of those once in life time shots. It was a stinking hot day, I’d been there a few hours and had packed up.I was about to go home when I heard it banging away on the engine brake as it came down to junction. I just grabbed the camera out the bag and got the first shot on the telephoto at the bottom of the hill, it was full on the gas and he just managed to grab another gear as it filled the view finder. I took a deep breath and went click, then I heard him having a bit at me on the CB as he went of in the distance.
They used to think I was mad for taking photos of trucks, but now that the greenies have shut down a lot of the industry and a lot of companies have had to quit or seriously down size, I often get asked if I have a photo of this truck or that truck, usually for Christmas or Birthdays. Always glad to help…
Usually when they transport the big Cats they take all the wheels of, but good shots none the less.
When I as on with Road Masters we had a depot at Forbes so we used to load a lot of chickens out of Hanwood. Good bit of straight reversing in the dark. B trailer on the right, A on the left bank. I always like to go in a bit of arc, but some times you don’t have a choice. I also managed to reverse a 2 trailer train about 20 meters that good enough to hit the pin on the 3rd dolly. It impressed the crap out of the yard boss but he wasn’t as surprised as I was.
That Mack looks the bizz, a bit bouncy with only 2 cars on the back trailer, I bet they weren’t in the same position you loaded them when you got to the other end…
Unless you had one of them new fangled air suspension trailers…
Jeff…
Jelliot:
Eddie it was on of those once in life time shots. It was a stinking hot day, I’d been there a few hours and had packed up.I was about to go home when I heard it banging away on the engine brake as it came down to junction. I just grabbed the camera out the bag and got the first shot on the telephoto at the bottom of the hill, it was full on the gas and he just managed to grab another gear as it filled the view finder. I took a deep breath and went click, then I heard him having a bit at me on the CB as he went of in the distance.They used to think I was mad for taking photos of trucks, but now that the greenies have shut down a lot of the industry and a lot of companies have had to quit or seriously down size, I often get asked if I have a photo of this truck or that truck, usually for Christmas or Birthdays. Always glad to help…
Usually when they transport the big Cats they take all the wheels of, but good shots none the less.
When I as on with Road Masters we had a depot at Forbes so we used to load a lot of chickens out of Hanwood. Good bit of straight reversing in the dark. B trailer on the right, A on the left bank. I always like to go in a bit of arc, but some times you don’t have a choice. I also managed to reverse a 2 trailer train about 20 meters that good enough to hit the pin on the 3rd dolly. It impressed the crap out of the yard boss but he wasn’t as surprised as I was.
That Mack looks the bizz, a bit bouncy with only 2 cars on the back trailer, I bet they weren’t in the same position you loaded them when you got to the other end…
Unless you had one of them new fangled air suspension trailers…Jeff…
I haven’t driven a R/T yet but hope to do soon, I hadn’t driven for about 16 years until last year and deicide to take my MC licence,. just been doing a few weekends on locals until I did a trip to Sydney over the Australia day weekend. Like I said my first time and not the easiest place to do it so I was pretty happy with the result, that’s why I took the photo. Hoping to be doing more driving soon
Ian
Good on ye Ian, once you learn it sticks with you, just like falling of a bike.
Jeff…
Jelliot:
Good on ye Ian, once you learn it sticks with you, just like falling of a bike.Jeff…
Hiya again jelliot just looking at them pics Brilliant I had mentioned to blackshadow + another old friend
mickyp were only playing at over here great pics lets have some more it’s better than watching telly .
Take care.
GUESTY44
Thanks for the great comments guys… here’s a few from the Delorain tucks show from a few years back…
This terrible thing is mobile steering and suspension tester, According to the RTA they can set it up in under 4 minutes.
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Jeff…
Jelliot:
Thanks for the great comments guys… here’s a few from the Delorain tucks show from a few years back…This terrible thing is mobile steering and suspension tester, According to the RTA they can set it up in under 4 minutes.
Christened “The Shaker”
Cheers Dave
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