I guess this makes sense in the time before trailers. 160 foot long pilings going to Pearl Harbor

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/374/

straight out of Final Destination... wouldn't you think anyone working for the Forest Dept would be familiar enough with logging to KNOW not to be so damn close you could get killed by one?

A USFS truck was at the front of a two-vehicle convoy traveling west on Highway 101.

 This vehicle was driving at or near the speed limit (55 mph) with the cruise control set.

 At 10:48 a.m., the lead USFS vehicle driver noticed a log truck turning into the eastbound lane onto the highway from the south side of the road. 

The log truck did not complete the turn as expected. 

The USFS vehicle driver applied the brakes and steered right (north) to create as much distance as possible. 

The trailer with its load of logs detached from its tow vehicle and rolled perpendicularly across both lanes of the highway—directly into the path of the USFS vehicle—leaving no chance for avoidance. 

The log truck’s loaded trailer and USFS vehicle struck each other in the ditch on the highway’s north side. The airbags deployed and logs from the trailer entered through the windshield. The driver’s side door was crumpled. Both the driver and the passenger hit the deployed airbags.

https://www.facebook.com/wildfirelessonslearned/posts/pfbid0QxcgVzniAuPLtwX1WKN7KnzvxcvCjGJ2zzKyZnkbiEF8eYxDiAYDPhiCVxttPiZjl

https://lessons.wildfire.gov/incident/olympic-nf-vehicle-accident-2025

Gen X logger with a sense of humor

everyone that has seen the movie Final Destination, will know what this is about.

hauling a Steam Donkey on a Kelly logging truck

https://www.oldoregonphotos.com/subject/cars-trucks/3-1-2-ton-kelly-springfield-truck-hauling-a-steam-donkey-c-1917.html

great lighting on this photo, naturally, it was made by Russell Lee, one of the best. 1942

https://www.shorpy.com/node/26766

Frank White started writing the story of his life as a pioneer BC truck driver in 1974 when he was only sixty, his career of wrangling tiny trucks overloaded with huge logs down steep mountains with no brakes. Memories of a Pioneer Truck Driver...

his first story won the Canadian Media Club award for Best Magazine Feature and everyone urged him to write more. 

He started in his spare time but kept having so many new adventures he didn't finish until he was 100 years old. He set out to tell the story of his life in transportation, starting in the horse and buggy age and chronicling the growth of trucking in the BC freighting and logging industries

Those were collected and made into this book

Damn right I just ordered myself a copy

https://www.amazon.com/Milk-Spills-One-Log-Loads-Memories/dp/1550176226/ref=sr_1_1?

that plank road is bearing up under a heavy load

 https://www.facebook.com/EricBrightonNostalgia/photos/183993397330057

a Gramm-Bernstein logging truck on a plank road, with a big log on back

They were an automobile company in Lima, Ohio, an early manufacturer of power wagons and advertised 1, 2, 3, and 5 ton models with "any style of body desired". Vehicles were sold through the Willys-Overland Motors.

From 1930 to 1935, the Ahrens-Fox Fire Engine Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, had been building its smaller fire engines on chassis made by LeBlond-Schacht Truck Company, also of Cincinnati. But by 1935, Depression-weakened Ahrens-Fox owed Schacht so much money for chassis already supplied, that Schacht refused to supply any more truck chassis to AF. Ahrens-Fox the turned to Gramm Trucks of Lima, Ohio, to supply radiators, hoods, and fenders for its smaller fire trucks. Schacht Trucks bought-out Ahrens-Fox Company in 1936, and AF again began to build fire engines on Schacht chassis. But the Ahrens-Fox with Gramm sheet metal continued to be available until 1939.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm-Bernstein_Company

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10159405316092055&set=pcb.1224902274757359

Terry knows some cool stuff! He just let me know about the amateur built Butler Bros. off-highway logging trucks that Basil Oldfield built in Victoria Canada in the 60s, because the Butlers wanted logging trucks that could carry more logs than the competition

Butler Brothers Logging of Sooke/Victoria B.C. built some unique trucks in the 60's and 70's.

 Claude and Wally Butler wanted to maximize load capacity and went with a cab-under-load design.

 The evolution of the design began in 1960 and culminated with the Mark 5, 100 ton capacity, in 1973. The Mark 5 was designed from the outset to use a 16V-71T1 initially rated at 800 bhp.

Claude Butler wanted something radically different from the logging trucks of the day, he and good friend Basil Oldfield designed and built the first of four unique trucks. 

As far as is known or guessed, this truck (the first of 3 #70 trucks) used Mack axles and rear ends, and ran on dual 1200 tires on all wheels. It had a rigid log bunk frame with an articulated tandem axle power bogie under each end. This was effectively an articulated 8x8. The cab sat beside the engine, both of which hung out over the front power bogie. 

The engine was a Jimmy - not sure what size - and it drove a shaft back to a central gearbox midships under the rigid log bunk frame. This then distributed power to the front and rear power bogies.

This was a small truck compared to the Mark 5 but was the beginning. Roll-out appears to have been in 1960-61 but little has come to light about this truck and what happened to it.

The #36 in 1964, and second #70 came on line, both of which were substantially larger and approached the load capacity of 100 tons that Claude and Wally were shooting for.

The #36 utilized the same rigid frame with articulated power bogies under each end. Tires were now 1600's and they ran on planetary axles. The cab, and the whole truck, sat a little lower, the engine was a 12V-71, just like the first truck. The whole truck was wider and longer and was the first to be dubbed 'the roller skate'. The bunks were 15 or 16 feet across.

By the time the Company had built their fourth, Mark V, they had perfected a system that utilized a double-steering axle. 

Veteran loggers recall that the Mark V carried, between the truck and the pup, loads ranging from 150 to 200 tons.

http://www.spiritoftomorrow.com/the-logging-truck-story.html

https://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/threads/butler-brothers-logging-trucks.20865/#post352491

https://www.sookenewsmirror.com/community/butler-brothers-mark-v/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/old_growth_trees/12932331533

https://heritagemachines.com/commercials/exotic-eight-leggers/

ponder... just what was the hurry, that the driver wouldn't take the curve 10 mph slower?

ridiculously stupid. 

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2022/10/ouch.html

first photo I've seen that has a pole road AND a plank road, 1937

 https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/lumberjacks-british-columbia-history-1900-1930/

a Kelly truck, with Goodyear rubber over solid rims - 1923

https://www.overdrive.fi/forum/threads/vanhoja-valokuvia-ameriikan-raitilta.267070/page-1276#post-3444690

110 years old logging truck, abandoned and overgrown in a forest it once helped cut down, in Lynn Valley, BC, Canada

http://mildlyinteresting-blog.blogspot.com/2021/05/100-year-old-logging-truck-abandoned.html

MO POWER! When you need a loaded logging truck moved out of the way, a Ford or a Chevy ain't what you call on for help

https://www.motor1.com/news/520503/dodge-ram-tows-loaded-log-semi/

I wouldn't trust those 3 little chains

 https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by-part-2.1154030/page-1123#post-14002801

I've found I know useless information that I'll never get a job with... but I can instantly identify obscure logging trucks. Oh whoopee. The Daily Timewaster blog posted this image and this question

because I posted a photo 6 years ago,  https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2014/12/logging-road-in-both-sense-of-word.html  and it was the first Garford I'd ever seen or heard up until then. 

So, I learned what a Garford was once, and it finally has become a useful piece of identification trivia. 

I'd rather know the emails of any of the Grand Tour/Top Gear guys (Clarkson, May, and Hammond) and tell them thanks for all the shows they did that entertain me, or how to find that one perfect job where I get paid to blog and earn a living at it, or how to play the guitar, or how to win at casinos, but, I guess it's better to know something, than know nothing. 

It's not going to solve any problem I'll ever have, nor one anyone else ever will either, except that it does allow me to be the only one to identify this ONE question another blogger had for some unknown reason today  https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2021/01/what-brand-of-truck-do-you-think-that.html 

I bet I've needed to know a million things in my life that I've forgotten (every wrong spelling, word, test question answer, US Navy quals, job knowledge, etc) when I needed it most. 

Why? Probably because my brain was already full, of useless information from all the things I've seen, heard, learned, read, watched, etc... anyone else read all the Ripley's believe it or nots? All the good books they could ever find, all the good plays (Shakespeare was simply uniquely incredible that he could rhyme that well, write stories that good, and do both at the same time - iambic pentameter, who would guess right?) all the cool comics (Calvin and Hobbes, Far Side) learn just thousands of songs, characters in books, quotes, latin phrases, chemistry, tv shows, movies, streets and freeways, cities and landmarks, and all the car info I've learned and forgotten... 

But just show me a damn Garford, and BINGO! One useless bit of identification trivia finally finds a use the only time in the world it will ever be asked for.

What would they need such a long log? A very odd and unusual thing.... a flagpole

It was put aboard the 450-foot-long ocean freighter Wavecrest, bound for the Thames River and Kew Gardens.

It was the longest flagpole in the world. It was erected to celebrate the centenary of the Province of British Columbia and the bicentenary of the Botanical Gardens in 1959.

http://www.designroots.ca/2018/05/17/__trashed-2/

apparently before they invented cabs for trucks (yes, really) they got creative on hot to prevent the logs from slamming the driver in the back... and what the hell, it works!

back in the hard working, no heater having, hand crank start engine days... there was a big ol bell so you could let people know for miles, if you got stuck and needed some help between the loggers and the main road - on a two rut that was made with a dozer if you were lucky

men were tougher than hell back then, they didn't have much to work with, and didn't have much to show for years of hard labor.

They busted roads through forests, mined the deep dark mountain roots, headed to the Yukon for gold, and tamed the wild west

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2019/11/that-truck-and-left-front-tire-for-sure.html

unless that is white cedar... or something else that's all air, and no mass, that truck has a very short life expectancy

https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2016/09/once-that-gets-rolling-id-wager-safely.html