Hauling logs, Peterbilt 378 550 3406E CAT

[localcrew]

One of the best videos I've seen on YouTube. I loved the fast-forwarding with sound still going. Great camera placement. Just an all-around quality video. Two thumbs up!

[davidvc04]

Very cool to see that equipment in use. You make it look easy.

[yukonrott]

i always wondered how u guys stretched those trailers out... thanks for the vid... hammer down goin to town..runnin late and over weight....cmon

[The143500]

freat video WAY diffrent style compared to how we do it in ireland /europe

[revalj]

great video

[1DieselFuelOnly1]

I love Log trucks and Skidders. Amazing! Thanks for posting. 

[rottysaurus]

A question whats the difference between a 3406E and a 3406B???

[redheadedduckhunter]

is this near lake Almanor, California?

[dc1389]

good video, thats amazing that you did all of it youself, must have been hard

[Metal4Life572]

cool vid..awesome editing...lmao@ 5:41..warp speed ahead scotty,,,i cant hold er any longer captain.shes breakin up...be safe..shiney side up.

[TheLargecars]

lol looks like the worlds fastest peterbilt lol u going 215 in that thing??? lol cool vid 378 it looks cool but never herd of it..

[Magnumkevlar]

very oldfashion way to handle logs.. so many machines to do that,, we are 50 years ahed in europe:)

[moham123]

man, listen to that cat work!!

[65jeepman]

holy shit that shider is fast hahaha

[fixitdude74]

thats a neat way of keeping your chains and dogs together, cool!

[RTD8481]

I THINK LOGGING TRUCKS ARE SO COOL. I LIVE IN THE MIDWEST SO I DONT SEEM THEM AROUND HERE. I HAVE NEVER SEEN A LOGGING TRUCK IN MY LIFE! I LOVE HOW THEY WORK!

[misqueeto]

Sweet rig you have there! Sounds great

[heliarche]

So that operator can drop the trailer like that and it's hooked?I saw something else going on after, was that hooking air lines?

[retroolschool]

This is really impressive footage, especially alot of the angles. I didnt even know logging companies or what have you dont even vut down trees no more...

[retroolschool]

@retroolschool cut down trees i mean..

[UnionPacificBNSF]

What kind of trailer is that. In the South we use a pole trailer that folds up it is hinged in the middle and at the 5th. wheel.

[72fordcrewcabcummins]

this looks way more complicated than how i haul grain and livestock.

[truckerwannabe14]

caint wait till i get to be a trucker

[Carlipc]

Nice to see this, its not like here in Sweden.

[transamfan81]

Why would you sell this truck?

[transamfan81]

Can't believe it passed cali smog laws smokin like that, though it looks awesome. I've never seen The first peice of machinery(forget the name) grab and cut 2 trees at the same time. Pretty cool.

Nice good with the fastforwarding. Great job on the camera veiws. This is my fav video by you.

[dasani110]

It only smoked because I put a power harness on it that was supposed to give me more power, but instead only made it smoke a lot with absolutely no noticeable power increase at all. So I ended up taking it off. Normally this truck would not smoke at all no matter how hard I tried.

[AmplifiedAudio]

@dasani110 black smoke means a diesel is running rich, nothing else. power adders are a wate of money and mess your rig up in the long run a diesel runs best when the smoke is kindof a milky color

[goatmennum2]

@transamfan81 feller buntcher

[gsimmons12]

This is one of my ALL TIME favorite youtube vids! Nice work!!!

[bdfgli]

Great video! Sweet rig!!

[gmb01mk]

Hell at the begining of this video i saw hwy 70 canyon i said damn he's in my back yard!! then i spotted Quincy mill, ive been bringing a couple a day up there lately from Stirling city,man that truck sounds nice ,you sold it? I just dont recall seeing it in this area.

[dasani110]

Ha ha yeah when you said you hauled logs in California I figured you might be somewhere close around here. I live just outside of Quincy, and both years I was using this truck, I was hauling out of Greagle into Quincy and Oroville, so you wouldn't have had a whole lot of opportunity to see me out on the road I guess. But yeah, I sold this truck and got a Peterbilt 387 highway truck and decided to go over the road. That about did me in.

[mike198748]

now that i think about it i believe i have seen your truck in passing

[dasani110]

So now I bought another logging truck, a 1990 Kenworth T-800, but have not been able to find any work for it yet this year. I actually hauled 2 loads for John Wheeler logging from Highway 32, one to Lincoln and one to Quincy, and then they said that was all they had for me. I couldn't believe it. This has been ridiculous. Normally I would be able to find work no problem for my truck, but now when I need it the most, I can't find anything! It's making me crazy.

[quattro4kss]

great vid!

[dopendao]

it's doing very much smoke

[tt8sh]

This is a very good Video .Super.

and a very good camera work

I love it.

[1truckinfool]

Cool video!! It all looks like just TOO much fun. Seems like the slwest part is throwin chains over the load. Too bad they cant cant load it like they take it off..lol. very first industry though.

[6stringgunslinger]

Need to lean that cat out .

[pknlpr]

sweden must be talking about his lincon logs in his bed room.

[lancer1st]

ya got a 13 or 18spd in that beast?

[dasani110]

18spd

[jdrock0]

get fucked rallyguy!

[rallyguy112]

im just telling the truth

[beyondupnorth]

Then make us a video showing how you do it so fast!

[peterbiltexd]

yea whatever you say man just another doush who thinks that cause he has a selfloading truck hes a badass

[mike198748]

i used to run slef loaders, i loved it,,, noone around but me LOL

[GUYx2]

Great job on the video!

[roju1]

Simply wow , great work

[thematt89]

Great video, loved the different camera angles and your editing work.

[araaron3]

nice truck

[winstoncup77]

where was this done at ?

[dasani110]

This is in North Eastern California in Plumas County. Got loaded near Graeagle, and unloaded in Quincy.

[Laofse]

I like your hat. ^^

[ZRAC00N]

this is very good , i have always wanted to drive loging trucks. but i got into aviation.

[dasani110]

That's really funny, because I have always wanted to fly helicopters, but got into driving logging trucks. Actually I do have my commercial helicopter pilots license, but not enough flight hours to do anything with it. So I haul logs:-)

[Markmeblablabla]

sure smokes alot for a C15

[dasani110]

Yeah, I can't believe how LITTLE the C15 smokes. I couldn't make this one smoke no matter how much I lugged it down until I put a Hayes performance harness on the boost sensor. That tricked it into pumping too much fuel, so I was able to get the beautiful black smoke I was after. But I only put it on there once in a while and then would take it off because it got embarrassing sometimes obscuring the traffic behind me in a smoke cloud when I didn't want to.

[Markmeblablabla]

Theres alotta people tring to kill the logging industry, i wouldnt push your luck if I were you.

[omniviking]

Very nice camera work.

[mbfootball77]

what kinda hood ordimant was that? is it a girl?

[dasani110]

That hood ornament is actually a pig with wings. I thought it fit my personality pretty good better than a swan or something.

[CaptainObviousIsHere]

Why didn't you scale in? HOW'D YOU GET PAID?!?! I bet you were just hitting on the chicks attending the scale house right? I knew it! If you don't mind how much do you make hauling logs? On my garbage route there is a guy that has his own truck and hauls logs and it looks like he's a millionaire, so I was just curious. I love the vid, the editing is awesome!

[dasani110]

Hi there. The reason I didn't weigh in is because I was hauling off a job that was all scale which meant every load had to have each log measured and entered into a computer, and they do that out in the yard, and they didn't care about the weight on that job. Other ones you have to weight in every single time. And hauling logs you can gross well over $120,000 a year. But about 75% of that goes back into the truck in fuel, insurance, tires and other expenses. Depends on a lot of stuff too.

[Laurids82]

Hi there i have a question, why do you lift the trailer up on the truck when its empty?

would you save time on hooking it if you always pulled it?

[dasani110]

One of the main reasons we put the trailer on the back is because we are almost always going out on little narrow dirt roads to get the loads of logs, and it is a LOT easier to maneuver around on our way in, and then a lot easier to turn around once we get back to the loader. Otherwise they would have to clear out a really big area in the woods for us to turn the long trucks around in. But also a very insignificant reason, is that it saves the tires a little unnecesary wear on the trip back.

[Laurids82]

oh okay, thx for answering

[dasani110]

And there was a guy working in the scale house at that time so, no I wasn't hitting on the chicks ha ha. Yeah I made good money when I had this truck. I sold it earlier this year and have been kicking myself ever since. I had it fixed up so nice!! When I bought it, it was just a plain old truck. Oh well, I'm gonna be trying to buy another one this spring and do the same thing to it:-)

[CaptainObviousIsHere]

It was definately a sweet rig. I love the sound of those pipes! I hope you can get another truck! Why did you end up selling it, and how is the logging industry doing near you? It has slowed a lot here in western Washington but it seems to be picking back up.

[lukasz414pl]

good :) fajny filmik :) maxxsss

[jtbo]

Problem with all tree hugger is that they are so short sighted, in my country forest company plants trees and then cuts trees, same way farmer does to his fields, process just takes bit longer.

Trees remove CO2, CO2 is bad by greenmovement, there would not be those trees without forest companies, so which planet is destroyed? CO2 should not be removed?

It is different in areas where natural forests are converted to fields.

[rypostu]

"Sometimes when you are driving you see two great big log trucks passing each other going in opposit directions. I never understood that. If they need logs over there...and they have logs leaving...you would think a phone call would straighten it out." -Brian Regan

[SPGPINK]

it is so cool. I want this job. But it bad for the eco thing.

[tomuxasz]

nice

[dohe1906]

If its an E engine, why is it dumping out black smoke

[rubs1389]

Awsome truck. I like how it sounds and looks. You should put the video up again, but in its regular speed:P

[dueltruck700]

man that was sweet! thats amazing how they take all the logs off at once up here they pick them off one by one takes like 4ver i guess you do more than one load in a day

[hines2k5]

hahaha! you should enter a wrapper throwin' contest! lol that was fun to watch when you sped the camera up. sweet angles

[104bigTruck]

Great job on this Driver! I really enjoyed watching!

[deerelover18]

what is the empty weight on your truck?

[dasani110]

My truck weighed 27,000 pounds empty because it had a 3/8 inch frame and frame inserts, and heavy axles and steel rims on the trailer. Made it kind of hard to haul enough logs. I sold this truck about a month ago.

[jmm2000]

Did you get another log truck after you sold your previous truck?

[bead1986]

nice vid man hell yeah

[herefordmsv]

You gotta hand it to the loader as well. Pretty good driving

[jakebrake05]

awesome video

[blackphantom039]

all the men in the family other than my dad drive log trucks and i love going in to the woods when it's muddy and i also love going to mill... anyways great vid. PULL THE HAMMER DOWN!!!

[Rednecklogger69]

Thats a beauty of a truck..i love the video..i hope to get one like it of my own some day soon. Right now my family is running 4 peterbilts with goosenecks movin machinery for other outfits. nice work man

[Edvinvidar]

pretty cool man!pretty much different in Norway:D

[ktmvscrf]

very good vid nick film work

enjoyed it

[K1ll3rM4st3r]

man this kicks ass i love your vids

[willymilly69]

that type of logging is different from the logging in Maine

[mainetrucker]

Tell me about it.. we dont use pole trailers.

[pete359l]

If it were only that fast!

[gsanders13]

Great video, I spent the better part of 20 years in the woods in western Montana. I started by setting tongs, then went to sawing and driving truck. I loaded logs the majority of time, I then owned my own outfit. I had two line machines two log loaders and one PETE with a 3406 and 8" straights, that is the one thing I miss the most about logging. Now I am working on becoming a full time helicopter pilot. Keep up the good work

[dasani110]

Good luck on your becoming a helicopter pilot. That is something I've been working on as well. That is kind of funny. We should start a former logger, helicopter pilots group or something ha ha. It was my dream to fly helicopters since I was about 9. Hauling logs was supposed to be a temporary thing on my way to me real dream. Got my Commercial helicopter pilots license in 2004 but couldn't handle the instructor bit at that time, but didn't have enough flight hours to get a job either.

[pescador1]

That lil speedy gonzales truck picking up the logs is one scary piece of machinery haha

Buddy whats the pay like?

[dasani110]

Ha ha yeah, I always thought it would be cool to make a horror movie where either the logging equipments comes to life and starts attacking people, or just somebody went nuts operating them. Because there's so much you could do with some of those machines. And the pay is decent. If you own the truck you can gross about $70-$75 right now. About 3/4 of that goes back into the truck for fuel, insurance, tires, registration and other maintenance though.

[pescador1]

Hey man, thanx for replying! You mean $70-$75 per hour or $70K-$75K per year?

See I'm looking into getting me a licence for LGV/HGV... And so I am looking at various options, which ways I can go once qualified!

This Industry seems like great fun, although you have to put alot of the Environmental Save the Earth ideals aside I guess...

[dasani110]

Oops I accidently left that part out. I meant $70-$75 an hour. Yeah hauling logs is deffinently a lot of fun. I have never hauled logs for anyone that was just out there destroying the forrests. A lot of people think that logging should just stop because it's destroying the earth and causing global warming. But what's funny is almost all of the people who think that are living in a house made of wood, with their feet up on their wooden coffee table, reading the newspaper wich came from wood

[pescador1]

I agree man, I am all for, if you take from earth give back to earth also... Everything needs to be balanced...

Your job is very Important for the everyday living of humanity and there are many companys who plant trees back... Which is great...

Anyways... thanx for the info and great video by the way... Keep Truckin like the doodah man

[sexontvtrd]

man awsome movie five stars i work on these rigs thanks...........

[Vladpryde]

Hey dude, I wanna say, this is a awesome video! I've passed it around to a few friends, and they love it. Keep up the good work!

[4638JL]

Great Video,you look alittle older than 27? (Stranger)

[redemblem]

Your filming is excellent.. Could you tell me how your trailer works, I understand that the dolly that you tow is connected to a pintle hitch, but the part thats on your truck, does it just go where a trailer would normally hook up?

[talleyken]

That video is something else. Very nice. Good job. How long did it take to put that together. Where you at in california. I recognize some of the video. We have a trucking business here in Madera, CA.

[dasani110]

I actually used pieces of video from a span of about three months of getting little bits here and there. Very little time to stop and mess around getting video hauling logs:-) I am in Quincy, CA and the video was starting out in Graeagle, CA and going to the Sierra Pacific Mill in Quincy.

[Twitchy250]

Why don't you guys run three axels on your trailer then you can get pull heavier loads

[dasani110]

Well in California you are limited to a gross of 80,000 regardless of how many axles you have. So all more axles mean to us, is extra weight on our trucks translating to less payload. I know, it's stupid. California fails to make sense in many areas.

[haes1142]

hey this video is sweet!!! i have a question though... howcome the bunks are so short and narrow??

[dasani110]

Well here in California we can only gross 80,000 pounds so my bunks being 8'6" wide allows me to gross 80,000 without going very high so there's really no need for any longer stakes. And 8'6" is the max width allowed.

[Dodgeram901]

that kitty sounds good under load with those stacks!

[willysjeepparidon]

that buncher is fast

[drod1364]

i bet he can't run that skidder like bobby lightfoot..

[drod1364]

i bet he can't cut logs like Skipper Barner...

[ekmarcus1]

nice movie, nice turbo sound

[justtony21]

hey nice vid bro. a video showing employment. real work. who wudda thunk it? nice vid man.....

[lilbrudder32]

great vid, very entertaining.  Thanks for sharing!

[montanahogrider]

Okay now you have done it! I retired after 35 years of driving log truck and now I'm going to have to get a part time job driving again. I miss it!

[dasani110]

Ha ha yeah I know! It is one of those things that once it is in your blood you just have a heck of a time leaving it. I've tried leaving it before and found myself getting so excited everytime I'd see a log truck drive by that I got another one.

[brockmirabella]

That video was awesome. Thanks !

[xadmiral291x]

what kinda cb you got in your truck ? lol i know stupid queston!

[dasani110]

Ha ha it's a Uniden PC76XL. But I also had an ICOM 706 multi band ham radio in there too.

[d4v3z]

i luv ur vid

[FazBrothers]

wow they must work fast haha

[s172mch]

lol the slow motion is hilarious!

that guy who loaded the logs onto the dolly is really good at it

and that tree cutting machine is odd lol

[s172mch]

lol polybun

interesting process

[Chevysaresupercool]

hay pretty cool vid!!! looks like it took a lot of time to make it?? all i can say is NICE!!!

[dasani110]

Hey thanks! Yeah took many trips over a few days time to get all the angles and stuff.

[jtkenworth]

Very nice truck, sounds awesome. For all those city morons/tree huggers who are bad mouthing the logging industry, this is a way of life and for many people the only means of putting food on the table. Who the f#!@ cares if the wood does sit in the lumber yard and rot, cutting and making that lumber gave someone a weekly pay check.

[jtel]

Utterly fascinating.

[zenixxx]

so i guess u live in a tent right?

in the middle of the wood?

never use any paper products right?

u must live in one shitty place if theres so many empty houses sitting there rotting

animals are tasty

[Polybun]

Wow, thanks for destroying that forest by clear cutting it, we are all so thankfull! fuckers...

[dasani110]

You are quite welcome. Enjoy your lovely home.

[Polybun]

Yea, too bad half the wood you bring in is left to rot. Government susbsidies are the only thing keeping you employed freeloader.

[dasani110]

We can barely keep up with the demand for the lumber. All summer long we haul logs into the mills, and by spring time the mills are almost completely empty. Don't know where you get the idea that half of it is left to rot. That would be a huge waste! And in the logging industry wasted wood is wasted money. And the government has nothing to do with my employment. I own my truck and work hard for a privately owned logging company hauling exclusively off of privately owned land.

[Polybun]

The logging company gets tax breaks from the government, and often, is allowed to remove trees from state owned property. You guys destroy our planet. It gets through the sawmill, and then what doofus? The lumber sits in a yard till it rots. Buildings sit unsold and unfilled till they rot.

Its just yet another way more plants and animals die to make room for your fat ass.

[firemanhoog]

yeh and I bet u hate the logging indusrty alot when u use toilet paper to wipe ur ass...or does ur shit not stink

[treeclimberdave]

you know whats funny? this is the 4th person to say that this same video is his.

[dasani110]

Hmm interesting. One other person is accounted for as I am also Truckoholic. I hate that YouTube will not let you change your user name once you set it, so you are stuck with the one you originally chose. So I finally just had to create me a new account. But so far this is the only video I got uploaded to it. Planned to upload all my videos to that one and close this one, but haven't had the time.

[gsimmons12]

Awesome job on this video!

[THWler1988]

Hey cool Video. *****Stars

Greetings from Germany

[ladder09]

Awesome video

[dozer897]

awesome video man. good work. like ya say if they don't like it. too bad. great stuff i think.

[drod1364]

that man lodes logs like Bruce Taintor...