Wrapping up a log truck.

Jeff Tellefsen Wraps a load of logs in Mission BC .

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Entertainment

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• peterbilt
• logging
• truck
• log
• mission
• BC

[AluminumSteel]

What keeps a log from rolling off while you are wrapping up? The side poles? That looks like the most dangerous time to me; seen any pop up and roll down?

[104bigTruck]

@AluminumSteel The loader operator visualizes what the load looks like for safety and i do an inspection and then usually tighten the middle wrapper first. Iike to hook all three binders to the chains and then tighten the middle to make it even. When I was about 20 I had some very small cedar logs roll off after I had thrown my center wrapper and was walking back to grap another wrapper. If I had been there I probably would have been hauling the old growth logs of heaven.

[oceanjockey1000]

I think he did a fantastic job of chaining his load....quick with no time wasted, heck of a good arm to throw....but ONE IMPORTANT EXCEPTION: I was always taught to bind on the right (passenger) side. That way, the first time...and each time you stop to check and/or tighten the binders, if you're on the highway you're not running the risk of a passing vehicle smearing you against the side of your trailer. People doze all the time.

~Ocean Jockey...Maine to Florida....Flatbed truckin' is my game

[104bigTruck]

@oceanjockey1000 Thanks Ocean! I am required to place the wrappers on the drivers side because the machine operator has to have a full visual of me as he unloading from the drivers side.

[nokiaicon]

Do any guys up that way run the old big cam engines 350 400's

[104bigTruck]

Some of the older loggers have them. 400 more common.

[markallen511]

TRY THAT AROUND A ONE LOG REDWOOD.....MY OLE MAN'LL SHOW YOU IF YOU LIKE.

[markallen511]

Try that around a ONE LOG REDWOOD...IF YOU WANT MY OLE MAN WILL SHOW YOU.

[markallen511]

Compensator...Bull Prick, same thing!

[mikeyborden]

that was a quick chain up! I haul oversize pre-cast concrete pieces for parking garages and at only 150 pounds it takes me a bit longer. Nice job!

[mysweeteventhorizon]

@104bigTruck What is even more remarkable is the fact that the bunks that hold the logs and the logs themselves, upwards of 70 tonnes in some cases, all sit on two pieces of round steel, one that sits on top of the other in a sort of "cup and saucer" set up. That's what they are called, the cup and saucer, there is one under the front bunk and one under the rear, that is all that that whole load is balanced on is 2 sq feet of surface and on an off-highway application the bunks are "live"

[logging69]

@TedBouvier .......wat would fall on u........its flat there.