NW WA Meet / BS Thread

Yup! They have grown!

 

His mind works in a different way, he dropped it off at the shop Tuesday night “so you could get it painted ASAP”, but forgot to tell me until last night

 

Anyone in the Seattle area wanna help a brotha out with some Clazzio covers installation on Sunday? Tempting, I know. It's either that or head to Tac-Town for some covered work space. Happy to offer cash to compensate for the sacrifice.

 

Trololollollooollool

 

@JDAM, a just a tip for if you find yourself cruising Campbell Global during the midweek hunting, use your CB. A hunter in a Tacoma today had a close encounter with a logging crews crummy. Not sure if he drove away from it, it looked like just some minor front end corner damage.

Well his truck was gone when we went back for the next piece of equipment with the lowboy.

Oh and log trucks have the right of way. Man with the load owns the road.

 

This is why even in Dubai, they have an "American Hospital" with American staff and American EMR software.

 

I wish more people understood the unwritten lug nut rule. If it has more lug nuts get the f@ck outta the way.

 

The way I see it more lug nuts or not, the man I’m the log truck is on the clock, which means I pull over

 

roger that. so he did he hit a tree or what? I had to look up what a crummy was LOL

 

Never heard that one before.

This time of year especially since it's hunting season, theres more people accessing the tree farm in all areas. Even where there's heavy log truck traffic. I'm pretty sure about 90% of recreational permit holders don't own a cb, and aren't required to have one either. Just required to have insurance and sign a waiver releasing the land owner of any wrong doing. If you get hung up on another vehicle your insurance figures it out. I don't normally drive to all corners of the tree farm daily, I'm usually in the same area all day on site, but today moving equipment with the lowboy driver I saw plenty of idiots oblivious to what's coming at them, and where they are in the roadway. The last piece of equipment we hauled is damn near as wide as the road and would force even a passenger car into the ditch. 160,000lbs, in the picture, of machine and lowbed doesn't stop very quick on pavement, and even less on gravel logging roads and down a 17% grade. Most log trucks are at 99,000-105,000 loaded when headed to the mill.

If people are going to run around logging roads during operating hours, at least buy a handheld.

 

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary_of_lumberjack_jargon

Crummy: any company vehicle (or railroad car) taking loggers to the worksite.

Basically it's a company truck, not his personal vehicle that is used to carry work tools and off-road diesel to refuel equipment.


He hit one of the logger's pickups. Both trucks had damage to the front corner. They were swapping insurance info when we drove by. Can't say who was in the wrong, but for all I know he coulda been gawking off the side of the road looking for animals and was right in the middle of the road on a corner and met the logger. Was at 9:30ish this morning. Either way if you're able to hear or call out location on the cb, you'd be more aware of danger coming at you.

We'll have to get together one of these weekends and I'll show you around out there.

 

I've got a set of these in production and should get a shipping notification any day now. I'm eagerly dreading the removal of the rivets. It seems like an easy task, but from all accounts, it's a huge PITA.

I'm planning on grinding and drilling. Might make use of a ball joint press, but not sure.

When are you and @JimSnell tackling these? I'd be curious to hear how it goes. What type of heat are you using? Plasma? Oxy acetylene? Bic Lighter? Getting excessive heat on the frame makes me nervous (not sure why).

 

The more the merrier. I do it oxy-acetelyne because I'm able to control the heat really precisely. Like, after the rivet is out of the hole you can touch your hand to the frame. Briefly. I'd say it stays under 175 degrees, and the paint doesn't even get baked at that point. We could probably do all 3 trucks in 3 or 4 hours.

 

Throw me in on that as well. Sunday's are always decent in my mind cause not alot of crews working.

 

Yeah I don't know of many if any that work on the weekends. If they do, it's just to get ahead of the trucks come Monday morning so there's processed logs to load out at the ass crack of dawn. They're at the landing by 4:40am getting loaded to be at the mill just before or right when they open to maximize their daily loads hauled within mill operating hours.

Do you have a permit? I know @JDAM just bought his. In the past if I got up in my personal truck I throw in my hard hat and a grease gun with some tools so I can say the boss sent me up to maintenance some equipment as an excuse. Even the boss told me that one. Can probably throw an extra hard hat in.

I haven't bought a pass this year yet. The shitty thing is that the only recreational access is via the county north fork road, and that road it's fuuuuccckkked up. I enter the mainline contractor key which is good at all/most perimeter gates. Pretty much from Snoqualmie to highway 2 near index, also Monroe and Carnation/Stillwater.

 

I did not apply yet, I wasn't sure if it would be worth it. I have a hard hat and welding hood, mobile welding as a favor..

 

Yeah at this late in the year, it would be for hunting, it's better to purchase in Feb/March to get a whole years worth of use out of it. The price is still the same even if you're only going to get 3 or 4 months of use out of it.

 

ahh when you said close call I envisioned someone veering off the road to avoid a collision. Ya when you sign the waiver it says you are responsible for any damage you do to land, equipment, or yourself. The guy I buy firewood from owns a logging company and he said there used to be no gates up there. But then everyone was ditching broken vehicles and appliances and shit. And homeless people were up there. Kind of lucky they let anyone up there at all.

Vehicle passes are sold out. There were 54 when I bought mine. If it doesn't work out I'll have to use my firewood tags to recover costs.

 

Well sounds like I'll be greasing and working on equipment then.

Yeah it was getting bad in the late 90's to where they put the gates up. Nimby's, spotted owl/anti logging activists, along with the dumping and frequently reappearing abandoned campers that where used as meth labs became more costly to deal with vs installing gates. IIRC North bend was once considered the meth capitol of the country. You could find empty containers from under the kitchen sink chemicals that they used to cook drugs with scattered on most forrest roads on the I90 corridor with a beat to shit camper usually at the end. Or stripped out, burnt up and shot to shit stolen vehicles.