Non-political things that make you say...WTF?!?! (Welcome To Florida!) **NOT CV RELATED** NO TALKY!

You’d think two trips would be safer...

 

It's an off highway logging truck , they have 14' bunks and load close to that fairly commonly . They only operate on industrial (logging) roads in coastal BC

https://youtu.be/Z3cQjuWXGlU

 

...^^^... Those are giant loads, wonder what load capacity those trucks can carry ??

Looks like those trucks have the slow - old style vacuum wipers

IIRC, That helicopter looks like the old version - Sikorsky sky crane and I think it had a 20,000 lb. lift ??

 

We have this in Maine and northern NH as well. The logging roads are all privately owned and maintained so they don't have to adhere to DOT laws with 45k lb trailer loads. You will often pass log trucks towing 120k lb trailer loads. And the logging roads are amazingly well built because of this, usually smoother than the main roads in the north country. In the logging biz, it's all about moving the product in the most efficient and quick way possible.

 

What could possibly go wrong?

 

100,000lbs +

All the Hayes and Pacific tractors are from the 70's and 80's , those videos are not current but those trucks are still in use up here

 

Wyoming Hunting Guide Slain by Grizzlies



Hunting guide Mark Uptain and his client Corey Chubon wereattacked by a mother grizzly and her cub on Friday, killing Uptain and wounding Chubon before his escape.
Uptain and Chubon were field dressing an elk they had shot the day before when two bears “aggressively charged” them, completely ignoring the corpse, according to a statement by Teton County officials.

Both bears were later caught and euthanized. In a statement on Sunday, Wyoming Game and Fish Department spokeswoman Rebekah Fitzgerald said, “all available evidence indicates that these two bears were the bears involved in the Terrace Mountain attack.”

The attack is especially notable because it comes in close proximity to an October 1 grizzly hunt postponed by a federal judge. “I can only imagine how horrific this was,” Sy Gilliland, a hunting guide and spokesman for grizzly hunters in the area, told USA Today. “You’ve got a bear population that’s basically un-hunted, is an apex predator, and has no fear of humans.”


Others remain in staunch opposition to the hunts. “We do not want to diminish the loss of a community member, or the suffering of his family. However, construing the incident as a reason to justify the trophy hunting of grizzlies makes little sense,” said Melissa Thomasma of Wyoming Wildlife Advocates.

“Killing more bears will not prevent other bear-hunter conflicts, but it may irrevocably jeopardize the health of the grizzly population around Yellowstone,” she concluded. Conservation continues to be an issue: The remaining population of grizzlies has deteriorated to about 1,700 in the United States, with a separate population of about 30,000 in Alaska.

https://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/09/17/wyoming-hunting-guide-slain-by-grizzlies/


Sometimes the hunter becomes the hunted.

 

Whoa, you just don't see logs that size anymore in Oregon.

 

That video is likely late 80's , truck is MacMillian Bloedel , that company was sold to Weyerhauser in the 90's , probably in Haida Gwaii

 

Ah, I thought those were mighty big logs for today. They're hauling twigs down here now.

 

I’m sure those all are real things but they sound made up.

 

Wyoming Wildlife Advocates, PETA, and their ilk have no comprehension of wildlife management. Let critters die of over-population leading to disease, starvation, etc. In the meantime the bears can kill humans, because they can.

 

Down here it's "front bumper wildlife management."

They need to get out the road.

 

Here too. I wonder why insurance is so expensive...

 

Not doing enough, the "opossums on the half shell" have migrated to tearing up my yard.

 

Do what I do, sub sonic .22 with my AR suppressor on the .22. All you can hear is the bolt sliding on the ruger. Shoot from inside your house

 

Or you can just run up and whack 'em with a shovel, they have horrible vision.

 

Way ahead of you on that. I've suppressed my Ruger 10/22 TD Lite and Ruger SR22, and just recently finished sighting in my 10.5" Suppressed 300 BLK, just for this purpose.

The problem is, I try to sleep at night, so I need more front bumper management.

 

My neighbor went medieval on one with a shovel.

Way too messy for me.