I'd rather keep my legs than to have them crushed....

 

I've seen a few accidents where the cars were crushed when a log truck overturned making a tight corner. Last fall I was at the local heavy truck shop waiting to pick up one of our trucks and I heard two mechanics talking about a young local driver that broke the 200,000lbs barrier with his logging truck at one of the mills.

This is a picture of the typical log truck running our roads up here.

 

WOW....He broke a 100 tons....that's a lot of wood.....

What motors are those guys running in those trucks?

 

He's thinking of trading it in for an Ecoboost.

 

That's what most call a @^%# load of wood. Most are running C14, C15 and the equivalent of that motor in Cummins and Detroit with most pushing well past the 550hp mark with Eaton Fuller 13spd and 18spd transmissions. There is a logger up here that bought two new tridem W900 Kenworth's last fall and I would hedge a guess that those two rigs cost between $750,000 and 1.0 million depending how they were spec'd out with the pupps and log loaders and every axle has Alcoa Dura-Bright wheels on them. There is also a local trucking company that runs Super B train East aluminum dump trailers with a fleet of Kenworth W900's pulling them and he is/was a tester for Mack and Kenworth. Most of his rigs were pushing past the 850hp mark and would pull steep grades in high gear and not down shift.

 

most do....

 

The day from hell is over due to rain () Only thing that sucks is I have to go back to it tomorrow.

 

tonight/tomorrow....temp is supposed to drop to 40-50 for the highs for the next 3-4 days and rain all weekend...

 

Suppose to be 55 tomorrow and sun. I got to get this job done before this lady has me start remodeling her house She's starting to drive me crazy.

 

one of those ladies....

she must think you're handy...

 

No, shes high class, of course she has the right to change things at last moment(s). 'Nough said

 

I can't stand that type.

 

I didn't realize how much I couldn't stand them until lately. When we met for the estimate she told me what all she wanted done. Then after I'm a there a little while later she keeps coming out and adding more to it, things that weren't in the original estimate. Keeps adding more work but not willing to pay for it.

 

Thats why their rich. They all think their above you, I can't stand their attitude. In the end they get audited.

We had done catering, we supplied the desserts specifically ice cream. The homeowner kept wanting us to move here and there never happy kept screamin. Just remember one thing, don't let them get the best of YOU. In the end you always will come out on top. She don't pay, dump all the old clippings and debris right in front of her yard. Thats how you handle these "real houswives of________"

 

Are you familiar with Cranberry at all Ray? If you are I shouldn't have to explain anymore I'm doing a mulch/edging/hedge trimming/tree cutting/whatever tomorrow brings a$$ kissing job for her. Today it started out, like we discussed, with roughly 13 yards of mulch, edge the driveway and mulch beds and trim 4 bushes. Then it ended up with 3 trees needing "trimmed" which I don't consider trimming when you take a 9-12' tree and say "just cut it down about 4' from the ground" and about 7 more bushes needing trimmed and 3 bushes removed.

I had to get the dump truck from my dad again and I think it leaked some hydraulic fluid from the pump on her yard today, I'm hoping the rain washed it off.

I'm not complaining, just venting