Thursday, February 09, 2017

logging truck 1921, I'm wondering how they got those logs up onto the truck, push? pull? roll?

notice the plank road, necessary to get the heavy truck with the skinny damn tires out of the woods. It's been a while since I posted about plank roads, but what little I learned about them never mentioned them used for logging, and I bet it's due to the ignorance of the logging world by the rest of the driving world that was interested in getting across the sand dunes



  1. From memory, a chain/cable is fixed at one end and run across the bed of the truck, down under the log, back over the load and then pulled by the horses from the opposite side. This will roll the log up and on.

    1. thanks! I figured that must be the way, somehow, unless they had figured out a winch like sailors used to haul the anchors...