Primarily Petroliana Shop Talk Forums Shop Talk Petroliana Forums General Petroliana Discussion Terry Flannery's Kool Cities Service / Log trucks

Terry,
Bob's picture is of a small log. Some of the Old growth timber was 30-35' or more in Diameter & close to 300' tall !

It is strange to live on the Pacific Coast, where Redwoods and Douglas Fir grow from CA up to BC Canada. We get so use to seeing the big trees, they lose some of their glamor. I remember going to the deep south and east coast for the first time and seeing the "twigs" they had for trees. Trying to describe the trees here to someone who hasn't seen such a sight is really impossible or at least it was during the late 60s- early 70s. Now one can go on the internet and see photos of old growth timber still growing along the Pacific. Here is a photo taken in the early '70s, not sure if taken in CA,OR or WA. But believe it is from Estacada OR, a few miles south of Portland, OR.



Another photo from the 40s or 50's, do you see any wraps on his load or steel stakes to keep his load from shifting and crushing those driving next to him?:

Terry's photos reminded me of a bunch of Auto Transport truck photos I have. Below is one, I'll post the rest when I get a chance.

Wooow what great bunch of pictures. Thanks

Took less time than I thought, here's the rest.
Enjoy

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Glad to see you guys step up and post those pic's. For myself I can't get enough of trucks. I started out restoring a 46 Ford p/u, then a 55 Mercury car, then the 2 other trucks posted here. Cars are ok but how many guys have TRUCKS. That little car show in my hometown told me that people are tired of looking at cars and want sometime different. That west coast stuff really trips my trigger. I was in Escatada, have a relative there. She worked for the Forest Service until she retired and lives outside of town in a patch of Douglas Fir that is awesome. Everytime I go there they are another foot bigger. Being an ex-lumberjack and sawing the biggest we have in northern Wi. was pure heaven to me at one time but I always heard the stories about the west coast timber. Well I'm here to tell you dudes that the trip I made out to Portland and up to Alaska and back about 6 years ago by pickup was a real eye-opener. I was definitely born in the wrong part of the world.Then last winter I got a book on the early west coast logging full of pic's, blew me away. When that 36 Ford log truck came along it put me back to my childhoood when my dad was a logger/trucker and had this same type of rig, had to have it. All those pic's Loftbed posted dated me pretty well as I remember them all when they were new in my early teen years. Keep on truckin! and postin!

great pics!!love them old trucks!!