Moving 160-foot DF Sticks
Bob Smalser, Seabeck, WA
>From the album of a neighbor ...�Buckshot� Christopher, an 82-year-old retired logger. 160-foot logs hauled on two trucks on their way to a saltwater log dump.
Moving 160-foot DF Sticks
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Re: Moving 160-foot DF Sticks
#2Texas toothpicks???
jim_reed@marietta
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Re: Moving 160-foot DF Sticks
#3I sure would NOT have wanted to be...
Mark Harrison -- in Sydney, Australia
>in that last truck!
Can you imagine someone trying that today? On second thoughts, given what I've seen some clowns doing on the roads, I can!!! Remember the VW with the plywood stack :-)
Re: Moving 160-foot DF Sticks
#4That still goes on today
Bob Hackett
>I can remember being stuck on the crown end of a derrick for an oil rig being pulled backward down the road when I worked for M D Sneider in Pampa Texas during the oil boom that ended in the 80`s.
The trucks were better but the first time you do it I`ll bet the feeling was the same.
Mainely,Bob
Re: Moving 160-foot DF Sticks
#5Re: That still goes on today
Mark Harrison -- in Sydney, Australia
>Sooner you than me! :-)
Still, considering the stupid things that people do for "fun" (car surfing comes to mind!), maybe it isn't as scary as it looks.