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Sparky

Dang! Sure looked top heavy! 

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ebinmaine
Just now, Sparky said:

Dang! Sure looked top heavy! 

Surprisingly stable going down those all dirt roads.  

I couldn't find a GVW... Gotta be 120K, 150K.  

 

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lynnmor

Most of the land in northern Maine is owned by the companies doing the logging.  Many of the roads are owned by them and are open to snowmobiling where you can get a real education about how fast they travel fully loaded and who is going to yield. 😲

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ebinmaine
5 minutes ago, lynnmor said:

Most of the land in northern Maine is owned by the companies doing the logging.  Many of the roads are owned by them and are open to snowmobiling where you can get a real education about how fast they travel fully loaded and who is going to yield. 😲

 

Absolutely correct.  

 

There are large signs at all entrances advising that the TRUCKS have the Right Of Way. 

 

The roads in n out were VERY rough this year. 

Some sections under construction and some being used heavily by the big beasts.  

Still an excellent week.  

 

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EB-80/8inPA
10 minutes ago, lynnmor said:

a real education about how fast they travel fully loaded and who is going to yield.

Guessing the trucks are not the Yielders?

never mind.

 

 

 

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Horse Newbie

Yield or die…

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Pullstart

I gotta bus for sale EB, it might could haul some of that gvw!

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JCM

The last time we were in that area of northern Maine was roughly 7 or 8 years ago salmon and brook trout fishing. In the distance I saw a cloud of dust and pulled as far as possible off the road. A very similar truck went by us at roughly 40 mph or more and all I could vision was one of those logs coming through the windshield and It would have been lights out. Be safe in the North Maine woods and get out of the way, they wait for no one.

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Ed Kennell

Back in the '60s I hunted and fished in Northern Quebec on the Wiskinsi river    The last 100 mile to camp was on a gravel road that was used by a bus that made a daily round trip.    When you saw the cloud of dust coming, you  had to find a pull off or be showered with gravel by the 70mph bus that usually claimed your windshield.

There was a grader that constantly maintained the road by  plowing the gravel back to the center so there was always a fresh supply for the bus to shatter windshields.

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EB-80/8inPA
5 minutes ago, Ed Kennell said:

 

There was a grader that constantly maintained the road by  plowing the gravel back to the center so there was always a fresh supply for the bus to shatter windshields.

Yikes!

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1995 520H+96+97

Light load, looks like Cedar, lift axle is up. Pelletier Manufacturing. Jeffery's business, one brother of American Loggers.

14' wide off road trailer.

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ebinmaine

@Pullstart

I watched the video you posted above and yt led me to this...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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