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elubsme

This is how we unload wood chips. About once or twice a year a newby forgets to turn off his engine and it burns up due to lack of oil. Sometimes they forget to open the rear door and have to start all over again with a 15 minute delay. In winter the wet chips freeze inside the trailer and we have to chip it loose with a pitch fork. Dieseling the floor and walls helps to make it slick. Needless to say anything that isn't tied down in the cab ends up on the floor. Hot loading in a burn is a filthy, dirty job. The guys laughed at me when I carried my umbrella. A few days later they all had one! Happy to be retired, Fast Eddie

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  • elubsme

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  • montanajoe
    • Community moderator

    I had no idea,,,

    Wow

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  • Horse Plains Drifter

    Yep, that's how it's done.

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  • Gunnut358
    Horse Plains Drifter: 32606923970971/comments/32606916437531

    Yep, that's how it's done.

    Beats shoveling them out by hand

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  • Gunnut358

    I always thought those looked like some sort of launcher. So what's the range on a surface-to-air chip truck?😉

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  • elubsme
    Horse Plains Drifter: 32606923970971/comments/32606916437531

    Yep, that's how it's done.

    Not nearly as much fun as loggin' though was it? They get stuck in a wet dew!! Did you do much chippin'?

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  • elubsme
    Gunnut358: 32606923970971/comments/32606911692059

    I always thought those looked like some sort of launcher. So what's the range on a surface-to-air chip truck?😉

    It depends on how much thrust is applied, but it's the landing that'll get yer attention.

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  • yoshmyster

    Good brakes.

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  • Horse Plains Drifter
    elubsme: 32606923970971/comments/32606885713691

    https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/comment/11458395#Comment_11458395

    Not nearly as much fun as loggin' though was it? They get stuck in a wet dew!! Did you do much chippin'?

    No Eddie, the only truckin' I did was log trucking. I have worked as a mechanic on all kinds of trucks and heavy equipment. Fell timber for years, and have done just about all jobs logging has to offer, including setting chokers on a slack line yarder. Done some millwrighting in saw mills. One time we had a chipping plant set up, and I loaded chip trucks with a 966 that had a chip bucket we made from 5' X 10' T1 steel plate.

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  • Ditch-Runner

    Many years ago a grainery south of us about 30 miles had one installed 1st time i had ever seen one it was a WTH moment

    It was a odd thing to see a semi and trailer almost vertical to dump the grain .

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  • gjshaw

    lays potato chips did that with loads of potatoes. It was an amazing site to see a big truck up in the air like that.

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  • select-fire

    Not doing that. Mikey can drive it .

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  • allen griggs

    That is bizarre. In 8 years of truck driving I never heard of such a thing.

    I don't like that one bit, wouldn't want to do it.

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  • Ditch-Runner

    I am sure the driver are not in the trucks when they tilt them up I could be a wrong just ask my wife

    But I would guess insurance and or safety rules

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  • elubsme
    yoshmyster: 32606923970971/comments/32606902909851

    Good brakes.

    All big trucks are equipped with Air Brakes!

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  • tnranger

    Used to do that with the rice trucks at the local rice mill.

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  • kannoneer

    Flatbeds hauling grain were unloaded the same way. Didn't have to be raised that high, though. Terminals took out all those types of scales and now grain is hauled with self-unloading trailers.

    If a guy had sliding tandems on the trailer they had better be locked! One time I saw a pin pop and the trailer came back over the unloading pit and smacked the cement. If anyone would have been standing behind it they would have died right there and been buried in corn. Just pure luck that nobody was because usually you stood behind the trailer and cleaned out the corners when it was empty.

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  • Horse Plains Drifter
    allen griggs: 32606923970971/comments/32606938954395

    That is bizarre. In 8 years of truck driving I never heard of such a thing.

    I don't like that one bit, wouldn't want to do it.

    How come you wouldn't like it? The truck is restrained on the hoist, and the driver exits the truck and waits safely in the clear.

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  • Mobuck

    I've seen that in the days before hopper bottom grain trailers. Now and then, a chain or cable would break allowing the truck to fall off the hoist. THAT made a mess.

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  • slinger
    Horse Plains Drifter: 32606923970971/comments/32606935911707

    https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/comment/11458451#Comment_11458451

    How come you wouldn't like it? The truck is restrained on the hoist, and the driver exits the truck and waits safely in the clear.

    I'm gonna wait safely behind a keyboard.😉

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