A while back on a road trip, my kids were freaking out about the number of logging trucks that we saw winding their way through forest roads and out of the woods with huge loads of felled trees on their backs. I was trying to explain to them that the road driving portion of their lives are the easiest work that logging trucks see and that these beasts of burden are often pressed into service slogging through muck and mire to get the cut trees to the mill. That pressed my fourteen year old into a series of YouTube searches for logging trucks and through that he managed to unearth this awesome piece of video that shows a Kenworth really putting the power down through both of its rear axles.
With a pretty good load directly on its back and another loaded trailer behind it, this truck had some real weight on it. All of that weight, a driver who clearly understands the value of momentum, and a bunch of straight up grunt, this truck lugs itself and all the logs out of the wilderness and up a muddy banking.
As we live in an area where “logging” is basically limited to clearing house lots (and even those are becoming a pretty scarce commodity), it makes some sense that the kids wouldn’t understand the size and scope of actual, full bore logging operations. Tom was trying to get me to commit to saying that logging rigs are the toughest of all and frankly I know better. All truckers take pride in the looks and strength of their rigs. Is this KW tough though? You bet!
Wow! This must be the most underwhelming video ever shown on Bang Shift.
I went though worse mud and water driving little John Deere Gators and grass cutters when i was a greenkeeper on a golf course – and that was whilst dodging golf balls fired off by drunken lunatics!
I’ve still got the steel plate in my head – I pick up messages from Alpha Centauri telling me to do unspeakable things to water voles………
That is impressive considering you were towing a thousand tons of douchebaggery!
The thing I hated the most about logging when I was in the woods- freaking mud. I have seen log trucks stuck so bad two skidders and a bull dozer couldn’t move them. Something I DO NOT miss. The ground in this video looks solid even if it is covered with water.
Uhm, show the boy the Russian logging truck videos. North American log truckers got nothing on those guys.