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Off road truckin'

showcrop

showcrop

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I hate taking my Fire Dept. tanker off road, but the captain told me to get it up there to feed the forestry trucks. I gave it a good looking over first and I could see that the ground was firm.
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This is a construction access road adjacent to the lot where the fire was. It was steep getting up there but nearly level where the truck is sitting. I don't like running a truck with it sitting on a steep slope. It seems the owner dumped ashes from their fire pit into a burn barrel further back from the house and with the heat of the day the wind came up and got it into a lot of piled up short tree trunks. The excavator operator pulled the wood piles apart for us.




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Thats not bad go listen to some of the house toters and mine equipment haulers. They will tell of directions were to get to a certain point toot horn and then they let a cable down to pull you up the mountain the turned you arond and let you back down to where you started.
 
Showcrop,
I posted on Talk about NC making wood pellets
from scrap wood. Wood pellets is considered green
energy, carbon neutral. Wood pellets are
exported.
I was wondering if wildfires would be less if the
underbrush was harvested and made into wood
pellets.
Not sure if it's even practical.
If it was, that would be a new job that may not
require a college degree.


What's your opinion?
NC wood pellets
 
What's steep? We run off road in CA on some very steep stuff. Yes, it is scary but if you use your head and take your time it can be
done. It gets really bad after it has been traveled repeatedly or the dozers have been walked over it repeatedly. It may not be a roll
situation but you can easily get stuck in loose powdery soil. We are asked to go over 30% a fair amount with sections a little
steeper. Up isn't as bad as down.
 
Looks like it is pretty dry so the dirt road is good and hard. If it was real wet I doubt you would have got up any hill without
problems. Congratulations on a job well done. I can remember several years ago the overgrown weed/brush land adjacent to my hay
fields down the road caught fire and I had to pull out 2 fire trucks with the tractor, one I had to hook on to 3 times and the last
time told him I am just taking you to good hard ground before I unhook as they kept finding all the wet spots as they tried to make
their way out.
 


Yeah guys, I have been on steep hills delivering gravel to cellphone tower sites. steep enough that I didn't think that anything could come out when I put my body up, LOL. I also posted three weeks ago about driving our department's off road tanker up a steep hill that had been a road 200 years ago but all the gravel was long gone leaving just boulders. On one particularly large one, according to the fellow walking ahead of me, the front tires came right off the ground as I crawled up over it. That is all fine for dump tucks and military chassis trucks, but this one is not an off road truck, so while this was no big deal it was still an on road truck going off road.
 
If you think that's a bad road you
have never worked construction, it's
not a car it's a 10 wheel truck
chassis, weather it has a dump bed or
tank on it makes little difference
really.
 
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