And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
In the 60's my dad logged up the Mad River in Humboldt Co. We loaded Sugar Pine logs so big that it took a crane and two Caterpillars to get one log on the truck.
Loading with a spar tree. No rotate function on the rigging. (That's a joke.)
All the spar tree can do is lift. Those guys were trying to straighten the log out so Mr. Truck Driver could head to the mill.
"Wood 'er down and go to town." Pretty amazing some of the loads those old trucks hauled.
A lot of the trucks during this time period were propane powered Hall-Scott engines. The guys that ran them loved 'em. When they were in tune they would shoot a flame 5' out the stack on a hard pull.
"...of old..?" come out to Oregon!
ReplyDeleteIn the 60's my dad logged up the Mad River in Humboldt Co. We loaded Sugar Pine logs so big that it took a crane and two Caterpillars to get one log on the truck.
ReplyDeleteNo hard hats. LOL, Different and better times.
ReplyDeleteLoading with a spar tree. No rotate function on the rigging. (That's a joke.)
ReplyDeleteAll the spar tree can do is lift. Those guys were trying to straighten the log out so Mr. Truck Driver could head to the mill.
"Wood 'er down and go to town."
Pretty amazing some of the loads those old trucks hauled.
A lot of the trucks during this time period were propane powered Hall-Scott engines. The guys that ran them loved 'em. When they were in tune they would shoot a flame 5' out the stack on a hard pull.