The radios in Australian trucks play better music too. 😄🇦🇺
@johno950710 күн бұрын
I’m sure both countries’ logging industries use equipment that makes sense for their environment, roads, etc. And, maybe both sides can learn and benefit from the thought process and ingenuity of the other. Different doesn’t equal wrong, it’s just different.
@sbupp14 күн бұрын
No. This is TYPICAL of EVERYTHING I see that's American. Cars and all. A cheaper more primitive method EVERY time, usually using inferior materials, castings, rivets where we use bolts, etc. And for some reason, industrial equipment is ALWAYS the more primitive version. You realise all the Toyotas and fords you get and many other vehicles are some elses OLD version? I knew Australian toyota workers and they would be packing up the old press dies for the panels to send them to the US factory for their "new" model whichwas our old one. But our electronics are a couple years behind every time. We have high emissions standards and fuel consumption standards than the US our emissions standards are higher than many other countries. Oh, and btw, we often use trucks with 2 to 4 trailers. Almost NONE going interstate are less than 2 trailers and outback ones are always 3 minimum, sometimes 4, hence why we call them road trains.
@OffGridInvestor13 күн бұрын
@@OffGridInvestor That's funny, we get the old version!!!!!!!!!
@justbecause964511 күн бұрын
@@OffGridInvestoronce again, Americans thinking they’re best in the world when they’re actually a third world country being conned into thinking they’re the best. Australia is heading that way too. Both countries have the potential to have the best quality of life possible, but the rich and powerful have got everyone brainwashed.
@tomdom_014310 күн бұрын
Yeah nah mate
@jkkj14069 күн бұрын
@@OffGridInvestor America may use older tech to get the job done but there's a reason for that. Efficiency makes money. If you use modern tech for everything then things start to get pretty expensive to maintain over time. Toyota's get tested where reliability standards are lower, which is then sent to the mainstream American market once they've worked out the kinks.
@masonreppeto8828 күн бұрын
Taking into account the American truck relies on a big machine at either end of the trip to set it up while the Aussie truck sets itself up, the Aussie truck wins. The logs the Aussie truck carries will be a lot heavier too. North Americans don’t realise how dense and heavy eucalyptus Australian hard wood is.
@kdegraa13 күн бұрын
And box as well
@Mate-My-Day13 күн бұрын
Setup time....slightly faster for the Aussie. If you cut out the time showing the American truck backing in, which they did not show for the Aussie, not that much faster. Faster, but only slightly. Cost? Holy mother of god, that has got to be a pricey unit. The American rig costs 1/4 of the cost or less. The loader at either end? Exactly how in the hell do you think the logs get on the truck mate? And off the truck at the mill. Big ass loaders. Also, he is showing a standard log unit. There are heavy haul versions. Not sure where that video was shot, but it was for sure not in the NW USA. 8 axles is the norm in that part of the world, not 5.
@DOffio13 күн бұрын
When you don’t have the skills you gotta automate! Good thing there is always a crane at either end of their destination.
@howto153712 күн бұрын
The Aussie b-double - seems more agile too (even the single folding jinker trailers) being turntable connected - and self assembling / disassembling with no rigid pole to stow. (Also the prime mover can haul regular semi/low loader trailers also - a Ringfeder coupler on the prime-mover/tractor can allow it to hook up to any pole or drawbar trailer also) -of course there are rigs designed for big single trunk-load hardwoods/ softwoods, or plantation trunks, in both countries. ( Folding B-triples for highway hauling plantation pine too) (Edit spelling)
@kadmow11 күн бұрын
@kdegraa how is that Australia truck going to get the logs on the truck again? Oh yes, with another piece of equipment. The same piece of equipment that would unload the much cheaper, and lighter American truck.
@ryanfriars5457 күн бұрын
For all you americans saying too mant moving parts, its literally 2 trailers that fold in the middle, you put the trailer brakes on and reverse backwards, its folds up, you release the brakes and it comes off the trailer
@Bigsoot739315 күн бұрын
Some can’t comprehend that many moving parts actually working.
@user-tw1jw7lv5t14 күн бұрын
@@user-tw1jw7lv5t The Australian version breaks the KISS rule. Keep It Simple Stupid.
@SandBoxJohn14 күн бұрын
americans hate moving parts, they dont even have steering axles on most of their heavy haul trailers.
@vallevaan14 күн бұрын
You also have to think about all the pivot points, bushings that go with them, The hydraulic systems, The hoses and cables that have to fold and unfold constantly, The fact that there's a set of tires thats always touching the ground means that they're going to wear quicker than the rest of the trailer, the upkeep cost is much higher as a result. And then think about the load that trailer is moving. Those logs are waaayyyy heavier than what's going on an American trailer requiring a stiffer better constructed trailer which again comes with added cost. I bet that thing is expensive as hell compared to the American trailer. And also think about how 90% of American trailers dont come apart like the one in this video does.
@corner_store_bill11 күн бұрын
@@corner_store_bill grease the bushings weekly when you grease the truck? Trailer tyres never wear out evenly anyway, and there's no hydraulics
@Bigsoot739311 күн бұрын
Canada here. depending on what part of the country you're from, there are many variations of log hauling. we haul shortwood, tree length and cut to length. we use pole trailers, super B's, tree length trailers, full length trailers rigged for shortwood or CTL (cut to length), self loading trucks, self loading trailers. we have 8'6" bunks on up to 12' (or wider bunks). we haul saw logs, pulp logs and OSB logs. we haul logs on highway and off-highway. every country adapts the technology to their needs; so the real winner is everybody.
@kevinducharme126312 күн бұрын
Hippy
@andrewpaltridge1111 күн бұрын
@@andrewpaltridge11 troll. LOL
@kevinducharme126311 күн бұрын
@@andrewpaltridge11. Hippy ? HARDLY ! Not " Hugging " the Trees , Murdering them wholesale and mutilating the Corpses .
@johncunningham482010 күн бұрын
You definitely live in British Columbia
@HiThereZoomy9 күн бұрын
@@HiThereZoomy northern Saskatchewan, actually, and we do all that here in this province too. I am a retired log-hauler, BTW.
@kevinducharme12639 күн бұрын
The main thing is, in Australia you can put 44 tons payload on a log trailer and still be legal on all public roads. Unloading and re loading a top trailer from a B double set takes about 30 seconds any where, no need to hold up a loader. And they are very manoeuvrable.
@aussietruckphotosandmodels8510Ай бұрын
They aren't that very maneuvered and you get more payload on just cause the laws, the US system is more simple and can get around way better, and alot cheaper and easier to maintain cause alot less parts. These are impressive but its making a simple job more complicated
@deanhollingsworth793823 күн бұрын
Another thing is our weight limits are so strict but the US roads are way waaay better than Australian ones its rare to see a pothole, but my 40t legal truck can get 27.5t payload on. I should say I am a Australian driving log truck in America
@deanhollingsworth793823 күн бұрын
@deanhollingsworth7938 here in alberta we have summer weights and winter weights, 63.500 kgs in the summer and depending on your configuration. I pull a jeep an a hay rack and I'm good for 52T in the winter
@whitestacks576218 күн бұрын
Simple laws for simple workers??@@deanhollingsworth7938
@user-tw1jw7lv5t14 күн бұрын
@@deanhollingsworth7938 yes they are cause it's a mini B-double it's about 22 metres all up
@Mate-My-Day14 күн бұрын
I guarantee the Australian idea was built in someone's garage while drinking a 4x.
@geoff197110 күн бұрын
Yeah Kennedy trailers garage
@Mate-My-Day9 күн бұрын
I was gunna say that no one who drinks XXXX would be smart enough to make something like this, but then I looked up Kennedy Trailers and found out they drink VB, which is worse. ;p
@DavidLister779 күн бұрын
'ken oath brother!
@KegRaider9 күн бұрын
Nah Tooheys :P but I agree aye (oh and f$ck off Vic with your crap Vic Bitter :P)
@NullaNulla8 күн бұрын
@@DavidLister77spot on Dave😂
@peterjames96107 күн бұрын
Those two drivers running the Grabber and the Truck are totally awesome at what they do 👍👌
@philtucker122413 күн бұрын
True
@Mate-My-Day13 күн бұрын
YEs they are, but the music is shit!
@twitch19658 күн бұрын
US road regulations vs Australia road regulations.
@dhollongstreet472513 күн бұрын
wait till they see how the Kiwis do it 🤣😂
@SeraphtheFallen8 күн бұрын
I'm an Australian and I've never seen a set-up like that over here. I'm gonna say it is far from typical.
@user-kl9vq9os4w4 күн бұрын
Canadian log yard operator for a large regional sawmill here. We have a few haul trucks that come in with those fancy hydraulic trailers, but around 90% are the american style manual trailers. I've also noticed that the hydraulic trailers are much longer (in my experience) and look like they're made for 30'+ stems while the manual trailers are much shorter at around 20-30' and can have two trailers in my province
@woodduck8 күн бұрын
For the self proclaimed best country in the world America is certainly lagging behind in the log truck tech.
@greglomas762018 күн бұрын
It’s not just their logging trucks, it’s lagging on everything, let’s not start with their shit coffee and the list goes on and on …………
@TBird8916 күн бұрын
Among other things 🤣🤣🤣
@georgekrisanda248116 күн бұрын
They don’t even have swing lift trucks for containers
@nzmarkb871316 күн бұрын
@@nzmarkb8713😂😂😂
@Mate-My-Day15 күн бұрын
not even hydraulic floats
@Mate-My-Day15 күн бұрын
For sure it’s cool watching how we do it in Australia. But it makes sense for the distances the logs etc. while other countries I’m guessing it wouldn’t. Nothing cooler than watching a double come in with full length logs on two forty footers. With the longest dolly pull in the world
@frankensteinracing35206 күн бұрын
So Australia has optimized destroying it's own native forests. How good
@donodony386810 күн бұрын
its an Elphingtone fold a skel. very popular in Tasmania and Victoria .
@leighhaberl98110 күн бұрын
The west coast”American” style has its place. You can shorten or lengthen the distance between the bunks quickly and they are very light. The other thing most people over look is that the logs pull the trailer. When you hook up a log trailer one of the first things you do is flip the bail which releases the compensator. The hitch steers the trailer, but that’s it. You carry the load way up on the truck and get the benefit of steering the trailer from way in the back of the truck. You can make the trailer almost follow the truck tracks. So narrow roads are more easily handled. Also could you imagine trying to find air leaks or a broken wire on that? Lots of places to look I guess!
@matthewcook705111 күн бұрын
What can I say except: "AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE OIY OIY OIY!!!
@powerofone16458 күн бұрын
Transformers more than meets the eye!⛟🤖👁
@user-wj1jl9wm4c6 күн бұрын
Aussie here, are they still called timber jinkers in Oz (they were when I was a young bloke)?
@p38arover2211 күн бұрын
All jinkers are jinkers but not all log trailers are jinkers... that makes sense? A jinker would be a specific type of trailer where you have the logs essentially joining the two halves of the trailer together and the logs become part of the trailer... the pole that connects front to back via the ball race and pivots is only to help load/unload the trailer and to keep the bits pointing in the same general direction. We have a lot of log trailers that are more of a chassis trailer - two I-beams running front to back with log bolsters sitting on the chassis. Those trailers are able to carry more shortwood or cut to length timber.
@dwaynE20999 күн бұрын
That's what I've always called them.
@ronaldmaxwell25682 күн бұрын
I'm going to have to see how my log trucks unload their trailers now lol
@goingforadds4 күн бұрын
There is a reason each truck works the way it works. In Australia they have much different laws/restrictions regarding weights and lengths. Im going to guess Australia isn't mountainous like logging areas of the US, or at least where i live. Since I live in the US, I cant comment any further on how/why the Australian truck is how it is...but Id guess because its a great option and works very effectively. The US style logging truck shown is everywhere where i live, and its setup that way for a reason. Generally logging trucks here have an extended frame past the rear drive axle to make it act like a dramatic bumper pull trailer, meaning as they take switchbacks on the mountain roads and logging trails, the end of the frame kicks out opposite of the way the truck is going which in turn makes the trailer swing in a way that keeps the trailer tandems in nearly the same footprint of the drive tires allowing them to more easily navigate the sharp turns and switchbacks of mountain roads and dozer trails. Its a simple, yet extremely effective way of keeping weight low on the truck/trailer (80k lbs max in CA) and making it easier to drive. kzhead.info/sun/q7GudbekiJ2dZo0/bejne.html Good demo on American logging trucks and how they can turn.
@rodneyward767912 күн бұрын
Um mate Australia is very mountainous where logging is up in the alpine and up the snowy
@Mate-My-Day12 күн бұрын
Agreed, some of the most memorable times of my life were spent with my grandfather hauling logs around the Gloucester/Nowendoc areas in NSW. Not being able to see the track in front of you because its just dissapeared over a crest and having pop engage diff locks to ensure it tracks straight because the front wheels are not on the ground, looking out the side widows as the steer tyres push rocks off the side of the road and watching them roll into the valley below while the jimmy screams its note through the bush. Terrifying and exilerating at the same time.
@watsisbuttndo82911 күн бұрын
@@Mate-My-DayI wasn't saying it's NOT mountainous, I could only guess by the design of the truck it wasn't the same as where I live. Unfortunately, I've never seen much about Australia that wasnt open expanse, a major city or about how every living thing is deadly. But after doing a bunch of looking, I found some pictures of the Great Dividing Range that look incredibly stunning and is actually eerily similar to the foothills I live in at the base of the Rockies. The only major difference seems to be the types of trees covering the landscape.
@rodneyward767911 күн бұрын
@@rodneyward7679 yeah. The reason why we have those types of trailers is because the trees here in Australia are very very heavy and sometimes there that heavy that were full halfway through loading (meaning you could get a payload of 50 - 70 ton of logs if you fully fill the trailers up
@Mate-My-Day11 күн бұрын
I was expecting that vehicle from the thumbnail to transform into an Anime Robot-girl .
@uncletiggermclaren75926 күн бұрын
For anyone wondering where the Aussie trailer is made. Hit up Kennedy trailers in Bairnsdale Victoria
@jamason20089 күн бұрын
👍
@Mate-My-Day9 күн бұрын
I was just thinking about it, thanks!
@brianschryver83149 күн бұрын
@@brianschryver8314 no worries mate. Tell em James sent you
@jamason20087 күн бұрын
NOT the typical "timber jinker" for Australia (at the front but the rear works the same as most of them.
@NullaNulla8 күн бұрын
We use a very similar but much simpler system here in the US as well. It's a hop on trailer, usually on a selfloading truck. The Australian truck looks to me like you would give up way too much payload...
@grantensrud91859 күн бұрын
Nah the payload we get is 44 ton on the truck
@Mate-My-Day9 күн бұрын
@Mate-My-Day Here in Washington State we are aloud 105,500 lbs with proper bridge lengths and 8 axles. A light wieght truck with 8 axles can get that 40 ton payload. Laws are different here in the US from state to state.
@grantensrud91859 күн бұрын
I still say West Coast Canada has the best looking logging trucks out there. Nothing looks better coming out of the bush than a big tridrive and tridem pole trailer grossed out at 56,000 kg. You got a big butt 'n' top loader sitting there on the landing, you don't need the added complexity and weight of a folding setup. Just pick the trailer off and flip up the stakes. Barely takes 3 minutes. You're paid by weight so the more you can stack on there legally the more $$$$ in your pocket.
@brucie735010 күн бұрын
To be fair. Australians are just better Americans.
@peternedilsky985113 күн бұрын
What happened to your guns?
@701chevy912 күн бұрын
@@701chevy9 We didn't enjoy the school shootings as much as you.
@spectre77612 күн бұрын
@@701chevy9 - most who want them still have them, the buybacks were money for trash mostly.
@kadmow11 күн бұрын
@@kadmow Bolt action and shotguns.... Very few have guns there. A shame y'all laid down like some mangey dogs.
@701chevy911 күн бұрын
Nope, bunch'a commonwealth sissy boys.
@lakaiskates806411 күн бұрын
So there actually are log trucks that connect to the trailer through a coupling. That's interesting. In Germany the logs are the coupling. The long ones anyway (like 60+ ft).
@marcelbpunkt9 күн бұрын
Thats a cool set up
@eligebrown89989 күн бұрын
It looks like it's still 1960's in the USA.
@markuschampos575010 күн бұрын
Looks like Australia wins!! 😂
@ws405113 күн бұрын
Well both countries trucks May possibly hold two Canadian sized trees each
@GibsonB451221 күн бұрын
Only if you saw the logs Australia pulled out
@Mate-My-Day18 күн бұрын
@@Mate-My-Day make a video...
@gordonloessl282218 күн бұрын
@@gordonloessl2822 I'll see but it was a very very long time ago when you could see the old one rider logs in Australia
@Mate-My-Day18 күн бұрын
@@gordonloessl2822 there's plenty of videos about Canadian log trucks. What would you like to see. 130 ton fat trucks , 8 axle super B trains 5,6, 7 axle log logs or tri drive - quads. You probably find the Fat trucks most interesting.
@bmdbigfeet103117 күн бұрын
Thank the police state politicians for that. Those trees are out there but unfortunately can’t be turned into logs so we just import them now@@Mate-My-Day
@user-tw1jw7lv5t14 күн бұрын
Maybe you should show elphinstone self loading roadtrain logging trailers ( self loading piggy back)
@Hitman-ds1ei17 күн бұрын
I should that'll be the pt 2
@Mate-My-Day15 күн бұрын
i still take the US truck and trailer cause of less shit to break for a work truck
@girthtrude50408 күн бұрын
Oh Australia has Optimus Prime
@jerryshay2219 күн бұрын
OWNED!
@erichnienkeschaal631611 күн бұрын
Australia, the sanest country in the world lmao
@helcarloki18877 күн бұрын
i thought we called them jinkers? My father hauled logs back when bullocks were used to snig the logs out of the bush then load them onto the jinkers.
@billmago799111 күн бұрын
Jinkers are the old pole trailers that had 2 bolsters that folds up (the trailer on the back of the mini B )
@Mate-My-Day10 күн бұрын
American. We can buy 4 trailers to your one. Also we have guns! Aussie, no comment.
@KPMACHINE113 күн бұрын
Aussie also have guns, just not so many nutjobs...
@anotherbloodytruckie45513 күн бұрын
Wanker :-we have guns just no mass shootings every day because we stopped the fck wit's from having them,but every fck wit in America has one or twenty bang bang your dead just a Another day in civilised America.😂😂😂😂😂😂
@ShaneSteel-om2cr13 күн бұрын
😂😂😂 Our trailers last longer And we have guns too
@Mate-My-Day13 күн бұрын
@@Mate-My-Day cheers mate! Glad we can both have a laugh without getting stupid! Im a Kentucky guy and we look after an Ausie kid! Good on ya!
@KPMACHINE112 күн бұрын
@@KPMACHINE1 no worries mate 👍
@Mate-My-Day12 күн бұрын
Just from a different perspective, wouldn’t the self fold/unfold (hydraulic or otherwise) be a safer option? The truck driver doesn’t rely on an operator of a completely different machine to work in tandem. As crane operator I’d rather use a bigger crane than do a dual lift. Here north of Brisbane at Narrangba they use a front end loader, they unload a double in a few minutes. I’ve never driven in the logging industry.
@mattj502511 күн бұрын
100%
@Mate-My-Day10 күн бұрын
I ran a log loader in Canada one summer when I was 15, you sit high enough you have a great view of what you’re doing, and the controls are sensitive enough you can finesse your movements pretty well, but like you said, trusting someone else’s skills can be kind of scary in such big equipment.
@brianschryver83149 күн бұрын
Arkansas here. If you think the log trucks here give a flyin F about "weight" you are very sadly mistaken. They're out there rolling around, carving ruts in the road pushing 200,000 lbs gross. They aren't supposed to, but they do it. If they don't have to go past a scale house, they'll stack that four bunk up with wet Loblolly Pine all the way to the top of the posts and run it.
@RichCadwalader17 күн бұрын
I don't know lbs but 200,000 = 44 ton and this truck and carry that legally
@Mate-My-Day15 күн бұрын
@Mate-My-Day 44 metric tons is 97003.4 US pounds 44 imperial tons is 98560 US pounds 44 US tons is 88000 US pounds
@adamroberts17614 күн бұрын
@@adamroberts176 Just use metric already 👍
@chris4321das13 күн бұрын
Lol that's payload for some of us in Australia without having to worry about chucking a few more sneaky ones on.
@bradwoods732112 күн бұрын
@@bradwoods7321😂😂😂
@Mate-My-Day12 күн бұрын
as an Australian i can say im NOT amazed by american log trucks…. let me know when you get a transformer to haul ya logs
@Golden-dog887 күн бұрын
Optimus Prime is in Aus.
@peterjames96107 күн бұрын
Sorry American buddy's but it is, amazing isn't it
@byronconstable297212 күн бұрын
"Autobots, lets roll."
@geoff197110 күн бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@Mate-My-Day9 күн бұрын
Well seeings that there’s always a grab to load and unload these trucks at pickup and drop off I don’t really see the need for the extra 60 to 100 grand (just an inflated guess for these inflated times) for the magic button that I guarantee won’t work when you really need it sometime. It is cool no doubt but the truck ain’t loading itself so why bother? There is also the fact of paying to drag that extra un paying weight. All the gear for that unfolded adds up and that means increased diesel consumption and less profit and these days every dime matters.
@Bear-kr3gr12 күн бұрын
- the single trailer folding log trucks (jinkers) worked even before the days of hydraulic-everything - iunlock the pole, back it up against a bank (or tree) and it folds up (or winch the folding pole into place) - reverse to unload - if it gets stuck, there are always chains and horsepower - it "never fails".. For real head scratcher, look up the Elphinstone EasyLoader B-Triple - mostly hauling plantation pine.
@kadmow11 күн бұрын
I have never seen anyone with a semi foldup log trailer in aus (i work in the industry in wa) we run pocket road train setups majority non foldable we also run some b double log setups and some people are running foldable road train setups (dog trailer folds onto lead trailer)
@andrewdraper927512 күн бұрын
We had only B-doubles and semi trailers in Victoria that folds up Now that logging is shut down
@Mate-My-Day12 күн бұрын
@@Mate-My-Day yea okay interesting only native logging is shutting down should still be plenty of plantation logging going on eastern states i would of thought? wa has plantation logging and we still log some of the natives
@andrewdraper927512 күн бұрын
@@Mate-My-Day i believe our pocket road trains (27.5M Long Vehicle) here are classified as Road Trains on eastern states but i dont know that for a fact
@andrewdraper927512 күн бұрын
@@andrewdraper9275 -?? a double train - (A2), some operators are running doubles right into ports in NSW (I'm around Newcastle, see them nearly daily).. (the pocket version are as long as a (long) b-double (27m) ) the long A2 version are 36.5m.. (Long Vehicle, or Roadtrain - semantics, as the actual config needs to be permitted on the routes run.)
@kadmow11 күн бұрын
Yeah mate there classed as mini roadtrains but there normally milk tankers
@Mate-My-Day7 күн бұрын
Heads or Tails ? 🤣 🐊
@haroldmclean37555 күн бұрын
Tails never fails
@Mate-My-Day5 күн бұрын
What is the price difference?
@ginvr8 күн бұрын
About $15,000 to $45,000
@Mate-My-Day7 күн бұрын
I think there's other kinds in Australia, similar but different.
@timhinchcliffe537211 күн бұрын
Australian. I’ve loaded folding and ridged trailer B-doubles. Generally folding is used for tight roads and loading areas, back in pads, small turn around. More ridged generally drive thru/around the blocks or have a approx 50m diameter turning loop.
@yourmumloves10 күн бұрын
Really,, who gives a flying fire truck who is the best, I drove a log truck carrying plantation pine for 8 years over a mountain range to coppers logs, average weight about 36 tonnes, and I drove Mack’s, Kenworths and Volvo’s all much the same, lots of gears lots of sore bums and backs.
@peterribbe72409 күн бұрын
Lemme guess, the fancy power folding one is 5 times as expensive?
@WowCreativeUsername9 күн бұрын
Nah not really unless American trailers are $10,000 - $20,000
@Mate-My-Day9 күн бұрын
Australian music was better
@ZacLowing12 күн бұрын
Da können die Europäische Systeme gut mithalten.
@Bart-lr9nf13 күн бұрын
True
@Mate-My-Day13 күн бұрын
That second truck cost a fortune......You can have it.
@boaa58819 күн бұрын
No not really only $150,000 USD
@Mate-My-Day18 күн бұрын
It's literally a trailer with a hinge haha funny how you're all so amazed
@Bigsoot739315 күн бұрын
Apples vs. oranges Mate
@killerkane195711 күн бұрын
But you will still need a machine at both points, the extra cost must be redicules.
@rogerbrandt667827 күн бұрын
It's literally only a trailer with a hinge? Hahaha
@Bigsoot739315 күн бұрын
Exactly. Ridicules or unwarranted the object of the game is to haul the most for less. I’d rather pay for the gas to haul the ton of wood that paid me than the ton of extra steel, hydraulic rams, pumps and electrical wiring that comes with that self unfolded.
@Bear-kr3gr12 күн бұрын
@@Bear-kr3gr no hydraulics or electrics mate it uses the trailer brakes and gravity, how come you don't cut trees down with an axe then? Less to go wrong?
@Bigsoot739312 күн бұрын
@@Bigsoot7393why? Production. More for less. Harvester=more production than an ax. Not really sure what that has to do with this though. All I saying is it’s more weight to haul for the exact same outcome. Thus less money for the owner with the fancy hinged gravity dropped trailer that works off the truck breaks and looks to weigh twice as much as the other model. If you like it more power to you buddy it’s your right to do whatever you want with your money.
@Bear-kr3gr12 күн бұрын
@@Bear-kr3gr you get paid when your logs get to the mill? More logs in one trip, more money?
@Bigsoot739312 күн бұрын
Mercia did it with less $$
@ronaldfortier390613 күн бұрын
The Aussie truck looks expensive and loaded with things that can fail 😅
@colinkulasik112817 күн бұрын
In other words, you’re jealous of the better engineering and more efficient technology of the Aussie truck.
@davidcat145516 күн бұрын
@@davidcat1455 No back in the logs woods we want shit that don't fail and cost time and money, Quite frankly we don't need that bullshit to get it done. If you think we can't build trucks like that you're stupid. We don't have because we don't want them. And out in the western US they do use these trucks so there's that.
@1BlackSheep16 күн бұрын
What's gonna fail? Gravity? Haha it's all mechanical?
@Bigsoot739315 күн бұрын
Hydraulic system never fails on our trucks
@Mate-My-Day15 күн бұрын
@@davidcat1455😂
@Mate-My-Day15 күн бұрын
Mate.. You giving away top secret info here, Australia is hiding the Transformers , Thats not a log truck haha
@TheMasterMoto10 күн бұрын
The American version is cheaper and faster. Less moving parts to break
@markbroad11910 күн бұрын
In southern USA we just use a conventional trailer and it's a lot quicker than either of these! Lol
@jontompkins184414 күн бұрын
A log skel trailer The type of log trailer you don't fold up
@Mate-My-Day14 күн бұрын
Hayracks
@brianschryver83149 күн бұрын
Transformer?
@raoultittel9 күн бұрын
For me it is really impressive what large machine operators can do (attach the american log trailler). But, wtf is that aussie thing ? This is crazy
@hallofriendlich13 күн бұрын
A B-double foldable log trailer
@Mate-My-Day12 күн бұрын
The Aussie thing? Oh that is progress.
@jackchapo201111 күн бұрын
Silly Aussies. Transformers are for kids. Just kidding. Nice rig but I'd hate to run over 120,000 pounds down a Coast Mountain logging road from 2000 m to the sea over 30 kms and a shitload of switchbacks here in British Columbia Canada. To each his own. Use what works for you. There are reasons for all of it or we'd all go out of business using the wrong tools Cheers from Canada.
@stevest130011 күн бұрын
You do know we have self folding log trailers the southern united states right
@jakeford7688Ай бұрын
Self loaders on the left coast have folding trailers.
@stevejones816329 күн бұрын
😮
@Mate-My-Day27 күн бұрын
Yeah the boys
@byronconstable297212 күн бұрын
how much more does it cost, and if something breaks how much more does it cost to fix...the australia trucks seems more things that can break or go wrong but it is kool though
@highlanderthegreatАй бұрын
the price depeneds on age so around $100,000 - $30,000 and it's rarely breaks down and only thing what can break is the bolsters with cost $1,000 - $2,500 to fix when they get bent but it's just tyre's which cost the most with a full set costing $5,000 - $10,000
@Mate-My-DayАй бұрын
@@Mate-My-Day thanks big guy, great info from ya.
@highlanderthegreatАй бұрын
@@highlanderthegreat no worries
@Mate-My-DayАй бұрын
The American one is definitely cheaper and with less part that can fail or need maintenance.
@sebastiangiovannella777815 күн бұрын
Australian log trucks don't fail But maintenance is just the same just a bit more tyres, greasing and brakes to check up on plus hydraulic oil too
@Mate-My-Day15 күн бұрын
But this is the thing. ALMOST ALL American industrial equipment is crude AF and I've seen warehouses STILL using forklifts from the early 70s while almost every warehouse in Australia doesn't have anything more than 8 years old, often replacing stuff at 4 or 5 years old. They have bridges from the 50s and 60s still in use while we replace EVERY bridge including backboards in the country after 40 years. Literally a backboard near me that has got a new bridge recently with no more than 15 cars a day.
@OffGridInvestor13 күн бұрын
Australian trucks would be too heavy to operate in the USA.
@raginroadrunner16 күн бұрын
Only 55 ton payload
@Mate-My-Day15 күн бұрын
Canada yawns
@graham263111 күн бұрын
Looks like a good bit of extra weight, but I’ve seen similar designs here. Pole trailers are a bit annoying though.
@690_5Ай бұрын
if it's the trailer from the start then i agree but if its the trailer at the end then i agree a tiny bit (cause its has hydrolics that makes it unfold)
@Mate-My-DayАй бұрын
the reason why it looks heavier, is the fact that its two trailers in 1 not a single trailer
@Mate-My-DayАй бұрын
That is why I Love our ANZAC ALLIES The only allies I believe that would make an effort to help us out even though logistically it be tough for them
@peterpiper_20311 күн бұрын
I like Australia loghing trailers to me its more convenient faster and less time to prep the truck before loading and it cuts time with the liader as well what is cost of Australia logging trailers
@WayneStcroix5 ай бұрын
the cost of the trailer (mini B) is around $ 100,000 - $ 30,000 depends on age a long Jinker (old school trailers 15 metres to 12.5 metres) with 2 bolster is around $ 25,000 - $ 5,000 agian depends on age a non-folding log trailer this includes 1 A-trailer or B-Tralier (for B-Doubles) is between $ 80,000 - $ 20,000 agian depends on age aswell folding trailers this includes 1 A-trailer or B-trailer is between $ 150,000 - $ 45,000 depends on age yet again
@Mate-My-DayАй бұрын
why fold?
@PontusBornold14 күн бұрын
Cause it's easier to transport and less road taken when you have no load on
@Mate-My-Day14 күн бұрын
The American had a better sound track. Just say'n😊
@evzone8414 күн бұрын
👍
@Mate-My-Day14 күн бұрын
Russian's do it better
@TravelThailand88 күн бұрын
In the western US they do use some of these trucks but not often. Too expensive, Too slow, Too heavy and to complicated(failure points ,not hard to operate)) and our terrain don't suit these trucks as well as we don't have to haul logs 500 miles to the mill like they do in unpopulated Australia. Fact is we don't like things that can fail out in the log woods and those trucks have many opportunities to fail. And you need a loader on each end anyway. Unless you have a self loader(Crane truck, yes we have those too), Then these trucks still just don't make since in the US. As stated they are slower then doing it with the loader. So cost more, Fail more, weigh more and take more time I don't think Aussies like making money.
@1BlackSheep16 күн бұрын
There's nothing to fail mate,it's all mechanical and gravity? Haha so a loader has to unload the trailer instead of loading trucks? Unloading trailers isn't making you money! Also logging in Australia certainly isn't flat hahaha
@Bigsoot739315 күн бұрын
@@Bigsoot7393 All bush and tight turns with a cliff on both sides
@Mate-My-Day15 күн бұрын
There are self loading with out the hydraulics and they don't put on extra weight
@Mate-My-Day15 күн бұрын
@@Bigsoot7393 Waiting on that slow ass thing ain't making money ,I can unfold our trailer faster than that thing undoes it's self so yeah I'm making money. So gravity alone works that trailer ,No hydraulics? B.S. and Hydraulics can fail.
@1BlackSheep15 күн бұрын
@@1BlackSheep yeah but you're tying up a loader while unloading your trailer? When it could be loading a truck? There's no hydraulics mate, watch it again, it's just releasing the trailer brakes in a sequence
@Bigsoot739315 күн бұрын
American system is cheap and dumb...... keep it simple stupid. Kind of a common theme for the region....... The Aussie system is great of you don't have support, but I notice the truck didn't have a HIAB Grab on it to load itself, so it would need a loader at each end anyway..... swings and indeed roundabouts.....
@nickmaclachlan517812 күн бұрын
Definitely need a loader to load and this would load at possibly five time the pace. At the drop many facilities run a drive through grapple that offloads and rolls in less than a minute.
@jackchapo201111 күн бұрын
Way too many moving parts. In Australian logging.
@stevejones816329 күн бұрын
Just hydrolics on the truck 😂
@Mate-My-Day27 күн бұрын
@@Mate-My-Day ok
@stevejones816327 күн бұрын
@@Mate-My-Dayno hydraulics mate it uses gravity and the trailer brakes
@Bigsoot739315 күн бұрын
@@Bigsoot7393 don’t give away our simple secrets mate…to farkin complicated for Joe Bidens to understand.
@TBird8915 күн бұрын
@@Bigsoot7393 Australia did have the old jinkers but now we have hydraulics
@Mate-My-Day15 күн бұрын
Also the Aussie truckie will be listening to ACDC and not little girl music
@LabiaLicker13 күн бұрын
😂😂😂
@Mate-My-Day13 күн бұрын
Wait, Australia got trees
@randymarsh15549 күн бұрын
Yeah Fun fact we had the biggest tree on earth back in 1800s being 500+ foot high A maintain ash
The radios in Australian trucks play better music too. 😄🇦🇺
I’m sure both countries’ logging industries use equipment that makes sense for their environment, roads, etc. And, maybe both sides can learn and benefit from the thought process and ingenuity of the other. Different doesn’t equal wrong, it’s just different.
No. This is TYPICAL of EVERYTHING I see that's American. Cars and all. A cheaper more primitive method EVERY time, usually using inferior materials, castings, rivets where we use bolts, etc. And for some reason, industrial equipment is ALWAYS the more primitive version. You realise all the Toyotas and fords you get and many other vehicles are some elses OLD version? I knew Australian toyota workers and they would be packing up the old press dies for the panels to send them to the US factory for their "new" model whichwas our old one. But our electronics are a couple years behind every time. We have high emissions standards and fuel consumption standards than the US our emissions standards are higher than many other countries. Oh, and btw, we often use trucks with 2 to 4 trailers. Almost NONE going interstate are less than 2 trailers and outback ones are always 3 minimum, sometimes 4, hence why we call them road trains.
@@OffGridInvestor That's funny, we get the old version!!!!!!!!!
@@OffGridInvestoronce again, Americans thinking they’re best in the world when they’re actually a third world country being conned into thinking they’re the best. Australia is heading that way too. Both countries have the potential to have the best quality of life possible, but the rich and powerful have got everyone brainwashed.
Yeah nah mate
@@OffGridInvestor America may use older tech to get the job done but there's a reason for that. Efficiency makes money. If you use modern tech for everything then things start to get pretty expensive to maintain over time. Toyota's get tested where reliability standards are lower, which is then sent to the mainstream American market once they've worked out the kinks.
Taking into account the American truck relies on a big machine at either end of the trip to set it up while the Aussie truck sets itself up, the Aussie truck wins. The logs the Aussie truck carries will be a lot heavier too. North Americans don’t realise how dense and heavy eucalyptus Australian hard wood is.
And box as well
Setup time....slightly faster for the Aussie. If you cut out the time showing the American truck backing in, which they did not show for the Aussie, not that much faster. Faster, but only slightly. Cost? Holy mother of god, that has got to be a pricey unit. The American rig costs 1/4 of the cost or less. The loader at either end? Exactly how in the hell do you think the logs get on the truck mate? And off the truck at the mill. Big ass loaders. Also, he is showing a standard log unit. There are heavy haul versions. Not sure where that video was shot, but it was for sure not in the NW USA. 8 axles is the norm in that part of the world, not 5.
When you don’t have the skills you gotta automate! Good thing there is always a crane at either end of their destination.
The Aussie b-double - seems more agile too (even the single folding jinker trailers) being turntable connected - and self assembling / disassembling with no rigid pole to stow. (Also the prime mover can haul regular semi/low loader trailers also - a Ringfeder coupler on the prime-mover/tractor can allow it to hook up to any pole or drawbar trailer also) -of course there are rigs designed for big single trunk-load hardwoods/ softwoods, or plantation trunks, in both countries. ( Folding B-triples for highway hauling plantation pine too) (Edit spelling)
@kdegraa how is that Australia truck going to get the logs on the truck again? Oh yes, with another piece of equipment. The same piece of equipment that would unload the much cheaper, and lighter American truck.
For all you americans saying too mant moving parts, its literally 2 trailers that fold in the middle, you put the trailer brakes on and reverse backwards, its folds up, you release the brakes and it comes off the trailer
Some can’t comprehend that many moving parts actually working.
@@user-tw1jw7lv5t The Australian version breaks the KISS rule. Keep It Simple Stupid.
americans hate moving parts, they dont even have steering axles on most of their heavy haul trailers.
You also have to think about all the pivot points, bushings that go with them, The hydraulic systems, The hoses and cables that have to fold and unfold constantly, The fact that there's a set of tires thats always touching the ground means that they're going to wear quicker than the rest of the trailer, the upkeep cost is much higher as a result. And then think about the load that trailer is moving. Those logs are waaayyyy heavier than what's going on an American trailer requiring a stiffer better constructed trailer which again comes with added cost. I bet that thing is expensive as hell compared to the American trailer. And also think about how 90% of American trailers dont come apart like the one in this video does.
@@corner_store_bill grease the bushings weekly when you grease the truck? Trailer tyres never wear out evenly anyway, and there's no hydraulics
Canada here. depending on what part of the country you're from, there are many variations of log hauling. we haul shortwood, tree length and cut to length. we use pole trailers, super B's, tree length trailers, full length trailers rigged for shortwood or CTL (cut to length), self loading trucks, self loading trailers. we have 8'6" bunks on up to 12' (or wider bunks). we haul saw logs, pulp logs and OSB logs. we haul logs on highway and off-highway. every country adapts the technology to their needs; so the real winner is everybody.
Hippy
@@andrewpaltridge11 troll. LOL
@@andrewpaltridge11. Hippy ? HARDLY ! Not " Hugging " the Trees , Murdering them wholesale and mutilating the Corpses .
You definitely live in British Columbia
@@HiThereZoomy northern Saskatchewan, actually, and we do all that here in this province too. I am a retired log-hauler, BTW.
The main thing is, in Australia you can put 44 tons payload on a log trailer and still be legal on all public roads. Unloading and re loading a top trailer from a B double set takes about 30 seconds any where, no need to hold up a loader. And they are very manoeuvrable.
They aren't that very maneuvered and you get more payload on just cause the laws, the US system is more simple and can get around way better, and alot cheaper and easier to maintain cause alot less parts. These are impressive but its making a simple job more complicated
Another thing is our weight limits are so strict but the US roads are way waaay better than Australian ones its rare to see a pothole, but my 40t legal truck can get 27.5t payload on. I should say I am a Australian driving log truck in America
@deanhollingsworth7938 here in alberta we have summer weights and winter weights, 63.500 kgs in the summer and depending on your configuration. I pull a jeep an a hay rack and I'm good for 52T in the winter
Simple laws for simple workers??@@deanhollingsworth7938
@@deanhollingsworth7938 yes they are cause it's a mini B-double it's about 22 metres all up
I guarantee the Australian idea was built in someone's garage while drinking a 4x.
Yeah Kennedy trailers garage
I was gunna say that no one who drinks XXXX would be smart enough to make something like this, but then I looked up Kennedy Trailers and found out they drink VB, which is worse. ;p
'ken oath brother!
Nah Tooheys :P but I agree aye (oh and f$ck off Vic with your crap Vic Bitter :P)
@@DavidLister77spot on Dave😂
Those two drivers running the Grabber and the Truck are totally awesome at what they do 👍👌
True
YEs they are, but the music is shit!
US road regulations vs Australia road regulations.
wait till they see how the Kiwis do it 🤣😂
I'm an Australian and I've never seen a set-up like that over here. I'm gonna say it is far from typical.
Canadian log yard operator for a large regional sawmill here. We have a few haul trucks that come in with those fancy hydraulic trailers, but around 90% are the american style manual trailers. I've also noticed that the hydraulic trailers are much longer (in my experience) and look like they're made for 30'+ stems while the manual trailers are much shorter at around 20-30' and can have two trailers in my province
For the self proclaimed best country in the world America is certainly lagging behind in the log truck tech.
It’s not just their logging trucks, it’s lagging on everything, let’s not start with their shit coffee and the list goes on and on …………
Among other things 🤣🤣🤣
They don’t even have swing lift trucks for containers
@@nzmarkb8713😂😂😂
not even hydraulic floats
For sure it’s cool watching how we do it in Australia. But it makes sense for the distances the logs etc. while other countries I’m guessing it wouldn’t. Nothing cooler than watching a double come in with full length logs on two forty footers. With the longest dolly pull in the world
So Australia has optimized destroying it's own native forests. How good
its an Elphingtone fold a skel. very popular in Tasmania and Victoria .
The west coast”American” style has its place. You can shorten or lengthen the distance between the bunks quickly and they are very light. The other thing most people over look is that the logs pull the trailer. When you hook up a log trailer one of the first things you do is flip the bail which releases the compensator. The hitch steers the trailer, but that’s it. You carry the load way up on the truck and get the benefit of steering the trailer from way in the back of the truck. You can make the trailer almost follow the truck tracks. So narrow roads are more easily handled. Also could you imagine trying to find air leaks or a broken wire on that? Lots of places to look I guess!
What can I say except: "AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE OIY OIY OIY!!!
Transformers more than meets the eye!⛟🤖👁
Aussie here, are they still called timber jinkers in Oz (they were when I was a young bloke)?
All jinkers are jinkers but not all log trailers are jinkers... that makes sense? A jinker would be a specific type of trailer where you have the logs essentially joining the two halves of the trailer together and the logs become part of the trailer... the pole that connects front to back via the ball race and pivots is only to help load/unload the trailer and to keep the bits pointing in the same general direction. We have a lot of log trailers that are more of a chassis trailer - two I-beams running front to back with log bolsters sitting on the chassis. Those trailers are able to carry more shortwood or cut to length timber.
That's what I've always called them.
I'm going to have to see how my log trucks unload their trailers now lol
There is a reason each truck works the way it works. In Australia they have much different laws/restrictions regarding weights and lengths. Im going to guess Australia isn't mountainous like logging areas of the US, or at least where i live. Since I live in the US, I cant comment any further on how/why the Australian truck is how it is...but Id guess because its a great option and works very effectively. The US style logging truck shown is everywhere where i live, and its setup that way for a reason. Generally logging trucks here have an extended frame past the rear drive axle to make it act like a dramatic bumper pull trailer, meaning as they take switchbacks on the mountain roads and logging trails, the end of the frame kicks out opposite of the way the truck is going which in turn makes the trailer swing in a way that keeps the trailer tandems in nearly the same footprint of the drive tires allowing them to more easily navigate the sharp turns and switchbacks of mountain roads and dozer trails. Its a simple, yet extremely effective way of keeping weight low on the truck/trailer (80k lbs max in CA) and making it easier to drive. kzhead.info/sun/q7GudbekiJ2dZo0/bejne.html Good demo on American logging trucks and how they can turn.
Um mate Australia is very mountainous where logging is up in the alpine and up the snowy
Agreed, some of the most memorable times of my life were spent with my grandfather hauling logs around the Gloucester/Nowendoc areas in NSW. Not being able to see the track in front of you because its just dissapeared over a crest and having pop engage diff locks to ensure it tracks straight because the front wheels are not on the ground, looking out the side widows as the steer tyres push rocks off the side of the road and watching them roll into the valley below while the jimmy screams its note through the bush. Terrifying and exilerating at the same time.
@@Mate-My-DayI wasn't saying it's NOT mountainous, I could only guess by the design of the truck it wasn't the same as where I live. Unfortunately, I've never seen much about Australia that wasnt open expanse, a major city or about how every living thing is deadly. But after doing a bunch of looking, I found some pictures of the Great Dividing Range that look incredibly stunning and is actually eerily similar to the foothills I live in at the base of the Rockies. The only major difference seems to be the types of trees covering the landscape.
@@rodneyward7679 yeah. The reason why we have those types of trailers is because the trees here in Australia are very very heavy and sometimes there that heavy that were full halfway through loading (meaning you could get a payload of 50 - 70 ton of logs if you fully fill the trailers up
I was expecting that vehicle from the thumbnail to transform into an Anime Robot-girl .
For anyone wondering where the Aussie trailer is made. Hit up Kennedy trailers in Bairnsdale Victoria
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I was just thinking about it, thanks!
@@brianschryver8314 no worries mate. Tell em James sent you
NOT the typical "timber jinker" for Australia (at the front but the rear works the same as most of them.
We use a very similar but much simpler system here in the US as well. It's a hop on trailer, usually on a selfloading truck. The Australian truck looks to me like you would give up way too much payload...
Nah the payload we get is 44 ton on the truck
@Mate-My-Day Here in Washington State we are aloud 105,500 lbs with proper bridge lengths and 8 axles. A light wieght truck with 8 axles can get that 40 ton payload. Laws are different here in the US from state to state.
I still say West Coast Canada has the best looking logging trucks out there. Nothing looks better coming out of the bush than a big tridrive and tridem pole trailer grossed out at 56,000 kg. You got a big butt 'n' top loader sitting there on the landing, you don't need the added complexity and weight of a folding setup. Just pick the trailer off and flip up the stakes. Barely takes 3 minutes. You're paid by weight so the more you can stack on there legally the more $$$$ in your pocket.
To be fair. Australians are just better Americans.
What happened to your guns?
@@701chevy9 We didn't enjoy the school shootings as much as you.
@@701chevy9 - most who want them still have them, the buybacks were money for trash mostly.
@@kadmow Bolt action and shotguns.... Very few have guns there. A shame y'all laid down like some mangey dogs.
Nope, bunch'a commonwealth sissy boys.
So there actually are log trucks that connect to the trailer through a coupling. That's interesting. In Germany the logs are the coupling. The long ones anyway (like 60+ ft).
Thats a cool set up
It looks like it's still 1960's in the USA.
Looks like Australia wins!! 😂
Well both countries trucks May possibly hold two Canadian sized trees each
Only if you saw the logs Australia pulled out
@@Mate-My-Day make a video...
@@gordonloessl2822 I'll see but it was a very very long time ago when you could see the old one rider logs in Australia
@@gordonloessl2822 there's plenty of videos about Canadian log trucks. What would you like to see. 130 ton fat trucks , 8 axle super B trains 5,6, 7 axle log logs or tri drive - quads. You probably find the Fat trucks most interesting.
Thank the police state politicians for that. Those trees are out there but unfortunately can’t be turned into logs so we just import them now@@Mate-My-Day
Maybe you should show elphinstone self loading roadtrain logging trailers ( self loading piggy back)
I should that'll be the pt 2
i still take the US truck and trailer cause of less shit to break for a work truck
Oh Australia has Optimus Prime
OWNED!
Australia, the sanest country in the world lmao
i thought we called them jinkers? My father hauled logs back when bullocks were used to snig the logs out of the bush then load them onto the jinkers.
Jinkers are the old pole trailers that had 2 bolsters that folds up (the trailer on the back of the mini B )
American. We can buy 4 trailers to your one. Also we have guns! Aussie, no comment.
Aussie also have guns, just not so many nutjobs...
Wanker :-we have guns just no mass shootings every day because we stopped the fck wit's from having them,but every fck wit in America has one or twenty bang bang your dead just a Another day in civilised America.😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂 Our trailers last longer And we have guns too
@@Mate-My-Day cheers mate! Glad we can both have a laugh without getting stupid! Im a Kentucky guy and we look after an Ausie kid! Good on ya!
@@KPMACHINE1 no worries mate 👍
Just from a different perspective, wouldn’t the self fold/unfold (hydraulic or otherwise) be a safer option? The truck driver doesn’t rely on an operator of a completely different machine to work in tandem. As crane operator I’d rather use a bigger crane than do a dual lift. Here north of Brisbane at Narrangba they use a front end loader, they unload a double in a few minutes. I’ve never driven in the logging industry.
100%
I ran a log loader in Canada one summer when I was 15, you sit high enough you have a great view of what you’re doing, and the controls are sensitive enough you can finesse your movements pretty well, but like you said, trusting someone else’s skills can be kind of scary in such big equipment.
Arkansas here. If you think the log trucks here give a flyin F about "weight" you are very sadly mistaken. They're out there rolling around, carving ruts in the road pushing 200,000 lbs gross. They aren't supposed to, but they do it. If they don't have to go past a scale house, they'll stack that four bunk up with wet Loblolly Pine all the way to the top of the posts and run it.
I don't know lbs but 200,000 = 44 ton and this truck and carry that legally
@Mate-My-Day 44 metric tons is 97003.4 US pounds 44 imperial tons is 98560 US pounds 44 US tons is 88000 US pounds
@@adamroberts176 Just use metric already 👍
Lol that's payload for some of us in Australia without having to worry about chucking a few more sneaky ones on.
@@bradwoods7321😂😂😂
as an Australian i can say im NOT amazed by american log trucks…. let me know when you get a transformer to haul ya logs
Optimus Prime is in Aus.
Sorry American buddy's but it is, amazing isn't it
"Autobots, lets roll."
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Well seeings that there’s always a grab to load and unload these trucks at pickup and drop off I don’t really see the need for the extra 60 to 100 grand (just an inflated guess for these inflated times) for the magic button that I guarantee won’t work when you really need it sometime. It is cool no doubt but the truck ain’t loading itself so why bother? There is also the fact of paying to drag that extra un paying weight. All the gear for that unfolded adds up and that means increased diesel consumption and less profit and these days every dime matters.
- the single trailer folding log trucks (jinkers) worked even before the days of hydraulic-everything - iunlock the pole, back it up against a bank (or tree) and it folds up (or winch the folding pole into place) - reverse to unload - if it gets stuck, there are always chains and horsepower - it "never fails".. For real head scratcher, look up the Elphinstone EasyLoader B-Triple - mostly hauling plantation pine.
I have never seen anyone with a semi foldup log trailer in aus (i work in the industry in wa) we run pocket road train setups majority non foldable we also run some b double log setups and some people are running foldable road train setups (dog trailer folds onto lead trailer)
We had only B-doubles and semi trailers in Victoria that folds up Now that logging is shut down
@@Mate-My-Day yea okay interesting only native logging is shutting down should still be plenty of plantation logging going on eastern states i would of thought? wa has plantation logging and we still log some of the natives
@@Mate-My-Day i believe our pocket road trains (27.5M Long Vehicle) here are classified as Road Trains on eastern states but i dont know that for a fact
@@andrewdraper9275 -?? a double train - (A2), some operators are running doubles right into ports in NSW (I'm around Newcastle, see them nearly daily).. (the pocket version are as long as a (long) b-double (27m) ) the long A2 version are 36.5m.. (Long Vehicle, or Roadtrain - semantics, as the actual config needs to be permitted on the routes run.)
Yeah mate there classed as mini roadtrains but there normally milk tankers
Heads or Tails ? 🤣 🐊
Tails never fails
What is the price difference?
About $15,000 to $45,000
I think there's other kinds in Australia, similar but different.
Australian. I’ve loaded folding and ridged trailer B-doubles. Generally folding is used for tight roads and loading areas, back in pads, small turn around. More ridged generally drive thru/around the blocks or have a approx 50m diameter turning loop.
Really,, who gives a flying fire truck who is the best, I drove a log truck carrying plantation pine for 8 years over a mountain range to coppers logs, average weight about 36 tonnes, and I drove Mack’s, Kenworths and Volvo’s all much the same, lots of gears lots of sore bums and backs.
Lemme guess, the fancy power folding one is 5 times as expensive?
Nah not really unless American trailers are $10,000 - $20,000
Australian music was better
Da können die Europäische Systeme gut mithalten.
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That second truck cost a fortune......You can have it.
No not really only $150,000 USD
It's literally a trailer with a hinge haha funny how you're all so amazed
Apples vs. oranges Mate
But you will still need a machine at both points, the extra cost must be redicules.
It's literally only a trailer with a hinge? Hahaha
Exactly. Ridicules or unwarranted the object of the game is to haul the most for less. I’d rather pay for the gas to haul the ton of wood that paid me than the ton of extra steel, hydraulic rams, pumps and electrical wiring that comes with that self unfolded.
@@Bear-kr3gr no hydraulics or electrics mate it uses the trailer brakes and gravity, how come you don't cut trees down with an axe then? Less to go wrong?
@@Bigsoot7393why? Production. More for less. Harvester=more production than an ax. Not really sure what that has to do with this though. All I saying is it’s more weight to haul for the exact same outcome. Thus less money for the owner with the fancy hinged gravity dropped trailer that works off the truck breaks and looks to weigh twice as much as the other model. If you like it more power to you buddy it’s your right to do whatever you want with your money.
@@Bear-kr3gr you get paid when your logs get to the mill? More logs in one trip, more money?
Mercia did it with less $$
The Aussie truck looks expensive and loaded with things that can fail 😅
In other words, you’re jealous of the better engineering and more efficient technology of the Aussie truck.
@@davidcat1455 No back in the logs woods we want shit that don't fail and cost time and money, Quite frankly we don't need that bullshit to get it done. If you think we can't build trucks like that you're stupid. We don't have because we don't want them. And out in the western US they do use these trucks so there's that.
What's gonna fail? Gravity? Haha it's all mechanical?
Hydraulic system never fails on our trucks
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Mate.. You giving away top secret info here, Australia is hiding the Transformers , Thats not a log truck haha
The American version is cheaper and faster. Less moving parts to break
In southern USA we just use a conventional trailer and it's a lot quicker than either of these! Lol
A log skel trailer The type of log trailer you don't fold up
Hayracks
Transformer?
For me it is really impressive what large machine operators can do (attach the american log trailler). But, wtf is that aussie thing ? This is crazy
A B-double foldable log trailer
The Aussie thing? Oh that is progress.
Silly Aussies. Transformers are for kids. Just kidding. Nice rig but I'd hate to run over 120,000 pounds down a Coast Mountain logging road from 2000 m to the sea over 30 kms and a shitload of switchbacks here in British Columbia Canada. To each his own. Use what works for you. There are reasons for all of it or we'd all go out of business using the wrong tools Cheers from Canada.
You do know we have self folding log trailers the southern united states right
Self loaders on the left coast have folding trailers.
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how much more does it cost, and if something breaks how much more does it cost to fix...the australia trucks seems more things that can break or go wrong but it is kool though
the price depeneds on age so around $100,000 - $30,000 and it's rarely breaks down and only thing what can break is the bolsters with cost $1,000 - $2,500 to fix when they get bent but it's just tyre's which cost the most with a full set costing $5,000 - $10,000
@@Mate-My-Day thanks big guy, great info from ya.
@@highlanderthegreat no worries
The American one is definitely cheaper and with less part that can fail or need maintenance.
Australian log trucks don't fail But maintenance is just the same just a bit more tyres, greasing and brakes to check up on plus hydraulic oil too
But this is the thing. ALMOST ALL American industrial equipment is crude AF and I've seen warehouses STILL using forklifts from the early 70s while almost every warehouse in Australia doesn't have anything more than 8 years old, often replacing stuff at 4 or 5 years old. They have bridges from the 50s and 60s still in use while we replace EVERY bridge including backboards in the country after 40 years. Literally a backboard near me that has got a new bridge recently with no more than 15 cars a day.
Australian trucks would be too heavy to operate in the USA.
Only 55 ton payload
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Looks like a good bit of extra weight, but I’ve seen similar designs here. Pole trailers are a bit annoying though.
if it's the trailer from the start then i agree but if its the trailer at the end then i agree a tiny bit (cause its has hydrolics that makes it unfold)
the reason why it looks heavier, is the fact that its two trailers in 1 not a single trailer
That is why I Love our ANZAC ALLIES The only allies I believe that would make an effort to help us out even though logistically it be tough for them
I like Australia loghing trailers to me its more convenient faster and less time to prep the truck before loading and it cuts time with the liader as well what is cost of Australia logging trailers
the cost of the trailer (mini B) is around $ 100,000 - $ 30,000 depends on age a long Jinker (old school trailers 15 metres to 12.5 metres) with 2 bolster is around $ 25,000 - $ 5,000 agian depends on age a non-folding log trailer this includes 1 A-trailer or B-Tralier (for B-Doubles) is between $ 80,000 - $ 20,000 agian depends on age aswell folding trailers this includes 1 A-trailer or B-trailer is between $ 150,000 - $ 45,000 depends on age yet again
why fold?
Cause it's easier to transport and less road taken when you have no load on
The American had a better sound track. Just say'n😊
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Russian's do it better
In the western US they do use some of these trucks but not often. Too expensive, Too slow, Too heavy and to complicated(failure points ,not hard to operate)) and our terrain don't suit these trucks as well as we don't have to haul logs 500 miles to the mill like they do in unpopulated Australia. Fact is we don't like things that can fail out in the log woods and those trucks have many opportunities to fail. And you need a loader on each end anyway. Unless you have a self loader(Crane truck, yes we have those too), Then these trucks still just don't make since in the US. As stated they are slower then doing it with the loader. So cost more, Fail more, weigh more and take more time I don't think Aussies like making money.
There's nothing to fail mate,it's all mechanical and gravity? Haha so a loader has to unload the trailer instead of loading trucks? Unloading trailers isn't making you money! Also logging in Australia certainly isn't flat hahaha
@@Bigsoot7393 All bush and tight turns with a cliff on both sides
There are self loading with out the hydraulics and they don't put on extra weight
@@Bigsoot7393 Waiting on that slow ass thing ain't making money ,I can unfold our trailer faster than that thing undoes it's self so yeah I'm making money. So gravity alone works that trailer ,No hydraulics? B.S. and Hydraulics can fail.
@@1BlackSheep yeah but you're tying up a loader while unloading your trailer? When it could be loading a truck? There's no hydraulics mate, watch it again, it's just releasing the trailer brakes in a sequence
American system is cheap and dumb...... keep it simple stupid. Kind of a common theme for the region....... The Aussie system is great of you don't have support, but I notice the truck didn't have a HIAB Grab on it to load itself, so it would need a loader at each end anyway..... swings and indeed roundabouts.....
Definitely need a loader to load and this would load at possibly five time the pace. At the drop many facilities run a drive through grapple that offloads and rolls in less than a minute.
Way too many moving parts. In Australian logging.
Just hydrolics on the truck 😂
@@Mate-My-Day ok
@@Mate-My-Dayno hydraulics mate it uses gravity and the trailer brakes
@@Bigsoot7393 don’t give away our simple secrets mate…to farkin complicated for Joe Bidens to understand.
@@Bigsoot7393 Australia did have the old jinkers but now we have hydraulics
Also the Aussie truckie will be listening to ACDC and not little girl music
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Wait, Australia got trees
Yeah Fun fact we had the biggest tree on earth back in 1800s being 500+ foot high A maintain ash