Popular Post B MACK Posted August 15, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted August 15, 2016 I was looking at some of my photo albums. Here is a wagner after picking the load off my truck. This is an average load, about 28.5 tons. 1 3 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46453-big-fork-lift-if-you-want-to-call-it-that/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeavyGunner Posted August 15, 2016 Share Posted August 15, 2016 Love watching those big wagners and le tourneau's move wood. 1 Quote The problems we face today exist because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by the people who vote for a living.The government can only "give" someone what they first take from another. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46453-big-fork-lift-if-you-want-to-call-it-that/#findComment-342413 Share on other sites More sharing options...
B MACK Posted August 15, 2016 Author Share Posted August 15, 2016 Yes they are pretty cool to watch do their job. The wagners always seemed to be broke down a lot. But those diesel / electric le tournea's didn't have too much trouble. There is a le tournea dump truck at the mining museum in Butte. I'll look in my albums for a pict of it. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46453-big-fork-lift-if-you-want-to-call-it-that/#findComment-342443 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gearhead204 Posted August 15, 2016 Share Posted August 15, 2016 only got to work on a wagner never got to play with one......in the logs any how.....sure was a beast of a machine! Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46453-big-fork-lift-if-you-want-to-call-it-that/#findComment-342445 Share on other sites More sharing options...
other dog Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 Westvaco used similar machines at Covington and on the local wood yards, but they were FWDs. I remember when "Chief", the switch truck driver, dropped a load of chips at the Dillwyn wood yard one time. He didn't put any wood under the landing gear legs and when he pulled out from under it it just sunk until the nose of the trailer was almost on the ground. They brought the FWD out there and slid the forks under the front of the van and it just picked it up so effortlessly it was amazing. I've seen them run the forks right through the frame rails of a log trailer in Covington- now it wasn't a new Pitts, it was like a converted, already-worn-out-old-flatbed-log trailer, but those machines just had awesome power! Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46453-big-fork-lift-if-you-want-to-call-it-that/#findComment-356765 Share on other sites More sharing options...
other dog Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 And, one time a Midway Trucking (out of Brookneal, Va.) IH was waiting in line to get unloaded at the Westvaco paper mill in Covington. He was parked along the road where the trucks were always lined up, along side the rail road tracks. Trucks were backed up a little because they had a bunch of train cars to unload too. One of the FWDs came over to grab the wood off of a train car- they would pick up the whole stack,one lift- and when they slide the forks under the wood, they would lower those curved prongs over it to clamp it all together. And when the operator closed those curved forks they caught the cab of the Midway truck, ripping almost half of it off- good thing nobody was riding with him! The operator couldn't see the truck at all, because it was on the other side of a train car. 1 Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46453-big-fork-lift-if-you-want-to-call-it-that/#findComment-356767 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swishy Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 sum stills I animated a few years back 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46453-big-fork-lift-if-you-want-to-call-it-that/#findComment-356781 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NycHeavyIron Posted July 16, 2023 Share Posted July 16, 2023 That thing is really cool Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/46453-big-fork-lift-if-you-want-to-call-it-that/#findComment-534971 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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