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A logging truck or timber lorry is a large truck used to carry logs. [1] Some have integrated flatbeds , some are discrete tractor units , and some are configured to spread a load between the tractor unit and a dollied trailer pulled behind it.
Forest harvesters were mainly developed in Sweden and Finland and today do practically all of the commercial felling in these countries. The first fully mobile timber "harvester", the PIKA model 75, was introduced in 1973 [1] by Finnish systems engineer Sakari Pinomäki and his company PIKA Forest Machines. The first single grip harvester head ...
State Vehicles Vehicles / person Miles / vehicle Mpg United States 282,366,285: 0.850: 11,121: 24.4 Montana 2,140,014: 1.934: 6,300: 26.7 South Dakota 1,433,044: 1 ...
A Hayes-Anderson truck from 1933. The Hayes Manufacturing Company was established in Vancouver in 1920 by Douglas Hayes, an owner of a parts dealer, [1] and entrepreneur W. E. Anderson from Quadra Island, [1] as Hayes-Anderson Motor Company Ltd. [2] The company sold American-built trucks and truck parts for the first two years, then built their own trucks, because the trucks weren’t strong ...
Over 80 percent of all communities in the US rely exclusively on trucks to deliver all of their fuel, clothing, medicine, and other consumer goods. The trucking industry employs 10 million people (out of a total national population of 300 million) [51] in jobs that relate directly to trucking. The trucking industry is the industry of small ...
Clark forklift, September 13, 2008 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Clark Bobcat skid-steer loader PCC streetcars, San Francisco F line Clark CT-40 tractor in IAF base Clark's predecessor was the George R. Rich Manufacturing Company, founded in 1903 in Chicago, Illinois by executives of the Illinois Steel Company. [1]
A lumberjack c. 1900. Lumberjack is a mostly North American term for workers in the logging industry who perform the initial harvesting and transport of trees. The term usually refers to loggers in the era before 1945 in the United States, when trees were felled using hand tools and dragged by oxen to rivers.
First generation day cab Cascadia. The Freightliner Cascadia is a heavy-duty semi-trailer truck produced by Freightliner Trucks.The Freightliner Cascadia was designed with fuel efficiency in mind, as well as improving upon several other features including the powertrain offerings, sound mitigation, safety systems, and overall mechanical reliability from its predecessors.