alleyyooper
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Back in the mid 1970's Michigan set up for bid the cutting of Hard woods for lumber in the State forest near my folks home. Not to many wanted to work to get heat for their home then despite what had happened with the forming of OPEC.
The state back then gave out permits to any one who wanted to cut dead and down trees up for fire wood. These pictures are about August or September 1980. The lumber guys would come into the area fall the trees and skid them out to a central point. There they cut them into 8 foot logs and hauled them away. The tops ,short sections not 8 ft. and real knotty stuff was pushed in a huge pile. We would drive back there and cut two or even three truck loads if some one else went with us before lunch.
Many a day we got 6 loads per day. We had a Sthil 032 16 inch, and a husky 162 with a 16 inch bar. One of the other fellows who would go with us used a sach dolmar of some sort.
The Ford is my 1974 3/4ton 4x4 which I still own today with nearly 300,000 on it.
Thje Chevy was my cousins 1979 3/4 ton 4x4.
what were the early Ford mini pickups called a Couier or some thing?
Fellow next door to my folks had one. Always ragging on me about the fuel I was wasteing at 12 MPG and he got nearly 20 MPG. He shut up after he saw I was hauling 3 1/2 tiimes more wood in one load than he got with that grocery cart he owned.
Al
The state back then gave out permits to any one who wanted to cut dead and down trees up for fire wood. These pictures are about August or September 1980. The lumber guys would come into the area fall the trees and skid them out to a central point. There they cut them into 8 foot logs and hauled them away. The tops ,short sections not 8 ft. and real knotty stuff was pushed in a huge pile. We would drive back there and cut two or even three truck loads if some one else went with us before lunch.
Many a day we got 6 loads per day. We had a Sthil 032 16 inch, and a husky 162 with a 16 inch bar. One of the other fellows who would go with us used a sach dolmar of some sort.
The Ford is my 1974 3/4ton 4x4 which I still own today with nearly 300,000 on it.
Thje Chevy was my cousins 1979 3/4 ton 4x4.
what were the early Ford mini pickups called a Couier or some thing?
Fellow next door to my folks had one. Always ragging on me about the fuel I was wasteing at 12 MPG and he got nearly 20 MPG. He shut up after he saw I was hauling 3 1/2 tiimes more wood in one load than he got with that grocery cart he owned.
Al
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