How do you get on the logs lads. Fancy it
A couple of companies local to me do them.
Smiths of Axford. Scarrotts from Royal Wootton Bassett.
Suedehead:
A couple of companies local to me do them.
Smiths of Axford. Scarrotts from Royal Wootton Bassett.
Is it tramping mate? What’s the crack
SuperMultiBlue:
Suedehead:
A couple of companies local to me do them.
Smiths of Axford. Scarrotts from Royal Wootton Bassett.Is it tramping mate? What’s the crack
Small bags or loose load, think they do kindling as well.
I get the impression the OP is talking about actual logging work rather than carrying round bags of firewood.
I should add that I have no experience or knowledge of either. But no doubt someone will come along who has done both.
Ask a timber haulier if they’re needing a driver. Experience is definitely preferred if you’re going onto a crane, don’t know anyone who would take you on without being a proven decent operator. Just going on a flat you could blag it.
Being able to spank it on across B Roads helps, can be dirty work but it’s pretty enjoyable, considered going back to it before but then remembered I like sitting on my arse pulling a nice clean fridge rather than flinging soaking straps over sticks.
Lovely job in the summer. Carp in the winter unless your boss is prepared to shell out for one of those cabins that some have fitted. Beautiful countryside, alone with the wildlife-great. Then you get bogged down miles from civilisation…
Having said that it IS the one job I regret not continuing with.
But sorry can’t help you with how to get started. As above it will help if you have lorry loader experience.
You need a crane ticket, and many woodland companies also require this.
Reason being you may well be first on scene in a location where there’s no phone signal, and no other person for miles.
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As a transport journalist I’ve been lucky enough to ‘ride along’ with timber trucks for a couple of ‘day in the life’ type stories. It is easily the most interesting, and most demanding, truck driving work I’ve ever witnessed. Driving in the forests, on the heavily-cambered stone roads, is like no other driving. There’s a ‘magnetic ditch’ on each side of the road which tries to draw your trailer into it. Then there’s operating the crane, which is a whole other skillset. Grabbing a bunch of slippery logs is a bit different to unloading a bulk bag of sand! And you’ve got to be tough when it comes to the weather…I can assure you it is really, really cold perched up on the crane on top of a Welsh mountain in the snow.
My guess would be that the primary requirement is that you have to live in a heavily afforested area. 
Did it for a couple of years with a flatbed (no crane, just put in the posts and go and get loaded). Some trailers had a weighing sensor, most hadn’t, so you were relying on the boys who were loading you to judge it right.
Thought the wagon was a bit sluggish going over Shap one day, got to the weighbridge at Chirk to discover I was 51 tonnes. Wouldn’t happen now, Chirk set a 45 tonne limit (don’t know if that’s still the case) so it’s in nobody’s interest to overload.
That was probably about 12 years ago. Don’t know what the roads in the woods are like now, but back then the roads were near enough the exact width of your truck. Very little margin for error, especially going downhill (and you’re always going up empty, down loaded) in the snow or ice.
Having said that, I actually enjoyed it. I wouldn’t go back to it, but the lads who do it year in year out just seem to get on with it.
If you do get a start, you’ll know soon enough if you’re cut out for it.
back in the 90s i often used to pass a timber truck or should i say HE used to pass me,drove like a madman loaded or unloaded on the backroads out to a woodyard near where i lived.Anyhow suddenly i never saw him or that Volvo truck again and truly it was a real relief .One arvo years later at a friends BBQ i got talking to the woodyard owner and onto this driver. Turns out he was caning it as per usual on a long dead straight minor road and went right over a little car and the whole shebang ended up in a field . He got out realized hed killed someone and then wandered around in a daze for over 2 hours until someone spotted the mess and called the police
Is that blue F88 still around doing logs?
Harry Monk:
Is that blue F88 still around doing logs?
He sure is , drove past him yesterday , he was dropping his trailer in the lay by between Longbridge island and Wellesbourne.
one of the truck mags needs to run an article on this guy 
He must have made a few bob out of the Old Girl, it must be getting on for 50 years old now.
Harry Monk:
He must have made a few bob out of the Old Girl, it must be getting on for 50 years old now.
It’s an old L reg , what ever year that is , no doubt before I was born lol…
If I recall the guy who runs it is called Bob , I sometimes see it parked up at weekends down the track to Wealmoors , Atherstone on Stour. …
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■■■■! I thought someone was trying to sell cheap logs and I need some 
spike78:
Harry Monk:
He must have made a few bob out of the Old Girl, it must be getting on for 50 years old now.It’s an old L reg , what ever year that is , no doubt before I was born lol…
If I recall the guy who runs it is called Bob , I sometimes see it parked up at weekends down the track to Wealmoors , Atherstone on Stour. …
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He is called Bob, I can’t remember his last name. I met him once. He’s a fascinating guy to talk to.
spike78:
Harry Monk:
He must have made a few bob out of the Old Girl, it must be getting on for 50 years old now.It’s an old L reg , what ever year that is , no doubt before I was born lol…
If I recall the guy who runs it is called Bob , I sometimes see it parked up at weekends down the track to Wealmoors , Atherstone on Stour. …
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L reg was Aug 73 - July 74 so a good 46 going on 47. Built to last those Volvo’s.
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Think it’s on cab 3 engine 2 and gearbox 4. Don’t know about diffs etc. Don’t think it can be classed as original but fair dues to him,if it works why change it. Doubt a 2020 fh4 will be around in 40 odd years time.