TRUCK FILES 6 - Earth, Wind & Tyres (2013)

Continuing the tradition of hunting out trucks at work in the remote corners of New Zealand, Truck Files 6 - 'Earth, Wind & Tyres' get to visit stations, we tag along when Daniel Smith Industries' T909, and the Fulton Hogan SLT big hitters were put to work - the trucks represent difference philosophies - but are asked to do the same work - haul heavy loads.
Logging, as always has a high profile - and with massive winds flattening forests in Canterbury, SML had the game plan changed over the space of a few hours. We visit Steptoe - New Zealand's most famous Kenworth back where it first started work in the seventies along with a few of his mates, see Papanui 5 in harness in the Kaingaroa, watch an Eagle at work in a remote South Island high-country station, and do a bit of house shifting to finish off.
This video shows a little of the diversity, financial commitment and pride in the equipment that the road transport is rightly known for.

[@bnrailfannz8262]

I'm a bit of a train guy but I really enjoyed this. Loved( liked) and subscribed

[@truckarchive]

Thanks for that. Both trains and trucks have their strengths an weaknesses, that's for sure, especially in NZ.

[@bnrailfannz8262]

@@truckarchive Trains weaknesses are in the management :-)

[@aerotube7291]

Cool vid, will come back to it!

[@aerotube7291]

Still here. Subscribed too. These kind of productions are absolute gold

[@CommonSense-2]

I’m a timber production owner/operator. I throughly enjoyed your documentary. Question: Do the tractor owners actually keep their trucks that clean all the time or did they spruce them up for the video? Our logging trucks in this area put them deep in the woods and they usually run them 12 hours per day until the harvest is complete. No time to go and wash them down and spruce them up. Cheers @truckarchive

[@truckarchive]

Hi textimber, Appreciate the comments and glad you enjoyed it. Regarding the truck operators and how clean the trucks are - in our industry, generally they'll clean up the trucks on a Sunday when they aren't working, or run them through a truckwash if they have a moment, but are generally are too busy to clean them during the working week. The forest owners have woken up to the fact that the trucks need good access and there has been a significant investment in good roading in the forest estates, so we don't spend as much time floundering in the mud as we did a few decades back. That being said, I will be bringing to this channel a video about MAN 8x8's working in some rough country with a big river crossings sometime soon. Subscribe to the channel as I have a lot of forestry stuff coming through. If you are interested in our history - I have recently put up this series which has a lot of forestry trucking info on it (Part one of three) - ruclips.net/video/KHFuiD6QVy0/видео.htmlsi=BIHm3Pg8qG5hyqDx
If we have a dry spell the trucks look good - but if we get a dump of rain, these self-same trucks get to look like the work-horses they are as a lot of our work is on gravel roads. While nobody shined up their trucks for any of these videos, it all depended on the weather on the day! In New Zealand, that can change very quickly....thanks for your interest.
Regards.

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[@RegTaiatini]

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