Some photo's from the 70's

[Teegate]

Some of the newer members have not had the opportunity to view some of my photo's from the 70's, and tonight I was going through some of them while maneuvering things around on my drive, and though I would pass some of them along.

While roaming through the pines in the summer of 1979 my friends and I stumbled onto two somewhat homemade logging vehicles that apparently had been left through the weekend. The battery was removed to stop them from being started, but there was gas in their tanks.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/teegate/post/log1.jpg

This shows both vehicles.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/teegate/post/log2.jpg

This photo shows what appears to be the home made suspension and torched frame.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/teegate/post/log3.jpg


Guy

 

[BEHR655]

Guy,

They are great photos. You have a real treasure there.

Steve

 

[njvike]

Guy,

Great shots!!!!!

Ken

 

[Teegate]

Thanks both of you for the kind words. Just for that here is another one I dug up of the engine, etc. Notice the vehicle is almost completely homemade. I wish I had taken more photo's of it. My friend still has many photo's I have not seen in years, and he may have more of them. I will have to get them from him and convert them from slides as these were.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/teegate/post/engine.jpg

Guy

 

[MikeBickerson]

Wow, I want one!

Seriously though, great pictures.

 

[BEHR655]

I hear banjos every time I look at those pix.

 

[suresue592003]

Hey Guy, guess what!

I dug up some great info on those trucks of yours...
Those are pulp wood trucks. Apparently, those trucks were quite common in the pines. The town folk used them to run all over the woods and cut pulp (pine) wood, take it to the road and stack it. Once they accumulated alot, a hauling truck would come and take it away. It was hard work back then, considereing the wood had to stacked and loaded several times. I was told, the wood was hauled to Philadelphia or Gloucester, sawed up in mills and used for paper. The batteries were always removed, because back then they were considered great value and often were stolen. These men would used what ever they could to make up these trucks, weather the front of pickups, cars or tractors. There is even a murder mystery behind one of those trucks you pictured...but I am leaving that for my book.