Built for one purpose: to Crush! An up close look at the Tree Crusher US Army Used This Monstrous Tree Crusher To Destroy Complete Forests In The Vietnam War Mother nature is still plotting for revenge! wonderfulengineering.com This Is The World’s Biggest Tree Crusher! The Monstrous LeTourneau G175! - Muscle Cars Zone! This G175 tree crusher is no longer in use. Last time it was used was back in 1965. Nevertheless, its power is still indisputable. Just WOW! www.musclecarszone.com LeTourneau Tree Crusher – Mackenzie & District Museum Learning from the Tree Crusher — Douglas Robb wdouglasrobb.com
Makes a person wonder what type of destructive personality it required.
Yes, man and machine against Mother Nature, seems to bring the destructive behaviour of man to the forefront. With the time line to build and complete the WAC Dam before flooding to make the Williston Lake Reservoir, the forest industry had to harvest the merchantable timber in the area first. So this was the means to achieve access through the non merchantable timber!
Also the "tree stomper" another contraption made by LeTourneau. The guys riding on the feet, those are real men.
Looks like a wild ride those fellas got, lol! The patent is available: https://www.google.com/patents/US3366192?dq=us3366192
We often overnighted in Mackenzie as our day (1) stop before heading up into the Toodoggone. End of pavement… Saw the mighty tree crusher in person… Pretty big piece of iron all right! Remember that we had 3 changes of vhf radio channels as we headed north. The ore trucks hauling out of Kemess mine were definitely to be respected… Multiple graders maintained the road… Log trucks at that time up to Osalinka camp.
Lomak hauled the ore; they used video (high tech at that time!)to determine less than 70km/h resulted in less flat tires. Allowed kicked up stones to lay flat before rear axles arrived. We had a ‘high baller’ in camp drove fast…multiple flat tires on pickup on 460km drive to pavement. Drive relaxed and enjoy scenery 50km/h no flats…go figure! It was nice north of Osalinka camp as next 200km had minimal traffic….ore trucks were really good and professional regarding radio callouts. Nice group of drivers! The 8 grader operators same thing…
This has only one purpose and function; to crush trees and anything else that is in its way! It is nothing like a stone crusher, rather think of it a a huge mechanical chipper but it crushes everything under the massive rollers!
Yes, radio control roads and the proper safety measures using them ensure that everyone that uses them is safe, knowing where on coming traffic is and where to pull out to let the right of way traffic pass.
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I thought the operator fell out of the cabin at 2m 20s and was crushed. Second look, it turns out it was a tree branch.
Not anymore..
When Lomak got that contract with Kemess they ordered specific trucks and brought them in for proper tires. It was the first time I had seen a Freightliner tridrive.
Thanks for info! Our fuel supplier had just gotten a tridrive straight truck and was really happy with the traction. We built some pretty steep road access into our (previous) heli camp and some steep grades were unavoidable!