American Reacts to Amazing Timber Trucks in Europe

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[Max_Flashheart]

The engineers that designed these trucks/trailer systems grew up watching transformers

[JBOGermany]

The first truck a MAN with Owl-Head Cabine uses the Cab from the Claas Xerion VC Tractor! The Claas Xerion tractor series is a closer look worth! It's a agriculture swiss army knife

[mporvichova]

In Czech republic they still use horses to to drag the logs in nature reserves and national parks and places where trucks can't get (really high in the mountains or places where the weight of a truck could be a problem). Also one way of transporting logs in the past was to guide them down a river. A person would actually stand on a log with long pole to guide the others as they went with the stream until they reached a saw mill, if I remember correctly.

[josteingravvik]

The steering is what is called "Fly-by-wire". Its all electronic controlls from the cabin ( on the first truck).

[Nallpeter]

As some has said before, the first truck is all drive-by-wire (all electric, no mechanic), you can see the guards/guides for the cables at the back of the cab following it up and down. A smaller claw saves weight that can be used for payload instead.

Second truck with foldable trailer is as someone mentioned not european.

That levitating Scania is a separate-loader and it´s only job is to load other trucks. Thats why it has the bigger claw, no need to save weight. The other trucks do not need to carry their own cranes and can swap the weight for the crane to more load insteead. This setup is mostly used at large operations.
The main reason for those long supportlegs are that the loader can stop at the side of the road, extend supports more on one side, lift and shift to the other side and get a position over the ditch so the other trucks can fit on the road to get loaded.

The fourth truck (blue scania) is a Swedish tuck, and the length is very close to 24 meters total. Max length in most other european countrys are 18 meters standard, but there is an EU-setup that allows for 25, 25 meters too. In Sweden, we are trying 36 meter vehicles om some special roads.
As you can see, it says DalaFrakt on the top of the roof. The truck belongs in the middle of Sweden, and in a small village here we have a company that invents and makes accessories for trucks. Their most popular inventions are sandsperaders that you mount in fornt of the drivewheels, and a roller att the bottom gets in contact with the wheel then the spreadder is engaged and feeds sand in front of the drive wheels. Thisone is called Slir-ej, translated No-slip.
The other inventions is what you see in this video and it´s the straps to tie the load. The straps are attached to the side of the stakes (poles?) (the things hanging out at the sides at 11:13) and are lifted over with the claw. It´s called Kast-ej, and is translated No-throw. This one saves the operators back and arms.
If you look at the third video at about 8:07, the driver has to manually toss the straps over the load.

[glaubhafieber]

Here in Thailand they would move those trees on a motorcycle together with the whole family lol

[Hawky]

Oh yeah, the (agriculture) combine cabin. :D It's so they don't need to sit outside beside the hand control in heat, rain or snow which can take a hour (or 90 minutes if the guy "plays" with the logs) in one sitting. And have higher point of view. Don't need to put on boots until the very end where they need to go outside to secure the logs.
Still, around here there are classic older trucks for now (without the rotating cabine, camera system or other new ideas).

[feieralarm]

5:40 That's an Australian Kennedy folding trailer. In fact, the video is from Healesville, Victoria. Won't see that one in Europe. 7:25 The license plate is HSK, which is Hochsauerlandkreis, North Rhine-Westphalia.

[henrikgrabner]

I really love your enthusiasm for all things trucks and cars. Keep it up!

[witten]

9:18 The idle speed can be varied up or down with the cruise control. The PTO is a hydraulic pump.

[ingvartorma]

You wonder how it was done in the old days - In Sweden, the loggers lived out in the forest and the timber was transported with workhorses where they wore a harness and tied around a couple of logs and walked out of the forest to a forest road where the timber was loaded by hand over on a horse-drawn carriage. In winter, sleds were used. My father, his brothers and grandfather worked on this. Before they started using farm tractors to pull these timer trailers, but these old tractors that were also used in agriculture did not go fast. Top speed was 15.5 mph The make of the tractor is Volvo and it is still there and two of my cousins ​​have restored it to like new condition.

[NiclasHorn]

3:18 i would guess steering is electric as it is in many new cars and trucks, so you can reverse the steering signal easy so it turns "normal" then cabin is turned backwards :)

[MattiasFriman]

America is stuck in the stoneage with their trucks and so on :D

[pooltuunitud]

some of them have VR in the cab, so the driver just switches seat, puts on the VR googles and starts loading the logs on the truck while operating the grapples from the cab, the cabin witch is in the back on regular logging trucks is swapped with a boom that has cameras on top witch are connected to the VR

[meverkko]

When you're using the crane you idle a bit higher. You control the idle by the cruise control switches. Usually also remote control from the crane.

The truck engine is operating basically as a hydraulic pump at the point.

[markjones]

You need to check out a guy called Fred Dinbah, he renovated a steam traction engine which is basically a steam train for the roads, they were the first freight trucks basically, they're amazing too, Fred did a series traveling across the UK in his traction engine which was very bittersweet as he did the whole trip knowing he had terminal cancer, incredible guy, he was famous on UK TV for being a steeplejack and for his love of heavy industry, but I think you'd get a real thrill watching him drive his traction engine.

[KjellEson]

8:16 This is Sweden
Dala Frakt, Dala freight Dala is an abbreviation for the province of Dalarna

[alanlees]

when the truck arrives you see all those logs prepared and nicely stacked - I'd like to see the operations before the transport truck arrives

[dss]

3:36
It is a Drive by wire sistem, all the driving systems are electronic controlled(acceleration, steering, etc.) and the cab "only" rotates 300º to prevent you from over-rotate and disconnect the cables or evan worst the cab itself.

[MrJimheeren]

The first truck is all ‘fly by wire’ so everything is electrical, once the driver cab is engaged he can just drive like a normal truck. It’s very cool, very high tech