Originally posted by RICHARD L. My Uncle Albert was a lumberjack and a wood cutting contractor and drove similar Chevrolet trucks as well as trailer tractors here in Quebec. These slow underpowered vehicles sure had a hard life in those times.
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P.S. Chevrolet picture made with a K1 + DFA 28-105 mm, a world of difference with APSc cameras.
There was a TV (cable) show that showed some of the logging in Quebec and the logging trucks used to get the logs to the mill. The loads some of those Quebec truckers were carrying I found quite impressive. I had an uncle who had a city delivery trucking business in Vancouver from the '40's to the early '70's and I recall him telling me that trucks back in that era were underpowered, but it was amazing how the right gearing could move heavy loads and of course with the low gearing those truck engines often lived in the higher rpm range.
The medium duty '48 Fargo grain truck we had....only had a 251 cubic inch flathead six...very little power...but the gearing was extremely low. It could move heavy loads, but top speed topped out...around 50-55 mph, flat out. We didn't push it, when taking a load of grain on the highway to the elevator though....we would trundle along at around 40 mph or so.
I have a K1 and the 28-105 and the 24-70 F 2.8. I got the 28-105 first and I'm very impressed with that lens. The 24-70, even though more costly, doesn't seem to be that much better when it comes to image producing, although I do like the F 2.8 aspect.
I'm very pleased with my K1. I also have a K5 and although it is a very good camera...the K1 with it's full frame sensor and additional features tops the ASP-C , older generation K5 in my opinion.
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Originally posted by mkgd1 The test site is on public land about 12 miles from the highway. The govt. cleanup lasted 5 years, so it is supposedly safe. I did check to see if I was glowing that night
Our bones are too old for extreme rock crawling, but the jeep gets us to lots of places we would never otherwise see.
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Nice images. I spent several thanksgiving weekends in a row camping at Calico with my grandkids. Fond memories.
We do a lot of back road traveling around our province, other prairie provinces, dip down into North Dakota, etc. We used to just have sedans, but our son would always get 4WD trucks. He has had an '08 Chevy Colorado ZR1, Jeep Patriot with Trail Rated package and now has a Nissan Frontier with the off road, Pro4 X package.
A couple of months ago, we decided to get a 2020 Chevy Traverse AWD SUV and although it is not a heavy duty 4WD, with serious off road capability like your Jeep or our son's Pro4 X pickup truck, we have been impressed with how it gets through heavy snow on back roads.
We got caught in a prairie blizzard shortly after we got it in February, put it in the lower range AWD and it went through snow conditions that would of hung up our previous sedans.We have the 255/65-18 P series truck tires and the ground clearance isn't bad. And then there is the cargo room....quite good.
Wish I had got something like this previously.
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