trackwalker Wrote:
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> All the export yards seem to use "last trip"
> containers. It is fun to watch them load a can.
> Usually, the shovel needs to drag the door open
> because the can is sprung so bad. At the end of
> the load, they will leave two or three logs
> sticking out while the truck runs across the scale
> to see if it is close enough. Rarely do they pull
> a log out. The shovels usually have a short 10-12
> foot hemlock chunk around 24" diamater they use to
> hammer the final logs into the container. I have
> seen the door frame sprung 8 inches or more up as
> they pound them in. They then take the chunk and
> hammer the frame down, and back into some
> semblance of square. How they get the doors to
> close and latch is always a mystery to me, but
> they do.
>
> What I would really like to see is how they unload
> the cans at their destination. As a retired log
> truck driver, we always took second place to
> loading the cans, our time was not important, but
> getting the ship out was. We might sit there for
> an hour or more watching this amazing feat of
> loading cans.


The average reader has no idea what you're talking about