[or-roots] lumber carrier

[Ray Powell]

I'm not sure if there is a connection but the fruit industry in central 
Washington use trailers that appear to incorporate a lot of the technology 
that the straddle carrier or lumber carrier used. I've always wondered who 
patented the first lumber carrier and if the straddle carrier trailers used 
to haul the bins of fruit from the orchard to the processing plant were 
developed using some of those patents.

Ray Powell


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Coral Williams" <clwss at centex.net>
To: "or-roots mail list" <or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: [or-roots] lumber carrier


> Les,
> Thank you for calling to attention the 'lumber carrier' designed by my 
> uncle
> Ralph Hereth when he worked for Gerlingers at Dallas, OR (my home town) 
> and
> it was used at the Willamette Valley Lumber Company for as long as I can
> remember to haul lumber from place to place.  Uncle Ralph graduated from
> High School and immediately went to work at Gerlingers.  It is my 
> understand
> that his name is on the patent but this now has spurred me to check that 
> out
> for sure, to add to his history in my database.  Ralph F. Hereth was born 
> in
> 1909 and died in 1991.  He had many other patents that were used by the US
> Navy during WWII.
> Coral Williams
> in TX, a transpanted Oregonian.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans at verizon.net>
> To: "or-roots mail list" <or-roots at listsmart.osl.state.or.us>
> Sent: 09/15/2008 6:28 PM
> Subject: [or-roots] lumber carrier
>
>
>>I would have to concur with that suggestion Bill; I think one of the
>>reasons
>> they aren't seem much any more is they were fairly dangerous. We always
>> called them straddle buggies.
>>
>> I find a couple of mentions of them at this site;
>>
>> http://www.speypages.com/speyclave/archive/index.php/t-27932.html
>>
>> straddle truck
>> –noun a self-propelled vehicle, having a chassis far above the ground, 
>> for
>> carrying loads of lumber or the like beneath the chassis and between the
>> wheels.
>>
>> Also called straddle carrier.
>> Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
>> Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc.
>> 2006.
>>
>> FINALLY;
>>
>> http://www.bidquip.com/AuctionDetail.aspx?recnum=FL-010677
>>
>> You will be able to see a pic of one, actually probably quite similar to
>> what got Mr Grimm if Bill and I are correct in our interpretation at that
>> URL, it isn't a  great picture, but if you really want a good look at it 
>> I
>> guess you could bid on it, starting bid $150!! I'd think it was worth 
>> more
>> than that for scrap?
>>
>> Okay, I stand corrected, it appears that they are still in use in the
>> lumber
>> industry, though the capicities listed at this site indicate they also
>> manufacture them for  such jobs as containers and other big lifting jobs;
>>
>> http://www.gerlingercarrier.com/history.htm
>>
>> Les C
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us
>> [mailto:or-roots-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us]On Behalf Of Chris &
>> Bill
>> Strickland
>> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 2:48 PM
>> To: or-roots mail list
>> Subject: Re: [or-roots] Frank Grimm Family
>>
>>
>> > ... the sudden death of his father, Frank Grimm of Klamath Falls
>> Oregon who was killed instantly that afternoon by a lumber carrier.
>>
>> JFYI,
>>
>> This wording, and the date, would incline me to think this was not a
>> highway traffic accident with a log truck, but an accident, probably in
>> the mill, with a special vehicle, now obsolete, designed to carry stacks
>> of lumber, ala 
>> http://www.libbymt.com/news/2006/06/Hysterlumbercarrier.htm
>>
>> Glad to hear you are making progress!
>>
>> Bill Strickland
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