September, 1952... This is the famous "Paul Bunyan Load" that was hauled off highway into Union Lumber Company's plant in Ft. Bragg, Ca. The truck was Roy Stoddard #24, a 1949 Peterbilt 390 Off Hwy. truck with 12 foot bunks that had adjustable "Rossi Chocks." The 40 foot logs were 7, 8, and 9 feet in diameter respectively, and the load scaled out at 53,670 feet Spalding! Total gross weight was 421,000 lbs! The driver was Wes Copeland. He had been a bomber pilot in World War Two.

The Paul Bunyan Load, Stoddard truck number 24 later became Union Lumber Company offhighway truck number 15, was delivered to the Union Lumber Company mill in Fort Bragg California on September 10, 1952. The logs were approximately seven, eight, and nine feet in diameter. The official scale was 53,670 board feet.

That is a lot of damn wood, hell of a saw needed to cut them up!