St. Helens Tree Farm - Access Pass

[Bob33]

Doesn't Weyerhaeuser drive more vehicles on these roads than recreationalists?  Why would they deliberately make the roads more prone to flat tires, which would increase their operating costs?

[2labs]

This just in breaking news:  free access going away because of flat tires!

[2labs]

If I was one of the pay to play sheep oops I mean crowd. I would appreciate that heads up on the road condition.

[nocken n notchen]

 watch the roads you drive on not sides of the roads and stay in the hard pack of the road if you cant do both

[bobcat]

Fine to warn others but don't try to blame the timber company. This is not an uncommon type of road on any of Weyerhaeuser's tree farms, or any other timber company, and even DNR land.

[billythekidrock]

Fine to warn others but don't try to blame the timber company. This is not an uncommon type of road on any of Weyerhaeuser's tree farms, or any other timber company, and even DNR land.

 I agree.
Lots of tire poppers in the CF when they make new roads or improve old ones.

[steelhead13]

Road Lizards!

[lamrith]

No dog in this fight as I am not pay to play..
I am sure there is a typical "weyerhauser road" that is made up of rock as many have mentioned and they require a tire in decent condition.  Maybe this one road or section is worse than others and hence the issue given that we have now had numerous people post that they had an issue there some with tires <1yr old?  Makes me think it is more than a tire condition issue is all.  We could all have driven thousands of miles on weye roads and no issue, but have not driven that specific section which has a problem...

[Bullkllr]

I have found Weyco roads to be way better than DNR and NFS roads.

Did have a couple blowouts on the same daya few years ago on the DNR part of Toutle. Used my spare and then like 4 cans of Fix-A-Flat to get home. Fun day.

Deflating tires a bit from proper highway psi might help.

[nickrj11]

Fine to warn others but don't try to blame the timber company. This is not an uncommon type of road on any of Weyerhaeuser's tree farms, or any other timber company, and even DNR land.

I think you might think differently when you saw the road I was mentioning. However, as stated earlier this was more of a warning to others hunting the area because I have assisted multiple people with flats on this one section of road. And as you have said, I have hunted Weyco land since I was 9 years old and have never seen someone with a flat. I know they will usually put this large rock down on roads but this road is a whole other monster. No one is blaming Weyco. It is frustrating yes but I am not scolding Weyco for it. Also, I think that the amount of folks getting flats in this one area is a very alarming amount for it to just be bad tires or Weyerhaeuser's "typical" or "common" road.

[nickrj11]

No dog in this fight as I am not pay to play..
I am sure there is a typical "weyerhauser road" that is made up of rock as many have mentioned and they require a tire in decent condition.  Maybe this one road or section is worse than others and hence the issue given that we have now had numerous people post that they had an issue there some with tires <1yr old?  Makes me think it is more than a tire condition issue is all.  We could all have driven thousands of miles on weye roads and no issue, but have not driven that specific section which has a problem...

[Bob33]

No one is blaming Weyco.

Yes, they are.  Read the other posts.

[eldplanko]

Big chunk crushed rock is pretty standard on a landing, not sure I've seen it much on the the mainlines… remember it's all about getting a truck of logs in and out as fast as possible.

I was in about 15 miles one day, drove to a landing to the top of a ridge. My kid hops out and says "dad what's that hissing sound." Sure enough big crushed rock (think 4"-) had cut a puncture in the tire. I had just taken the jack out they day before and forgot to it back in. No cell service, I had a ham radio just in case, but didn't use it. We hopped back in the rig, and hauled out of there as fast as I've ever done so (40+ down to the mainline, 70+ back to the gate). I figured I had to get out of the locked gate before the tire got down to the rim). Finally got to a county road with cell service, parked it and called AAA.

Moral of the story, we're usually well prepared when out walking around with our pack and stuff… don't forget the same goes fore driving into where we want to go. Now I always carry jack, spare, cb radio, ham radio programmed for repeater towers in the area, chainsaw, chains, winch.

[Mike450r]

It's all about the tire ply number.   Once I started paying attention to that number and put on tires up around 10 ply I haven't gotten any flat tires caused by logging road rocks.  Prior to that it was happening fairly often,  usually on the stock tires that came with the truck.

[rackattack]

 

Get yourself some 10 ply tires and you'll be good to go.