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1972...SUPERSTAR 2:.. Long logger.. The mission was. Build it light weight, strong, rugged and safe, trail straight, corner flat and fast loaded, have a beautiful new look and with electronic scales. This was as close as I got to building a/my best ever Long Log Trailer. In about nineteen-seventy, in Seattle after the SST program slowed to a stop, three x Boeing Aircraft, Electronic and structural engineers, put together a electronic onboard weighing system, that was site specific. I sent for them. They came by I showed them dawning's of my new Electronic Scale Log Trailer and Truck Equipment and at the site there system would be specific, they said no problem. I put in the order for there retro system. In about ten days, off my drafting board and into the shop, sculpting my next piece, while the crew was pumping out the Superstar1 and all the related equipment.... SUPERSTAR 2:... Fifty-five hundred pounds, ready to roll. Aluminum wheels, Tubeless Tires. Solid Trunion Mounted, SSI Electronic on board weighing system, computer operated, Truck and Trailer.... D/C-ICC seven point Electrical system. Twenty-two thousand pound, KB or Standard Forge axles....Air Brakes, Ten-inch drums, or Disc Brakes, Air over Hydraulic....side reach titener....Steelcraft T1 Bunk and Hardware with forty-eight inch Stakes, a Steelcraft...Solid Cor-Ten Steel Boxed and Trust Body/Frame...Sprung With Hendrickson forty-four thousand pound, six point suspension. Painted your color. It was a sweet Trailer. It was still on the track, shaken out the bugs, when I moved on. It takes a little time to the final tune. When I left, It stopped its morphing. We were building and selling my stuff and when I left the operation slowed to a stop, their change in direction of the company after my exit plus the oil embargo days.....who knows.......... Never did get my money. These are the only two pictures, that I could find in my archives. we had a lot of good people and I have some good memories of this experiences and some mmm, but all in all it was a blast... Now I go design and build my last house. My four kids were getting big and they were ready to dig in and help all summer. So off we went to build a family home. Life was good.... But looking back on the entire life's picture, I did see a few rats float to the top. Ugene
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