Rocket launch...oops no, truck launch!

Had lunch in Portland today and was fascinated how the whole truck is levered up to unload it's load of wood chips! The brown "hill" behind is all wood chip. The size of all this is hard to capture :)

[Poppo Livy]

Rip rip woodchip
Turn into paper
Throw it in the bin
No news today

Very interesting. Didn't know they did this.

[sally agnew]

Interesting capture. That is a lot of wood chip :)

[HUNNYBEE]

Oh wow!

[Denise Wood]

@terryliv John Williamson :) It's amazing and all done on the wharf!
@hermann it truly is an amazing amount :)

[Babs]

Wow, this is so interesting.

[Amanda Powell]

Oh wow!! Interesting. Guess that would make it easier to unload.

[Joyce]

Really interesting shot Denise

[Merrelyn]

Wow, what an amazing system.

[Bep]

Just amazing. Wonder where are these mountains of wood chips used for?

[richard saffold]

i think our postal service uses these.

[Dyan Stevens]

Had to look at it a bit to get my head around what was happening. So interesting and cool.

[gloria jones]

Neat shot of industry and technology

[Sue Cooper]

I too had to look at the picture for a while to get my head around what was going on. What an amazing system, must have been fascinating to watch. I was amused when I saw this after posting a picture of wood pellets being delivered to our house. Not quite on the same scale!

[carol white]

Amazing. Haven't seen anything like that before

[Peter]

What a fantastic action image full of interesting detail, that pickup truck really adds scale to the operation Denise a great engineering solution to emptying the truck quickly, I for one have never see one like this before:)

[Sheralee S]

Wow, that is amazing!!

[Denise Wood]

@gijsje I think they are exported overseas to make paper items. Luckily they grow trees on big plantations and they are NOT cutting down our environment!

[Pyrrhula]

Great shot, very impressing and interesting.

[Jennifer]

excellent and unusual capture

[Tony]

Impressive capture, a most unusual sight.

[Milanie]

Wow - this is really nice timing to catch him unloading - huge truck!

[Rick]

Wow, Don't think I've ever seen them unload a truck like that before. Great shot. That is really something.

[Ron]

Wow, that's how I did it with my little Matchbox trucks. I had no idea they did it in real life too! Great capture!

[Denise Wood]

@milaniet There was no worry about timing - they did this for hours with 2 trucks always going up and down! And a line up waiting to unload :)
@stray_shooter Just a tad bigger than your Matchbox trucks :)

[wendy frost]

Brilliant find and capture.

[Anne ❀]

very interesting! that's a lot of trees there!