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S. Madill, Blacksmith, Founded in 1911 in Nanaimo BC
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donkeydoc
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i believe that is a 084 model... help me out donkey doctor.carrier was a disaster if i remember..
i believe that is a 084 model... help me out donkey doctor.carrier was a disaster if i remember..
donkey doctor
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I think you're right. I couldn't think of the model # when I saw the picture. Didn't one go to Northwest Bay and we brought it back to do some mayjor mods to it . Seems to me the carrier was twisting and needed diagonal cross bracing in it. Don't think they were ever great machines. Didn't we only build 3 and they all ended up with the same owner down in Washington somewhere. I bet Brian D would remember the whole story if we could get him on here. d.d.
donkeydoc
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skadill
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camptramp
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Dougan's Logging 
ben46a
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I always thought this was a butler truck, and the madill truck looked like the late model butler truck more. Those rollerskates are confusing!
donkeydoc
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these are two different trucks both photied at Madill plant. cab height and bumpers are different,stake height and bull board height, rad gaurds are different,mirror on drivers side are different,and one has a gaurd above cab. the second photo has a hand written note on it that i recognize as Bill F`s that says Madill. must have been an interesting view going around an outside switch back.!!!
these are two different trucks both photied at Madill plant. cab height and bumpers are different,stake height and bull board height, rad gaurds are different,mirror on drivers side are different,and one has a gaurd above cab. the second photo has a hand written note on it that i recognize as Bill F`s that says Madill. must have been an interesting view going around an outside switch back.!!!
Sidney43
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As I recall from the Butler posts, the Madill trucks looked like the early Butler model, while the later Butlers had a significant cab guard that make it look a lot more secure for the driver and a lot more refined.
skadill
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HDX
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skadill The truck that the picture was taken from--That sure looks like the view from an LM Mack the extra wide section between the windshields and the hood That is typical Mack over-lapped type hood and exposed rad cap
camptramp
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Don't know what camps Madill had their Truck in , but it was in Jackson Bay at Dougan Logging .
HDX
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I will ask Glen Baird He ran loader up there knew all the equipment and stuff Maybe he will remember. He told me that is where she burned up and was scrapped.
HD Mech
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I think the Madill truck was in Kelsey Bay at one point, my Dad has a old slide of it parked there that he took when he was coming or going to camp. The slide isn't very good it was taken to far away since he was in a hurry at the time.
Blk prince
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075,just curious. Do you spend most days along side a yarder or right-of-way and loading from piles? Do any young guys have interest in running line machines? Breaking someone in can be difficult
Scott_527
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Blk Prince, I've often wondered the same thing, about the next generation having interest in the line machines.I'm 29 and would damn near sell my soul for a chance to run snorkel. To me its almost like some sort of a dying art, haha. Only problem is I'm on the wrong side of the country.
075
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It just depends on what they need. We don't log enough wood to keep me yarding all the time. So right now I am loading my own yarded wood and chucker wood while waiting for the fallers to finish up the bottom part of the area. We also have rubber tired 075 that we stole from Engilewood that I spend time on doing right of way. They used to keep me busy all year round before but they have changed the way we do things to make wood available for the chuckers. I do a lot of setting wood up for the processor as I can upend full length wood and set it up on steeper ground that the juicers can't do. And we do have one younger guy who I have broken in running the track 075. ( He looks disappointed every Monday when I show up for work )But I don't think the machines have much more than 10 years left in them. It took 6 months to fix my cross drive when the gears broke this spring and the booms and gantry's are getting fatigued and are starting to need lots of welding .
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My toysBlk prince
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Thanks Ray. Nice of you to explain your day
Running snorkle looks like it would take a while to learn how to operate. A lot going on at one time in the cab, let alone what is happening on the outside. I Got to stand behind Glen B. when I spent a few days with HDX. It was like watching an artist at work operating the machine. I ran a cable drag line years ago, and thought for the first little while, that I would never learn to operate it. It isn't only being to operate a snorkle it is also being to pick out the log you want to place next on the trailer to fit so the load works out. Quite a machine, oh yeah I would sure like to give it a try, when younger.