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Recent content by M_T_Noggin

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    Spicer 5+4 Trans Set Up / 13 or 18 speed swap?

    I purchased 2 C500 trucks in 1985, both had A model cabs, also both were built in Quebec.
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    British Columbia Forest Products Ltd.

    Stan and I get together for lunch every so often. When I saw manley Stanley I thought maybe that was him, but I must have been a few years to early.
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    British Columbia Forest Products Ltd.

    manly Stanley = Stan Wood ?
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    Bye bye air bags hello hendrickson walking beams

    In my working life I operated, a small fleet of dump trucks doing logging road construction on Vancouver Island. I had three different makes of suspension, Mack camel back, Hendrickson RT, and Pete Air trac. The trucks were always overloaded and very tight turn arounds while loaded and soft...
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    Vancouver Bay, Jervis Inlet

    I lived in Van Bay in the late forties/early fifties and don't recall seeing any railroad equipment. There was a company (Jerimiason (?spelling) that railroad logged in the thirties. In the late thirties they put everything on barges and took it up to the Queen Charlotte's. I don't know if this...
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    Hayes trucks in the logging industry

    Before and After [ATTACH] BCFP #225 when new in the spring of 1962 At the Renfrew shop.Fresh from the Truck Loggers.Notice the chrome exhaust out by the radiator, mirrors, air cleaner cap and hard to see chrome caps on the front hubs.If you zoom in, you can see the V8 Cummins. Big difference...
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    British Columbia Forest Products Ltd.

    This was the skidder being moved to Bear Creek. I don't know who made it but it was powered by two 6 cyl Cummins.
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    British Columbia Forest Products Ltd.

    I think it was in the early 90's that it was removed. Don't know who built it or when. The Federal government was involved with the telegraph line that ran along the Bear Creek M/L. It was put in for the Lifesaving Trail that started in Renfrew now known as the West Coast Trail. We used to find...
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    British Columbia Forest Products Ltd.

    I participated in dismantling of the Williams creek bridge when it was removed. There were large cables anchored at each end in huge concrete blocks, and cross ties bolted to the cables with large clamps, and then the deck running fore and aft. After the deck and cross ties were removed we used...
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    British Columbia Forest Products Ltd.

    I remember that shop truck, it was at the Renfrew shop. It had a welder powered by a v4 wisconson and a hand crank. Was it ever fun to start.
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    British Columbia Forest Products Ltd.

    This was in the fifties, The road was put into Caycuse in 1956, then a school bus was used.
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    British Columbia Forest Products Ltd.

    BCFP VET Having lived in Caycuse before the road from Honeymoon Bay was put in, we went to school in Lake Cowichan by boat and the railway speeder that ran down the North Shore to Youbou. The speeder ran from BCFP Nitnat (Camp 3) to Youbou. HDX is correct in post 235. I was in the Nitnat camp a...
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    allison transmission question

    I never did any kind of MPG figures as most of the hauling was off road. When it was on the highway, being low geared it was wound up most of the time. I remember moving Cat and Hitachi Excavators (Roadbuilder versions), and you could just about watch the fuel guage drop. I don't know how much...
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    allison transmission question

    I used to own a KW with a 3406, HT 750 DRD, 4 sp Spicer Aux, 58000 Lb rear ends. Transmission performed very well. Truck was used off highway 90%. It had a built in retarder. With retarder it needs a very large engine cooling system as it cools the transmission oil which gets very warm with the...
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    British Columbia Forest Products Ltd.

    Sorry to the old "Palace" is gone, and a new pub built in it's location.
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