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mike Cross Progress on 1958 Hayes pickup .
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Hayes trucks in the logging industry
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camptramp
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Mike Cross Progress on 1958 Hayes pickup .
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Mike Cross Progress on his 1958 Hayes pickup .
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Mike Cross Progress on 1958 Hayes pickup . As Mike is working on a Boaler Trailer and doing some home reno's , the Hayes pickup is on hold for now .
diamondtguy
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Nice aluminum work..Material is void of marks and the forming looks great.Rivet work is slow and a lot of work.When I built the aluminum body on the back of the Diamond T I hand drilled about 850 holes and hand made all the panels...This truck is far more involved..Nice work..
diamondtguy
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Looking at some pictures and this truck caught my eye....Question I know HDX can answer..I can see the rad and I can see the air charge cooler but what is in between them that appears to have #32 lines on it...Is that a cooler for the trans I cant see if it has waterlines on the other side..
HD Mech
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HDX will know for sure but I believe you are correct that it's the trans. cooler. It's an air cooled one so no water lines.
HDX
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Yes You are both right The rad and right in front of it is the Hayden oil cooler and then the air to air cooler on front of this. These cooler's do not stand up as well as the Young ones did but the good thing about them is when they start to leak they don't fill the trans with anti freeze. Those coolers have been in those trucks for probably 12 years, just patched up when they start to leak. More than once when driver turning around in tight places a stick or limb sticking out would spear through all three of those. Very expensive!!! This truck was originally bought by Bill Neil. When Hayes Forest bought and rebuilt her they changed the front fenders to the longer Hayes PreLoad style fenders. The reason for this was for ease of greasing the front end. Just turn the wheels and almost walk right in to grease king pins etc. When new this truck had an "I" beam front bumper That is why the bumper is different from the standard HDX. The P16 parked beside her is IPL H153 ex M&B H155, Last conventional built
HDX
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Bambi and The Boys
Mum drops Bambi off most mornings and The Boys come to check out the tunes.
Mum drops Bambi off most mornings and The Boys come to check out the tunes.
HDX
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Home from the Forest.
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HDX
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She was more that up to the trip Blk prince, but I just won't take any chances. Chris brought the pilot car with his low bed. Went like it was suppose to. She has ICBC Storage insurance on her, so just have to change location now.
mountainskidder
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Came across this photo from the mid-70s in Ucluelet. This Millstream Timber Hayes was driven by Robert Taron who worked for them for quite a few years. Looks like the truck was spiffed up for the Ukee Days Parade as it seems to be sporting a new paint job. I can't quite make out what I assume to be the truck number out on upper portion of the drivers door. My older sister Stephanie Dods is talking to Robert just before the parade starts. As a teen-aged passenger, I remember riding with Robert in a older and more beat-up Millstream Timber Hayes when the company was taking timber from Grice Bay near Tofino Airport. Anyone know if many of those Millstream Timber trucks survived?... I think they had five or six trucks contracting for BCFP when my family lived up there in the late sixties. At that time, they were dumping across inlet from the MB Kennedy Lake Logging Division log dump and camp. I figure Millstream Timber must have contracted for BCFP until Pacific Rim National Park was established... don't know for sure.
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Good to see another one safe and sound.
Blacktail deer?
Ed
Blacktail deer?
Ed
HDX
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They had 4 of these HD 450 Hayes's mountainskidder #30 31 32 & 33. I have two of them and Gordie Neva had one.The fourth one is unknown. Don't know what # Gordie's was but I have 30 and 33 or at least what is left of them. They were taken over by Aliford Bay Logging. The 4 Hayes's were made into fire tankers. Sometime later they went to the QC Islands for a while then brought back to Nanaimo and then to the auction.
HDX
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Had her for a couple years now Bumpsteer . Kept her out at the big Cameron Shop Yard because I could take her out on the mainline for a cruise from time to time, but with everything being so unknown, I figured it was time to get her out of the frey. Was at least handy to be able to go out and work on her there but where she is now I can still work away on her. As for the boy's Well they just like to hang out and listen to the old country music on the radio. Good company.
mountainskidder
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Thanks HDX. I figured you would know if any of those Millstream Timber trucks were still rolling or parted-out and living on in bits and pieces. Next time I'm in Lake Cowichan I'll have to snoop around to see if Gordie Neva's is still around and if successful, maybe score a serial number for you to confirm if it's #31 or #32. As mentioned earlier in the post, I lived at the MB Kennedy Lake Logging camp from 1966 to 1968 and often heard - from our camp house across the inlet waters - those Millstream Timber trucks barreling down to tidewater with Jake-brakes rattling all the way downhill from the Ucluelet Graveyard through the log dump access turn to the long causeway that took them out on the flats to the dump. Seeing that photo from the Ukee Day parade brought back fond memories. Sorry to wax all nostalgic on you guys. But those were memorable times for me.
HDX
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All part of the big story. These trucks came new in may/75. Very unmistakable sound from the 8V92's and 750 D Allison auto trans. Thanks for the share