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camptramp

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Pat Blatchford , BCFP Nekite River Div, 1st picture is Pat Blatchford with Nekite River iestuaryin back ground . 2nd 3rd pictures shore line of Smiths Inlet . 4th picture is a view of Nekite River Camp from a Float Plane approaching to land .scan24.jpg scan25.jpg scan26.jpg scan27.jpg
 
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I use to love flying in and out of camp on the nice days which were few and far between . On the bad days which their were many of . Raining and blowing and over loaded not so much fun . The Dehavilland Beaver float planes are one of the main planes to ship supplies and men in and out of remote camps. Glad my plane ride days are over . I hope lol
 
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camptramp said:
Pat Blatchford BCFP Nekite Div. A birds eye view from a Float Plane of he Nekite River Camp

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A cool looking location until I saw the entire camp was located on the alluvium and colluvium of a large debri channel. A place like like could get destroyed in minutes during a storm.
 
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Pat Blatchford BCFP , Not sure which Inlet or Channel this is in 2nd , 3rd & 4th pictures ,scan31.jpg scan32.jpg scan33.jpg scan34.jpg but I see Vancouver Island off in the distance across Queen Charlotte Sound
 
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Pat Blatchford , BCFP Nekite River Div. August 1979 Late on a Saturday Afternoon a Lorain Hydraulic Log Loader had loaded its last Logging Truck of the day . The Loader was scheduled to be Lowbeded to Camp to be put on a Barge to be moved to Wakeman Sound Div. . #6-247 HDX Hayes was on its way down the Nekite M/L with Log Loader on board . The #16-4 an American 7220 Grapple Yarder was Rigged up on a short Spur on the low side of the Main line , on a hill about 6 mile , with Guyline across Mainline plenty high enough to clear a loaded Logging Truck . As the #6-247 traveled down the hill with Lorain Main Boom straight up in air from lowbed goose neck . The loader boom caught #16-4 Guyline . The picture tell the rest of story . Loader Operator Dave Anderson was heading for Camp behind Lowbed and was the only pickup behind Lowbed . After Supper I walked a D8 Cat from Camp to the disaster scene scan42.jpg scan43.jpg scan44.jpg scan45.jpg and Dave Anderson went out to the back end to bring the Rubber Tire mounted American Loader to the disaster scene. The mess was straightened up on Sunday .
 
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I remember hearing about this years ago. Was Gerry Eskola (? spelling) there by chance? He was our camp super for Olympic Forrest Products in the QCI. before Roy Park.
 
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Greatwestcam said:
I remember hearing about this years ago. Was Gerry Eskola (? spelling) there by chance? He was our camp super for Olympic Forrest Products in the QCI. before Roy Park.
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Oh yes , Gerry was General Foreman at the time . I've got to hand it to him , he had the mess straightened up on Sunday and we were hauling logs passed a messy looking Grapple Yarder in need of repairs on Monday . I don't even want to think of what Master Mechanic Dennis Young had to say about the Lorain when it got to Wakeman Sound Div.
 
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looking at the pictures what year did they start to put grousers on the yarder tracks? wouldn't want to be walking the machine up some of the roads i have seen
 
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Almost all the old American had flat track pads. Every once in awhile we would weld ice picks on them . The newer ones with the Chapman undercarriage had regular track pads. And yes they would slide down, along and across the road in winter
 
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Nasty. Looks like the loader is only still on the lowbed by the carnage of it's cab hooked up in the yarder, that last picture looks like one track is right off the bed. I guess you guys have seen worse with all the tumbles of machines down hills, but sure looks a mess.
 
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After that last picture the loader looks a lot happier, sitting back on the low bed.
 
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I wonder if that Lorain ended up in Narrows Inlet . We had one that never wanted to stay on the lowbed . Eventually it burnt it self up . After it burnt . They went to put it on lowbed. Another machine lifted boom off the ground to tow it on to lowbed and the Lorain buggered off down the hill and over the bank . Just another day in the woods!
 
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