Hayes is known for an impressive list of "firsts" in logging truck design. To mention a few: dual axles, sself loading trailers, diesel engines, etc. I will start with a few Hayes HD model and then HDX. Post your vids and pictures of Hayes trucks.
Pics of Hayes HD
Some HDX models. Picture #2 shows last built Hayes truck. Still going strong and many are, which brings me back to the Hayes motto"Last to Built".
Pics of HDX models. Pics #4 and #5 show ex M&B unit #H318 preloader from 1974. Now in operation under Lake Lemare Logging. Many Hayes trucks are converted in to a second or third life.
More HDX models. Picture #3 shows HFP unit #T456. Truck is not a logging truck anymore - it has been converted to some kind of trailerdolly/undercarriage for a Vancouver based company - Surespan. Hood and cab has been removed from truck. Picture #4 and #5 show HFP unit #T0721. Look at fenders. They are not the original ones. Fenders are from a set forward HDX model.
More HDX pictures - 4 of them HFP trucks with loads. Last pic is contractor truck with lowbed
Sorry I forgot to upload last 2 pictures
This lowbed truck was bought new by Curly Marshal and was truck #4 Then went from owner to owner and is now owned by a fellow down in Duncan I believe. He bought it at the RB Auction in Parksville last year and fixed it up and it was at the Duncan truck Show this year Hayesno1 and I went over her pretty good
Thanks HDX. Now I can recognize her when comparing pics from summer 2007(truck with lowbed) and summer 2010 when she was parked at The Duncan Truck show. I remember we went over her pretty good. We thought she was an old BCFP truck at the timeOriginally Posted by HDX
I went into cab to get #sn but some how I lost track of my notes with #sn. As I recall she is from the early 60's.
Look at those stacks - they have been lengthened to look like real stacks
More HDX pictures. Pics 1 and 2 show Dystant HDX unit #22. Pic 3 is a LLL truck and 4 and 5 show ex MB units. Pic 5 is MB unit #H321 preloader from 1974. A contractor owns her at present time.
Great thread.
Thanks for keeping up the history of these trucks.
Jerry
The truck pictured above (Pre-Load)Lee Hutton got unit # H321 brand new in Franklin River Division in 1974 an was her only driver right up till 2003 when Weyerheauser sold the entire Division to Hayes Forest Services and they got to cherry-pick the equipment they wanted. Unfortunatly they had no use for preloads and old H321 was sold to Danny LaRose and then to Dorman.Of the 12 preloads that were at Franklin only 2 survived here and are still running and have their original M&B unit numbers H14 --1989 P16 and H17 1975 HDX. One other preload is still there unit # H320 however Hayes Forest converted her to a conventional but she is still hauling logs with us. HFS scrapped H90 H91 and H316 all three were HDX Preloads.Can give more info if required
Thanks for information re owner of H321. Any information re Hayes has my interest- and hopefully others. I guess I am "insatiable"the rest are still going strong/parked. #H317 is working as a tractor for Surespan, Vancouver. #H318 present owner is LLL. Truck runs with a huge dump trailer. Re #H319 later HFP #T8158 I am not sure if it has been sold. As you mentioned HDX #H320 is still running with you guys. Re #H321 I think it might be at QCI, but Trackloader will know.
TorkelH has posted a picture of #H316. See link:
http://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/...=16755&page=14
Pic1 shows #H317 summer 2000, Pic2/3 show #H318 at LLL shop summer 2005, Pic4 shows HFP #T8158 ex #H319 at Sarita summer 2005.
Pics of MB #H320 preloader summer 2000 Cameron Div.
H-321 was up here for some time, but vanished last year some time. No idea where she went!Thanks for information re owner of H321. Any information re Hayes has my interest- and hopefully others. I guess I am "insatiable"
TorkelH has posted a picture of #H316. See link:
http://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/...=16755&page=14
Pic1 shows #H317 summer 2000, Pic2/3 show #H318 at LLL shop summer 2005, Pic4 shows HFP #T8158 ex #H319 at Sarita summer 2005.
After reading through this thread and noting the timing of the sander boxes mentioned by HDX as being early '70's and on I'm wondering if the bad accident we had at Gold River in the early '70's had anything to do with their construction and coming into use.
One winter morning a contractor drove his gravel truck full of sand up in behind and past a grapple yarder in order to sand the road so the log trucks could get up there. He had two guys with him who got out and climbed into the back once he'd turned around. Standing beside each other they started shovelling sand as soon as the truck started down the hill while raising its box. Unfortunately, whoever had hung the guyline off the grapple yarder to a backspar stump didn't flag it so in the dark nobody saw it and when the raised box hit the guyline it tore the box off the truck, flipping it over and killing the two guys in the back.
After that there was no shovelling sand from the back of a truck done as a method of sanding and we quickly got a fancy sander with a spinner on it that was always breaking down.
I'll never forget that morning though.
Bad time.
That's why I wonder if that made WCB mandate a safer way of sanding afterwards?
Take care.
The older I get the better I was. Anon.
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