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
Here they are
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
Great thread.
Thanks for keeping up the history of these trucks.
Jerry
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.
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.
Those three trucks ( H320 H321 and H17) all preloads were driven by the same drivers for the longest period of time in M&B history-- Bob Dingsdale got H320 new and stayed on her for 27 years till he retired in 2001 and Lee Hutton with H321 till truck was sold out from under him in 2002 after 28 years and I still have H17 after 35 years. There was 6 trucks came new in 1974 and H17 came in 1975, When Franklin River Division got the 6 new preloads in 1974 our sister Division (CAMERON) just down the mainline got 4 new HDX Preloads also H88 H89 H90 H91 H88 was sold at a R/B Auction to Coulson Forest and they still have her although she is and has been parked for some years H89 was transferred to Shawnigan Division where they made her into a Conventional and was later sold to somebody else. Saw pictures of her and she looks great well looked after and she still sports the unit #H89 and like I said H90 H91 were both cut up.
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