Hi everyone
My grandpa worked for BCFP most his loggin career ,my dad worked for them at one time also in Van bay , I worked for them starting around 83 in Narrows Inlet . i'll find some pictures my grandpa gave me .Here's one hanging in my kitchen of a carving made and given to him by BCFP when he retired
if it's the 2 bigger piece's on the side of watertank, it's for the front bunk to sit on for the preload trailers, Spoart lake div. had 2 of these the reach's didn't slide so the bunk sat way high on top stop them from swaying from side to side H131 and H132 i think check out Jim Falconer's pic from Norm West on Hank's site these trailers needed to be lifted onto truck.
if it's the 2 bigger piece's on the side of watertank, it's for the front bunk to sit on for the preload trailers, Spoart lake div. had 2 of these the reach's didn't slide so the bunk sat way high on top stop them from swaying from side to side H131 and H132 i think check out Jim Falconer's pic from Norm West on Hank's site these trailers needed to be lifted onto truck.
That doesn't figure, the BCFP trucks had the folding reach trailers. The bunk didn't go up there, I was just looking at a picture of one. They seem to have come with the extra iron on top right from the factory.
They used a regular preload trailer, The truck had a fifth wheel but it would only go up a couple of feet, so the trailer had a lifting strap on it and you unloaded it with the loader, And boy that rig was heavy the smaller loaders had a tougth time of it on hills. When I worked in Moses Inlet back in the 80"s for Benwest Logging there was a contract truck there with that set up , and in Zeballos they had two of them there in the 70's ,All of them were P16's.Gold River had several of them too.
The BCFP Preload story was you were all right in a way In 1956 BCFP started to fool around with Pre-loads unit 211-212 came as conventionals but were converted to Preloads and they used the early system where in fact the front bunk DID sit above the top of the water tank Units 213 and 214 were originally destined for their Harris Creek Camp when new in 1956 but were both eventually converted and sent to Caycuse? It was August of 1960 that units 213 and #214 was converted over to a preloads As was 215 and 216 Unit 217 went to Pitt Lake along with 218 and they had 4 preload trailers delivered with them Unit 219 220 221 went to Caycuse with the new big power Cummins V8s unit 222 and 223 went to Harris Creek Camp Unit 224 went to Renfrew Division as a preload I know this is overpowering all this info at once I will try and send you a pic of what these early preloads looked like Trakloader OK Then you can post it
Pics of ex BCFP #40-130 when she still was in operational for ABL. I think she has been scrapped. I did not see her in 2010. She had conventional configuration - not a preloader