Weyerhaeuser Company Logging Operations

[HCF]

I think that this is one of Rice loggings towers out of Sweet Home Oregon.

Hope you guys like the pics :beatsme

-HCF

 

[Contract Logger]

I love the B-model pic! Didnt Weyco use all Macks at one time?

Boy, they had everything in different camps. I dont doubt that some years they only purchased Macks, but there were so many different camps and operations its safe to say the had everything under the sun. Vail bought a bunch of Western Stars one year, and in 1982 Longview even bought a bunch of new Freightliners (have pics, need to find them!) and Springfield Oregon had Ford 9000 and International 4300's I've seen before. Highway only of course- in the US the off-road trucks were always KW and Mack.

Actually, that's not even true, Snoqualmie Falls Lumber (and maybe White River Lumber too) had some Peterbilt off-roaders that Weyerhaeuser aquired in the aquisition.

I have heard that in the late 50's early 60's Cosmopolis was 100% Mack, but don't know if that is true or false......

Longview bough alot of Macks at times, and so did Vail.

 

[JTL]

Those are some good shots there HCF. The skys are looking a little mean in the first set of pictures!

 

[HCF]

Those are some good shots there HCF. The skys are looking a little mean in the first set of pictures!

Haha. Yeah. I was getting worried but they held off for a beautiful day of picture taking and shootin the bull with an old timer watchman.

 

[Contract Logger]

I think that this is one of Rice loggings towers out of Sweet Home Oregon.


Hope you guys like the pics :beatsme

-HCF

I wondered where that yarder went!!!?

I dont have the exact SN of this machine (Weyerhaeuser Cosmopolis sold 3 at once and I'm not sure which one went where) but that's where it came from. It's one of the 3.

Kenny Nichols bought this machine and had it parked at Diamond in Chehalis. He put a quickie paint job on it and used STICKERS on the tower tube which bummed me out (never last very long due to lines rubbing and rust), and I figured I'd run across her somplace with half the 'Thunderbird' on the tube missing. Guess I was wrong, stickers seem to be holding up.

Anyway I snapped some pics that day, so heres this machine in 2006 with still-sticky fresh paint (and stickers. lol). I wasnt smart enought to write down the SN (had an impatient woman waiting in the car, and she automatically despises any logging machine visible from the road cause we always end up stopping or going back!):Banghead

Was holding off posting these to the TB thread until I could figure out the Serial Number situation on this rig.

Oh, and yes HCF- we love the pics! Always love logging pics......:drinkup

 

[HCF]

Hey CL: thanks. I'm glad the pics are up to par. Luckily enough for me my lady thinks this stuff is great. She has never really spent much time in the woods. Anyways. If it is Rice who owns the machine (pretty sure it is) they take great care of alltheir equipment. I've heard they don't put up with careless operators either. For example. The 330C loader looks like it's only a couple months old. It's used. Just not abused. They have some of the nicest log trucks in the area and probibly the nicest line car I have ever helped feed line onto.

 

[Contract Logger]

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[Contract Logger]

oops.

 

[HCF]

Contract Logger,

I ran into a friend of mine and said that thunderbird belongs to Gilkenson(spelling?) Logging out of Springfield. I didn't realize how far up the 500 I was. The tower side was actually on Rosboro Lumber Company land. I guess I was confused by the tags on the road. Sorry about putting this here. But I guess it's close enough to Weyco ground.

 

[Contract Logger]

Weyerhaeuser Cascade Operations (Snoqualmie and Enumclaw) in 2001 /2002 was being closed down and sold off. Here are a few pics taken around the yard there in those days as machinery was being moved into the yard to be sold off. The 70' Madill 171 was a popular yarder with Weyerhaeuser and both Snoqualmie and Enumclaw used them.

 

[Contract Logger]

Weyerhaeuser Cascade Yarder #221 was a Madill 171- seen here at the Enumclaw yard.

 

[Contract Logger]

WEyerhaeuser Cascade also used a fleet of Thunderbird TTY-70 yarders (as well as Madill 009's and lots of Washington's) and we can see some of the TTY-70's here.

These TTY-70's are Cascade Operation Yarders # 209, #210, #211, #222, and #223 in various places.

 

[Contract Logger]

Weyerhaeuser at Longview used 2 Thunderbird TMY-70 yarders both of which were purchased new and delivered in 1987. They replaced 2 of the old Washington 127W machines that Longview had been using since the 1970's. In fact, one of the 127's lost a transmission, so the new TMY-70 was brought in and rigged up right underneathe the Washington and on the same landing. Happened near Headquarters Camp, I do not have any pictures... What I can tell you is that the 70' tower rigged up underneath the already-rigged 100' Washington was quite a sight!

The 2 Longview TMY-70's were numbered yarders #254 and #255. Both had 8V92T Detroits for power.

Here's a couple shots of #255 working up the Green River in 1993. You cannot see it but the loading shovel was a Cat 235B - Longview shovel #119.

 

[Contract Logger]

Weyerhaeuser Longview in the 1980's purchased a bunch of different and oddball shovels- usually in pairs. Here we see Yarder #243 (freshly painted) and Shovel #154 working in the Coweeman River country in 1989. Yarder #243 is obviously a 009 on rubber (Lonview had 30+ of these yarders) and Shovel #154 is a Koehring 667. They had 2 of these Koehrings working here. More on this crew later when I scan all the pics.....

 

[Contract Logger]

I was traveling someplace out back of Headquarters Camp (Weyerhaeuser Longview) and ran across this yarder getting ready to tower down. Notice the cylinder is fully extended there. Longview had so many of these Madill 009 / Link-Belt shovel combinations all over I have no idea which yarder # this is. I was in a hurry and didn't go check it out at all.

The picture gives a good look of the way the land lays out there.......

 

[Contract Logger]

Weyerhaeuser used several Madill 046 machines at Longview- Some on tank mount (Yarder #226 and #237 for instance), some on trailer mount (Yarder #246), and several on the self-propelled carriers like this machine- Yarder #251. Also seen on the job here for loading is an LS5800TL --Shovel #143. Throw in an off-highway KW fire truck and 2 Cat D8's and that rounds out the side here photographed in the mid 1980's.

 

[Contract Logger]

Shovels at Longview--

These Link-Belt LS5800TL log loaders were very popular at Longview Division and a big fleet of them was purchased in the late 70's and early 80's. Here are some assorted shots, as well as LS98TL Shovel #122 which hadn't been replaced yet by hydraulics in 1985. They also picked up the 2 Koehrings and 2 Bucyrus-Erie 325HL shovels with Young hydraulic booms and grapples.

 

[Contract Logger]

Here's a few working pictures of Madill 009 yarder #243 and the Koehring shovel #154 at Weyerhaeuser Longview in 1990. Still running some of the old narrow-nose Kenworth trucks at that time.

 

[Contract Logger]

I ended up one day in 1986 waiting for a lowbed at Weyerhaeuser's 12-Mile Camp on the South Fork of the Toutle River. In the 30 minutes I was there a bunch of loaded trucks came through the scaling ramps, and I took a couple pics.

Pic 1: One of the Gould & Sons Kenworth trucks with a 3 log load coming off Signal Peak. Gould and Sons was a multi-side contractor and still operates out of Castle Rock, Washington today. They ran a bunch of Skagit yarders and a fleet of these green Kenworth's in the 80's.

Pic 2: Looking past the Gould and Sons load at 2 red & white empty Kenworth's belonging to Gould Sunrise Logging- different outfit but same family. Gould Sunrise also from Castle Rock and also still logging in 2011.

Pic 3: Ugly and rough Groat Brothers Trucking mule train with some big short logs on it. Groat Brothers was a Woodland Washington outfit and is probably still going strong. They did lots of log-hauling and lowbed work for Weyerhaeuser in the 80's.

Pic 4: 2 Gould & Sons trucks back to back now and 3-log loads on both of them! I swear I didn't set this up, that's just the way it was in those days.
Lots of high-country logging, lots of big yarders, and lots of big logs. Weyerhaeuser mid-80's Chevrolet pickup belongs to the scalers.....

 

[Contract Logger]

Tailhold Cats!

Here are some Cat D8's rigged up to hang blocks on in the back end. Masts and booms of all types were built in the Weyerhaeuser shops and even some of the canopies themselves were Weyco built. OSHA would not approve- who cares!

In the one picture of the Washington 208 you can see a tailhold cat on the landing. Weyerhaeuser had a bunch of these 208's too- in all the camps and divisions.