Alaskan Logging Equipment, Left to Rust

[Contract Logger]

Wrangell 5. They left it all behind.

 

[Contract Logger]

Wrangell 6.

 

[Contract Logger]

Wrangell, log trucks and trailers.

 

[Contract Logger]

Trucks, trailers, brush.

 

[Contract Logger]

Wrangell mill log loaders, 2010.

 

[Contract Logger]

Madill yarder bones at Wrangell.

At one time there wer 15 Madill yarders here. Today there are 4 complete machines, though they are very rough, it would take alot to get them back logging.

1st Pic: Guyline stand/front off 009 tank mount. It was a 7-guyline model.
2nd Pic: Final drive assemblies with sprockets attached.
3rd Pic: Tower top section off a Madill 046 tube.
4th Pic: Tower top fairlead off a Madill 009 tube.
5th Pic: Sprocket, spare engines and transmissions in shed.

 

[Contract Logger]

Log trailers, 40' parts vans, and yarder grapples in the old sort yard, Wrangell.

 

[Contract Logger]

Lowbeds and tractors, trailers, etc.

 

[Contract Logger]

More Kenworth C500's. Lots more.

 

[Contract Logger]

Wrangell mill, equipment, 2010.

 

[Contract Logger]

Millyard dump trucks.

 

[Contract Logger]

Various pieces of equipment in Wrangell.

 

[PSDF350]

This has got to be the sadest thread I have ever read. All that equipment just rusting away is just so wrong on so many levels.

 

[Wolf]

This has got to be the sadest thread I have ever read. All that equipment just rusting away is just so wrong on so many levels.

Well, they leave just about everything out to rust in Alaska. It's not just equipment. You should see what the "common folk" have sitting in their front yards. Tons of stuff, once good, now bucket of rust. And they leave it right in their front yards. Even Sarah Palin couldn't clean that up.

 

[Dwan Hall]

The stuff Sarah left behind no one can clean up. But we are not suppose to post that here.

I think I should censer my own post.

Here in Juneau ware the leaf sniffers live most of the ugly stuff to them has been hauled away to the scrap barges. They don't want to see the results of there handy work. They think they are saving the planet. If they could just look beyond their nose they could see some of the carnage left in there path. This would be a good thread to put in front of the state legislators when a green bill came up.

 

[Contract Logger]

The stuff Sarah left behind no one can clean up. But we are not suppose to post that here.

I think I should censer my own post.

Here in Juneau ware the leaf sniffers live most of the ugly stuff to them has been hauled away to the scrap barges. They don't want to see the results of there handy work. They think they are saving the planet. If they could just look beyond their nose they could see some of the carnage left in there path. This would be a good thread to put in front of the state legislators when a green bill came up.

I could go on all day, dead right on on both points. For me it breaks down about like this, granted the loggers always paid less than the construction guys:

Every dump truck or log truck shown represents one lost $15-18.00/hr job.
Every piece of hydraulic equipment represents a lost $20-25.00/hr job.
Every yarder-tower represents 7 lost rigging jobs ranging from $14 to $20.00
Doesnt even take in all the cutters and boom men.

One outfit-Silver Bay- seen here, employed over 600 men full time.

 

[prenn1984@gmail]

keep on posting pics, cool stuff even though its sad to see it rusting away. throw in a few more bear pics too

 

[RDG]

What a crying shame to see all those machines just rusting away. COOl PICS but just keep em comming.

 

[boomguy]

i could look at those pics all day thanks again

 

[Taylortractornu]

Man I could make a fortune in IHC and dresser parts lol. I saw tons of things up there on the linkbelts that would have kept a machine here working . thanks for all the neat pics.