Vancouver Island, BC. Logging at its Best!

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Rob N. Timberwest HBO Skagit longline tower on D Branch 1st picture Tower operator Rodger Atchison 2nd picture Louie Balogh running Chapman loader 3rd picture is the longline crew .

 

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Rob N. Timberwest HBO Brian Shultz on #54-69 a Washington TL-6 log loader , Oz Nelson driving #40-128 HDX Hayes log truck .

 

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Rob N. Timberwest HBO Shaw Cr. M/L the log Rob has his hand on , traveled 2000 feet across and down a steep side hill from a setting being fell by Pacific Logging . Lucky nobody was on the landing Bucking when it hit the Landing . WCB find Pacific Logging for the incident .

 

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Rob N. Timberwest HBO , Misery Creek Rock Cut 2nd growth setting . 1st picture Stu Smith running #52-50124 Madill grapple yarder . 2nd picture Brian Shultz on #54-69 Washington TL-6 log loader , loading #40-90 P 16 Pacific log truck driver Phil St. John driver . 3rd picture Landing Bucker Archie Doucette standing in front of #40-128 HDX Hayes driver Oz Nelson .

 

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Rob N. Timberwest HBO Edinburgh M/L , Brian Shultz on #54-66 an American 7220 loader , loading large Fir on #40-139 P 16 Pacific log truck driven by Art Nickerson , Rob Norman Landing Bucker .

 

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Rob N. Timberwest HBO 1st picture Tom Worth fueling up #40-140 P 16 Pacific , pulling the camp lowbed full time . 2nd picture Truck Diapatcher Reid Bryson and Lowbed Driver Tom Worth having a discussion .

 

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Rob N. Timberwest HBO , Misery Creek Rock Cut 2nd growth setting . 1st picture Stu Smith running #52-50124 Madill grapple yarder . 2nd picture Brian Shultz on #54-69 Washington TL-6 log loader , loading #40-90 P 16 Pacific log truck driver Phil St. John driver . 3rd picture Landing BuckerView attachment 141365View attachment 141366View attachment 141367 Archie Doucette standing in front of #40-128 HDX Hayes driver Oz Nelson .

Stu Smith was just here in Jeune Landing last week doing a Safety Audit. Talkative fellow lol

 

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Rob N. Timberwest HBO , 1st Picture Landing Bucker Rob Norman standing in front of big Fir Log , Braden 6000 . @nd picture Loader Operator Ernie Harrison standing in front of big Fir. 3rd picture Ernie Harrison on #54-85 Madill 075 Super Snorkel lifting big Fir log to big to pick up with grapple's , so strap is used . 4th picture Art Nickerson driving #40-139 backs up under big Fir after loader heals it . 5th picture is big firs stacked up in Honeymoon Bay DLS , with sort crew posing for picture .

 

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Stu Smith was just here in Jeune Landing last week doing a Safety Audit. Talkative fellow lol

Yup Stu never seems short of something to say . But he has paid his dues , we set chokers when 1 1/16 inch chokers were the small ones and 1 1/8 inch were the regular size and they were made in camp with "babit" knobs . Spent time packing rigging across the hillside on the back end of Slack lines up to our chests in snow too .

 

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Rob N. Timberwest HBO One of the last off highway logging truck loads dumped at Honeymoon Bay DLS before it was shut down .

 

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Yup Stu never seems short of something to say . But he has paid his dues , we set chokers when 1 1/16 inch chokers were the small ones and 1 1/8 inch were the regular size and they were made in camp with "babit" knobs . Spent time packing rigging across the hillside on the back end of Slack lines up to our chests in snow too .

I think it was you he was talking about trying to get him hooked up on HEF . Told him how to get signed up ,hope he dose

 

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I think it was you he was talking about trying to get him hooked up on HEF . Told him how to get signed up ,hope he dose

His Father Sid "Skidder" Smith took some great pictures in his early days , A Frame Skidder on Great Central Lake , Pioneer Timber Co. Port McNeill , to name a couple , he probably has quite a few of his own . I'll have to give him a phone call .
If you see him again , ask him about getting a "Speeding Ticket" on Douglas St. in Victoria in his 1957 Austin . Cop turned on his lights and siren , so Stu pulled into a gas station and had the Gas Pump Jockey fill up the gas tank while the cop wrote out the ticket .

 

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Rob N. Timberwest HBO , !st - 3rd pictures Brian Shultz on #54-87 Cypress Loader , loading Rob Norman driving #41-113 Weatern Star logging truck . 4th picture Wer McKechnie Lamding Bucking for Brian Shultz . 5th picture #41-113 being dumped at Honeymoon Bay DLS .

 

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Rob N. IPL HBO another unsung hero in a large logging camp shop is a good Tire Man , Dan Reid started in Caycuse then moved to HBO when the two divisions were amaigamated , big tires or small tires Dan took care of them all , if he wasn't the best Tire Man on the coast , he ran a close second .

 

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Vancouver Island, Head Bay summer 2007.

 

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Rob N. Timberwest HBO Big Fir at setting on Braden 6000 . 1st picture Utility Russell Thompson , Grapple Yarder Hooker Blake Wilson , Grapple Yarder Operator Howard Donahue . 2nd picture Russell Thompson , Howard Donahue . 3rd picture Howard Donahue , Blake Wilson .

 

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Rob N. Timberwest HBO Long time BCFP employee , Landing Bucker Bill Goransen , Bill started with BCFP at Vancouver Bay Div. when it shut down he transferred to Renfrew Div. and went through the Fletcher Challenge , Timberwest cycle , this picture was taken on his last working day before he retired

 

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Rob N. Timberwest HBO 1st Picture #40-96 P 16 Pacific on Grierson . 2nd - 3rd Pictures Millstream Logging on C5 , year 2000 , The back spar was rigged with a Jack that enabled the carriage to log behind it and go passed it with a turn of log's .

 

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Dave Whiskin Timberwest HBO 1st picture Logging Trucks lined up on Gordon River M/L at Honeymoon Bay , waiting to cross highway to enter DLS to be dumped . 2nd picture Rob Norman standing in front of #41-113 at Honeymoon Bay DLS .

 

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I love the sense of humor.