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    Vancouver Island, BC. Logging at its Best!

    https://www.facebook.com/1790149321287567/posts/2122193604749802?s=503450782&v=e&sfns=mo Found this video on Facebook of one of the Seaspan barges unloading it shows a few different perspectives of the unloading process.
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    Loaders, Limbers and Roadbuilders.

    Here’s of the picks. picks of the Canyon mill yard
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    Loaders, Limbers and Roadbuilders.

    Driving through industrial part of Everett Washington to avoid traffic on I-5 and ran across these oldies and one newbie. Also stumbled across the mill where we get our lumber from on San Juan island.
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    Vancouver Island, BC. Logging at its Best!

    Oh I have been there many times. I sailed on the tall ship Pacific Grace out of Victoria for seven summers. Love it over there. My view from work is the south end of Vancouver island looking north. Great view of Victoria. I am on San Juan Island just barely on the US side of the border. Such a...
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    Vancouver Island, BC. Logging at its Best!

    Sweet thanks for the response. These were the first grapple yarders I’ve seen even though it was through the bino’s. Pretty cool. I assumed sarita shutdown when IPL shutdown or is sarita separate? I would love come over to the island with my boys and check out the logging world of BC. To bad the...
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    Vancouver Island, BC. Logging at its Best!

    So having lunch and looking out over Haro Strait looking at Victoria watching a big barge loaded with equipment heading south down the strait. Looks like two grapple yarders, maybe a snorkel, and probably some trucks and other equipment. Anybody have the scoop on who and where their going?
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    Vancouver Island, BC. Logging at its Best!

    Just talking to a coworker about our view and what strait we are looking at and I have been totally backwards. I have been under the impression that Georgia Strait is between San Juan island and Vancouver Island but nope I have been wrong this whole time. It’s Haro Strait. So all of my post I...
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    Vancouver Island, BC. Logging at its Best!

    This huge log barge just passed the island going up Georgia strait and man oh man is that a massive crane with an equally if not more impressive grapple on it. The crane is setup on rails on port and starboard of the barge length wise so it can load stern first and role forward as it loads...
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    MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. Red & White Iron, Past and Present....

    That is not coming apart!
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    MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. Red & White Iron, Past and Present....

    That is true. Don’t want to take that risk with the fam though
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    MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. Red & White Iron, Past and Present....

    That’s kinda what I figured but I have been hearing about the live bunk on the West Coast Log Truckers Facebook page and wondered if the fat trucks were similar. It’s crazy what the fat trucks can go through and survive. I would love to do a road trip around Vancouver island with the family but...
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    MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. Red & White Iron, Past and Present....

    Would this inverted kingpin give way if the load was going over and let the bunk detach from the turntable?
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    MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. Red & White Iron, Past and Present....

    So I have a question for all you big truck buffs. I ran across a Facebook posting about a log trucks compensator broke and the dolly drove itself over the bank on a switch back pulling the truck with it. They were saying that if it didn’t have a turntable bunk and had a live bunk that the truck...
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    British Columbia Forest Products Ltd.

    San Juan Island was almost declared British over a hundred years ago over a dispute between American army camp and British army camp over an American pig being shot by the Brit’s for eating their garden. A German chancellor had to mediate the territorial dispute. But if that was the case I might...
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    British Columbia Forest Products Ltd.

    Morning commute to work and got a little different perspective. I can’t get over how big these barges are!
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