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    Skidders- Tracks ot Tires, Lines or Grapples- Lets see what you've got!

    I'll bet he had a sore neck as well!
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    History gurus: Who invented the haulback?

    Hey FURPO: Good to hear from you again. It would be good say hello to Alex. He was always fair with me.
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    Skidders- Tracks ot Tires, Lines or Grapples- Lets see what you've got!

    Hi SBEANGE: Pleased to hear the factory is busy and providing local jobs. We have the right to work but work is not a right. The devil is in the details. I will send pics when I get them but may have to get my chum Derelict Texture to insert them. I've tried but my pics are too big for the...
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    Skidders- Tracks ot Tires, Lines or Grapples- Lets see what you've got!

    Geez! Considering all the time, $ and hassle it took to create that screwed up grapple idea, wouldn't it have been easier to just use chokers! Well, I can't say every idea I ever had was a good one. I'm sure whoever made this may have been quite proud of it. One can only hope. Check out the...
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    Skidders- Tracks ot Tires, Lines or Grapples- Lets see what you've got!

    Hi SBEANGE: I figured you had some inside info somehow about the Tree Farmer skidders. Is there there any activity at the Can-Car factory these days? When I was 16 I learned to fly out of SS Marie in a Fleet Canuck 80 on floats. I heard a rumor the Canucks were built at the Can-Car factory...
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    Small yarders in Norway

    Hey, WOW! Just stumbled across your pics. Been highlead logging on coast of BC. Retired now. Love those pics. Ahh! Looks like a lot of fun especially if one can stay focused. Logging like this is too much fun to be called a job! Take care.
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    Cypress Equipment Co. Ltd, Delta, B.C.

    Hey 075: been checking but cant find what you are referring to. Be more specific. I'm hopeless at most things.
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    Skidders- Tracks ot Tires, Lines or Grapples- Lets see what you've got!

    Hi Skadill: Nice log. Peeler length. I hope there was no ring shake. An arch would definitely make skidding easier. Not to mention keeping the jaggers off the chokers or mainline. Did you fab up your own arch or did you get a genuine Cat type?
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    Skidders- Tracks ot Tires, Lines or Grapples- Lets see what you've got!

    Hi furpo: Thanks for the up date on your 668 brakes. I like your solution to not having to remove the brake unit from the back of the tranny just to replace a few o-rings mostly due to brake fluid being used in the master cyl and not ATF. I heard of an FMC rigged up with air pots on the...
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    Skidders- Tracks ot Tires, Lines or Grapples- Lets see what you've got!

    Hi winterax: Thanks for the up date. Sounds like Mr. White was an all around guy.
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    Skidders- Tracks ot Tires, Lines or Grapples- Lets see what you've got!

    Hi 075: No that's not my FMC. LOL! The gimped road wheels were my first clue. I did a couple of pondage contracts on the Revelstoke Dam and the mica in the soil there just evaporated the road wheels. The only worn part was the narrow width of the wheel where it contacted the track. I...
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    Skidders- Tracks ot Tires, Lines or Grapples- Lets see what you've got!

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    Skidders- Tracks ot Tires, Lines or Grapples- Lets see what you've got!

    Hi Skadill: Yeah that old FMC looks like it was low on tranny oil or had charge pump issues. I base this on the way it was kinda jerky and slow even if it was in 1st gear. Also the engine was hunting a bit as the load varied. I left one sit for 4 years one time but it was in good shape when...
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    Skidders- Tracks ot Tires, Lines or Grapples- Lets see what you've got!

    The only times I was actually stopped at Agawa Canyon was when our car, the car reserved for loggers, which was the last car on the train, was cut off and sided because we were too drunk and rowdy. The next day our car was hooked up again and we continued on our, by then, not so merry way...
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    Skidders- Tracks ot Tires, Lines or Grapples- Lets see what you've got!

    Hi winterax: No I don't know a Tom White. What did he do and where? Did you ever meet any of the Surette tribe? Worked with a few of them at Weldwood. Great people. Think of them often. I worked a season with Weldwood, out of Searchmont, falling, and a few times for Pick Timber on the ACR as...
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