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BC logging equipment left to rust

skadill

skadill

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Shared pic from few years ago. Literally 'left to rust' in the salt water on the B.C. coast. Divers found it while doing a fishery type survey for a proposed log dump location. Those are fish swimming around the log loader. IMG_0335.jpg IMG_0343.jpg I posted this somehwhere ,sometime, but its here again now.
 
Hallback

Hallback

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Aberdeen Wa.
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Gyppo tower logger
I don't want to say it was common but it was definitely not unheard of for S.E. Alaska barges to go out in the middle of the night loaded with equipment only to be seen back at Port empty in the morning.
 
alco

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camptramp

camptramp

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The warm land on Vancuver Island
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Retired Logger Retired Part time pebble hauler
A company located in Vancouver B.C. Chapman Industries started modifying Lorain Excavators to create hydraulic Log Loaders in the late 1960's or early 1970's , by the mid to late 1970's they were building the Chapman 1800 which became the Cypress 1800 . Here's a Lscan010.jpg scan012.jpg scan013.jpg orain Loader at Malibu 1977
 
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