JTL
Senior Member
If Erine's shop is next to the hospital in Forks, then yes that big set of drums is still there. I was working in Port Angeles last summer and took a trip out that way to do some window logging. There was also a couple 245's in various states of dis-array setting around there. I pulled into the parking lot, but there was a big mean looking dog standing there, with no people around, and I really didn't wanna become a meal for him, so I never got out of the pickup to take pictures! (I snapped some of one of the Marc VI's on down the road. They are posted on here a few pages back.)
As far as the winch cat/carriage goes, I know a man that helped Ernie design and build it. (I can't tell for sure, but he might be the guy running the 245 in that old Cat ad.) He used to work for the company I work for, but he retired a year or so ago. Anyway, a few of us were having some cocktails a few years back and got to talking about stuff. They called it the D7 carriage because it had a radiator and hard nose from an old 7, a Detroit of some sort for power wedged into an old truck frame with set of drums fabed on there. Now memory gets a little fuzzy, cause like I said we were having beverages! But something was said about a GT-3 setting up above the big Berger to run the carriage back and forth and someone setting on the carriage to run the drums on it when the electronics failed one time.
I really wish I knew more to share with ya about it.
I'm pretty sure Mr. Neilson is still alive, cause last summer when I was working over there, we were doing a fish pipe out on hiway 112. One day me and the project manager were standing there talking and this old Weyerhauser KW pulling an old bailing wired together lowboy with an equally wired and duct taped together Komatsu shovel came through the job. The guy driving was wearing an old Mac T hard hat, chewing on a cigar and looked older than dirt. I could almost make out the writting on the door that said Ernie Neilson, Forks that was wrote on there with a sharpie. I asked the pm, who has lived out that way his whole life if that was really Erine, and he said yes.
As far as the winch cat/carriage goes, I know a man that helped Ernie design and build it. (I can't tell for sure, but he might be the guy running the 245 in that old Cat ad.) He used to work for the company I work for, but he retired a year or so ago. Anyway, a few of us were having some cocktails a few years back and got to talking about stuff. They called it the D7 carriage because it had a radiator and hard nose from an old 7, a Detroit of some sort for power wedged into an old truck frame with set of drums fabed on there. Now memory gets a little fuzzy, cause like I said we were having beverages! But something was said about a GT-3 setting up above the big Berger to run the carriage back and forth and someone setting on the carriage to run the drums on it when the electronics failed one time.
I really wish I knew more to share with ya about it.
I'm pretty sure Mr. Neilson is still alive, cause last summer when I was working over there, we were doing a fish pipe out on hiway 112. One day me and the project manager were standing there talking and this old Weyerhauser KW pulling an old bailing wired together lowboy with an equally wired and duct taped together Komatsu shovel came through the job. The guy driving was wearing an old Mac T hard hat, chewing on a cigar and looked older than dirt. I could almost make out the writting on the door that said Ernie Neilson, Forks that was wrote on there with a sharpie. I asked the pm, who has lived out that way his whole life if that was really Erine, and he said yes.
