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camptramp · Oct 13, 2013

Renfrew Div. #309 Washington Trakloader operator Jim Elliot, Madill grapple yarder operator Ken Kruger #6-221 HDX Hayes log truck . Check out the scissor grapples on loader . When the #309 was new the original operator Alec Malahoff didn;t like the Washington scissor grapples that came with the loader ,so he and welder Lefty Marsh developed these grapples from the originals ,

Jim could eat his lunch with them ,if he could get them in the cab!

HDX · Oct 13, 2013

Posting 728 The little HD Ramptruck is for sale on Forest tech site. Funny how all these old trucks were worth nothing when Timberwaste was dumping them and now they are worth a gazillion dollars Must be a " they become more valuable the older they are" Just like the guys that drove them--They were called Dinosaur's Well now I hear industry call's them "Hard to find" LOL

HDX · Oct 13, 2013

camptramp We should try and post all the BCFP trucks and what they look like today-- Who has what truck and maybe a picture !!! Im not too up on the loaders or the spars but the trucks always yanked my crank. What do you think????

camptramp · Oct 13, 2013

HDX If you don't mind me posting some of the pictures again I'll go through them and list the names of the drivers and operators I can Remeber

camptramp · Oct 13, 2013

Renfrew Div. #6-221 HDX Hayes hauling a nice piece of fir from #309 Washington Trakloader Pandora area. I had a jamie short haul 5 loads a day.

camptramp · Oct 13, 2013

Renfrew Div. Dumping #6-221 log truck with big log

at Renfrew's DLS with Waganer stacker .

Wdonaldson · Oct 13, 2013

Excellent pictures Camptramp, they bring back a lot of fond memories of growing up around the forest industry in Lake Cowichan.

camptramp · Oct 13, 2013

Thanks Wdonldson glad your having a peek at them . If you have any don't hesitate to share them with us . If your like me and can make comments ,but have trouble with these puzzle factories ( If you know me you will know my temper,) my wife does to ,in my frustration ,I was heading out the door to my shop to get my 16 inch cresent wrench and tune this sucker up when my wife caught me sat me down and got hold of the "Chemainus Computer Doctor " he had me posting pictures in no time . Don't you just love a good wife.

camptramp · Oct 13, 2013

Renfrew Div DLS Chapman loader used for sorting log on dryland sort.

camptramp · Oct 13, 2013

Renfrew Div. #6-229 HDX Hayes moving the #762 Skajit slackline tower , the old Skajit winch was retired in the mid 70's in this picture it has a Madill slackline winch on it .

camptramp · Oct 13, 2013

Renfrew Div. The #762 Skajit 120 ft. telescoping steel tower with a Madill slackline winch awaits at Honeymoon Bay DLS for its new owners to move it to its new home in

Washington State

camptramp · Oct 14, 2013

Renfrew Div. Honeymoon Bay DLS dirty4fun heres a picture I just found its an off highway load waiting to get dumped . The loaded highway truck with a legal load , is loaded with scaled and sorted wood to be dumped at salt water dump Shoal Island DLS. Does that give you an idea of the size of an off highway logging truck.

camptramp · Oct 14, 2013

Renfrew Div. Looking down at the Renfrew Camp and DLS the mouth of the Gordon R. the North arm of the San Juan R. San Juan Bay the Sraits of Juan De Fuca, the State of Washington in the back ground . The bottom picture is Fairy Lake . All pictures taken from the top of Browns Cr.

camptramp · Oct 14, 2013

Renfrew Div. How do you get a trailer reload built at Gordon R. shop down to Honeymoon Bay DLS . You get Master Mechanic Brian Dickson,

Rigger Woods Forman Fred McMurray and Lowbed Driver Tom Worth together and the impossible gets done. Picture shows trailer reload crossing highway under hydro lines into Honeymoon Bay DLS . The back of the reload was held up by a cross log , when it got to the DLS a Chapman loader took the weight of the back end of reload , log was cut off to allow high end of reload to clear hydro lines, the loader carried that end of reload into DLS.

camptramp · Oct 14, 2013

Renfrew Div. Moving trailer reload from Gordon R. Shop to Honeymoon Bay DLS

Sprengstoff · Oct 14, 2013

camptramp said:
Renfrew Div. Looking down at the Renfrew Camp and DLS the mouth of the Gordon R. the North arm of the San Juan R. San Juan Bay the Sraits of Juan De Fuca, the State of Washington in the back ground . The bottom picture is Fairy Lake . All pictures taken from the top of Browns Cr.View attachment 108241 View attachment 108242 View attachment 108243 View attachment 108244

I look at the top of that mountain every time I go to Renfrew and wonder how nice of a view that must be. Thanks for posting

dirty4fun · Oct 14, 2013

Thanks Camptramp for telling me how much the trucks would haul, and now seeing the difference next to each other. It was hard since the off road trucks are so big and wide that it makes things hard to tell what kind of load they are hauling. Being used to seeing 8' wide loads for the norm then I read where the off road trucks have a 14' bunk, it was hard to figure how much you were hauling. These forestry threads have been my favorite to read and view for quite some time. Thanks for the explanation, and looking forward to seeing and learning more!

camptramp said:
Renfrew Div. Honeymoon Bay DLS dirty4fun heres a picture I just found its an off highway load waiting to get dumped . The loaded highway truck with a legal load , is loaded with scaled and sorted wood to be dumped at salt water dump Shoal Island DLS. Does that give you an idea of the size of an off highway logging truck.View attachment 108240

camptramp · Oct 14, 2013

Renfrew Div. dirty4fun The bunks on the HDX Hayes trucks #6-221 and #6-222 were 14 ft. wide ,the bunks on the M&M Kenworth bunks are 16 ft. wide , the stakes are 8 ft. high. The Hayes HDX trucks up to 6-229 were a narrower track and lighter springs than the #6-232 and up we had 2 sets of preload trailers the set for the older trucks had 14 ft. bunks the trailers for the newer trucks were 15.5 ft. When BCFP started to widen the preload trailers from 14 ft. to 15.5 , they tried the wide trailers on the older trucks the 6-229 aquired the nick name 2tippty9.

camptramp · Oct 14, 2013

Renfrew Div. Spengstoff your very welcome , the view is terrific from the top of surrounding hill tops , on a clear day you can see the Glacier caps of the Olympic Mountians and freighters and marine traffic in the Straits of Juan de Fuca

HDX · Oct 14, 2013

camptramp Remember the Caycuse Trucks were restricted to 14 ft wide due to the big NitNat bridge with the gabled side's same as us over at Franklin. BCFP hauled out of the "Spruce Flats" and the other side of NitNat lake. There was a dump out at the mouth of the lake (KNOB POINT) but it was shut down so all the wood was hauled all the way to Caycuse DLS We had the same problem hauling out of the NitNat cross hauling against you guys and going to the Coleman Dump on the Alberni Canal

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