HDX
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H155 is with or was with us down in Sarita M&B unit H155-- IPL UNIT # H153 and M&B unit H153 is IPL H157 Conventional trucks As for H140 after she was delivered to Franklin --M&B accounting discovered that there was already a H140 in system down at Shawnigan division. Driver of H140 Gary Cathers got to pick a new number So he chose H14 Ring any bells here??? When truck came new from Pacific she came with BD 91,000 lb Clark rear ends. She was featured at the Truck Loggers Convention in downtown Vancouver (Pan Pacific Hotel) as the feature truck for that year (1989) I think Gary might still have the plastic plate that was stuck on the side giving all the details of her components. She came to Franklin and not long after Mike Murphy the Master Mechanic/Maintenance Superintendent from Pt McNeill got hold of our shop foreman George Pichor and they traded the 91,000 rear ends out if her. Mike had an almost new set of 121 rear ends that he wanted to take out of one of their newer P16's UNIT # H84. So both trucks were put on blocks at two different shops and the rear ends were unbolted and exchanged It was really something to see! Mike had that one down to a science The tires and wheels were left on both units so it was just a matter of rolling them under both trucks and bolting them back in. Guys like Mike are gone from the industry now but man when they were there everything just blended. Can you just imagine trying to do something like that today?? The paper work alone would not allow it to happen Then there would be the liabilities and then warranty thing It just would never end. But because of who they were it was DONE!!! END OF STORY. As a footnote to that Franklin got three conventionals First was H138 driver Cal Smith then H153 driver Pete Burley and H155 driver Jed Ruel/ short time then he retired and Al Cooper got her.Then the two PreLoads H139 driver Don Fortais and of course H140/H14 Gary Cathers We also took delivery of a Challenger Truck at about the same time Don Watt got it After the WEYCO Garage Sale Dec 2002-- H138 disappeared along with the Challenger. Mars contracting bought the challenger. H153 and H155 and H139 was sold to Hayes Forest along with H14. It was decided that H139 would get a set of 121 rear diffs also so she would be the spare lowbed truck when she got rebuilt down at the HFS Duncan shop. H153 and H155 would keep their 91,000diffs.All these trucks came with the KTA600 Cummins in them -- Hayes changed them all to C15 Cat engines. Those same Cats are still in them. When Hayes Forest exited the logging business in Dec /2007 they kept H14 as a lowbed truck for a short time till IPL was able to buy her. The rest you guys already know As for H139 she ended up being bought by a company in Campbell River I thought it was the Olsen Group but heard from "Benaround" one of our members on here that H139 was still hooked to a lowbed up at Holberg and just sitting Can anybody step in here?? So the story kind of ends with H153-(exH155)and H 157--(exH153) with uncertain futures. Only survivor of all this mess is H14 still back where she went new in 89.Is this kind of what you wanted diamondtguy???
