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Tugger2

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British Columbia
End of an era. Old shovel leaving replaced with 245
I remember when we got the first 245 s . Took guys off 750 Americans and gave them the 245 s. Broken sticks , boom base lugs . Even had one walk back to the shop half torn off the roteck,that was a fun one broken bolts and chunks of the mount ring torn off the bottom of the house. The 245s just didnt have that nice moan of the 671 working flat out on the tailshaft governor.
 

Hallback

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Jun 1, 2011
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Location
Aberdeen Wa.
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Gyppo tower logger
When I worked for Columbia I rode in the Vertol for a cycle. It was just as described but the views & sights from the port hole looking down that long line was awesome!!
 

VI TL

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Vancouver Island
Pictures of TL 15 on rubber and loaded Kenworth Holberg. The pics didn't age well. The TL 15 on rubber was a good loader, long boom makes it easy to load long and short logs without having to move the truck a lot, good lifting capacity and quite stable. 4 axle with front jacks behind the steering axles. An operator wanted to show me what happens when you go down a hill with the steering axles up the hill and the boom over the drivers facing down the hill. Part way down he applied the brakes hard, the steering axles came off the ground and the machine came to rest on the stabilizer jack pins. We got off the loader and you could just about walk under the steering axles. Got back on the machine, he swung the house around and brought the machine back down on all four axles. Holberg also had an older TL 15 on tracks which they put a straight wood boom on. Won't call it a long boom as it was shorter than normal which created some issues while loading. The Kenworth was probably loaded from the San Jo flats or the Stranby.
 

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hoechucker

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n.cal
My buddy told me a story about when he was in BC working on the helicopter and they did something to the engine that needed to be tested. He got in the lower rear facing cockpit with his instruments and off they went. Once he verified all was well he said he was ready to go back. The pilot said he would have to wait until they needed fuel. He tried to ride it out but when he told them they would have a real mess to clean up back there if they kept logging they took him back right away!
They call that the puke tank. When I was working for Erickson in northern California and southern Oregon you could ride in there on your day off as long as you wanted but you were committed to the full cycle
 

camptramp

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The warm land on Vancuver Island
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Retired Logger Retired Part time pebble hauler
Almost made it to the beach.
I've seen that situation 3 times . 1st time at BCFP Nekite River , I was at the dump when a loaded HDX pulled in behind me . The driver made a trip around his truck checking things over . He came up to me chuckling that there was no pin in the funnel and said it was a good thing he hadn't used his hand valve for the trailer brakes . The pin was found on the road several miles out from the dump . The next time I seen it happened , a friend was turning a corner on to a bridge with a P16 . With no pin in the funnel the trailer tracked to the left , rolling off a fill . Turning over and flipping the truck off the bridge into a shallow river . Made for one hell of a mess , but driver was okay . The third time was a highway truck , the Pintal Hitch came undone and reach started to swing out from under load . The driver spotted it and stopped . We used cinch extensions and cinch levers to pull reach back under load and hook it back up .
 

mitch504

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Andrews SC
There was Heli-logging done here in 1989-90 in the national forest, after hurricane Hugo. Some real good friends of mine had a big conventional logging outfit and they got the contract to work under the helicopters. I went up and watched once, it was something to see, that's for sure.
 

VI TL

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Vancouver Island
At this site the small fuel truck caught on fire during a hot dry spell. Had an aluminum tank so let it burn out. Bucketed the area around the truck so the fire wouldn't spread to the bush. Didn't bucket the tanker as the fire was contained to the truck and water would have spread the fire rather put it out. A spare rotor blade was close to the fire and the pilot thought they would have to send it away to be checked as the heat would probably have weakened it.
 

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VI TL

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The Island Forester (now the Seaspan Forester) log barge coming into Mahatta River in 1970. This is possibly the first trip for this barge as it was built in 1970. Prior to this the logs from Quatsino Sound, Neroutsas Inlet and Holberg Inlet were loaded from a wooden tree on shore from the water onto barges just past the log dump at Mahatta River.
 

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wornout wrench

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Same barge, now the Seaspan Forester, coming into Rennell Sound late 70,s
I spent a year working in Vancouver in the 80's. Worked for Walkem and Wing Machinery.
I spent most of that year working on the log barges.
The old forester, we used to call it the biggest log barge in the universe.

Oh and Rennel sound is one of my favorite places in the whole world.
Bonanza beach. Sigh. Must make it back up there one day.
 
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