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Hank R

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Princeton B.C. Canada
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Retired Truck driver and School bus driver
A friend send me a picture of a Western Star crew bus Red picture, I do not believe they are in BC or Canada . Crew enters from left side of bus and front rims seem different than any I remember seen98.jpg in BC.
Then my friend Rob in Alberta found this next picture of a very interesting crew bus at a mine in Indonesia, never seen them a 4-wheel crew bus. 99.jpg Air cleaner is correct as well as front rims, as well windows on bus box. I am thinking Rob is on to something as Bus box Passengers enter from left side as North America we enter from Right side so truck could be Right hand drive. One more thing the unit # on doors is in both pictures. Does any one know any thing about these units,
 
hoechucker

hoechucker

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Mar 31, 2011
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n.cal
It would be pretty hard to keep your social distance in those. At this point we are not allowed to ride any more than 2 per crummy. It gets pretty hard to find a good turn around on a yarder side without a half dozen crummies parked in it
 
Hallback

Hallback

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Jun 1, 2011
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Aberdeen Wa.
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Gyppo tower logger
I just have my guys Pile in and go. You definitely need a half acre to turn around each one of those
 
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East of Hill 60

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Victoria BC
My dad bought a used M&B crummy back in 1969. I was only 5 years old at the time and thought it was the coolest truck ever. It was a mid 60s 3/4 ton Chevrolet Suburban with a raised roof and seating for probably 8 guys in total. Dad painted over the M&B logos on the doors, mom and dad then stripped out most of the rear seats, paneled the interior and that was our new family camper. It transported our family (including 5 kids) on a vacation to Saskatchewan in 1970 with a few obligatory break-downs along the way. Travelling in that old crummy is one of my fondest memories as a young boy!
 
Tugger2

Tugger2

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British Columbia
Speaking of filthy crummys ,many years ago while working in the Queen Charlottes it was announced in camp that former President Jimmy Carter and Mrs Carter were coming for tour of our operations. The company gave the whole entourage including secret service guys the use of our aircraft to tour in and put on a lunch in the cookhouse for all crew after they had toured the woods operations.
I think the biggest challenge was cleaning the crummies to a Presidential standard ,all moldy sandwiches ,dried deer guts,old socks, running shoes, tee shirts, pop cans, beer cans and porno mags had to be removed. That was tasked to the night shift shop crew the night before. We must have done ok ,the tour went off without a hitch. It was kind of cool to meet and shake hands with a US President in the marshaling yard of a remote logging camp.
 
CM1995

CM1995

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Alabama
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Running what I brung and taking what I win
There is a fan palm in the first pic of the Western Star's behind the first truck on the left in the pic. That means it's somewhere tropical probably close to the equator.
 
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Jumbo

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Black Diamond WA
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retired
Every year, Weyerhaeuser Snoqualmie would open the door and emergency exits, go in with a steam cleaner and blow them out. Prior to that, they would take a fork and pick up all the big chunks. Took about three days to dry our so you didn't have a wet butt from the ride out and back.
A quick advisory; do not leave a pair of gaffed steelhead in a crummy over the weekend. (Too many questionable supervisors when we returned to the yard.) You forget they are there until about Wednesday it takes months to get the smell out even with an off schedule steam cleaning. It took a long time to live that down. To quote the late great George Carlin; "the smell would knock a buzzard off a **** wagon at 100 feet."
 
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