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  1. J

    Washington Iron Works and thier machines

    Very true. I worked under an 88 and after it suddenly dropped out of the sky a few times, we very quickly learned to give the carriage some room when untangling the chokers.
  2. J

    S. Madill, Blacksmith, Founded in 1911 in Nanaimo BC

    Very cool! Never saw one on a Terex before. I worked under several that were on tank carriers.
  3. J

    S. Madill, Blacksmith, Founded in 1911 in Nanaimo BC

    Madill 071?
  4. J

    Skagit Iron and Steel Works, Sedro Wooley, Washington

    I worked on that yarder out of Granite Falls, WA in 1988.
  5. J

    Tyee Machinery Works / Skookum-Tyee

    Those look familiar. They wouldn't happen to be Munn's old yarders would they?
  6. J

    History gurus: Who invented the haulback?

    We generally used a helicopter to fly the blocks & straps out to the back end and make the initial layout. To move the blocks for road changes, we'd use a section or two of haywire & a small rigging block. Put the small block on the new tailhold and string your haywire from the present tailhold...
  7. J

    History gurus: Who invented the haulback?

    I meant to say that we used 24" blocks for tail blocks. We had to make a haywire layout just to move the blocks. <<Oh yeah, 1 and 1/8 haul back! Jeez. There can't be a lot of logging opportunity like that left.>> I think that machine sat out behind the shop for years, minus the tube and cab...
  8. J

    History gurus: Who invented the haulback?

    The actual term is "running skyline." The simplest form is the rider block on the haulback with a strap connecting it to the buttrigging. Or you can run a dropline carriage. Or a grapple, it's all the same principle. I've worked under a Washington 88 swing yarder running a Danebo slack pulling...
  9. J

    History gurus: Who invented the haulback?

    I've heard that running a rider block on the haulback was invented by Phil Grabinski. Here in Western Washington we called it a "pollack." Not too politically correct I guess, but that's what we called it.
  10. J

    Photos of Abandoned Log Yarders

    In the states it's called shovel logging. You walk a hydraulic loading machine out into the fell & bucked and then forward the logs to the road.
  11. J

    Logging Accidents: And They Walked Away.........

    Looks like it held up fairly well. I'd like to see the salvage operation. I remember an outfit I worked lost the tube of a Madill 056 over the hill. It was on a log truck and it couldn't make the switchback, the trailer came uncoupled and went over the hill about 600' We had to bring up another...
  12. J

    Photos of Abandoned Log Yarders

    "Run or Die....I wonder how seriously screwed you would be if you tried that today?...." I remember playing run or die. And these days I'd be seriously screwed because my knees are shot and I can"t run anymore. Now it would be "Hobble or Die" LOL!!
  13. J

    Logging Accidents: And They Walked Away.........

    Looks like that 071 went quite a ways over the hill. Or is it an optical illusion?
  14. J

    Washington Iron Works and thier machines

    This makes me sad. I worked for Miller Shingle several different times during the eighties. Worked under every yarder they owned at one time or another. They were a good outfit to work for.
  15. J

    Washington Iron Works and thier machines

    I saw a 158 spar go over. We were across the draw rigging up a 137 when it happened. It was in the mid 80's and I was working at Miller Shingle Company, up Coal Creek out of Granite Falls Washington. We were all busy pulling notching guyline stumps and pulling haywire and such when we heard...
  16. J

    MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. Red & White Iron, Past and Present....

    I never met him. I've heard the name though.
  17. J

    MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. Red & White Iron, Past and Present....

    I'm not sure, but I believe so. I never had much to do with Weyco. I worked at Scott Paper out of Granite Falls, WA in the early/mid-80's, up to the time they shut down their Granite Falls and Hamilton operations. I never felt like I was dumped from the frying pan into the fire though. Scott...
  18. J

    MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. Red & White Iron, Past and Present....

    <<..with all the natural resource's we HAD here and allowed foreign companies in to squander away to shareholders half a world away!>> Happened here in the states too. And it wasn't all foreign companies either. John Hancock Insurance bought out Scott Paper Company's holdings back in the...
  19. J

    Tyee Machinery Works / Skookum-Tyee

    Back in the mid 80's, I worked for a logger down here in Washington, Munn Logging out of Granite Falls. Munn specialized in long span, rough ground shows, almost always down hill. Munn had two machines when I worked there, a Tyee slackline machine with a Madill tube and a Madill 052 tension...
  20. J

    Tyee Machinery Works / Skookum-Tyee

    Hope that thing had some good haulback brakes-that's a steep down hill show right to the landing.
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