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  1. 72HDX

    Cypress Equipment Co. Ltd, Delta, B.C.

    I'll double check to make sure. He's contracting for us with it in our other camp. If I make it up there I'll have a look just to make sure.
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    Cypress Equipment Co. Ltd, Delta, B.C.

    Hey Scott_527, Al Atwood's 7230 S/N is MG166-07-017, or says our records from when we owned it.
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    Cypress Equipment Co. Ltd, Delta, B.C.

    SPMiller, where'd you get the picture? I see my 7280 sitting there with probably Dan N at the helm, but not enough in the picture to figure out which 7230 that the pictures taken from.
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    BC logging equipment left to rust

    These are in Acteon Sound. About a 2 minute walk from the dock. couple of trucks that look to have been on a plank road. The third picture is of a rail car at low tide. If you walk up the railway grade for a few kms there's a steam donkey still in the bush. I'll try and find a picture of it, or...
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    Kenworth Thread for 848--849--850

    I think the number for this was K63. It was 63 anyways. We call it LT63. This was the other day in McGowan Bay. Here's 64
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    Logging Accidents: And They Walked Away.........

    We started running 5/8 swaged on the tag for our 7230. You get about another 100ft on the drum. The operator doesn't like the D link though and opts to do grapple knots
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    Kenworth Thread for 848--849--850

    Ferney picked that truck up some years back. It's pictured sitting down at the old Timber West shop at Middle point. It is an ex-Saunders truck. We picked up the 5 that were at Duke point in June of 2013, the day after we barged them to Campbell, WFP sent some guys down to go over the trucks as...
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    B.C. Logging Equipment Dealers List and some history

    Parker Pacific also deal TEREX T-Mar Industries deals with Kobelco I think SMS also deals with Prentice I think
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    Mack CL350 ST logging truck

    Sorry to say, I found out a few weeks ago that truck was written off last year in Holberg. My dad was up at Saratoga Ventures looking for some 17inch air cleaners for my truck when Joe showed him to blue ones that happen to look a little familiar. Not sure how it happened, but I now have both...
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    Hayes trucks in the logging industry

    One of Dennis Dystants trucks, I'm guessing over near Zeballos? I think they're hauling over there. I'll ask his guys hauling out at Eve on Monday. Dennis has another Hayes there, plus two KW 850s.
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    Hayes trucks in the logging industry

    I see that truck has a air cooler on it, so no need for the pipe anyways.
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    Hayes trucks in the logging industry

    I took this video on Monday (did one on thursday, but it was in HD, so I did one in standard def) hauling down the Naka main. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF-aA1gg5U0&feature=player_profilepage
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    Hayes trucks in the logging industry

    We have the one on the right at present. Got it at the auction in 2007. The one on the right was a pre-load, the steering axle is farther ahead on the frame. I'll post a pic of her on the weekend. Have been hauling gravel with her this last week. She had 70,000. But the 70,000 spindles are...
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    Hayes trucks in the logging industry

    1 of 3 trucks that came down from Alaska back in 88. We bought 2, one we still have, the other we put 121s (try to find some pics) then eventually sold to a guy in Kentucky back in 2001. This is the 3rd that Donny Cox had. Its on its way to Chilliwack for the RB auction at the end of the month.
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    Skagit Iron and Steel Works, Sedro Wooley, Washington

    Crown Operation, Nitnat. That's my grandpa's truck #1. My dad saw the picture and recognized the equipment, and of course the truck.
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    Hayes trucks in the logging industry

    Ya its the original cab. But the driver's door isn't. It's from this one (pic below). I thought the gravel truck was a 58. I took a pic of its ID plate this morning (2nd Pic). The gravel truck still operates, except the fuel pump is gone on it right now. the S/N is - 3092492 H
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    Hayes trucks in the logging industry

    Ya, them and G.W Cox.
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    Hayes trucks in the logging industry

    That truck just came out of Zeballos. It along with the red one were Donny Cox's. I thought he had another one too, but apparently I think everything thats there is it. I'll get some pictures on Monday. Want to look at the lowbed thats behind a KW thats there.
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    Cypress Equipment Co. Ltd, Delta, B.C.

    The 7280 on rubber was an A model. It was owned by Inlet Contracting in Port McNeil. They were selling out back in 84 or 85 and the yarder went seperately in the deal. I don't know the name of who bought it, but the put it onto tracks and put a loader onto the rubber carrier.
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    S. Madill, Blacksmith, Founded in 1911 in Nanaimo BC

    Nicholson should just about have their first 3800 ready. They started building it January from what I've heard.
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