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    Hayes trucks in the logging industry

    How they looked last September.
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    Pacific trucks in the logging industy

    A mix of P-16s and HDXs seemingly headed for the boneyard at Nanaimo Lakes dry sort.
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    Hayes trucks in the logging industry

    Bit of a tragedy unfolding at the Nanaimo Lakes dry sort. A mix of HDXs and P-16s that came here under their own steam a few months back.
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    Vancouver Island, BC. Logging at its Best!

    Thanks for all the Hecate Straits photos. My understanding was that RivTow was originally River Towing. They may have bought Raake Marine on Harrison Lake sometime in the late 50s or early 60s. Raake Marine had a large floating office/boatshed on the lake when I was small. They later...
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    Vancouver Island, BC. Logging at its Best!

    A couple more tug shots: Chemainus Towing "Titan" in Dodd Narrows. KP
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    Vancouver Island, BC. Logging at its Best!

    I guess tugs are fair game for this thread? Certainly an essential part of the machinery spectrum in the industry. Hecate Straits in Nanaimo Hbr. Not the worlds prettiest tug, but solid and kind of brutal looking. It had just fueled up and idled dockside for a good 15 minutes while one of the...
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    Vancouver Island, BC. Logging at its Best!

    Logging doesn't stop at the dump, though. Tug herding a boom through Dodd Narrows. KP
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    Vancouver Island, BC. Logging at its Best!

    A P-16 captured in the wild up Nanaimo Lakes at the junction between main road and Green River valley. (image can be found on google earth at that location) Pulling a low bed, apparently brought a grapple yarder over from the Alberni area. This was 2009. The Cat with the train is courtesy Jack...
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    Vancouver Island, BC. Logging at its Best!

    Alberni again: KP
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    Vancouver Island, BC. Logging at its Best!

    More of same: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks567p71mxk KP
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    Vancouver Island, BC. Logging at its Best!

    And if you really enjoy listening to an unmuffled Cummins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8dkQox--Ns All from Alberni truck show in 2010. KP
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    Vancouver Island, BC. Logging at its Best!

    From the same time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K8CU1DDzqc KP
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    Vancouver Island, BC. Logging at its Best!

    Look familiar? KP
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    Vancouver Island, BC. Logging at its Best!

    Hah! Welcome to B.C.! Big logs, big wet. KP
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    Vancouver Island, BC. Logging at its Best!

    It was my dad that worked at Pacific, while I was out of the country at university. It would have been in the '75 - '77 vicinity. I recall him saying that he was mainly installing brake systems. He died in '95, so can't double check. KP
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    Vancouver Island, BC. Logging at its Best!

    I don't know. As I remember, all our donkeys looked that way. They started switching to steel spars when I was about 7 or 8 though, so memory may not be reliable.
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    Vancouver Island, BC. Logging at its Best!

    Oops, lost the photos: Ron Phelps on beach at Shelter Point, Texada, 1944. Camp at Pocahontas moved onto boom to be towed up Fraser and Harrison rivers.
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    Vancouver Island, BC. Logging at its Best!

    Absolutely. It was Pretty's Texada, owned by Charlie Pretty from Harrison Mills (brother of Harry & Fenn). They started on Texada in 1944 (photo below of my dad on the beach at Shelter Point, Texada in 1944, building the camp and booming ground which were right where the park is now). They...
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    Vancouver Island, BC. Logging at its Best!

    Hi, new member here. This photo of a donkey heading up the hill on two trucks was taken at Pocahontas Bay, Texada Island. I know, it's not the Big Island, but close enough. Not sure of the exact date, but we moved from Texada to Harrison in the fall of 1953, so sometime before then...
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