Any brand log trucks

[Truck Shop]

Detroit's

The shop I worked at took a few of those trucks and replaces the V12

That was a good move-get rid of those 12's.

 

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Brayden Tuck Collection

 

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Ray Livingston Collection

 

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Rob Norman Collection

 

[petepilot]

Rob Norman Collection View attachment 253393

now i`ve seen it all`a solid rubber tired railway. any thing that works

 

[petepilot]

Brayden Tuck Collection View attachment 253198

that little ford looks so out of place

 

[Bumpsteer]

Wasn't going to be a good day if you wandered off the "road".

Ed

 

[camptramp]

now i`ve seen it all`a solid rubber tired railway. any thing that works

There are area's on Vancouver Island and Inlet Valley bottoms that are Swampy . The easiest way to get early Truck Logging access was using " For and Aft " plank roads . Some time around 1910 - 1920 there were logging trucks with hard rubber tires . There is a Republic logging truck restored at the B.C. Forest Discovery Center at Duncan B.C.

 

[camptramp]

that little ford looks so out of place

Swan Neva had several 850 Ford Gravel Trucks of that era , it doesn't suprise me he had one set up for hauling logs. .

 

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Ian Brown Collection

 

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Brayden Tuck Collection View attachment 253391

I was looking at this picture and could see a Madill 009 Steel Tower on left side . I could also see some kind of loading Boom sticking out from behind a sapling over the road . This picture was taken at CZ Nitinat Div. . There was a Contract side working there around the time this picture was taken . I can't remember the name , but they had a one off Madill 009 tower that had a hydraulic loading boom mounted on it . I think that is the one . The down side of it was , you couldn't move the tower to a new setting until the last load of logs was gone .

 

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Rob Norman Collection BCFP Caycuse Div.

 

[donkey doctor]

I was looking at this picture and could see a Madill 009 Steel Tower on left side . I could also see some kind of loading Boom sticking out from behind a sapling over the road . This picture was taken at CZ Nitinat Div. . There was a Contract side working there around the time this picture was taken . I can't remember the name , but they had a one off Madill 009 tower that had a hydraulic loading boom mounted on it . I think that is the one . The down side of it was , you couldn't move the tower to a new setting until the last load of logs was gone .

Ah. The Skadill again! Never saw it but it was a legend around the plant. d.d.

 

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Rob Norman Collection BCFP Caycuse

 

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Rob Norman Collection BCFP Caycuse Div.

 

[Jumbo]

Ray Livingston Collection View attachment 253392

Looking at this reminds me of the story; a bunch of ladies of the era came out to see real honest to goodness loggers at work. Upon watching the second loader brand logs as they were placed on the truck, one exclaimed: "Look at that little fellow with his hammer driving the logs into place with only one or two wacks!"
It is a story I heard years ago, I'm sure it has been around since the beginning of truck logging.

 

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Rob Norman Collection

 

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Bob James Collection

 

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Brayden Tuck Collection

 

[Old Doug]

I would like to drive one of those hard rubber tire trucks with a load to see what it was like back then.