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"Back in the Day"

HDX

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camptramp building in post 259 was the "GREASE PIT" building The shop was just to the right out of the picture Man that goes back to a different time for sure
 

camptramp

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The warm land on Vancuver Island
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Retired Logger Retired Part time pebble hauler
Bob J. Wakemon Sound 1962-1963 This camp was a Beban Logging camp before M&B took it over Beban Logging is still on the logging truck door . The loading boom has a cracked log , so another log is lashed to it to finish the setting.scan654.jpgscan655.jpgscan656.jpg
 

camptramp

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Bob J. Wakemon Sound A loader loading with tongs from a wooden tree , stump to dump first four pictures. The last picture looks like loader with a shovel front with an air tong on the end of dipper stick loading from a steel tower.scan657.jpgscan658.jpgscan659.jpgscan660.jpgscan661.jpg
 

camptramp

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Our friend Toby Hird has arranged for us to borrow some photos of Sooke ,Langford Logger the late George Seaton's , from his family. The first one is Seaton's pole yard ,in Langford it appears to be in the general area of where the Legion is on Station Rd.scan834.jpg
 

camptramp

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The warm land on Vancuver Island
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George Seaton at Coal Cr. west of Sooke. Second picture 1939 International 1941-44 , third picture rigger Sturdee Arden in rigging up spar tree 1941-44scan837.jpgscan838.jpgscan839.jpgscan840.jpg
 
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