"Back in the Day"

[HDX]

Picture in post 357 The Kenworth being dumped. Sure looks like the Kenworth that Garth McLean had down there somewhere Does anybody know what ever became of him or the truck His truck was the last one I saw with the 2x12 plank bolted to the top of the center of the hood. Seeing that picture the truck looked the same

 

[camptramp]

Rob N. Logs being loaded out of Lake Cowichan on to Rail Cars at the Weir , 1928 .

 

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Rob N. Towing float house's on Lake Cowichan .

 

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Rob N. Gate way to Lake Cowichan , Basil Keir Stage driver .

 

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Rob N. Road into Lake Cowichan .

 

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Rob N. Main road to Duncan from Lake Cowichan's Riverside Inn , Governments first holiday 1910 .

 

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Rob N. Victoria Lumber & Manufacturing Company , Camp 8 on south shore of Lake Cowichan , 1937 , unloading or moving giant Willamette Skidder . Steam Skidder's operating during the 1930's and 1940's used skylines 2 inches in diameter and 2500 feet long . These were threaded through huge Carriages , Jacks and Blocks .

 

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Rob N. Victoria Lumber & Manufacturing Camp 10 1937 , not sure but I think this camp was located near where the Lens Cr. M/L leaves the paved road leading from Mesachie Lake to Port Renfrew .

 

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Rob N. Queen Charlotte Island's , Cec Gilchrist 1920's .

 

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Rob N. Queen Charlotte Island's 1920 .

 

[dirty4fun]

Love the old time pictures, thanks Camp Tramp for taking time to share them with us. Some neat old trucks, running on a wood road, track.

 

[old-iron-habit]

Great pictures camptramp. Love the way they tilt the truck to use gravity to help unload.

 

[camptramp]

Rob N. Queen Charlotte Islands 1920's , When I scanned these pictures I was wondering why I couldn't see the Yarder , then I realized the Loading Boom was rigged with a Stump , roots and all for a Counter Weight .

 

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Rob N. Queen Charlotte Islands , 1920's

 

[camptramp]

Rob N. Queen Charlotte Island's , 1920's , The QCI's have some fairly swampy area's , I would guess that at time these pictures were taken building "Plank Roads" also known as "Fore and Aft Roads" was the easiest and cheapest way to get the Timber to the "Salt Chuck". When I first started in the woods in 1966 , the Yarding Engineer was Sid "Skidder" Smith . We had a mid size school bus for a "Crummy" , Sid should have written a book , before we got out of the crummy to go to work in the AM , and at lunch time he would entertain us with tales of his past adventures in the logging camps he had worked in . I remember well his tales of working at Port McNeill for the Pioneer Timber Co. in the mid 1940's . They had "Plank Roads" there and how a fellow by the name of Archie McCone had figured out a "Turn Table" that turned the Trucks around at the Log Dump and in the Woods .

 

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Rob N. Queen Charlotte Islands 1920's , Looks like they are yarding logs with a Skyline , across a setting , then across a lake .

 

[Vigilant]

Camptramp for Presidente! :thumbsup:

 

[Hank R]

Presidente Camptramp, wife will make cupcakes with flags for our leader so he will be #1. First thing every morning I check in here before a coffee even.

 

[Vigilant]

Shameless photograph of our Fearless Leader, El Presidente.

 

[camptramp]

Presidente Camptramp, wife will make cupcakes with flags for our leader so he will be #1. First thing every morning I check in here before a coffee even.

Sorry to disappoint you but I'm currently out of pictures , but I do have some leads , we will see what tomorrow brings . Politics , I graciously decline , with thanks.