History of the Columbia trailer company

[Welder Dave]

Charges laid in Eastway Tank explosion that killed 6 workers https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/eastway-tank-ottawa-explosion-charges-laid-1.6704496

That's scary!

 

[Denis Bourk]

somebody messed up big time, I was around co-workers who were doing that job, there was no source of ignition anywhere near the area and the tankers were grounded. when its very cold and a tank is being loaded and its not grounded, explosions do happen

 

[Denis Bourk]

One shop I worked at the painter had somehow got pinned between the chain link fence and his pick up just before I pulled in to the parking lot. He wasn't hurt and asked if I could back his truck up. I opened the door and almost gagged it stunk so bad of weed. Certainly explained how he somehow managed to get pinned against the fence by his own truck. Easily could have been a lot worse.
Sometimes being a lead hand or even a foreman is a lot worse than just being one of the guys on floor. You get all the flack for everything because you're supposed to get everyone else to to do things right and on time even when there's unrealistic demands from the boss. A lot of guy's don't think the extra bit of money is worth it.

I agree with that, I only took the lead hand role at Columbia -Remtec because the guy I respected didn't want it and to protect myself. I didn't want an asshole for a boss. I ended up baby sitting 25 young guys. coming out of welding school they could not weld Aluminun very well. I set up a training course and the good guys caught on quickly. took a bit longer to get them trained on how to build tanks.

 

[Denis Bourk]

Gon
don't know who built the logging equipemrnt

 

[Denis Bourk]

back in the beginning Columbia used a log for the reach, an old timer told me this. I never saw one

 

[Denis Bourk]

back in the beginning Columbia used a log for the reach, an old timer told me this. I never saw one

Head ache rack looks like 6x6s stacked together

 

[Truck Shop]

't know who built the logging equipemrnt

That's a good photo Denis-I like those old black and whites. Reading your stories--your a talented fellow.
Keep typing.

 

[Denis Bourk]

That's a good photo Denis-I like those old black and whites. Reading your stories--your a talented fellow.
Keep typing.

Thanks I like to tell real stories, I've had a pretty intersting life, I was never bored LOL

 

[Doug1966]

back in the beginning Columbia used a log for the reach, an old timer told me this. I never saw one

Theres a old international with trailer with log reach at the duncan forestry discovery centre.

 

[camptramp]

Wooden reach's were used on logging trailers as late as the 1950's .

 

[Denis Bourk]

Thanks I like to tell real stories, I've had a pretty intersting life, I was never bored LOL

My friend Maurice worked for this company in North Vancouver

 

[Welder Dave]

It makes sense. They used huge logs for making hoists to lift logs and/or log trailers. Lots of log bridges too.

 

[Denis Bourk]

 

[Welder Dave]

Oops

 

[Welder Dave]

My friend Maurice worked for this company in North Vancouver

He might know Diamondtguy on this forum who worked at Pacific for 10 years or so.

 

[Denis Bourk]

Have any of you guys heard of Bre-x the gold mining scam. Columbia-Remtec was building big logging trailers for a company in Indonesia. The GM went there to see what was required. While there he heard something about a gold find few knew about. When he came home he told me, the share price was about 2 bucks. I didn't do anything, the share price jumped past 200 bucks even though it was a scam anyone in early got rich. All I got was a story of what could have of been.

 

[Welder Dave]

Major major scam! I'm sure a lot of people lost a lot too.

 

[Truck Shop]

That middle photo--I knew Ken Goudy.

 

[John C.]

Seems like gold mining is rife with scams. In the late nineties I got a call from a person at the US Securities and Exchange Commission asking me to testify at a trial in a gold scam. A company was building gold separation equipment under one company name and then they created a bunch of shell companies where the equipment was sold into on paper, the price going higher each time. The fake sales went through a couple of transactions and then was sold to a pigeon for big money. It was supposedly inventoried and appraised by an engineer and accountant before the sale. When the pigeon transferred the money, it was found that the equipment didn't exist and the people behind the companies would vanish. The SEC was going after the accountant.

 

[Hayesno1]

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That yellow Mack B81 I shot in Wash. in 1984.