Loaders, Limbers and Roadbuilders.

[John C.]

Also might loggers.

 

[Hank R]

A friend sent to me a few years ago .

 

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[John C.]

We didn't see many of those logging fronts down here. We did build a few of those tilting covers behind the cab. Those cab guards were kind of an expensive joke. I bet that machine weighed more than 100K.

 

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[Tugger2]

Thats the old Ritchie Bros. Yard in Surrey under the Patullo Bridge. It wasnt uncommon to see Dave Ritchie in the crowd getting all the boys pumped up to spend big bucks. Whether you went to buy or just look it was always a great day hanging out there, see guys you knew from way back. No internet bidder pulling the rug out from under your feet ,just a real auction.

 

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I'd like to see that danglehead in action

 

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[Tugger2]

We built some excavator to log loader conversions in the late 80s . A good customer we had was importing Hitachis from Japan and we did the hack n slashing on them. I think we did about a dozen machines of various sizes . widened and raised under carraiges, raised cabs ,built cabs ,straightened booms on some of them. It was good work ,somtimes constrained by the customers demands but we designed and did it all on the shop floor.

 

[Jumbo]

We built some excavator to log loader conversions in the late 80s . A good customer we had was importing Hitachis from Japan and we did the hack n slashing on them. I think we did about a dozen machines of various sizes . widened and raised under carriages, raised cabs ,built cabs ,straightened booms on some of them. It was good work ,sometimes constrained by the customers demands but we designed and did it all on the shop floor.

One of the things I took away from the woods when I quit to go into the electrical trade was the idea that you make, build, invent whatever you need if you have the desire. The word can't just wasn't in the woods vocabulary.