Logging Equipment- Dead at Mt. St. Helens!

[Vigilant]

Take a look at the old KW fire truck toward the bottom of Page 21 of the McMillan-Bloedel thread. I swear, this looks like the same old ex-Weyco fire truck that was parked out in fromt of a small building not too far from Mt. St. Helens when I was out there in 1995. Can anyone shed some light?

 

[JeremyM70]

Madill 009 #227 and D8 #517 at Coldwater Ridge part 1

Last July I went up above Coldwater Lake to check out the yarder, cat, and fire truck that was left up their by Weyco after the 1980 eruption of Mt St Helens. Guess I never got around to posting the pictures. So here we go.

 

[JeremyM70]

Madill 009 #227 and D8 #517 at Coldwater Ridge part 2

More of the same

 

[JeremyM70]

Madill 009 #227 and D8 #517 at Coldwater Ridge part 3

Even more pics

 

[JeremyM70]

Madill 009 #227 and D8 #517 at Coldwater Ridge part 4

and some more

 

[JeremyM70]

and some more

in picture 3 you can see a firetruck that got blasted off the landing and over the hill, its about in the center of the picture.

 

[JeremyM70]

Madill 009 #227 and D8 #517 at Coldwater Ridge part 5

Part 5

 

[JeremyM70]

Madill 009 #227 and D8 #517 at Coldwater Ridge part 6

And one final picture of a notched stump below the landing

 

[dirty4fun]

Some really good pictures thanks for taking time to share them. The power from that blast is just unimaginable.

 

[TorkelH]

And one final picture of a notched stump below the landing

That was some really cool pictures! I add them to the Madill collection under 009/Weyco 227! Looks like you found lot of other stuff in Oregon too!

 

[JeremyM70]

That was some really cool pictures! I add them to the Madill collection under 009/Weyco 227! Looks like you found lot of other stuff in Oregon too!

Thanks was a great hike up to see them, been wanting to get up there for years. Then it took me a year to get them posted.
I have higher resolution pictures Torkel, we just need to free up some room on the Dropbox. I have had a great trip and got to spot a few yarders as well. Caught a TBird swing yarder on a landing from a distance today while hiking, too far away to determine model though.

 

[akroadrunner]

I don't think that tube section would be from our tower unless it got moved. We were logging just below Hanaford Lake on Schultz Creek. We could look right at the water fall coming out of the lake, and you can see that in the pics of our tower wadded up. We were in the draw and that tower section looks to be on a ridge. Our equipment was some of the first to be salvaged in that area. The road was pushed in that summer. Dad's insurance company sent someone in and salvaged the stuff while he was in Alaska. He was beyond pissed. They got the old TD24 fired up and used it to drag stuff onto trucks. The brand new TD20 got rebuilt. Everything else scrapped. The fire truck is still somewhere down Schultz Creek I believe. The cutters Chevy crew cab was scattered across the landscape.

 

[ACcrazy]

This is a very moving thread. Thank you all for the pics and personal stories. A little late but my thoughts and prayers to you folks who lost family and friends.
I was 14 when the eruption happened and remember having ash settle here.

 

[JTL]

Took a drive up the 504 to have a look around the mountian for the first time. Had my old dad with me and didn't get the chance to go exploring off the highway to far, but still had a great time. What an amazing area. Can't wait to go back up and do some more exploring later on.

 

[JTL]

After work today I went for a drive up the South Fork. Finally found the road I was looking for after the first 6 pack was gone! So, please allow me to ask, in this picture of Castle Lake, where is the GT5?
Its a long drive from Castle Rock up here, but well worth it! Just bring more 'soda' than I did. Lots to see, and plenty of elk to see. Heading back up there in the morning to have a un-rushed self guided tour.

 

[JTL]

Opps, forgot to insert picture. DUH!

 

[JeremyM70]

Opps, forgot to insert picture. DUH!

Nice picture! I think it's on the bottom left side, I couldn't spot it either when I was up there last summer either. I think it must be too grown up to see it from the road now. Looks like a rough hike down there and a killer getting back up.

 

[JTL]

Went back up there today. Even through the bino's I couldn't spot the GT-5. There are some big ol' logs floating in that pond! Thought I could see whats left of the 009 over on Coldwater Ridge.
I'm with you Jeremy. I'm not much on hiking on ground that is almost as flat as the inside of a well! The uphill ain't to bad, its the downhill that destorys whats left of the cartlilage thats left in my knees.

 

[Contract Logger]

I don't think that tube section would be from our tower unless it got moved. We were logging just below Hanaford Lake on Schultz Creek. We could look right at the water fall coming out of the lake, and you can see that in the pics of our tower wadded up. We were in the draw and that tower section looks to be on a ridge. Our equipment was some of the first to be salvaged in that area. The road was pushed in that summer. Dad's insurance company sent someone in and salvaged the stuff while he was in Alaska. He was beyond pissed. They got the old TD24 fired up and used it to drag stuff onto trucks. The brand new TD20 got rebuilt. Everything else scrapped. The fire truck is still somewhere down Schultz Creek I believe. The cutters Chevy crew cab was scattered across the landscape.

No, you're right. That would be too far below the lake. I wonder what that tube came off of then? Lots of gear in there, I guess maybe it could even have come off a scrap truck bombing down the gravel there. There are pieces of scattered iron all over that country.

 

[Contract Logger]

Went back up there today. Even through the bino's I couldn't spot the GT-5. There are some big ol' logs floating in that pond! Thought I could see whats left of the 009 over on Coldwater Ridge.
I'm with you Jeremy. I'm not much on hiking on ground that is almost as flat as the inside of a well! The uphill ain't to bad, its the downhill that destorys whats left of the cartlilage thats left in my knees.

That GT-5 is in the box canyon right at the head of the lake. I hiked in there last with a group in 1994 and things were growing up good even then. We always parked up high on the 3000 road and went down into the abyss. What a miserable hike that is. There's alot of good stuff in there, including an old blown apart Euclid C-6 on the way down. The Cat D8 and Kenworth fire truck are up the hill a bit from the yarder. The shovel and another yarder (still upright and rigged) are underwater now.

That whole canyon was felled and bucked prior to the eruption and all those logs are still laying there. The timber in that canyon was BIG- still is, just laying down now. And the log decks line both sides of that road high and long on both sides. Big, old-growth fir and cedar mostly. Lots of one-log loads came off that hill in the years prior to the eruption.

Here are some shots from that 1994 trip. The fell-and-bucked timber on the hillsides is big.