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I hope this is the right place for these pictures, In 1960 Norm Simmons bought a 1952 Mack off highway truck. This was one of 6 trucks had rock boxes on in the iron ore mines in Quebec, the boxes were removed and truck were then driven out to B.C. and sold for logging it a long slow drive since top speed was only 25 mph. V-12 Cummings, Schiender-Westinhouse torque-converter, 4 speed transmission, plantary gears in rear ends, 16:00 X 25 tires. Norm lengthen the frame 4 ft so he could build and install a logging arch in order to skid logs.
Hank R - very good pics and thanks for posting them.
Does anyone have any recent news on ex-M&B H439 which was sitting in the Elaho Logging yard in Squamish? Has the land been sold off for re-development and the old equipment dragged off to the scrapper? BCCat - are you still up in that area - can you give us an update?
Looking at that big pull of toothpicks in Post 163. Did they bunch those stems with a dozer blade, or winch each one into the stack before they set the choker?
I can not say for sure since Norm is no longer with us. But I would think they were pushed into a pile or at least very close to each other, still a lot of chockers to set. I can not even say how many arch trucks there were in B.C. Norm had 2 and I remember him talking about 5 or 6 more, I have seen pictures of 3 others. When I was young in the 1950's I remember seeing several old army 2 or 3 ton trucks with arches.
They used the arch trucks mostly in the winter, logged around a lake and when the ice got thick enough they came down to the lake and as soon as they had a straight shot at the ice they just gave it to get out as far as possiable. In the spring when the ice left they floated the logs to the mill.
I kind of miss riding up in your area - going to Squamish was always a great relief from the hustle and bustle of Vancouver when I lived there. Is John Langis - who had the Kenworth rock truck and the old Hayes H-110 - still got his yard up behind the town?
Jackd, they are long gone, fella bought them both, the 848 kenworth logger that was down town at Howe sound timber went this spring, also the Euclid 82 -50 , The owner of Howe Sound Timber- John Drenka passed away last fall , the new owners are cleaning up, not much old iron left
John Drenka - I'm not sure who this is. John Langis still alive? He didn't seem the healthiest sort. Or are these one and the same people and I got the names wrong? So the H-439 is gone - shame nobody grabbed some of the bits off of it.
Jackd, John Langis is doing great, just had a beer with him, Known him for along time, Hauled all our antique Caterpillars, Will check out H 439 tomorrow, Ken
Glad to hear that John is doing well - he won't remember me unless he can remember my black motorbike. From what he was telling me back in 2011, he was hoping to sell up his business and head into retirement. I thought he was a bit of a character - lots of good B.S. - very entertaining for a city slicker like me.
H-138? What is this one? They knocked the bush back a few years ago and everything that was hidden, started coming into full view. There were a few Madill 90' pipes and excavator booms laying there. Thanks for looking.