My photo collection

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The Clark skidder belonged to Grant's older brother Mort who passed a way a few years ago sadly. He was a great guy to talk to and had many stories about driving Cat Trains in remote Northern Manitoba and Ontario as well building lagoons, roads, anything else built out of dirt or in our case mud. Sadly I met him later in life when he was cutting firewood for a few local customers in a mostly frozen bog near home. He also had a D7 and a cable scraper. He sometimes would work with is other brothers on larger jobs.

 

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When I visited Mort at this particular place in time he was struggling to harvest any wood as the summer and fall had been quite wet and then it snowed before it froze holding the heat in the ground or errr......swamp, muskeg, loon ****. lol So he started packing down the snow with an old Alpine snowmobile and then scraped it off with his old Cletrac dozer to try and push the frost down but he did break through in a couple spots with the skidder.

 

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Mort and slightly younger brother Wayne worked together on a little road building job outside of my home town Wayne was loading clean fill at the decommissioned town dump site and hauling it to Mort with his ex-army war stock D7G who then built up the road bed. Wayne's old 215 is also the same machine I learnt to operate shortly after high school.

 

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Mort's ex-army D7G pushing in the lousy fill and building a road out of it.

 

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Not all my photo's have a story behind them just sometimes machinery I've found in my travels like these ones. Sometimes old equipment sometimes new equipment.

 

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This Hopto truck mounted excavator is a rare one I found at a farm yard near the U.S. border while exploring back roads last year it was in really good condition as far as I could tell but only the owner's wife was around but I guess they had some kind of electrical business as they also had an old Ditchwitch with a little backhoe and a Scoopmobile loader and some vans advertising the business.

 

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Some Ditchwitch trencher photo's for you guys.

 

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Here is another oddity that was built for the USAF to dig up UXO's I found it sitting at a farm in far Southwestern Manitoba during one of my trips last year most photos I've seen of them in books they had armored cabs and could be operated remotely for obvious reasons but unlike other rubber-tire excavators these used skid-steering.

 

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I came across this wheeled International excavator last summer at a small scrap yard apparently still running fine (whatever that means), just kinda shame that somebody went and welded that thumb on to such a rare machine.

 

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The two piece boom is also quite unusual for Canada as much as it probably is in the U.S.

 

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The scrapyard also had this old P&H hydraulic excavator sitting on top of its scrap pile from the looks of it, it does the bulk of the handling there.