S. Madill, Blacksmith, Founded in 1911 in Nanaimo BC

[JeremyM70]

Madill 172 S/N 17205 outside shots 2

And one more pic with some butt rigging ready to go

 

[JeremyM70]

Madill 124 S/N 12428

My first 124 catch with thanks to the great folks at Dahlgren Logging I got to see close up and in operation. They used to have a 120 as well but it was recently sold to someone up on Vancouver Island. I believe it was S/N 12015.

Youtube videos to follow.

 

[JeremyM70]

Madill 124 S/N 12428 more pics

Very tight landing on state DNR land here, with very short yarding distances thru a gully. They were using a MSP carriage with the block hung across the road into the landing, so trucks and me had to wait until the line was tightened until they came thru.

 

[JeremyM70]

Madill 124 S/N 12428 inside pics

And a couple shots of the inside

 

[donkey doctor]

Nice pics, thanks for posting. By the date of manufacture of the 172 I can tell would have helped build it. Good to see it being so well taken care of. Regards D.D.

 

[JeremyM70]

Thanks DD. Was a fun road trip. Should I have looked for your signature somewhere

 

[donkey doctor]

No. I wasn't that far up the chain. Just one of the grunts on the shop floor or crawling around in the mud and gear dope. We all took great pride in the products we produced tho and are happy when we see some still working and being taken care of. Sadly too many have gone to the scrap yard. Hundreds of man hours reduced to scrap metal is not a pretty sight to someone who spent their life building and repairing machinery. Thanks again foa the pics. Regards D.D.

 

[TorkelH]

dahlgrens Madill's

Great pictures Jeremy, know you would like to see the 124!
The 120 was correctly 120015, here's couple of pictures of it. Persons is from left - Pete, Erik, Rikardas and Torbjørn (travel companions of me)

 

[KW850&T800H]

One of a kind 071? (Look at the tank it's on)

 

[KW850&T800H]

A trailer mounted 009.

 

[KW850&T800H]

Another 071, and a 009.
And one more picture of the trailer mount 009.

 

[Hallback]

Most 071's were mounted on the sherman tank UC.

 

[donkey doctor]

The first 3 or 4 071s were built on Terex tractor carriers. There was then a bunch built on tank undercarriges. We then went to a fabricated carrier using the same cross drive, trans, bogies and tracks as the tank carriers but were fabricated from 3/8 plate and not 1 1/4" armor plate as the tank carriers were. I worked on almost every 071 that came out of the Nanaimo plant and delivered a very large number of them. Thanks for posting all the pictures of them. Glad to see so many still out there especially the really old ones. I would really like to know what the machine in the background in the 4th pic post 1069 and 1st pic post 1071. I'm wondering if is the one and only "1400" that we built that went to Yardstick Contracting in Sparwood. I delivered it and went back to work on it only twice and then lost track of it. Any info would be much appreciated. Regards D.D.

 

[KW850&T800H]

The first 3 or 4 071s were built on Terex tractor carriers. There was then a bunch built on tank undercarriges. We then went to a fabricated carrier using the same cross drive, trans, bogies and tracks as the tank carriers but were fabricated from 3/8 plate and not 1 1/4" armor plate as the tank carriers were. I worked on almost every 071 that came out of the Nanaimo plant and delivered a very large number of them. Thanks for posting all the pictures of them. Glad to see so many still out there especially the really old ones. I would really like to know what the machine in the background in the 4th pic post 1069 and 1st pic post 1071. I'm wondering if is the one and only "1400" that we built that went to Yardstick Contracting in Sparwood. I delivered it and went back to work on it only twice and then lost track of it. Any info would be much appreciated. Regards D.D.

That's a small yarder (as you know), I believe it's mounted on a modified Timber Jack. The company logo picture:

 

[TorkelH]

Madill 1400

The small yarder in the background also catched my interest, here's the same machine pictured on the brochure cover!

Is the 009 trlr mtd the same as you published pictures of earlier? Did you get some serial number off that one? It's also interesting with serials from both of the 071's.

 

[DBDLS]

Terex mounted 071's

In 2003/2004 I spent alot of time working in the Northwest area of Oregon. Florence to Astoria as Weyerhaeuser had just aquired all that Willamette ground out there.

Stan Baller was logging a sale way up in the back-end of the Trask River country (20 or so miles East of Tillamook) using an early Madill 071/Boman carriage combination and loading with a Madill 2800B log loader. The Trask River drainage was full of active logging operations at the time and it was common for 7 or 8 yarders to be working up one road system. Lots of log trucks and all the time going too fast. That Trask road isnt the best for truck traffic either!

Many of the earlier Madill 071's were mounted on Terex 82-30 and 82-40 crawler setups. This was great due to the fact that a transmission (with reverse even) was standard on the Terex and the Madill tank mounts usually only had torque converters. The Terex machines had a real yarding speed, travel speed, and mobility advantage over the tank machines.

As a person who likes the somewhat more obscure pieces of equipment I'm wondering if anyone has any more info on the Terex mounted 071's. Post #725 in this thread has some pictures of one of these machines. I'm wondering if D.D. or TorkelH or Contract Logger or anyone else has any more info on these machines... brochures, specs, comments on performance, are there any of these machines still operating?... etc. I know that Contract Logger has mentioned that some 009's were mounted on Cat D9 undercarriages for work up in Alaska and I would have thought that the Terex mounted 071s would have been popular with loggers who had difficult terrain or who wanted a compact yarding machine. I suspect pricing drives a lot of decision making and that probably was the case here. Any comments would be appreciated. Thanx, DBDLS.

 

[KW850&T800H]

The small yarder in the background also catched my interest, here's the same machine pictured on the brochure cover!

Is the 009 trlr mtd the same as you published pictures of earlier? Did you get some serial number off that one? It's also interesting with serials from both of the 071's.

You know, if I knew it was a Madill, I would have gotten all the information. I will when I'm back there in September.

 

[Kiwi Logger]

Got snowed out yesterday which only happens every few years , managed to get into the crews this morning so took a few pics before the crew got there, the 12v71 a little sluggish winding over when it is 0 degree C!!!

 

[furpo]

Neat photos

I wish I had my camera on me yesterday. We are at a similar height to the desert rd. In the snow I struggled to see the backline digger.

 

[JeremyM70]

I have uploaded some videos of the 124 to youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/jjeremyryy