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

[TorkelH]

Hello Kiwi Logger and donkey doctor! Thank you for all that information and interesting facts!

 

[donkeydoc]

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Hello Kiwi Logger and donkey doctor! Thank you for all that information and interesting facts!

noticed the number 44 stamped on lower left hand side of the counterweight/fuel tank/hyd tank/ slip clutch tank on 12244.

 

[jackd]

I had an interesting day riding my motorcycle out in the Cowichan Valley. On highway 18, just east of the turn-off to Youbou, I spotted a Madill grapple yarder working right off the highway - a sight I have not personally seen in 32 years since my days in the woods ended at M & B Sproat Lake Division. Well I just had to pull over and give this a gander. It was a Madill 124 - Y-011 was the marking on it. They were yarding p!ss poles and the operator was taking great care not to bust every log that he grabbed - he would gingerly drag the grapple over the log and go ahead slow to prevent snapping what they now call logs and bring it to the landing. In the old days on the old 044 I worked on we would have probably purposely have smashed this size of timber to prevent the need to waste the fuel to drag it to the landing. How times have changed. It was even a tag line machine - much the same as the old Y-35 that I worked on previously. It was a beautiful spring day and I could see the hooker up in the back end. It sure brought back memmories.

 

[boardbysled]

Madill 6150.

 

[Back choker]

hi torkelh here's some of the 046 pictures before and after the rebuild

 

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[donkeydoc]

046

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ahh, bamterton shop, !

 

[donkey doctor]

Could this be the same 046 machine as in posts 1965,1966,1967 and 1968. These were taken at Duke Pt after this machine had been in Nanaimo shop to be tiddled up and changed from a tracked carrier to a rubber carrier and had been reassembled ready for the barge. Don't remember the year probably in the 80s. I know it was an Interfor machine but don't remember the division. I do remember being told I had more horseshoes up my butt than I deserved getting away with raising the tower that high with no raising guys out and not tipping it over. Young and foolish I guess. d.d.

 

[donkey doctor]

More foolishness!

dd, the 071 and the Apple River bear.

 

[Back choker]

Hey donkey doctor ,that's the machine.great photos ,didnt know it had a track carrier on it before.

 

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picture of the 046 from Vernon camp.the pipe on the yellow one is off this machine.be nice if someone had pictures of that machine in her hey day.holbrook dyson machine I've been told.

 

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tyson creek hydro penstock.046 putting pipe on the hill,biggest pick was 45000lbs skyline was out 2500ft .did it no problem,very impressive machine.

 

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[BTC]

My first job in the woods was setting chokers on that 046 at Vernon Camp in the summer of 1995 in Sheena Pass. I will ask Doug Dyson if he has any pictures of her working I'm having breakfast with him this am.

 

[SPMiller]

the only 122 to come stock with a cat

 

[SPMiller]

Time for a belly rub...

 

[Mike L]

OUCH! how did that happen, and what caused the 2 holes in the windshield?