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S. Madill, Blacksmith, Founded in 1911 in Nanaimo BC
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donkey doctor
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I don't remember the date either and I probably set it up. d.d.
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Blk prince
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I will show it to HA. at next morning coffee,think he will remember?
donkey doctor
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He might but then they did pretty much all our hauling for a lot of years. If he's like me it all runs together after awhile. Saw HA today at our retirees breakfast. d.d.
Blk prince
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Really good to hear he went to breakfast. Needs to get away from farm for a change.
donkeydoc
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you could never haul that load on 5 axles nowadays!! things much simpler back then. today you need 7 axles just to haul the cab!!!!!
you could never haul that load on 5 axles nowadays!! things much simpler back then. today you need 7 axles just to haul the cab!!!!!
skadill
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donkey doctor
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i remember these. They were a ball to drive. We nicknamed them the jackrabbit because they went like a scared rabbit. They were on bren gun carriers with I think 5 forward gears and in top gear went like stink. I went around the corner of the shop flat out on the wet cement one day went into a slide and almost hit the wall. Oh to be young and foolish again. 1977 I think. That's my departed buddy Dave in the first picture. Pretty sure that was taken when I was in Yeman setting up the balloon show. They went to the Amazon to a pulp plantation. They built the pulp mill in Japan on barges and towed them across the world and up the Amazon. We also built one on a RT skidder for the same project. As I recall they were 4 drum each driven with a hyd motor. Supposedly they were all 4 main lines as they wanted maximum employment so pulled the line out by hand. Brings back great memories. d.d. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jari_projecthttp://www.cof.orst.edu/cof/teach/fe456/Class_Materials/Speaker Presentation PDFs/FE456_5.09.14.pdf
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Sigurd
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Interesting link there dd, do you have any history on the Yemen ballon show?
donkey doctor
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Here's most of the info I have. The pics on the blue brochure are not from our project but are from either US military or US coast guard testing of the feasability of balloon use. Our balloon never flew any cargo only several test flights with big timber pads that were to be used as dead men for guyline anchors there being no stumps on the beach on the edge of the desert. Our balloon was destroyed on the beach in Dec 1977 and we all came home to wait on a new balloon acquisition. Neve got one . In the end everything was written off as a tax loss and we never went back d.d.
donkey doctor
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A couple more d.d.Shoepeg
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donkey doctor,
I remember you speaking of this project in the past, after looking at the cost of this project and the end results, you think a fly on the wall would have been safe, when the money man got the word.
I remember you speaking of this project in the past, after looking at the cost of this project and the end results, you think a fly on the wall would have been safe, when the money man got the word.
Sigurd
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Thanks a lot d.d. very interesting story, too bad it didnt work out. Must have been great being part of it. Reminds me of my longhaul truckdriver trip from Norway to Persian gulf in 1972 with ships spare parts for the tankers there due to Suez trouble. Great trip specially thru the deserts and mountains with snow...
donkey doctor
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Adventures like that stick with you for life don't they. I was lucky enough to have two of them with Madill. Yeman in 1977 and Borneo in 1980.d.d.
skadill
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donkeydoc
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jack rabbits
i recognize Dave Ns beannie on his head and in the lower right corner of that photo im pretty sure that is you donkeydoc....!
i recognize Dave Ns beannie on his head and in the lower right corner of that photo im pretty sure that is you donkeydoc....!
donkeydoc
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donkey doctor,
donkey doctor
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That could be me but I have no memory of the picture being taken. I would guess some wood was being yarded and if so I was probably setting chokers. Didn't we do some interesting things back in the day. Remember the day you spent sleeping up under the engine on an 044. Ted kept looking for you and we kept telling him he just missed you. You were at the steel rack or the stockroom or the washroom. Good times buddy. d.d.
skadill
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donkeydoc
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madill shop.
very cool photo. no over head crane, no jib cranes attached ti the walls. must be in the infancy of the building, late 1960s` im guessing.
very cool photo. no over head crane, no jib cranes attached ti the walls. must be in the infancy of the building, late 1960s` im guessing.