Thunderbird Yarders, Loaders, and Etc from the Murray's in Eugene Oregon

[furpo]

6355

Nice posts of the 155. It would be neat to see a few more as the project comes along.

Here is another picture of Kiwi Loggers 6355

 

[furpo]

Tty70 - r7091

Here are a few photos of TTY70 - R7091. It is currently parked up at Titans Taupo, NZ. I assume the machine is for sale. It has been sitting there for quite some time. The engine in this one is an 855 Cummins.

 

[furpo]

Psy200 #10510

Here is the PSY I mentioned a few posts back. Unfortunatly it is being wreaked but if it keeps another of these machines alive then I guess it is a good cause. This one would have been built around 1978. It appears that they built about 10 of these per year. This one is a 12V and has a 2 speed twin disk. The most obvious difference is hydraulic pump is mounted further outboard on the 12V as opposed to the 8V. I am not sure exactly when they changed the engines or if either engine type was an option. From what I have noticed the earlier machines had the 12V and the later machines had the 8V.

If anyone has any info on these machines I would appreciate it as I am trying to put a bit of a record together.

Cheers

 

[furpo]

Psy200 #10535

This is a rather unfortunate end for PSY200 #10535. This was built in 81 and had the 8V engine. It is the one of two I have seen on rubber

 

[furpo]

Tsy255-5092

This is another kiwi based 255. It is getting a bit of a birthday and has the skyline drum out.

 

[Murk100]

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Frank Beban Logging Head Bay

 

[Contract Logger]

I dug out all my old literature, pics, build lists, etc and will be posting them here over the next 20 years or so. I have alot more than I remembered, so that's that.

Here are a couple Thunderbird 'BC Series' shovel shots for warmup.

 

[Murrconst]

A little bit of TB history

 

[Murrconst]

 

[Murrconst]

Some might remember this

 

[Contract Logger]

Ross Corp published a magazine for years called 'Pioneer'. I managed to collect and save these as they came to me and have them going back I think to 1983. Here we see the June/July 1989 cover with the article introducing the Thunderbird log loader line and shows the first new Thunderbird 1146- sold to longtime Ross customer Pete Dancer Logging.

Also is a back-cover ad showing Fred A. Moore's new 940.

 

[Murrconst]

Some might remember this

 

[Contract Logger]

Couple more Pioneer pics.

 

[Contract Logger]

A few fun ads from the mid- 1990's.

 

[Contract Logger]

From 1990/1991.

 

[Contract Logger]

Random advertisement pics fom my collection.....

Now save them to yours!

 

[Contract Logger]

Thunderbird TY-90 S/N 9038

TY-90 S/N 9038 was delivered in December 1984 to Griffey Logging of Coos Bay Oegon. It went on to be sold in 1988 to Jensen & Grove of Woodland Washington, who logged on Elk Mountain with it until 1992 or so when Hamilton Logging (Raymond Washington) purchased it and took it North to log around Hoquiam/Grays Harbor. Wallace Rock (Toledo Washington) aquired it for dredging gravel later. It sat at Exit 57 on the West side of I-5 for some time until finally being purchased in 2010by a Canadian firm who is currently dredging rock in Saskatchewan with the machine in February 2011 as I type this.

This picture was taken upon delivery of the machine to Griffey in 1984.

 

[JTL]

Kind of an unfortuneate choice of words for Thunderbird- "IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHERE THE INDUSTRY IS GOING, FOLLOW THE LEADER."
Neat stuff Logger. I would really like to see one of those 1100 RB's. That would have been quite the hoe!

 

[Roadswitcher]

Another Ross Corp brochure pic

Ross Corp shop in Eugene OR from a 1990 brochure. Am curious as to what the facility is used for now.

 

[JeremyM70]

Looks like Pape Machinery is there now.
http://www.papemachinery.com/page.aspx?page=Eugene__Oregon