Vancouver Island, BC. Logging at its Best!

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Gordy I. Munns Lumber , Picture #1 T-101 at the Mesachie Lake shop with a load of Heli-wood . Picture's #2 & 3 T-101 pulled over on 19 Creek with a load of Heli wood from Tom's Cr. .

 

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Sigurd: 60 Series Detroit Diesel seem to be very popular along some scattered Cummins N14's and ISX's. I think if you went far enough back most trucks were using Detroit Diesel 12V-71's, then when people wanted more power (probably started pulling adverse grades) the turbocharged 12V-71T and Cummins K19's became popular. There are still a lot of the K model Cummins and Detroits kicking around but most repowered trucks I see around Campbell River are 60 Series powered. Hope this helps.

 

[DBDLS]

Sigurd She has a Cat C15 550 HP engine in her. She came new in 75 with a 12V71N 431 HP GM and in Sept 1980 while turning around at Spencer Log Dump the key dropped out of the camshaft on the right bank and dropped into the timing gears!!! That put an end to that right there. The Shop decided that she would be a good candidate for the 3408 install. Mike Murphy had already been doing this down at his new Sarita Division Shop with huge success. He was using the 3408 Pre-lcup model 450 HP whereas Franklin went with the Direct Injection model. I liked the pre heater on the precup engines but the direct injection was without a doubt a nice starting engine without it. So for 22 years she was powered by that and when Hayes Forest Services took us over in 2003 she was rebuilt to their standards and had the new C15 installed. The nice thing about them was they have an excellent jake brake whereas the 3408 never had an exhaust brake or anything like that so it was nice that way! The C15 has been a very good engine from a drivers point of view Good power good fuel mileage . The only real complaint if there was one would be the exhaust manifold. For some reason Cat has problems with their exhaust systems. With the C15 it is the wraps on the manifold and the old 3408's was the exhaust elbows on each side. With the 3408 I never got the exhaust temp over 900 degree's where the C15 is running at 1200 degree's all day long. It will turn a new chrome exhaust pipe blue in a matter of days. However that is a small matter -- one you watch for. We have a few 60 series Detroits and some N14 Cummins. The C15 is by far the most popular for our work environment.

HDX: That comment about Cat having exhaust problems is quite interesting. Just had a chit chat with a Finning mechanic here in the oilsands and he said the common problems with the 797 haul trucks are the electrical system, fuel injectors and the exhaust system. Gotta love a company that is consistent.

 

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Gordy I. Munns Lumber , T-104 and T-109 parked at Munns Chemainus Yard , the sight of Domans old Mill yard .

 

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Gordy I. Munns Lumber ,T-101 hauling Cat 235 Back Spar Hoe , on Fleet M/L at 22km corner on way from Clapp Cr.

 

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Gordy I. Munns Lumber , Gordy's "Quick" hook up Log Rigging . And Freshly painted Aspen Lowbed Booster . Can you see front of HDX in picture .

 

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Gordy I. Munns Lumber T-101 at Timberwest's Shoal Island DLS with a load of Heli-wood from Toms Cr. . Jeff MacLeod in picture is along for a ride .

 

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Gordy I. Munns Lumber T-107 with a nice load at 6.5 on Butler M/L .

 

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Gordy I. Munns Lumber Lee House with Self loader KWT-102 pulling lowbed T-101, with EX 450 Hatachi on board up Rithet Cr , on West /Sooke Lake M/L (8km) hill .

 

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Gordy I. Munns Lumber , " Chunky " Dave Oxley in #T-109 short logger at Junction of Walker / Jordan M/L .

 

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Gordy I. Munns Lumber Chris Warran in "Fever" a 1997 378 Peterbuilt on the Bear M/L

 

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Gordy I. Munns Lumber , Glen Hay loading LT-101 with a 370 Hatachi log loader , on Walker M/L .

 

[KPhelps]

Hi, new member here.

This photo of a donkey heading up the hill on two trucks was taken at Pocahontas Bay, Texada Island.
I know, it's not the Big Island, but close enough.
Not sure of the exact date, but we moved from Texada to Harrison in the fall of 1953, so sometime before then.




The driver in the reversed truck is Ron Phelps, with (I think) Frank Furness standing beside the truck.

 

[Blk prince]

Welcome aboard. Always nice to see all pictures. It stirs someone's memary.. memory

 

[Vigilant]

Always a pleasure to see a new member. Is there a reason for the sled being so unusually long?

 

[camptramp]

Great picture KPhelps , so much history and so few camera's , check out the thread "Back in the day " for more pictures of that era . Do you know what outfit owned it ?

 

[KPhelps]

Great picture KPhelps , so much history and so few camera's , check out the thread "Back in the day " for more pictures of that era . Do you know what outfit owned it ?

Absolutely. It was Pretty's Texada, owned by Charlie Pretty from Harrison Mills (brother of Harry & Fenn). They started on Texada in 1944 (photo below of my dad on the beach at Shelter Point, Texada in 1944, building the camp and booming ground which were right where the park is now). They logged out of there for a few years and then moved across the island to Pocahontas. When they left Texada in 1953 and moved back to Harrison the company became Premier Logging. They logged on Agassiz Mountain out of a camp about 3 miles down the river from Harrison Lake, and later opened camps at Bear Creek and 20 Mile on Harrison Lake as Pretty's Timber. In 1960 the purchased a division at Hope from the Corbett brothers, along with about 20 miles of the Kettle Valley railway grade (starting at Othello) that they turned into their main haul road. My dad (Ron Phelps) was logging manager of Premier and Pretty's Timber until he quit in 1964. As the smaller companies in B.C. were destroyed over the next decade or two, they became a glorified contractor and eventually disappeared as the family died off. That's a fairly condensed version.

My dad subsequently bought a camp at 30 mile on Harrison Lake from Ward Snider and Curly Chittenden, sold that and bought a P9 or P10 to work on the clearing out for the Revelstoke Dam. After that, gypo logged and in his semi-retirement (read: putting me through university) worked at Pacific Truck for a couple of years in the mid seventies.

Roots.

KP

 

[KPhelps]

Oops, lost the photos:

Ron Phelps on beach at Shelter Point, Texada, 1944.



Camp at Pocahontas moved onto boom to be towed up Fraser and Harrison rivers.

 

[KPhelps]

Always a pleasure to see a new member. Is there a reason for the sled being so unusually long?

I don't know. As I remember, all our donkeys looked that way. They started switching to steel spars when I was about 7 or 8 though, so memory may not be reliable.

 

[camptramp]

Great pictures , great history if you got more keep them coming .