Weyerhaeuser Company Logging Operations

[mitch504]

Why does the gooseneck go up so high,acting like a cabguard maybe?

That trailer started life as an off-road unit, and was set up for a very high 5th wheel. In one of the shots you can see the box they built to adapt the kingpin down.

 

[JTL]

Finished up at the landfill Saturday. Now all that is left is baby sitting the tarping crew and waiting for the hydro seeders to show up tomorrow. So I went for a little drive into the 1300 line this afternoon. Been hearing these guys for the last two weeks on the radio and just had to go have a look!

 

[Vigilant]

Here are a few shots of some of the last lokies to pull logs out of Vail, plus a couple shots of Engine 684, originally from Pe Ell. I never saw 684 in person back then, but heard the engineer on the company radio many a time. It now rests at the museum in Fife. My dad pulled his logs with Engine 493, a 1949 Fairbanks-Morse H10-44. IIRC, it was scrapped in the mid '70s.

http://www.railpictures.net/showphotos.php?railroad=Chehalis Western

 

[JTL]

They have two sides going back in here. Some pretty nice wood, and well suited to shovel logging. Although I would think that a couple 527's would smoke over this ground just as fast.

 

[580bruce]

Get Back Up There When They Seed! please? Bruce

 

[JTL]

Sometime this morning Bruce. I'll get ya some pictures, don't worry!

 

[580bruce]

Sweet!

 

[JTL]

Sorry it took so long Bruce. I have been running like there's no tomorrow getting moved to the next dump job, this time back in Arlington, OR. Heres a couple shots I was able to get.

 

[JTL]

They use these loaders to put fertilizer into helicopters. They pick the 2000 pound bag up with the jib, and dump it into the hopper. They then dump the hopper into the spreader mounted on the chopper.
I'm really gonna miss working over there..

 

[580bruce]

Thanks for the pics! Terra must not have gotten the job?The did a ton of Weyco seeding at one time.I will agree,working up there was a good time! Thanks again,and keep postin!

 

[DiamondLTruckin]

Contract Logger, You'd appreciate these, Here's 2 old Weyerhaeuser Macks that were bought by Clark's Ready Mix out of Jackson WY shortly after Mt St Helens blew. My old man went out to the west coast and drove em home piggybacked. I'll talk with him soon and try to get any more information for ya. Here's a picture he took when he got to their yard, shortly before they got the infamous (to Jackson) red and white Clark's paint job.

 

[Vigilant]

They look like R700s, but hard to tell for sure from that angle. I can't imagine anyone going to the expense of mounting a mixer body on trucks in that shape, especially if they had to retrofit FEPTOs.

 

[DiamondLTruckin]

They could've also gotten a dump bed or been used to pull their bellys or rock tubs. I'll talk to my dad and get the rest of the story.

 

[Vigilant]

Great thread, and could use a bump.

 

[580bruce]

I very much enjoyed this thread too!

 

[Vigilant]

Buck Farack.

 

[johnson]

I wondered where that yarder went!!!?

I dont have the exact SN of this machine (Weyerhaeuser Cosmopolis sold 3 at once and I'm not sure which one went where) but that's where it came from. It's one of the 3.

Kenny Nichols bought this machine and had it parked at Diamond in Chehalis. He put a quickie paint job on it and used STICKERS on the tower tube which bummed me out (never last very long due to lines rubbing and rust), and I figured I'd run across her somplace with half the 'Thunderbird' on the tube missing. Guess I was wrong, stickers seem to be holding up.

Anyway I snapped some pics that day, so heres this machine in 2006 with still-sticky fresh paint (and stickers. lol). I wasnt smart enought to write down the SN (had an impatient woman waiting in the car, and she automatically despises any logging machine visible from the road cause we always end up stopping or going back!):Banghead

Was holding off posting these to the TB thread until I could figure out the Serial Number situation on this rig.

Oh, and yes HCF- we love the pics! Always love logging pics......:drinkup

Unless Reace had more than one TY-90 that is yarder is Y-9064.

 

[johnson]

This is another Weyco rig that wasn't mentioned I suspect this is Y-9061?



I borrowed this pictures from the Thunderbird thread.

 

[ap40rocktruck]

Great photos on all the fabulous equipment. On the KW-Dart 120 log stacker, does anyone by chance have a copy of the sales lit on the beast? I am looking for a scan of it that tells all the specs & has a drawing of it! A good friend of mine & I are wanting to scratch build a few 1/25 scale models of this fascinating machine.

Many thanks in advance,

Ap40rocktruck

 

[PacificEd]

All the Weyerhaeuser operations had private road systems meaning lots of off-highway equipment. All the camps had multiple lowbeds and Longview operation had at least 10 off-highway equipment haulers when the mountaine blew in 1980. Often the trailers were huge- Peerless was the primary manufacturer. Widths ranged from 12' to 16' and once I was traveling up the Kalama River mainline when I met a big Kenworth and lowbed with 2 Cat D8K's on it (yes, 2 on the same trailer). They were loaded one ahead with blade over the gooseneck, and one reversed with blade (raised) hanging out over the ass-end. Each was slightly angled so the winches were actually side-by-side.

In the Longview main office building a big black-and-white picture of this setup hung on the wall in the 1980's. It was inpressive to say the least, and in the pic one of the D8's had a tailhold mast so it looked even bigger!

Sorry for the rant. Here's a pic of a smaller setup at Snoqualmie in 1994. This is a 16-wheel Peerless, fairly long but only about 13' wide.

I noticed in this picture of the C500 with lowbed, that the water tank is between the cab and headache rack. Other KW's and Mack's with logging trailers show the tank behind the headache rack. Were they built both ways or was the truck pictured modified because it pulled a lowboy?