expatracer
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the yard is on river rd north delta bc i promise i'll take the camera on monday
Yes the Blue Hydraulic Loader is a Cypress 1825C. Would be 1987 or later as Cypress acquired Chapman Industries in 1987 and rebadged the Chapman 1825 to the Cypress 1825. Of note there is one 1825 on a Madill rubber carrier. It came out new from the old Chapman plant on river road in Delta right around the Chapman/Cypress takeover. I think it was originally an M&B machine and they supplied the undercarriage. I last saw it down the inlet from Port Alberni across from Kildonan about 10 years ago.
For trakloader, Contract Logger and Murk100: Found a couple of pictures of the predecessor to MB's L17, the L11. If I remember correctly these were taken when the loader was clearing right to the new sort at Ferguson Bay. This machine eventually ended up at E&A in Dinan Bay and nobody seemed to be able to figure out how to operate it. From trakloader's video of the L17 on youtube Big Ben knew what to do. Thanx for the L17 videos. I enjoyed them.
I own a 6280 grapple yarder in New Zealand imported it from Canada 2yrs ago. Brought it off don hull and sons contracting in Terrace BC. Love the machine very user freindly and quick yarding...The pictures of these 7280 have me excited any of them for sale??
My 6280 in New Zealand
DBDLS thankyou for taking the time to supply me this info, I tried Al Waugh {Hayes shop boss} 4 weeks ago only to be told they sold all there yarders will try again...
Those picks of the 6280 you put up early in the thread was that a good machine too it looked like one of the early ones built..
Also the 6280 was built before the madill 124 how do they compare either one better than the other?
Murk said a few posts ago that the 6280 was his favourite little yarder, and he's run most of them. That should count for something. I had heard mechanics grumble that the 6280 was hard to work on, but the only one I've ever seen was when I was about 12, so I have no idea. I've always had the impression, though, that Cypress machines were better engineered than Madill. Compare the Madill 143, their attempt to compete with the 7280, it's sour apples to oranges. Where Cypress ran their hydraulic lines in neat steel piping, Madill had a big jumbled mess of hoses. The 124 was built after the takeover by Cypress, so it might be a better machine. Never really looked at one closely. When they got one here, it was parked by the shop for a day with the boom down. You could push on the boom, and lift the rear of the machine by hand! Maybe you could do that with the 6280, too, I don't know.