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    Skagit Iron and Steel Works, Sedro Wooley, Washington

    Here is some pictures of the Ben Thomas BU199 yarder that I loaded under in the late 70s. I was running a really nice 30B Bucyrus Erie and later a Lima under this same yarder. These BU199s were an amazing machine.
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    Roy Filla Logging 1972 to 1977.

    Did you ever meet my Jack Russell named Woody that rode in my Buncher with me for six years? Finally had to have him put to sleep after seventeen and a half years of faithful companionship, that was pretty hard but he will be remembered forever.
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    Roy Filla Logging 1972 to 1977.

    Warren is living in Cathlamet now, is retired. He has a sailboat that is moored there at the marina. I don’t see him much any more.
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    Roy Filla Logging 1972 to 1977.

    Yep, I really enjoyed thinning. It took a lot of finesse and I always had a good crew. Never a boring moment.
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    Roy Filla Logging 1972 to 1977.

    In 77, some time after the auction, I went to work for Ben Thomas running a 30-B out of Woodland. I hated to leave Filla but had two young kids, was racing motocross on weekends and needed to keep working so we moved to woodland. Lots of memories there but after three years I got into a...
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    Roy Filla Logging 1972 to 1977.

    I never worked with your dad but I do remember the name. I forgot about Dave Murzoin, not sure that’s the correct spelling, but I worked with him and knew him well when he was tending hook for Roy. One of my favorite memories was the Christmas party of 1973 I believe it was. I think it was the...
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    Roy Filla Logging 1972 to 1977.

    I don’t have many pictures, this was my first shovel when I was 19 years old and some of the loads I loaded back in the day. I loaded 33 loads one day with that old beast. I worked with several hook tenders in the early to mid 70s, Jimmy Dean; Richard Tippery; Jim Sabin; Mort Binyon; Buster...
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    Roy Filla Logging 1972 to 1977.

    I started running shovel for Roy when i was 19 years old and at one point around about late October of 1976 i chose to ride out of the Camp Baker area in a log truck, driven by Roger Nixon, that i had loaded. The truck ran off of the road at the Al Wrought park bridge and flipped over landing...
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