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    Butler Brothers logging trucks

    Came across these two photos while viewing a Hillcrest Lumber Mesachie Lake photo album recently posted online by Nigel Robertson. I've seen many photos of #36 but this one caught my eye because the cab is different... it's got a sliding door on an extra long cab and the truck is labelled with...
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    Hayes trucks in the logging industry

    Came across these while viewing a Hillcrest Lumber Mesachie Lake photo album recently posted online by Nigel Robertson. Not sure of the year of manufacture of these two old girls... but I think truck number 4 is from the late fifties... a classic! Guessing number 7 is an early HDX and number 4...
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    Butler Brothers logging trucks

    Had another look through this forum and discovered that I had missed that the above MB Menzies Bay photo had already been posted by camptramp on May 20, 2014 in Post #110. So kudos to camptramp for the original post of the photo!
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    Butler Brothers logging trucks

    The good news is that I have touched base with three organizations who wish to preserve the archives. In the meantime, the Butler family will take some time now to choose which organization to select. The difficult part as I see it will be getting the three Butler truck frames from Andy Byrnes...
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    Hayes trucks in the logging industry

    Millstream Timber HD Hayes circa. 1977 - Ucluelet Loggers Sports - Driver: Robert Taron with Stephanie Denis (nee Mountain)
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    Butler Brothers logging trucks

    Thx Truckmodeler... I will check Saanich Heritage Acres out as well. Makes sense.
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    Butler Brothers logging trucks

    That's great Doug1966. I have now contacted all three organizations. Good tips. We'll see if they see the value of preserving these truck archives. Thx again.
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    Butler Brothers logging trucks

    Both good suggestions. I will reach out to BC Forest Discovery Centre right away. Thx Doug1966.
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    Butler Brothers logging trucks

    Hi Everyone... I have interesting news. I was contacted two days ago on March 22, 2023 by a relative of the Butler Brothers named Mike Radcliff who advised me that the existing Claude Butler and Barney Oldfield truck design archives for the Butler Brothers Mark V will need to find a new home...
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    MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. Red & White Iron, Past and Present....

    MB Trailer Sighting - Came across this old Northwest Bay Division trailer with an MB logo behind a Mosaic tractor at the Co-op in Chemainus. This tri-axle trailer number is X95 and I was told by the truck driver that they also have a longer trailer X160 back at the Northwest Bay shops. Still...
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    Looking for pictures of 1960's Northwest log loader

    Just and update on that Northwest Shovel loader at the BC Forest Museum in Duncan. It was purchased new in the mid-60s by Mount Sicker Logging when the Smith brothers owned the company and they logged many years in the Cowichan Lake area on Vancouver Island. Lawrence Smith was the one and only...
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    Hayes trucks in the logging industry

    HDX... these images may have already been posted earlier in the blog... but I came across them while sorting through the IWA archives in Lake Cowichan. I didn't know that H-17... well, they call it 45-115... was featured on a Canada Post stamp back in 1975. What ready peaked my interest was...
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    Hayes trucks in the logging industry

    Here's another image from the Domans file... I think this old girl might be from OB Logging from up mid-coast... they used to contract for Domans.
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    Hayes trucks in the logging industry

    I think Sarge comes around every once in a while... Dave L and Pudge B are retied and still make the rounds. Surely is the ned of an era!
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    Hayes trucks in the logging industry

    Speaking of Hayes COE, thought I should dust off my Domans file to share a pic of #275 circa 1970s. Domans Transport had six or eight of these COEs in their fleet... in fact, I was still loading lumber on these guys back in the early 1980s. And when the scales were closed, I seem to remember...
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