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    Alaskan Logging Equipment, Left to Rust

    I was there in 91 for APC. Larry Webster the hook, Dale Coleton the push. Port Camden on a 739 3500' out, logging at least 2000' of it.
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    Alaskan Logging Equipment, Left to Rust

    There is another 90 5th wheel in Petersburg that Ed Brower used right before he went broke 06-07. I always assumed it was from AK Pacific. Phoenix has a self-propelled at the Klawock yard also, It's for sale but they want too much. 98 I was working for Phoenix at Tolstoi, and 99 for AP at Deer...
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    Alaskan Logging Equipment, Left to Rust

    The 737 in Rowan was a slacker, and Frizzel Bros. had one on Klawock mountain also. AK Pacific had 3, 2 self-propelled and 1 fifth wheel. I worked under them all. Crown has Pete Papac's TTY 90 from Washington. The one that Shaan Seet had went down over the cab of the shovel and buckled the tube...
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    Alaskan Logging Equipment, Left to Rust

    Answering your question I never seen the PTY, but it would have been awesome to work under. When I was in Rowan I worked on a 737 Skagit up in Port Camden. They did have an 044 there though- What a monster swing yarder!. I was only 21 at the time so it was all amazing to me. I've worked on the...
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    Alaskan Logging Equipment, Left to Rust

    Wow! Are you talking about those huge triple drum wooden A-frames?. If so the answer is no. So tell me how is it that you know so much about this area? My family moved up here in 74 to False Island for Soderberg, and your knowledge of our history intrigues me.
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    Alaskan Logging Equipment, Left to Rust

    I made a mistake, those logs are actually in Leask Lakes LTF. That wasn't there the last time I was. Cape Fox is a little south.
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    Alaskan Logging Equipment, Left to Rust

    Lets start on the left. This is George Inlet, and is basically the back side of Ketchikan. In fact this is a recent picture, and Evergreen-Alcan is logging, and dumping at The Cape Fox log yard all the way up on the left. If you go over to that raft that's by itself, and then down 6 inches or so...
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    Alaskan Logging Equipment, Left to Rust

    No Mud Bay was done by then. This was APC's main camp until the mill was shut down around 94-95. Alaska Pacific went back in there around 2000. I was in Shelter Cove in 95 for KPC so Klukwan was not there. Johnson is right, they logged all around Ketchikan early 90's. They had 6 towers in a row...
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    Alaskan Logging Equipment, Left to Rust

    In 91 I was working for Alaska Pulp in Rowan Bay or APC, The Japanese owner of the Sitka mill. (war reparations) Klukwan was still operating at that time and this may have been them. I'll find out, the real Alaska Loggers are gone but I've been here for 40 years and can get info. After the axmen...
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    Alaskan Logging Equipment, Left to Rust

    This picture was taken in 1996. I was there tending hook and we put the lines on the machine on March 22. This setting took about a week, and this was the 2nd company- 3rd yarder on this landing. We went to White river after this, and ended up at Long Island that year.
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    Alaskan Logging Equipment, Left to Rust

    I made a mistake on the order of ownership on this machine. After looking at this picture again I am positive that this machine is logging the first setting on the right past Last Chance campground, Control lake, Ketchikan. The original owners of Evergreen Timber were Rick Ludwigsen, Dave Davis...
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    Alaskan Logging Equipment, Left to Rust

    Clinton hurt us really bad. Couple of days ago the 9th circuit in Frisco reversed a lower court ruling and the Tongass is exempt from the roadless rule again! So now fish and game are trying to get the wolf on the endangered species list. Papac and Evergreen are still hanging in there, but I've...
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    Alaskan Logging Equipment, Left to Rust

    http://www.akforest.org/Alaska%20Timber%20Industry%20History.pdf
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    Alaskan Logging Equipment, Left to Rust

    This one is still logging, but I know where there is another that you can get pretty cheap
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    Alaskan Logging Equipment, Left to Rust

    This Machine originally was Ketchikan Pulp's, then it went to Seley, and now I believe Crown Alaska owns it. To answer your question yes it is the same machine, the most powerful machine I ever worked under- 23 years in the brush. I once fully suspended 2- 36' spruce, one 6'8" and the other 6'4"...
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