camptramp
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- Retired Logger Retired Part time pebble hauler
HDX will know for sure but I believe you are correct that it's the trans. cooler. It's an air cooled one so no water lines.Looking at some pictures and this truck caught my eye....Question I know HDX can answer..I can see the rad and I can see the air charge cooler but what is in between them that appears to have #32 lines on it...Is that a cooler for the trans I cant see if it has waterlines on the other side..
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HDX. Too bad you could not drive her home. All it takes is. CCC. Care Caution and Courtesy. You have all of that. Bureaucracy can be such a pain
Ah man.... I wanted to watch that. Oh well... Glad it's outta there.
They had 4 of these HD 450 Hayes's mountainskidder #30 31 32 & 33. I have two of them and Gordie Neva had one.The fourth one is unknown. Don't know what # Gordie's was but I have 30 and 33 or at least what is left of them. They were taken over by Aliford Bay Logging. The 4 Hayes's were made into fire tankers. Sometime later they went to the QC Islands for a while then brought back to Nanaimo and then to the auction.View attachment 171780
Came across this photo from the mid-70s in Ucluelet. This Millstream Timber Hayes was driven by Robert Taron who worked for them for quite a few years. Looks like the truck was spiffed up for the Ukee Days Parade as it seems to be sporting a new paint job. I can't quite make out what I assume to be the truck number out on upper portion of the drivers door. My older sister Stephanie Dods is talking to Robert just before the parade starts. As a teen-aged passenger, I remember riding with Robert in a older and more beat-up Millstream Timber Hayes when the company was taking timber from Grice Bay near Tofino Airport. Anyone know if many of those Millstream Timber trucks survived?... I think they had five or six trucks contracting for BCFP when my family lived up there in the late sixties. At that time, they were dumping across inlet from the MB Kennedy Lake Logging Division log dump and camp. I figure Millstream Timber must have contracted for BCFP until Pacific Rim National Park was established... don't know for sure.
Had her for a couple years now Bumpsteer . Kept her out at the big Cameron Shop Yard because I could take her out on the mainline for a cruise from time to time, but with everything being so unknown, I figured it was time to get her out of the frey. Was at least handy to be able to go out and work on her there but where she is now I can still work away on her. As for the boy's Well they just like to hang out and listen to the old country music on the radio. Good company.Good to see another one safe and sound.
Blacktail deer?
Ed
Thanks HDX. I figured you would know if any of those Millstream Timber trucks were still rolling or parted-out and living on in bits and pieces. Next time I'm in Lake Cowichan I'll have to snoop around to see if Gordie Neva's is still around and if successful, maybe score a serial number for you to confirm if it's #31 or #32. As mentioned earlier in the post, I lived at the MB Kennedy Lake Logging camp from 1966 to 1968 and often heard - from our camp house across the inlet waters - those Millstream Timber trucks barreling down to tidewater with Jake-brakes rattling all the way downhill from the Ucluelet Graveyard through the log dump access turn to the long causeway that took them out on the flats to the dump. Seeing that photo from the Ukee Day parade brought back fond memories. Sorry to wax all nostalgic on you guys. But those were memorable times for me.They had 4 of these HD 450 Hayes's mountainskidder #30 31 32 & 33. I have two of them and Gordie Neva had one.The fourth one is unknown. Don't know what # Gordie's was but I have 30 and 33 or at least what is left of them. They were taken over by Aliford Bay Logging. The 4 Hayes's were made into fire tankers. Sometime later they went to the QC Islands for a while then brought back to Nanaimo and then to the auction.