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Looking for pictures of 1960's Northwest log loader
- Thread starter kz29
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mountainskidder
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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 operator. And as I understand it, when Smith brothers sold Mount Sicker Logging to their employees, the line loader was donated to the forest museum because the new owners into the second growth and were going for juice log loaders. That Northwest machine still fired up when it was time to move it from it's initial location near the highway in front of the museum entrance to where they walked it over to the big field across from the locie sheds overlooking Somenos Lake. I also know the every couple of years Lawrence would take his kids up in the bush to the log loader and together they would give it a fresh coat of orange, black and white paint. Turns out it was a summer family outing that his kids enjoyed. Sadly, Lawrence Smith passed away yesterday on November 14th after a long battle with MS.