Vancouver Island, BC. Logging at its Best!

[Vigilant]

Go to BC equipment left to rust page 20 posting #287 I think thats the yarder plywoodtop is talking about.

I'm no expert, but that beast appears to be diesel powered. I had it pegged for an old twin-engine Skagit, but that was just a guess.

I knew that Lidgerwood also made steampot sled donkeys, but I was not aware that they ever made anything more recent in diesel or gas-powered machines. Perhaps I need to do some more digging. Thanks.

 

[plywoodttop]

Go to BC equipment left to rust page 20 posting #287 I think thats the yarder plywoodtop is talking about.

yup that's the one...there is also an older donkey carriage right beside it....I think it still has a roof on it too....

 

[Vigilant]

yup that's the one...there is also an older donkey carriage right beside it....I think it still has a roof on it too....

Here is a photo of the last true Lidgerwood tower skidder......

 

[Vigilant]

Besides having a boiler and swinging boom, it also travels on rails, not steel wheels. This is one magnificent beast IMHO. This photo was taken when it was first set up at Camp 6 Logging Museum at Point Defiance Park in Tacoma. I saw it for the first time shortly after this photo was taken.

It now rests in pieces, to be reassembled and hopefully painted, at the Roots of Motive Power Museum in Willits, CA.

 

[Vigilant]

Here is a link to some more Lidgerwood pics, including one of this same machine, Number 3 Skidder, at Weyco's Vail camp, where my Dad was Superintendent in later years.

http://www.pbase.com/rustygrapple/lidgerwood_steel_spar_skidder

 

[69hayes]

You don't realise how big these machines
are till you see those pictures with the crew standing by them

 

[Vigilant]

I heard somewhere that it took 15 men to run a Lidgerwood setting, including setting chokers, powering and operating the machine, working the landing and working the tongs. Longest lengths a Lidgerwood could handle was 65 feet, instead of the usual 80 foot logs, so their bucking costs went up a but, but they apparently made up for it and then some in productivity. I believe that beast weighs right at a million pounds IIRC.

 

[HDX]

Steam from brakes.

 

[ap40rocktruck]

Classic shot of H-17 working.

Now if i can just get steam in scale........

ap40

 

[Sigurd]

Awesome HDX, can i share the pic
Sigurd

 

[WFP1561]

Madill 075 super snorkel getting new power
2 series 50 detriots

 

[WFP1561]

 

[ap40rocktruck]

Nice photos WFP1561! What is the tire size on the 075? Any more photos of the work being done on this 075? Just can never post too many!

Keep going,
Ap40

 

[Blk prince]

HDX,when did you put hood sides on?Are you going to paint the "Playmate" on?Picture is awesome!

 

[HDX]

Sigurd By all means BLK PRINCE Couldn't stand it anymore so I went ahead and made a set of hood skirts up at home and hauled them down to SARITA and put them on!!! I had to use aluminum rivets instead of the copper ones because I cant get copper rivets anymore. Went out to the Martin Mars water bomber base to ask about them getting them still but no luck! Will keep looking because when her and I retire I have to make up a new hood as well as new side panels. When HFS did the rebuild they shortened the hood by 6 inches--3 inches on each end so-- sad as that may be it will get set aside or returned to IPL. Did you happen to notice anything missing on the front bumper??? Now those oversize cable steps will vanish and reappear in the scrap bin. Just gotta get a couple chunks of haulback and spend a little time making the new ones up.

 

[Blk prince]

I did see bumper restored to original-nice work.I see Don Yates in our shop often,I could ask him about copper rivets,what is size?

 

[Blk prince]

HDX,I have line on rivets,need to know size and how many

 

[BTC]

H-17

I'm just looking forward to the day she goes back to her original colours. I have some space on the wall set aside for the occasion.

 

[HDX]

This is the size copper rivets we desperately need.

 

[HDX]

This is the beginning of our latest project. Donor truck has mint frame. Mid-fifties HD will become 1959 dump truck.