TD-25 backspar apx. 1978 CZ Nanaimo Lks. we used these before someone came up with the idea of using excavators...
A page or two back there were some pics of some old railroad Iron. Heres the web site for the Tacoma WA. Point Defiance park, Camp 6 display.
http://www.camp-6-museum.org/c6.html Enjoy, Fred
Still more to come...
Howdy again.
Nice to get some more info on those Macks although it varies somewhat with time and place it seems. I had coffee with Tom Turner yesterday and we talked a bit about them too. He remembered you visiting he claimed.
We both think that only 26 were built and while originally 12 went to M&B Menzies they later got another one so had 13. Husby had six when I worked for him in 1986. Irving Olson had two, Thompson had one and Tom wasn't sure who had the others. He rebuilt three of them for MB at his place when they were changing the cabs on them. I remember Tom and MB Master Mechanic Ron Gunn going roundy-round on those things too. MB Menzies had two or three different types of cabs built on them over the years as I recall. One CL-350 fell off the road somewhere over near Zeballos and remains there to this day Tom recalled and another was wrecked elsewhere. He thought the one Butch Carrol has is an old MB truck but wasn't sure.
I should tell you that Tom and I go back nearly 48 years now as we met in 1962. His brother Len (RIP) used to date one of my sisters way back when.
Anyway, while I did work a number of different places I never thought to take pics of them and the machines I bought parts for so it's really a treat to see all the neat ones you guys post here.
I'm not an avid fan of heavy equipment in the same way some of you obviously are but I always enjoyed watching them work and had lots of respect for the men who operated them too.
Some guys just seemed to have a natural talent and I remember a guy named Mel Schimenoski who went from being a Greaser in the shop at Gold River to operating the new Skagit SST grapple yarder (Side 6) when it arrived in 1968. It was different from the old towers with their levers and frictions and all that and Mel just had the right feel for it. Later, when we bought a Washington Skylok tension yarder which was operated totally in a different manner than the old friction machines, the rep who came with the machine told us that it was easier to train a green guy to run that machine than to take an old operator and convert him. The old operators kept looking for pedals and frictions that weren't there he said.
Anyway, I wish I'd paid more attention to some of the machines I saw but the nature of the job of Warehouseman means you learn and/or know a little bit about a lot of different things rather than being an expert in any one thing.....for the most part.
I can still recite most of the part numbers for a lot of truck parts off the top of my head though so it did help to have a decent memory and a good head for numbers I guess.
Nowadays my wife claims I forget everything.
Dunno why that is though. LOL
Thanks again for your pics and vids.
I really dig them.
Take care.
Murk100: Just thought you'd like to know that I had the chance to meet the brothers that owned the 124 in the picture. Some of the nicest people I've had the chance to meet. They loved that machine and I think it broke their hearts when the pine beetle forced them to put it in the auction. As far as I know they still own a Madill 120 and it is the last grapple yarder left in the northern interior. Keep those photos coming. I'm crazy for grapple yarders and line loaders. Too bad it took me so long to figure that out.I saw a few pics of the Madill 6280 in here somewhere. I'm not positive on this! but this is how I think it played out. The 6280 was traded in on a new 124 from a company in Chetwynd BC here they are. I believe Ted Leroy Truckings 6280 went swimming with the Wales at Robson Bite allthough he may have had more than one 6280:my2c
"Logging at its best" Well mabey not at the moment ..On the upside the equipment is available to take photos ...these shots were taken near Campbell River ..Eight grapple yarders all within about a mile of each other.
"Logging at its best" Well mabey not at the moment ..On the upside the equipment is available to take photos ...these shots were taken near Campbell River ..Eight grapple yarders all within about a mile of each other.
I saw a few pics of the Madill 6280 in here somewhere. I'm not positive on this! but this is how I think it played out. The 6280 was traded in on a new 124 from a company in Chetwynd BC here they are. I believe Ted Leroy Truckings 6280 went swimming with the Wales at Robson Bite allthough he may have had more than one 6280:my2c
This one?
This one?