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Lake Cowichan Logging Equipment ...Part Two

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Driving towards downtown Lake Cowichan, and spotted a yarder tower sticking up above the trees...pulled in to investigate... What does a grapple yarder do?? Here are a couple videos..

Lake Cowichan Logging Equipment ...Part One

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Driving around Vancouver Island, scanning the side roads and fields for rusty machines. Some people knit socks, some people play golf....I look for rusty old machines to photograph. The video is here... And the photos that go along with the video

Frankie the Forklift Truck

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Several months ago, I photographed and filmed a cool fork-lift truck in Keremeos. Link is here... http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/04/coolest-forklift-truck.html   On a recent road trip to the West Coast of Vancouver Island, I found my second "forklift pick-up truck". It was harder to find great old relics than I thought in those parts. Apparently the scrap steel guys are ruthless in the harvesting of anything left laying around.   I found this gem by cruising up and down the side roads when I got to an area that "felt right". It paid off in finding "Frankie the Forklift" Does anybody know approximately what year that International truck is?  My dear old dad would have a field day with this....saying something like "that was the best use of an International pick-up truck...anything that gets them off the road" Frankie the Forklift was just around the corner from this portable sawmill...I guess that Frankie was th...