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Post by Muleskinner on Oct 26, 2011 11:04:04 GMT -8
Took a jont back home to West Virginia to see relitives and just to look around back in 89'. Took a drive up to where My Mom used to teach school back in the fifties and upon rounding a corner I found the following unit. It was an old United log loader frtom Eugene Oregon, mounted on as Chevy 1 ton truck sitting along the road. I had one shot left on the old Kodak so I got this shot of it from the middle of the road. It was sure strange to find a unit like this made in Eugene, Oregon so far from home, but here is the proof, sitting on the moutain top in Poca, West Virginia where I spent the first few years of my life back in the Fifties.  |
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Post by Ryan Rønning on Oct 26, 2011 15:06:54 GMT -8
Cool. I find west coast logging equipment from time to time back in TN.
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Post by slurrydog on Oct 26, 2011 19:38:51 GMT -8
That is a great story William and is cool to find something from Eugene all the way out there.
Dave
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Post by tufftin on Oct 27, 2011 5:58:47 GMT -8
Appears to be built for a self loading log truck. It's strange, even in the NW at how many log loaders are mounted on truck chassis and used in place of shovels.
Mike
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Post by Muleskinner on Oct 27, 2011 10:48:18 GMT -8
After I photoed it mike I looked at it and thats just what it was made for, a self loader. I know that united made a lot of these back in the early Sixties, late fifties. It just got me that this one would wind up on a mountain top in Poca, West Virginia.
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Post by tufftin on Oct 28, 2011 8:47:09 GMT -8
What was the name of the outfit next door to Gene Whitakers (Whit Log) in Wilber, OR. Wasn't that Ramsey? They built self loaders there for years.
Mike
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Post by Muleskinner on Oct 28, 2011 8:54:01 GMT -8
Yeah Mike it was ramsey. They equiped alot of selfers around here but are gone now. I think Wit-log may have bought them out but I'm not sure. But I do remember the Ramsey unit, was a hefty selfer unit in itself.
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