Old Alaskan timber heavyduty equipment..left to rust.

[Blazerteam]

Too expensive freight,and too little value..means it was left to rust.Theres some real cool trucks there.

http://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/showthread.php?17042-Alaskan-Logging-Equipment-Left-to-Rust&highlight=lorain

[moparmaniac07]

Re: Old Alaskan timber heavyduty equipment..left to rust.

Pretty neat. I wonder what it would take to get some of those running, not perfect, but good enough to beat on. If I lived there, I'd sure try. Don't think the owners would care too much.

[Blazerteam]

Re: Old Alaskan timber heavyduty equipment..left to rust.

Pretty neat. I wonder what it would take to get some of those running, not perfect, but good enough to beat on. If I lived there, I'd sure try. Don't think the owners would care too much.

You could start here ;).There is a small population of bears to get used to also..

[Blazerteam]

Re: Old Alaskan timber heavyduty equipment..left to rust.

It would have been cool to attend a swapmeet in cali with this one.. ;D.

[mustang13]

Re: Old Alaskan timber heavyduty equipment..left to rust.

I just heard today that scrap prices are up ;D

BANGshift member KenworthJon is going to have a throbbing boner when he sees those heavy duty KW's, just sitting there rusting. He needs another project truck ;)

I call for a BS members fieldtrip, we'll see how many we could get fired up, and any weapons experts here, will be put on Bear patrol lol.


My pic for saving would be the two (I'm sure there's more of them there) B-81 Macks, they were a rugged piece of iron in their day.

I've never seen cages on excavators, to protect the sheet metal, like the ones on those Liebherr's?

[moparmaniac07]

Re: Old Alaskan timber heavyduty equipment..left to rust.

Pretty neat. I wonder what it would take to get some of those running, not perfect, but good enough to beat on. If I lived there, I'd sure try. Don't think the owners would care too much.

You could start here ;).There is a small population of bears to get used to also..

Bears shouldn't be a problem, I learned how to get rid of them on 'Goldrush: Alaska' on History. Apparently if you kill one of the 300 bears walking around your camp, you don't have to worry about the other 299.

[daved931]

Re: Old Alaskan timber heavyduty equipment..left to rust.

Now I think I know how women feel at the animal shelter.

I want to adopt that equipment and take it home.

[Blazerteam]

Re: Old Alaskan timber heavyduty equipment..left to rust.

Now I think I know how women feel at the animal shelter.

I want to adopt that equipment and take it home.

X2..there where some places like this around here too,but when the scrap prices where high some years ago....well..

[mustang13]

Re: Old Alaskan timber heavyduty equipment..left to rust.

Now I think I know how women feel at the animal shelter.

I want to adopt that equipment and take it home.

Boy!, that is a good reference of how different, yet how the same men and women are.


I wonder if The Discovery Channel would do a TV series on a bunch of web site houlagins saving vintage iron from the jaws of father time and mother nature?

[Blazerteam]

Re: Old Alaskan timber heavyduty equipment..left to rust.

Now I think I know how women feel at the animal shelter.

I want to adopt that equipment and take it home.

Boy!, that is a good reference of how different, yet how the same men and women are.


I wonder if The Discovery Channel would do a TV series on a bunch of web site houlagins saving vintage iron from the jaws of father time and mother nature?

Good idea Jeremy!!.We need a abandoned state..!!!.Alaska maybe..??..lots of place there ;D

[moparmaniac07]

Re: Old Alaskan timber heavyduty equipment..left to rust.

Now I think I know how women feel at the animal shelter.

I want to adopt that equipment and take it home.

Boy!, that is a good reference of how different, yet how the same men and women are.


I wonder if The Discovery Channel would do a TV series on a bunch of web site houlagins saving vintage iron from the jaws of father time and mother nature?

I'd watch

[Monk]

Re: Old Alaskan timber heavyduty equipment..left to rust.

Sweet mother of pearl.........that
is some awesome shit

I can't imagine they couldn't find some
economical way of getting that iron out of
there......given the run up of scrap prices

[Tom Slick]

Re: Old Alaskan timber heavyduty equipment..left to rust.

Now I think I know how women feel at the animal shelter.

I want to adopt that equipment and take it home.

I can't go to the animal shelter. I change the channel when they do the aspca thing. Metal mutt, furry mutt, same thing to me. Give a beaten animal a decent home and watch them learn it's okay to love again, it's as good as seeing an old machine work again... better when it gets right down to it.

I need more room and more money for feed and care of mutt's...

[DanStokes]

Re: Old Alaskan timber heavyduty equipment..left to rust.

And metal mutts! I could spend all my imaginary Lotto winnings on both of those.

That's some cool old iron - but there isn't enough $$ on the planet to drag me to Alaska - I don't DO cold (if I can help it).

Dan

[Barry Donovan]

Re: Old Alaskan timber heavyduty equipment..left to rust.

I remember that thread.

I still wonder about the kw loggers.

if those are 3408s...and talks of scrapping, someone could walk away with a decent chunk just keeping the engines..