Would make a great camp. Sometimes machinery got abandonned when the logger was behind on payments and moved it around to prevent repo or just to tick off the guy they owed money to. There is an old PACCAR style Athey tracked log arch back in the central Adirondacks that was hidden, then a state crew with a bulldozer doing trail work hooked on to drag it out but diverted to another project and went out via Cedar River Flow leaving it miles further back in.
I know there are steam donkeys out there still but this is a little newer. I am sure there is more equipment like this elsewhere. I love logging relics
That old yarder will still be sitting there for the next 20 years until enivorment Canada says something. The price of scrap is falling and is falling fast so it would be worth it for anybody to cut that up for scrap.
Would make a great camp. Sometimes machinery got abandonned when the logger was behind on payments and moved it around to prevent repo or just to tick off the guy they owed money to. There is an old PACCAR style Athey tracked log arch back in the central Adirondacks that was hidden, then a state crew with a bulldozer doing trail work hooked on to drag it out but diverted to another project and went out via Cedar River Flow leaving it miles further back in.
LinnTractorNut 3 weeks ago
I love it .I used to visit derelict power stations. I just love industrial entropy.
loatherd 4 weeks ago
put a new engine in it and take it out
tcbsrcs 1 month ago
@tcbsrcs I've been told it has a bad steering clutch or final drive on one side
skadill 1 month ago
Looks like it was built on a old M5 high-speed tracked tractor. Nifty find for both an all war relic and a logging piece.
bishopcorva 2 months ago
Thank you for sharing it, not much like that ever existed here in Maine that I know of. Old dozers once in a while.
jefffafagrandpapa 2 months ago
ghost of the stave, lol!
vagenna 2 months ago
Awesome vid!
oldbuckshot 4 months ago
Great engineering dumped like a broken axe and left to waste...so damned sad!
forkdriver500 4 months ago 5
@forkdriver500 its safe from the cuting touch though so its not all bad
jeremylee99100 3 months ago
Awesome Todd thank you!!! Hopefully some day I can bump into some stuff like this up north
danielmboone 4 months ago
Why leave it there and let it go to pot? Such a shame.
FRUNTCASTER 4 months ago
Just wait until Abbotsford gets the P3 proposal and Stave becomes the drinking water supply, then that old yarder has to come out of there.
69rd96 4 months ago
sherman tracks, awesome video
tractortom401 4 months ago
I just cant understand how company's will just leave this stuff to rot rather than haul it out to re use or scrap
flyingmonkey1993 4 months ago
I've seen that yarder so many times from the other side of Stave and have always wanted to get a closer look.Thank you for sharing,Todd!
JonesDieselPerforman 4 months ago
I know there are steam donkeys out there still but this is a little newer. I am sure there is more equipment like this elsewhere. I love logging relics
Horsefaller 4 months ago
you got a boat todd or did you rent one? if you tried shed get going again
caterpillar941b 4 months ago
That old yarder will still be sitting there for the next 20 years until enivorment Canada says something. The price of scrap is falling and is falling fast so it would be worth it for anybody to cut that up for scrap.
Graveltrucking 4 months ago
Congrats.
clovakid 4 months ago
Very cool old find there!
hoeguy 4 months ago
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awaldegrave 4 months ago
That would be one hell of a piece to restore if you had loads of money
It's a shame they let it rot there.
madillgrappleyarder 4 months ago
first comment, coming from Tizgay Lake logging camp.
gangesexcavating 4 months ago
@gangesexcavating tizgay logging camp?
Moontrucker113 4 months ago
@gangesexcavating thats where I am working out of currently. Tizgay Lake.
gangesexcavating 4 months ago