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HD 5/6 AT THE 2013 REDWOOD REGION LOGGING CONFEREN |
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AC Mel
Orange Level Access Joined: 23 Jan 2010 Location: N.Ca. Points: 1101 |
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Posted: 23 Mar 2013 at 1:11pm |
OK GUYS, Here's a recap of the fun time we had talking AC orange to visitors at the Redwood Region Logging Conference in Eureka, Ca. a week ago. It was obvious to us that if there would have been awards we would have been "BEST of SHOW" (no bias here). AC Crazy and I discussed the status of deteriorating AC tractors in and around the area that were sure we should save (and yes were on it). Met and visited with Jack Demartini, a Eureka local who has a huge collection of models,buckles sales literature and brochures. He shared with us brocures from ATECO MANUFACTURING relating to all the products they made for AC equipment blades, rippers etc. The HD 5 has an ATECO blade ( I have his info if someone would like to contact him). Met a gentleman whose father had been a catskinner for our father back in the 1950s. The tractor that he ran at the time would have been an HD14 with a winch. I know I'm forgetting a contact that I met relating to our New Zeland, Austrailian, AC forum friends (my brains on overload). Also I noticed that my file manager is almost full of pictures. Can you get more space? or do I have to delete past stuff (hate to do that)
Ok, so if you want to put a face on the names it would be (L) Mel Ford (C) Kevin Core (R)Dave Ford. Kevins grandfather Frank Core bought the tractor new in 1952 and used it for logging and other projects. Kevins mother donated the tractor to "THE ALLIS CHALMERS COLLECTION" of REDWOOD VALLEY GRAVEL PRODUCTS and everyone that follows the AC forum knows the rest of the story. Kevin is the advertising manager of the Loggers World publication, (a really cool magazine related to logging and log trucking) you need to check it out http://loggersworld.com The chainsaw carvers are extremely entertaing to watch as they carve this stuff out of a piece of redwood log, using 4 or more different size chain saws and then finishing off with a dremel type tool. Most of the items they carve in the first day are auctioned off at the dinner fundraising banquet with the proceeds being used for education and other projects that the RRLC helps sponsor and they sell other carvings they have done also |
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Unit3
Orange Level Joined: 17 Oct 2009 Location: NC Iowa Points: 5529 |
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Great looking crawlers, I wish that someday my picture could be taken holding a fish that size, and I never knew that CAT made a truck?
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JohnCO
Orange Level Joined: 11 Sep 2009 Location: Niwot Colo Points: 8992 |
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Wow, quite a show. Nice looking AC's and that old IHC truck in the background is cool too. Thanks for posting!
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"If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer"
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CAL(KS)
Orange Level Joined: 18 Sep 2009 Location: Chapman, KS Points: 3786 |
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i think all that is left to do is shine those blades up, on video!! nice work
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Me -C,U,UC,WC,WD45,190XT,TL-12,145T,HD6G,HD16,HD20
Dad- WD, D17D, D19D, RT100A, 7020, 7080,7580, 2-8550's, 2-S77, HD15 |
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AC-12G
Bronze Level Joined: 26 Dec 2012 Location: ROCHESTER,WA. Points: 3 |
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THKS MEL
VERY THOUGHTFUL OF YOU JERRY KIRSCHLING
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orangeman
Orange Level Joined: 12 Sep 2009 Points: 1745 |
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Mel: Beautiful photos of your HD-5 and HD-6 Machines.
Thank you for the recap on the logging conference. AC put out a small pocket book on Logging that is very interesting. Are those Carco winches on the back of the 5 and 6?
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DMiller
Orange Level Access Joined: 14 Sep 2009 Location: Hermann, Mo Points: 30715 |
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Not to seem out of place JohnCo, that is a MACK truck in that photo, they had a odd emblem in the grill as the radiator is at the firewall.
Cool pics of two great little crawlers, thanks for these recaptured heirlooms Mel. |
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jnicol6600
Bronze Level Joined: 02 Jul 2011 Location: Sullivan Co. IN Points: 174 |
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Boy that brings back some memories. Back in another lifetime i ran a timbco with a head similar to that deere feller buncher.
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JohnCO
Orange Level Joined: 11 Sep 2009 Location: Niwot Colo Points: 8992 |
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DMiller, you are right, I just remember seeing an IH truck with the radiator behind the engine and thought it was one of those. On second look it's easy to see it's a Bulldog Mack, just like the ones sent to Europe during WW1. Interesting that a French company, Renault, bought Mack.
Back in the late 1970's I was in the logging business cutting beetle kill ponderosa pine in the mountains above Boulder. I remember reading Logging World and wishing we had trees like you guys do west of us. A tree that made over 300 bd ft around here is considered big! Doubt if I could drag chokers up the hills like I did half a lifetime ago. |
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DonDittmar
Orange Level Joined: 15 Sep 2009 Location: MIllersburg, MI Points: 2479 |
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Yellow Internation.........I mean CAT truck in the last picture
POS either way you look at it. All in all looks like it was a pretty nice show.
Nice job on the resto on the 2 dozers
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Experience is a fancy name for past mistakes. "Great moments are born from great opportunity"
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Lazyts
Orange Level Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Location: Manitoba Points: 627 |
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Would love to see a restored HD11.
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