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| David Hull, Cody Hull and Patrick Russell |
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| David Hull showed us around his "toy room" and showed us his collection of toy trucks. |
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| David has an extensive collection of All American Toy Company logging trucks |
Patrick Russell posing below many old All American Toy Company toy trucks |
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| All American Toy Company and Smith-Miller toy trucks |
Some classic Matchbox toy trucks and some old Revell model trucks |
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| Not sure of the manufacturer of these GMC logging trucks |
Sturdi-Bilt dump truck |
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| Not sure of this manufacturer either, but a great looking old Ford logging truck |
David and Cody Hull, and Patrick Russell posing in front of some of the All American Toy Company "Timber Toter's" |
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| Mack Superliner taken near the mill |
These large timbers are about 2" thick and can be up to 85' long. These are used for picnic tables at many of the state parks |
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| Some of the equipment sitting under cover near the mill |
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| Rear area of the steam sawmill showing the sorting area and the honeycomb burner |
More shots of the sorting area |
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| Here I took a bunch of progressive shots of the unloading of one of David Hull's trucks |
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| The truck is unloaded and is on its way to load up the trailer. Then back for another load of logs. |
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| Lots of moss on these trees |
David, Cody and myself followed the truck up the hill. Patrick got to ride in the logging truck. |
The truck had to back up a hill to be loaded |
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| This is about as far as the Kenworth was going to back up on its own power. |
The view from up here was great!! |
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| The trailer gets unloaded and hooked up to the truck |
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Here the Knuckleboom Loader attaches to the Lift bail Assembly to pull the trailer and truck up the hill to be loaded. |
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As you can see in these pictures the trailer did some twisting around as it was pulled up the hill to the loading area.
I now have a better respect for the strength of the pintle hook on the rear of the truck. |
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Link Belt 2800 with Logman processing some of the cut logs |
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| The yarder is pulling logs out of the revene so the log loader can load the truck |
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| The truck is now loaded and the driver pulls the truck away from the loader and secures the load of logs |
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| As the truck starts down the hill, the yarder and log loader arrange the logs for the next load |
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| We arranged with the driver to stop and certain spots as he came down the hill to take pictures. So we were on the CB with him a lot as we came down hill. |
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| Here we are near the mill for some more posed pictures of the loaded truck |
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| I think David told me that this is a 1968 Kenworth logger |
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| A view of the saw mill and the freshly fallen snow on the hills in behind the mill |
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| It is always fun looking through the bone yard around trucks. This bone yard has some great old iron in it. |
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| I got REALLY excited when I saw these old Kenworth loggers. This is almost the exact same model of Kenworth that my Dad drove in the later 40's and early 50's for Decco-Walton. So I was sure to get lots of pictures of these trucks. |
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| Here we see an old 220 Cummins with custom-made headers. David Hull told me that the engine doesn't even should like a 200 anymore. |
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| While I was busy taking pictures of trucks, Patrick Russell was busy taking pictures of Hank taking pictures. |
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By the look on my face, the picture must have turned out okay |
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| Here are some shots of Casey Hull's Kenworth trucks |
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| Various shots taken inside the steam mill. Too bad it was down while I was there. They had a mechanical failure and it was being repaired. |
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| Look at the date on this block of concrete. It reads, "February 1939." That's how old this mill is. |
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| Look at the fine artistic work on the signage on one of David Hull's Kenworth T-800's |
Here is the T-800 that we followed up the hill. The painting on the door was done around the time of the Comet Hale-Bopp flew over North American in 1997, so that it what the them was on this door painting. |
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| Some views of the saw mill from outside |
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Some shots taken of the extreme dimension timbers that this mill produces.
In the photo at the right, I put my lens cap above the large bottom beam so you can get an idea of its size. |
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| In the back area we saw these old "Donkey's" or "Pots" |
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| I just had to get some pictures of this old Chevy that was almost grown over with moss |
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