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| The plane that crashed in the movie (The Edge). |
Waiting to unload the Plane, the Plane, Boss, the Plane. |
Borek Transport, Dawson Creek, B.C.January, 1998. New KW and Tridem sissor neck. |
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| Moving a new camp shack at Ft.Liard, NWT. |
D8R at the Beatton River Airstrip camp. |
Heading out on another rig move, Dawson Creek, B.C. 1998.Borek Transport. |
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| "HELP" I've fallen, and I can't get up. Steam truck rounded a corner to quick at Red Earth, Alberta. |
See if we can get 'im up on his feet again. |
There you go, back on your wheels again. |
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| Campshack and new KW, Ft. Liard, NWT, 1998. |
Petersen Contracting, Moving a 631Cat scraper from Williams Lake, B.C., to Ritchie Bros auction in Vancouver. |
Swanberg Bros., Big sow with drilling rig, bed loaded at Buick Creek, B.C. |
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| My picker truck #207 at Brandon, Manitoba, in 1998 moving a 345Cat excavator. |
Picker truck, tandem jeep, and 16 wheel lowboy, not hauling nothing, just moving it back to town. |
Australia don't have nothing on a "Manitoba Road Train", farm tractor with 4, count them, hay wagons in tow. |
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| Saskatchewan lowbedding company, look real close and there is a 14Cat grader pulling a converter, with a tandem lowboy, with a D7F Cat and blade. Moosimin, Saskatchewan, 1998. |
Marine's new 30ton picker, first job at Brandon, Manitoba. Aubrey (Slobery) Bowers at the controls. |
Haven't got caught yet. |
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| Last load from Manitoba, moving to Fredricton, NB, March, 1999. |
Marine's big ditching wheel, The "Ft. Norman", The Peterkin boys, Al and Keith, rigging it up in Manitoba. |
Part of the Marine Fleet at the Salmon River Lodge, NB. "Chuby Doo's" birthday party, 51, I think, eh Don |
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| Raynald, Me, Dominiq and Wayne on a logging road, just n/west of Moncton, NB |
572 Cat sideboom ready to head for another shoefly. |
Wayne Duncan with a 572 Cat sideboom, I can't see Wayne in this picture,probaly sleeping, eh Marvin? |
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| Banister's 583 Cat or maybe a 572 sideboom beside a 589 Cat sideboom, can I supersize that for you sir? |
"Chief Manywheels" at the controls of a 583K Cat. |
Wayne and his truck, between St John, NB and Sussex, heading for Moncton for another load. |
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| Ron's (ME) truck passing Wayne, he not quite awake yet. |
Me passing Dominiq at Sussex, NB. |
Wayne and Dominiq running neck and neck. |
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| Me, the owner of all these pictures. |
Marvin Bratcher, our ol' dad, Truck Push in the Maritimes job, our other dad, we wont forget him. Kirk McLeod |
Cleaning up the Right of way with the picker. |
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| Billy, my escort and me with a 450 Hitachi, east of Chipman, NB. |
Lots of swamp wieghts to haul onto the line. |
Umm, let's see, 12 loads to haul, 6 trucks to haul with, if I get to load first, two trips and I'll be in town by say noon or 1o'clock, yup that'll work, or I thought it would. Oh well, what the heck,I ended up working untill 5pm, and my brothers were at town by 1:30 pm. Rained out the first round,and Marvin needed 7 loads. |
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| 966 Cat loader and Talbert lowboy,pulled by a Mack with a 460 Mack engine. |
Another 450 Hitachi. |
Just loaded, hook the neck up, tie it down, and put flags on,and we're out of here. |
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| Wayne and I with 345 Cat excavators on board. |
The Marine Fleet in the Maritimes, Fredricton, NB, 1999. |
Moving the Barber Green ditching wheel at the end of the line, November, 1999. |
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| Hauling the Log Forwarders Athey wagon pup trailer. |
Moving on down the line. The Log Forwarder, used in the swamp to corduroy the R.O.W. with logs to keep the heavy equipment from sinking into the muskeg. |
Wayne Duncan and his sleepy Dog (Mack). |
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| Me and my perky puppy,east of Chipman,NB. |
My Mack,Talbert,and a Linkbelt LS98 with a clam bucket. |
Me and Kozimotto (Hunchback from Notre'dame) with a baseball bat in his right hand, in case the Dog got lazy. |
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| Wayne Duncan's "Big Mack Attack" and Talbert lowboy with a 450 Hitachi on deck in New Brunswick,1999. |
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| Lowering in a section of pipe with 1/2 dozen 583 Cat sidebooms, Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline Co. |
Last 2 tractors lowering in. Another good day. |
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