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~ MENZIES BAY DIVISION, LISTENING TO REGIONAL SAFETY DIRECTOR

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“GRAPPLE-
YARDER™
LATEST
INNOVATION

A remarkable number of
inventions and _ innovations

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UNION MEMBERS of the joint safety committee at Men- The “grapple-yarder,” for
P zies Bay pose with IWA safety director Andy Smith during example, is a modification of

pe his tour of the operation. Group left, J. Amos, A. Capen-
ter, D. Sloat, N. Chernoff, J. Bedner, Andy Smith.

the time-tested process by
which logs are hauled from
the point at which they are
felled, to the roadside for
loading out.

Two years ago, work was
started at Nitinat on Vancou-
ver Island, on a system in
which a remotely-controlled
mechanical grapple, in place
of a conventional hand - set
choker, is used to grasp the
log for yarding.

The operator of the yarder
several hundred feet from the
logs, is guided by the hooker
with a walkie-talkie radio, as
he drops the grapple onto a
log out of view from his cab.

Pictures show “grapple-

e LOCAL 1-363 MEMBERS employed at the Field Sawmills yarder” in operation at the
Ltd., Courtenay, are photographed with Andy Smith and MacMillan Bloedel operation,

aa management officials following tour of mill. Menzies Bay.

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