[Milsurplus] Logging Yarder on M4 Tank Chassis

[Hubert Miller]

A month or so back I posed a question on a couple of radio forums about a Motorola portable, vacuum tube,

FM transmitter-only device, crystaled up on something like 160 MHz. There were some informative and very

interesting replies, but considering the working frequency and the set description - the set has a small microphone,

and no signal button, I think the most likely conclusion came from Geoff Fors:



"The reply with what seems the most likely answer points out that this has a U.S. Air Force contract number,

and that it may have been used with an "aircraft tow team" where someone stays on the plane being towed

and contacts the tow vehicle driver."



So, not logging industry tool.

But it was still interesting to learn about the "Talkie Tooter" and that the firm is still doing business right

here in our Northwest. Coincidently, I found in the discards at the Post Office the September 2020 issue of

"Loggers World" magazine with an article on the history of the "Tooter Talkie" as used in the logging industry.

( Do things 'happen for a reason' ? )  Besides the article, the mag had a mention of a book of humorous logging

anecdotes, which book I found on a bookseller store and bought.



Now as I file this mag in my archive, I made this below scan for general interest on the topics of 'Northwest logging'

and maybe, "WWII". It is a "Skagit SY717 yarder with Eagle Carriage, sitting on the tracks of an M4 tank from World
War 2". "CRD Logging" acquired the machine in the 1980s and the whole thing from WW2 tank chassis to yarder top

is still at work today.

-Hue Miller



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