My photo collection

The scrapyard also had this old P&H hydraulic excavator sitting on top of its scrap pile from the looks of it, it does the bulk of the handling there.

We went on a trip back to Southern Alberta for a friends wedding in July and came back through the Edmonton area before returning to Manitoba largely so I could see if there had been any progress at a new Heavy Equipment Museum so far it only appears they gotten more equipment and had to move it away from the Leduc #1 museum. They don't have a really good website sadly and aren't active at all on Facebook sadly or any other social media which is pretty frustrating.

The Leduc #1 museum had lots of outdoor displays as you can see with a bit of information about pipelining and that kind of thing.

Last but not least is Keith Haddock's very nice looking Bucyrus Erie 10B

Some pretty interesting iron there.

On our long way home we came across this used equipment yard near Vermilion, AB so I took some photos they had some ex-British Army trucks from CFB Suffield an army base in Southern Alberta used by the British Army for training large mechanized forces. Usually known to them as British Army Training Unit Suffield or BATUS.

We made a pit stop in North Battleford, SK along the banks of the North Saskatchewan River found another used equipment dealer and a auction yard to photograph some equipment.

I've spent several years as a Volunteer Firefighter in the past and have been on many grass and brush fires and always wanted to try using a crash truck and found this one by the Hancock Scraper.

Some pictures from my early days as an operator when I moved to Edmonton, AB and everything was booming like crazy roads and subdivisions were being built and upgraded. At the time this Hitachi EX1100 was the largest machine I ever saw at 21 years old. It was being used to dig a storm retention pond in a residential subdivision it was loading Volvo A35's and A40's in two passes usually with I think a 9 yard bucket. The last picture was shortly after it finished digging an underpass on the Whitemud Freeway on the south side of Edmonton my first time encountering 'Big Orange'.

My dad gave me some of his photos from when he was a young engineer working at an Asbestos mine in Northern British Columbia the first few photos are of a small Placer Gold operation where a home made winching device dragged gravel on to a sluice box where water from a creek would wash the gravel. They also used a large monitor to wash down the banks and had a dozer to help with the mine. Dad said they mostly produced large nuggets for making jewlery unlike what you see on Discovery Channel.

Some gold nugget jewellery from the Placer Operation.

Some pictures of the Cassiar Asbestos mining operation high up in the mountains this is of course all shut down now by my dad always talks fondly of it and no he doesn't have any respiratory problems, he said the guys that worked in the screening house were exposed to the fine asbestos fibers as that's where the ore was broken up and screened to size. So here the blaster is preparing for another blast.

All the ore was hauled off the mountain with an aerial tramway.

The last of my dad's Cassiar B.C. pictures. He said when the mine closed the town was abandoned and destroyed pretty much but he enjoyed his time there.

A couple years ago I was driving through Southern Saskatchewan near Cadillac (yes that's the name of the town) I saw this immaculate Northwest Dragline swinging away cleaning out a farmers dugout. Man this guy could operate it was really neat to watch him. I wanted to get closer and talk to him but I couldn't find an entry through the barbed wire fence so I had to zoom in with the camera as much as I can.

These are getting to be rare machines. Found this in my travels as well not sure what the story is on it.

These guys had an interesting assortment of machines Cat's, Case/Poclain, Fiatallis, Michigan etc. etc.

From another little road trip in far Southern Saskatchewan last winter just as a winter storm kicked up I'm going to have to go that way again the roads are terrible (at least Hwy#18 is) but the scenery and terrain is amazing. This P&H hydraulic excavator is probably one of the first I've ever seen.

Few more from that trip.

Another set of pictures from a summer trip we had last summer going through the Bienfait and Estevan, Saskatchewan area where there are a couple large coal strip mines and about 3 or 4 draglines.