Couple of old pictures, of interest........"Red " related !!......more pictures added...and more again

[trucker1]

TD15, Gardiner Maine in 1974! I bet I drove by the machine a couple dozen times that year. From the looks of the photo, he was pushing gravel into the water when they were building the bridge over the Cobbosseecontee Stream, just before the toll booths. I was hauling 40 K of groceries to the north from Portland with a single axle 63 IH R190 with a 467? gas engine in it. That i where I learned to drive with my right foot on the floor all of the time. I was 23, just gotten married and thought I was the king of the road. Good memories.

George

[jeeper61]

13 minutes ago, trucker1 said:

I was hauling 40 K of groceries to the north from Portland with a single axle 63 IH R190 with a 467? gas engine in it.

Where were you delivering? 

[trucker1]

I worked for a grocery warehouse out of Portland that supplied the IGA stores. Trips past that construction site took me to Randolf, across the river from Gardiner, Winslow, Skowhegan, and west to Farmington and Rumford.

George

[jeeper61]

1 hour ago, trucker1 said:

I worked for a grocery warehouse out of Portland that supplied the IGA stores. Trips past that construction site took me to Randolf, across the river from Gardiner, Winslow, Skowhegan, and west to Farmington and Rumford.

George

Pass through that area all the time 

Not to many if any IGAs left

Last one I recall being open was in Jonesport 

[td9bcf180]

TD15B. 407 engine. Great power and torque. Kept pushing until the black smoke rolled and would never give up. 

[Dirt_Floor_Poor]

On 10/5/2024 at 8:46 AM, jeeper61 said:

Not to many if any IGAs left

There used to be some IGA Grocery stores around here. I guess I didn’t realize they had them all over the place. They were mostly small town stores. They started going out 20 years ago. There’s none left around here that I know of. 

[td9bcf180]

1 hour ago, Dirt_Floor_Poor said:

There used to be some IGA Grocery stores around here. I guess I didn’t realize they had them all over the place. They were mostly small town stores. They started going out 20 years ago. There’s none left around here that I know of. 

Even in this part of the world they were quite common. Good store. Haven't seen one in over 25 years.

[jeeper61]

I looked it up and IGA still going!!

I think I saw maybe 6 stores in Maine.

There is actually one 60 miles from me on the edge of the reservation.

I guess if stores are in a good spot and the owner isn’t too old they might hang in there a bit longer.

 

[td9bcf180]

I looked it up here, too, @jeeper61 and there's lots of them in Quebec. Didn't know that. None in this part of Ontario. Maybe Quebec and Maine have the market cornered.

[Howard_P]

IGA stores are independent franchises owned by their operator, not a company store.  Wikipedia says there are 763 locations in 38 states while in Canada they are concentrated in Quebec.

[Ian Beale]

1 hour ago, Howard_P said:

IGA stores are independent franchises owned by their operator, not a company store.  Wikipedia says there are 763 locations in 38 states while in Canada they are concentrated in Quebec.

In Oz too but no connection to yours

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGA_Supermarkets_(Australia)

[Dirt_Floor_Poor]

I only see one IGA left in Missouri. It’s over a 100 miles away from me in a town I’ve never been to. It’s funny what gets brought up in these threads. You never know what’s going to come up. I hadn’t thought of IGA in years. My good friend worked at one while we were in high school. 

[TN Hillbilly]

We have some IGA's around here. As mentioned, all independently owned and operated. The ones that are left are mostly very good stores.

[Tubacase47]

I know of at least out here in Montana; the local one is my primary grocery store.

[Tubacase47]

I see I left out an important word in the previous post;there should be '4' in between 'least & out.'

[mike newman]

...how we have digressed from old IH equipment to chatting about   Grocery stores is surely some seriously curious quirk of oratory......

However, i am well aware of   my  penchant for digression.........

Mike

[Rawleigh99]

I'm with you on that Mike!  LOL

[mike newman]

.......maybe we can get ''back on track '' with a couple of pictures from around 1980...That s a Saturday , by the look of all the    work going on the machinery in a "native ' logging block...in the South Island

Mike

[td9bcf180]

Clark 664 skidder with a screamin 353 Detroit?  Betcha have no need for tire chains in your neck of the woods, Mike.

[mike newman]

...speaking  of slopes...did a fence line down off this terrace...with the D53 Komatsu..

..it was quite steep...again control only with the six way blade on that gradient..

The fence crew were a mite pissed off ...I had left to much 'soft' material on the line..made it difficult to stand up !!!

Mike

[td9bcf180]

On 10/8/2024 at 8:15 PM, td9bcf180 said:

Clark 664 skidder with a screamin 353 Detroit?  Betcha have no need for tire chains in your neck of the woods, Mike.

I hear some sarcasm in your Haha response, Mike.  I did not mean to be rude as I owned one of those screamin Clark 664B's with 353 DD myself (wonder why I'm deaf today).  As for tire chains- you have mountains with snowcaps but is there a merchantable timber line below that where it does snow?  ie. requiring chains? 

[mike newman]

On 10/11/2024 at 12:45 AM, td9bcf180 said:

I hear some sarcasm in your Haha response, Mike.  I did not mean to be rude as I owned one of those screamin Clark 664B's with 353 DD myself (wonder why I'm deaf today).  As for tire chains- you have mountains with snowcaps but is there a merchantable timber line below that where it does snow?  ie. requiring chains? 

......No sarcasm    Mike.....just a  quiet chuckle   thinking about the cost of hearing aids...the  wingeing of my ol' cook about  the constant repetition  of   the  endless various   , daily questions that we face....etc etc due to my apparent ''impaired hearing ''.....

The Clarke was not mine, but was part of the ''crew'' for years, logging...and chains were required, because of mud, more so than snow...

Back to the Detroits....I had two wheel loaders , back in those daze,, a Caterpillar 930    and a Michigan 55B....which had  4/53  Detroit  power plant...On the days that  we had an extra truck driver, somehow, it would be me that ended up loading out all day with the Michigan.....I would fall out of that 'indestructible' loader, ears ringing and find my way into the Falcon Ute.. ..heading for home,   totally knackered.... There is nothing like a Detroit  to help in the age old quest for ''impaired hearing ''...in fact the development of the two stroke diesels, was probably secretly funded by  ''hearing aid manufacturers  ''.......

 

Mike

 

It was light and day difference operating the Caterpillar...

[td9bcf180]

Mike, we (and many other fine members of this forum) could write volumes on the correlation between Detroit Diesels and hearing impairment.  I drove log trucks for a few years with 318 8V-71 DD's and had 353's in skidders plus a 471 DD in a Pettibone loader. I have had hearing aids now for 6 years and the conversations I had with my good Missus prior to that verged on the realms of cold stares and vocabulary unsuitable for these pages.  Simple things, like, when it's 30 below outside in January- she would tell me don't go outside without a hat. I would turn my noggin towards her and with a firm stare ask why in hades would I step outside on a day like this with a cat (that we don't own)?   See where I'm going with this?  Yes, I 100% agree with you- those yellow millipedes with 3 letters were much more enjoyable to operate, acoustics wise.  

[mike newman]

...changed out a front idler on this Komatsu ....also welded up the grapple...tough gong, logging !!

..the idler had been run for long enough to have about a four inch diameter hole...where once were bearings and seals ....

Mike

[just Dave]

If not throwing a track it’s hard to stop progress sometimes. I hope you got a young back around there to pitch in . Must be good to know you still got it a Mate.