Civilian Sherman Conversion, logging winch tower

Very interesting piece of heavy equipment. I just went mad web searching just now! 

Yes, as mentioned above, the common reference to these are Yarder(s). 

http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=101528

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cupdegrave/3298379309/

http://www.forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=15007.20 http://www.morpac.com/crawlers.shtml

http://www.heavyequipmentforums.com/showthread.php?16539-S.-Madill-Blacksmith-Founded-in-1911-in-Nanaimo-BC

Saw a similar one on a Sherman ARV chasis on the TV Show "Ax-Men".. At any rate, I thought the entire concept of the show stupid for "The History Channel", same as "Ice-Road Truckers"... Seemed to me to make more sense were it shown on "The Discovery Channel", and history was shown on "The History Channel"... However, I digress..

Thought it was called a "Yarder" on that show....

If anyone is wanting to take a crack at building this, I can get photos and  measurements as we have one of these parked as it is no longer in use.  We call them mini-towers as they are usually 60-70' pipes where the usual towers are 90'.  They are mounted on an M-36 chassis.  Another Sherman conversion we have is a tank drill which is based on an M-40 chassis.  These are used to drill rock to build our roads for harvesting.  Drop me a line if I can help you out.

by the way suppressionfire

Go CEC Cougars and get your donairs at Damascus!

Guney,

I checked out your site, tried to comment on it yet I have no Google, Twitter or other account to start one on your site.

Wanted to say excellent model building going on & looking forward to stopping in again.

Back in 97' I had not returned to the hobby of model building, if I had there would be a LOT more DETAILED photographs of the converted Sherman tank.

Being a unique conversion a modeler can take assumptions on the assembly. Its basically a large post like on a ski lift with winches to hoist, winches to use as a live load line and anchor cables. There is large hydrolic reservoirs indicating hydrolics power the winches and may aid in hoisting the tower. Further examination hint a separate motor mounted  to power said hydrolics, most likely in the large box or 'house' where the turret would roughly of been. Also the very large anchor plow or spade on the rear.

Thanks for stopping in to check out the beast!

Yes...Very interesting......

Thats pretty interesting.