What to see Vancouver Island / Vancouver

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Not much on the attractions side, but this may appeal to your rusty old equipment appetite. (You are warned, these things have a tendancy to follow people home. Just ask Rob about some Cadillac engines ... )

In the 50s, 60s and 70s, the Madill company in Nanaimo had a thriving business converting M4 tank and M32 ARV hulls into logging tower platforms. Their company colours were an orangey-red. The logging companies are retooling - again - and there might be random Madill machines sitting in random machinery or auction yards. A second repurposing of Shermans was by Finning which now owns Caterpillar. Shorten the chassis by one suspension station, plonk a dirty powerful hydraulic rock drill on a corner and start making holes in solid rock for dynamite.