Gorge Harbour Log Dump Activity

De Clarke/ Cortes Currents - Back in December 2021 a significant upgrade was taking place at the Gorge Harbour log dump (East end of the harbour). Heavy equipment had been brought in; grading and filling were in progress and some trees had been cut to widen the access road.

A new all-metal ramp or slide had been installed (for rolling logs down into the water).

And a network of boomsticks had been installed to enclose a floating log dump.

By early February the dump was active. On February 5th a dozer boat was busy herding log bundles into a raft, and a truck was delivering more bundles. An Atco trailer (portable prefab building) has been installed — as office space or possibly a camp — but it appears there’s no Hydro drop yet.

For those who have not seen this operation: the logs are held in a cradle on an articulated truck/trailer rig. The upright arms of the trailer can hinge downward on either side. The logs are strapped together into a bundle while on the truck. When the truck arrives, the driver unfastens the strapping and replaces it with cinches made of steel cable, so the logs are still bundled but now independent of the truck.

The truck is then pulled forward to the dump location, and the shoreside cradle arms are dropped. The driver then uses a handy excavator to push the logs off the truck and onto the ramp, where they skid downward into the water.