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Trucks
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This page has the various stories that involve trucking, trucks or have pictures
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- Motor Madness
Weekend
- Saturday, June 7, 2003
by: Timothy W. Shire
The weather was a little less than exciting but Tisdale and its visitors are determined
to make the best of 13º temperatures and cloudy skies.
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- Automated round bale handling
- Saturday
October 12, 2002
An Alberta manufacturer is turning out equipment that allows the pickup of those
huge bales fright from the field and then set them in the farm yard.
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- Yellow Pickup - 1999 Dodge Sport 4 x 4
- Sunday
September 29, 2002
A Yorkton resident from Tisdale stopped downtown Thursday just after noon and his
sharp pickup caught this photographer's eye.
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- Yellow Ford Pickup
- Wednesday
July 17, 2002
A super little classic mid fifties Ford pick up in shiny yellow paint who could imagine
a better ride.
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- Travel Storage
- Monday
June 10, 2002
Remember the saying that you can never have to much closet space, well the same is
true when you go camping with a pickup, you can never have to much storage space.
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- The Struggle
- Sunday
May 19, 2002
With determination farmers are planting the crop of 2002 but nature is showing extreme
indifference to the process.
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- The Belated Spring
of 2002
- Wednesday
April 3, 2002
Ride along on a road to Regina from Tisdale Tuesday as we see drought and a late
spring arrival.
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- Prairie Producer Car Shippers Association
- Monday
February 18, 2002
A new farm support organisation is well on its way to becoming a positive entity
as this press release announces their upcoming meeting in Swift Current.
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- Student Driver
- Thursday
February 14, 2002
Once again its time for a full heavy truck driving course in Tisdale.
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- Shifting Economics
- Saturday
January 26, 2002
What makes money one place loses money somewhere else as we see the alfalfa dehydration
industry radically altered.
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- Bins - Hopes Unfulfilled
- Thursday
December 6, 2001
With winter here the prospects of a new crop year loom ahead as many turn their thoughts
toward spring. Here is one opinion on what we might expect.
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- Old Ford Pickup
- Saturday
November 10, 2001
A look at the classic design of a pickup truck more than sixty years old.
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- To The Bumper
- Monday
October 15, 2001
Just a bit of rain and a vehicle falls through a recent excavation.
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- A Hunting We Will
Go!
- Sunday
October 14, 2001
Mechanised hunting expeditions have become the norm as sportsmen set forth on their
annual trek into the woods. From the look of the machines the dangers to the hunters
far exceed any threat to the moose population.
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- Biiiiiig Trucks
- Friday
September 21, 2001
Bow Mar Sales Ltd. In Tisdale has expanded its stock of heavy metal. This story also
has been set up so you can listen to it if you wish.
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- Airdrie
- Thursday
July 5, 2001
Northern Steel Industries ships six large tanks at once to Airdrie Alberta.
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- Sweet Chevy -
1972
- Sunday
June 24, 2001
GM got in right with the early seventies pick-up, this 1972 is the essence of a great
truck.
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- Greenwater Report For February 23, 2001
- Friday
February 23, 2001
Actually Gerald Crawford made the report last Sunday but it was lost in our email
problem and we were unable to post it until today. This report tells about a truck
accident, fishing observations, comments on casinos and the metal in our coinage.
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- Filling a Vacuum
- Tuesday
January 23, 2001
With talk of attempting to form a wheat marketing cartel grain selling nations are
a long way removed from helping the plight of Saskatchewan farmers attempting to
make a go of it growing the once crown of cereal grains.
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- Fargo
- Friday
January 5, 2001
A reasonable farm truck of its day when a long haul was five miles.
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- Little Clipper
- Wednesday
December 20, 2000
An Alberta Clipper roared through the Southern prairies yesterday but treated us
gently.
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- Saving $11 on 3¢ Worth
- Tuesday
December 12, 2000
Farmers reduce their costs by shipping grain themselves as two farms load malting
barley in Tisdale.
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- The Greenwater Report for December 4,
2000
- Monday
December 4, 2000
Gerald Crawford tells about the wind, birds, mysterious surveying, new snowmobile
trail, Joe Clark and ice fishing.
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- Just Checking
- Wednesday
August 23, 2000
Saskatchewan Highway Transport Patrol goes to work on three sides of Tisdale today
screening trucks.
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- Wood Lots
- Saturday
August 19, 2000
As farmers harvest trees from wooded farmland to create more cultivated land we need
to think about deliberately creating wood lots on marginal farm land.
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- Big Motorhome
- Tuesday
August 15, 2000
Heavy metal comes to the RV world with a large tractor unit being used as the base
for a motorhome.
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- Custom Pickup
- Saturday
July 22, 2000
A photo essay in praise of a pretty pickup.
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- And the Trucks Just Keep On Coming
- Wednesday
July 19, 2000
And coming and coming, we are being overwhelmed with "B" trains and then
some. Stories like this have been told before but must be told over and over again
for us to realise the consequences of in-action.
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- The Greenwater Report for June 26, 2000
- Monday
June 26, 2000
Gerald Crawford keeps us posted on rain fall the golf course, camp grounds, a trip
to Cranbrook and where to get big pants.
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- White Light'n
- Saturday
June 3, 2000
Three Nipawin fellows stopped to refuel in Tisdale on their way to the Dundurn mud
races this weekend.
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- Peeking Through
The Cracks
- Sunday
May 21, 2000
Rock damage and cracks scar the viewing surface of a pickup truck.
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- Demoted House
Leaves Town
- Thursday
May 4, 2000
Replaced house leaves town this morning. We documented the construction of the new
house as it was built, now we see the old house make its departure.
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- Monday's Loadin' Day
- Monday
April 17, 2000
Long haul trucks converge on Northern Steel every day of the week but Monday is special.
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- To the Mountains
- Sunday
April 2, 2000
Stopped at Wakaw to refuel a trio of Hudson Bay snowmobiliers are on their way to
BC to find some snow. This story and more will be posted just after noon today. Thanks
for dropping by.
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- Round Wood
- Tuesday
March 28, 2000
Not completely unique for odd loads but this truck of cores is an interesting load
spotting in Tisdale Monday.
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- The Heat Goes On
- Sunday
February 27, 2000
Tisdale Dehydration plants runs all year round this year. As bails are being processed
around the clock in this busy processing plant
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- To Market
- Wednesday
February 23, 2000
Private custom trucking operations provide needed services to livestock producers.
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- Sylvan Lake Tanks
- Wednesday
February 9, 2000
Northern Steel ships first of contract to Alberta Oilfield. This article has a sequence
of pictures showing the loading process.
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- Lean on Me!
- Thursday
February 3, 2000
Small fork lift decides that it is better to drive then be carried.
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- Daily Grind
- Tuesday
February 1, 2000
The loads of grain, lumber, manufacturing equipment and sundries rumble in and through
the community around the clock.
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- Bottom Out
- Thursday
January 20, 2000
Truck driver discovers limitations of ice bridge on his way to Yellowknife.
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- Pressing On From Houston to Hudson Bay
- Tuesday
January 11, 2000
Two massive industrial loads stop over night in Tisdale on their way to the new mill
in Hudson Bay.
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- Build, Finish, Ship
- Tuesday
December 14, 1999
Monday was the day for the trucks to haul away production from Northern Steel.
Today marks a minor anniversary, this day a year ago Ensign began posting the weather
each day and now by clicking on the weather
log you can go back to a year ago today to see what it was like.
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- The Pickup
- Wednesday
December 8, 1999
A look at a mid sixties pickup truck.
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- Yukon Denali
- Saturday
November 20, 1999
We take a look at General Motor's best vehicle, the "Denali". $63,000 SUV.
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- Following Up
- Monday
July 26, 1999
Keeping up to date on stories from this past week.
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- To Baffin Island
- Saturday
July 24, 1999
Earlier this week we told you about trucks starting to haul off the first four of
the eleven tanks made for the Department of National Defence. Today we take a look
at the second set to begin their journey.
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- Jet A-1 Tanks Go East
- Thursday
July 22, 1999
Eleven tanks start on their way to Northern Quebec and Ontario. Northern Steel
Industries establishes marketing foothold in Eastern Canada.
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- Big Gas Truck
- Thursday
July 15, 1999
Ensign takes a look at the movement of fuel.
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- Gravelled
Streets Get Treatment
- Wednesday
June 2, 1999
The Town of Tisdale had a big truck out applying anti-dust treatment this morning.
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- Bee Moving
- Thursday
May 27, 1999
Part of the process of alfalfa production is dealt with as we see a field just before
it is to be worked up.
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- "They Think
It Was the Truck"
- Sunday
May 2, 1999
Dziadyk family of Alvena loose their house to a fire just about a month ago.
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- To Winnipeg
- Saturday
April 3, 1999
Time for a little travellog, here are some pictures taken along the way between Regina
and Winnipeg on the Transcanada Highway.
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- March Light
- Tuesday
March 2, 1999
Come along on a ride to Saskatoon and back on Monday afternoon, take in the sights
and perhaps gain some insights.
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- Delivery Day
- Wednesday
February 17, 1999
Another day and another two tanks, big ones, ship from Northern Steel Industries.
This innovative and hard working company continues to make 'em and ship 'em.
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- Logging Trucks Southbound
- Thursday
January 28, 1999
Curiousity arises from the flow of more logging trucks through town these ones coming
from the North.
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- Truck Driving School
- Saturday
January 23, 1999
Each year course are conducted to train prospective drivers to handle the big rigs
that cruise around, what's left of Saskatchewan's road system. Courses in air brakes
and actual tractor operation are ongoing in Tisdale at this time.
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- Saw Logs From McKague
- Saturday
January 23, 1999
Last week the question about where the logs were coming from came up and today we
have the answer.
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- Trucks
- Friday
January 15, 1999
A photo-essay of a sample of trucks met at the 4-way stop at the junction of highways
35 and 3 at Tisdale.
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- Hay, Where You
Goin'?
- Saturday
December 19, 1998
West of Melfort a "B" train of cattle feed heading West.
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- Safety Is Their
Business
- Saturday
December 19, 1998
Near Birch Hills we see the Saskatchewan Department of Highways and Transportation
doing their work as they stop a truck for a routine safety inspection.
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- And Then Some
- Thursday
November 26, 1998
More then enough bails and then some as the Tisdale Alfalfa stock pile grows and
grows.
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- About Town Saturday
Afternoon
- Sunday
November 22, 1998
Here is some follow up to stories posted earlier in Ensign plus some pictures of
some developments.
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- .Tanks
- Thursday
October 15, 1998
An oversized load makes its way through town on its way to Northern Steel's plant.
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- Time Marches On
- Tuesday
September 29, 1998
Abandoned farm buildings and their purpose raise questions about the speed of change
in the agricultural scene of today and the future.
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- Best Year Since
86
- Thursday
September 10, 1998
Chupa Trenching & Excavation enjoys summer of steady work as they develop a host
of basements in and around Tisdale.
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- Harvest Valley
- Saturday
August 22, 1998
The pace is hectic at the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool's Tisdale facility with deliveries
and shipping in the midst of harvest.
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- In Search of the Wonders of Old
- Thursday, Jule 2, 1998
A chance encounter with some old trucks on a flat bed at a truck stop poses some
interesting questions.
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- Mobile Homes! -
- Thursday, June 11, 1998
Movement of houses and building on the prairies is considered in this short article.
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