RE:RE:RE:RE:WestcoastloggerLada... now there's a memory. I was living in New Westminster in the early 90s. Can still remember when a Lada dealership opened on Columbia St near the Labatt's brewery. I think it lasted maybe a year. From Lada to Tesla... that's a good analogy of what's happened to the cost of living in the lower main land. LOL!
Red_Deer wrote: Hey WestCoast__Basically DO AGREE!!!
But AT LEAST Chinese Stuff is NOT AS BAD as a Russian LADA eh !!!!!
westcoastlogger wrote: The country sold our scrap iron to China for years by the ship load and they run it all through the process and manufacture stuff and send it back. The problem is its no damn good. New equipment like log grapples for 120K and you can take a hammer and knock a dent in it. In a year its wore out and all cracked to $hitt and theres no carbon in it and you cant even weld it properly. Same with wire rope cable. 8 grand for 4000 ft of 7/8 haulback on a grapple yarder and its wore out in a couple months. It never used to be like this when we manufactured stuff like this in N America. Same with tires. Leave them on equipment outside in the sun and weather and in a year they're all cracked to hell. Chinese junk!!