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PETER QUINAIN’S GOLDEN OLDIE...


Located on the edge of the picturesque Blackdown Hills in


north east Devon at Dunkesell, a vintage Volvo can be found in daily use at Peter Quinain Hardwoods Ltd loading logs onto the cutting bench of the company’s saw mill. The voice magazine was invited to go along and investigate.


Proprietor Peter Quinain has spent a lifetime in wood and much of that time has been shared with his Volvo LM840 which he acquired second hand in 1974. “The machine was originally sold to a company by the name of Stennings who were round timber merchants and also had a lumber yard near Honiton back in 1971,” says Peter. “I acquired the machine from them just three years later as they deemed the machine to be ‘worn out’, but as you can see the machine’s still on the button to this day so I think I got a pretty good deal!”


The original owners certainly put the 110hp four wheel drive loader to the test as besides re-handling all manner and sizes of logs it was fitted with a Reynolds Boughton winch for the purpose of hauling felled trees out of forest and woodland. The winch still remains on the machine today!


The same year that the LM840 was sold to Stennings, Peter formed a partnership – Quinain & Coles, special- ising in round timber haulage in the south west running notably to collect Forestry Commission grown logs in the New Forest and also during the 70’s throughout southern England, loading and hauling Elm trees that were stricken with the Dutch Elm disease back to a


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