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Maui 2008

The below photos were taken by Martyn Morgan in 2008 while on his honeymoon with his new bride, and he was extremely generous in allowing these photos to be posted here. HC&S (Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company) is Hawaii's largest raw sugar producer, and looks to be its only one as well, since Gay & Robinson (Kauai) closed their operations & mill in 2008. Lower-priced sugar products from the Philippines and Central America have been steadily chipping away at Hawaii's sugar industry over the past 30-40 years or so, leaving HC&S as the sole surviving sugar producer in Hawaii.

HC&S Cat 7738 Haul Truck with empty Sugar Cane Trailer

HC&S Cat 7728 Haul Truck with loaded Sugar Cane Trailer

HC&S Cat 7728 Haul Truck with loaded Sugar Cane Trailer

HC&S Cat 7728 Haul Truck with loaded Sugar Cane Trailer


HC&S Cat 7728 Haul Truck with loaded Sugar Cane Trailer

HC&S Cat 7728 Haul Truck with loaded Sugar Cane Trailer

HC&S Cat 7728 Haul Truck with loaded Sugar Cane Trailer

HC&S Cat 7728 Haul Truck with loaded Sugar Cane Trailer


HC&S Repair Shops

HC&S Repair Shops

HC&S Repair Shops

HC&S Repair Shops


HC&S Repair Shops

HC&S Repair Shops

HC&S Repair Shops

HC&S Repair Shops


HC&S Repair Shops

HC&S Repair Shops

HC&S Repair Shops

HC&S Repair Shops


HC&S Repair Shops

HC&S Kenworth C500 6x6

HC&S Kenworth C500 6x6

HC&S Kenworth C500 6x6


HC&S Kenworth C500 6x6

HC&S Kenworth C500 6x6

HC&S Kenworth C500 6x6

HC&S Kenworth C500 6x6


HC&S Kenworth C500 6x6

HC&S Kenworth C500 6x6

HC&S Kenworth C500 6x6

HC&S Kenworth C500 6x6


HC&S Kenworth C500 6x6

HC&S Kenworth C500 6x6

HC&S Kenworth C500 6x6

HC&S Kenworth C500 6x6


HC&S Kenworth C500 6x6

HC&S Kenworth C500 6x6

HC&S Kenworth C500 6x6

HC&S Kenworth C500 6x6


HC&S Kenworth C500 6x6

HC&S Kenworth C500 6x6

HC&S Kenworth C500 6x6

HC&S Kenworth C500 6x6


HC&S Kenworth C500 6x6

HC&S Kenworth C500 6x6

HC&S Kenworth C500 6x6

HC&S Kenworth C500 6x6


HC&S Kenworth C500 6x6

HC&S Lowboy Trailer

HC&S Lowboy Trailer

HC&S Lowboy Trailer


HC&S Lowboy Trailer

HC&S Trailer

HC&S Trailer

HC&S Trailer


HC&S Volvo with loaded cane trailer

HC&S Volvo with loaded cane trailer

HC&S Ford dump truck

HC&S Tracked Cane Planters


HC&S Tracked Cane Planter

HC&S Cane Dozer
   

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Kauai 2005

The photos below were taken in Kauai in May 2005; the only remaining sugar mill on the Hawaiian islands was the Gay&Robinson mill (processing for C&H, or California & Hawaii Sugar Company), which would later shut its doors in late 2006 or early 2007. The Gay&Robinson sugar operation had taken over certain assets & employees of the Kekaha Sugar Company after that company shuttered around 2001. Cheap labor and lower production costs in Central America & the Phillippines finally got the better of Gay&Robinson.

This is a sugar cane planting tractor, which drops cane seedlings and irrigation drip lines

Side view of sugar cane planting tractor operating on Gay&Robinson property

Another side view of planting tractor

Side-rear view of planting tractor


A newly-sown sugar cane field

A better view of a sugar cane tractor planter

A better view of a sugar cane tractor planter

Sugar cane being harvested & loaded into trucks for the trip to the sugar mill


Side view of cane haul truck

Sugar cane is bulldozed up from the ground & piled in mounds, awaiting loading into the cane haul trucks

Bulldozer used to dig up mature sugar cane stalks

Look at those massive root rakes


Rear view of dozer

Rear view of another dozer

KW C-500 6x6 Water Truck (Gay&Robinson)

Front bumper & suspension of KW C-500 6x6 water truck


Front bumper & suspension of KW C-500 6x6 water truck

KW C-500 6x6 Water Truck

KW C-500 6x6 water truck transfer case & driveshafts

KW C-500 6x6 water truck transfer case & driveshafts


KW C-500 6x6 water truck transfer case & driveshafts

Peterbilt 6x6 (Gay&Robinson)

Peterbilt 6x6 (Gay&Robinson)

Peterbilt 6x6 (Gay&Robinson)


Peterbilt 6x6 Water Truck (Gay&Robinson)

Peterbilt 6x6 Water Truck (Gay&Robinson)

Peterbilt 6x6 Water Truck (Gay&Robinson)

Peterbilt 6x6 Water Truck (Gay&Robinson)


Peterbilt 6x6 Water Truck (Gay&Robinson)

KW 6x4 Sugar Cane Haul Truck (Gay&Robinson; taken at old Kekaha Sugar Mill)

KW 6x4 Sugar Cane Haul Truck (Gay&Robinson; taken at old Kekaha Sugar Mill)

KW 6x4 Sugar Cane Haul Truck (Gay&Robinson; taken at old Kekaha Sugar Mill)


Derelict sugar cane planting tractor & miscellaneous equipment around the Gay&Robinson property

Derelict sugar cane haul trailer & miscellaneous equipment around the Gay&Robinson property

Derelict sugar cane haul trailer & miscellaneous equipment around the Gay&Robinson property

Derelict equipment around the Gay&Robinson property


Abandoned Kekaha Sugar Mill

Abandoned Kekaha Sugar Mill
   

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Kauai 1996

I took these photos around the Kekaha & Amfac Sugar Mills while on vacation in April 1996, originally shot with a Minolta SLR. I have had these photos digitally scanned from the original negatives. This sugar mill closed its doors around 2001 and its assets were purchased by the Gay&Robinson sugar operation (photos above).

Unloading sugar cane from haul truck at the Amfac mill

Amfac Sugar KW 6x4

Amfac Sugar KW 6x4

Amfac Sugar KW 6x6 with lowboy trailer


Amfac Sugar KW 6x6 with loaded trailer

Amfac Sugar KW 6x6 with dump trailer

Amfac Sugar KW 6x6 with loaded trailers

Amfac Sugar Peterbilt 6x6 with loaded trailer


Amfac Sugar Peterbilt 6x6 with loaded trailer
     

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Maui 1996

I took these photos around the Pioneer Sugar Mill while on vacation in April 1996, originally shot with a Minolta SLR. I have had these photos digitally scanned from the original negatives. This sugar mill closed its doors around 2000 and its assets were purchased by various overseas companies (I was told mainly Central American & Phillipine sugar companies).

Ex-military 5-ton 6x6 tractor

Ex-military 5-ton 6x6 tractor

Ex-military 5-ton 6x6 maintenance truck

International Paystar 5000 6x6 Lube/maintenance truck


KW heavy-duty 6x4 tractor

KW heavy-duty 6x4 tractor

KW heavy-duty 6x4 tractor

KW heavy-duty 6x4 tractor


KW heavy-duty 6x6 haul truck

KW heavy-duty 6x6 haul truck

KW heavy-duty 6x6 haul truck

KW heavy-duty 6x6 haul truck


KW heavy-duty 6x6 haul truck

KW heavy-duty 6x6 haul truck

KW heavy-duty 6x6 haul truck

KW heavy-duty 6x6 haul truck


KW heavy-duty 6x6 haul truck

KW heavy-duty 6x6 haul truck

KW heavy-duty 6x6 haul truck

KW heavy-duty 6x6 haul truck


KW heavy-duty 6x6 haul truck

KW heavy-duty 6x6 haul truck

KW heavy-duty 6x6 haul truck

KW heavy-duty 6x6 haul truck


KW heavy-duty 6x6 haul truck

KW C500 water truck

KW C500 water truck

KW C500 6x6 flatbed


KW C500 6x6 flatbed

Oshkosh J-Series 6x6 maintenance truck

Oshkosh J-Series 6x6 maintenance truck

Front Drive Axle


Front Drive Axle

Front Drive Axle

KW C-500 6x6 with lowboy trailer

KW C-500 6x6 with lowboy trailer


KW C-500 6x6 with lowboy trailer

KW C-500 6x6 with lowboy trailer
   
       

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