“Some are calling it a harbinger of better times for the forest industry. Others consider the first Madillbranded log loader to come off a production line in nearly three years a shot in the arm for a 63-year-old Greater Victoria manufacturing company. Regardless of the perspective, that first $500,000 log-loader currently sitting in the yard of Nicholson Manufacturing awaiting transport to a logging operation in Oregon marks the re-birth of one of the oldest names in coastal logging.”