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Pretty neat, right!?

AWESOME posts and picture, thanks for sharing. Your father sounds like he was a hell of a man.

Without a doubt, it was hard, hard work and I'm sure that it took a toll on the old body after awhile. Does anybody know, who was the oldest high climber before they fazed out and went to steel spar towers? I'm betting that it was Hap Johnson.

That's cool Burnham, did you ever use the big block for hard rigging?

No doubt about it those guys had strength and skill to spare. Still I would have thought that they would have found an easier way to descend instead of dropping down fast the way that they used to do, but I guess that that was part of the high climbers show that went with the job. The other...

Yeah, I LOVE the looks of those old blocks. Those guys were master craftsmen of steel for sure.

What's really cool is that the Young Iron Works company is still in business and making logging equipment. The company is now called Young Corportation. Here's a link. http://www.youngcorp.com/blocks_haulback.shtml

Here's the full 1949 catalog from Young Iron Works. Very interesting stuff on each page! http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/CMPindiv&CISOPTR=491&CISOSHOW=449

I remember when I was a kid, seeing pictures of the huge blocks that were hung from the spar poles during the High Lead logging days and thinking how incredible it must have been working with that kind of equipment. At the time, I had no idea who made these types of blocks, but I certainly...