The Old Daze....

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I'm glad I wasn't there!!! :rockon:
 

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Wonderful pics! It all looks like too hard work for this sissy, I might have sold lemonade. One thing, those guys sure could use an axe. I marvel at how clean the wood is from their chopping.

That horse in the tree is so darn cute!!
 
Whole lot of sweatin' going on. I wonder about those loads with just a couple of horses also. Maybe it was all downhill.
 
I've heard that when they fell those old giant sequoias that they would quite often bust apart. I wonder if it was ever economical to take them down when you had plenty of smaller trees to take?
 
Neat thread Butch!
I've always wondered how they could stack the wood so high and neatly!
I was watching "Axes" on the History channel the other night, a guy droped a 24"ish tree with a double bit axe (my choice) in 36 min. It was fun to watch.
 
Excellant pics of the early days . I have basically the same pics in a book called "The Loggers " which was published by Time -Life a few years ago .

Another nice book is "Endless tracks in the woods " which covers the days of tractor logging mainly in the PNW and shows a lot of old growth stuff .

I may be mistaken but I believe that picture with those two Belgian horses and that massive piles of logs shows what still today is record amount ever moved by horses . If so that record was set on ice in either Wisconsin or Minnisota .

Which would be worse,to be a logger back then or a horse ?
 
What's with those old loggers, not a one is wearing an ounce of personal protection equipment....if only they knew. There had to be a lot of serious injuries, all the weight handled with the most primitive of equipment. Give them credit for a lot of bravery.
 
Cool pics, but I wish they would have left the big trees alone.
 
There was probably a big tree right were your house is, or possibly your house is made from a big tree, or possibly you wipe your butt with a big tree, or........ You see where I'm going with this right?
 
the samoa cookhouse here has alot of old tools in its museum of logging,
west coast gtg climbers should check it out as well as hansens truck stop they have a collection of old logging pics for sale,
 
I second that! Samoa cookhouse woul be a geat place to have breakfast wih the crew........ family style!
 
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