Old Time High Lead Logging Blocks

[pantheraba]

We were definitely NOT loggers. Making that part up as we went along. If it was a game-changer mixup then we got lucky. We did a 2 week stint doing some pretty interesting jobs. Nobody got hurt until headed home. Stopped for gas about half way back and one of the guys opened the hatch on his Blazer. A big slab of pine he was taking back fell out and broke his foot (just seemed mashed at first...x-ray next day showed a crack). Foot broken while getting gas...it's the safe stuff that gets you sometimes.

 

[flushcut]

Some fine rigging Gary!

 

[Eric H-L]

 

[flushcut]

Shits about to get real when you need rigging to set the rigging!

 

[gf beranek]

Yeah, back in the day, when pulling the "big ones", setting rigging to pull up the rigging was standard operating procedure.

 

[flushcut]

Manly shit!

 

[Burnham]

If you are interested in reading about and seeing some fine photography of the tail end of those manly times, you couldn't do much better than getting yourself a copy of Gerry Beranek's High Climbers and Timber Fallers book.

Are you still selling books direct, Ger? @gf beranek

 

[gf beranek]

It's all history now.

How time flies.

 

[flushcut]

If you are interested in reading about and seeing some fine photography of the tail end of those manly times, you couldn't do much better than getting yourself a copy of Gerry Beranek's High Climbers and Timber Fallers book.

Are you still selling books direct, Ger? @gf beranek

Yes Sir I have both editions.

 

[gf beranek]

These images were captured at the Scotia Logging Museum, about 25 miles south of Eureka.

I posted these years ago. How time flies.

 

[cory]

Crazy pics!

I had the same boots as Mrs B there, Hi Tec, good boots for years.

 

[davidwyby]

Where can a fellow see diagrams of the whole setup and how it worked?

 

[gf beranek]

There's a ton of sites on the internet that can tell you everything you want to know.

Though I haven't visited any of the sites for years.

Type "high lead logging" in a search...

 

[Kaveman]

Where can a fellow see diagrams of the whole setup and how it worked?

As well as what Ger said, also search "Steam donkey" or "Steam donkey logging"

 

[Eric H-L]

Saw this on Facebook today.

 

[Kaveman]

That log is light compared to the collective testicular weight atop it.

 

[Tree09]

Where can a fellow see diagrams of the whole setup and how it worked?

Here's a free ebook that goes in depth on rigging them.

Cable Logging Systems by Donald D. Studier, Virgil W. Binkley - Books on Google Play

Cable Logging Systems - Ebook written by Donald D. Studier, Virgil W. Binkley. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Cable Logging Systems.

play.google.com

 

[Kaveman]

Somehow, I just knew Kyle would pop off with something like that!

Thank you sir, I'll be reading that soon.

 

[Tree09]

If you wanna go back even further in time here's this one

Logging, Ralph Clement Bryant.

Logging: The Principles and General Methods of Operation in the United States by Ralph Clement Bryant - Books on Google Play

Logging: The Principles and General Methods of Operation in the United States - Ebook written by Ralph Clement Bryant. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Logging: The...

play.google.com

 

[Eric H-L]

Here's a free ebook that goes in depth on rigging them.

Cable Logging Systems by Donald D. Studier, Virgil W. Binkley - Books on Google Play

Cable Logging Systems - Ebook written by Donald D. Studier, Virgil W. Binkley. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Cable Logging Systems.

play.google.com

Kyle!
You were understating when you said it goes into depth. This is about as deep as it gets!

 

[Tree09]

Yup, did a bunch of reading before i designed my chipper crane thing, i like having a bit of a clue of how it's actually done before i dive into something!

 

[stikine]

Don was a long time logging systems expert with the US Forest Service and Oregon State University. His material is very much relavent today.

 

[Tree09]

Rigging doesn't change much, that's the beauty of it, and stuff from other trades/ industries usually translates very well. I read all sorts of stuff about rigging from the most seemingly random assortment of trades; ironwork, logging, sailboats, cranes, aerial cableways, old school cargo ships, etc. A lot of it is from 100 years ago, but is still as relevant today as it was then, and if you pick up a few things here and there it makes you more well rounded and able to adapt better by thinking outside the box and looking at the privileges differently than you did before.

 

[cory]

Very well said...but did you have to say 'thinking outside the box'?? the ghost of danny boy

 

[CurSedVoyce]