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According to that book the fallers might take a couple days just getting those monsters on the ground .You know a lot of times because of the root flair they had to work them off of spring boards .Can you imagine swinging a razor sharp axe standing on a damned plank bouncing up and down .Lawdy...

I've got a ton of pictures in two books .The Time Life bok called the loggers and endless tracks in the woods .The later shows the development of crawler tractors and the glory days of tractor logging . I've tried to scan pictures from both but they don't come out well . Both of them show...

I've got an old Black and Decker with a racheting trigger .Talk about powerfull .I've also got a 3/4" Milwaukie that could twist an arm off .

I can well imagine after seeing big drill motors of the era that electric saws could flat light you up .

From what I hear they had massive electric chainsaw back then,'48 because there really were not if any gasoline saws that put out enough power to run long bars .Evidently they hauled big generaters up in the woods and plugged them in . If the info is correct those damned electric saws were...

If my guesstimation is correct of about 8 ft diameter and about 18 feet long logs those logs would have been a tad over 8,000 bd feet .The weight says about 44,000 .If that is correct those trucks are massively over loaded . Lawdy the only way to stop one would be to toss out an anchor .

On that size ,there's lot of board feet in a monster log like that .It had to be profitable or they'd have never fell it .

Can you imagine diving into that monster with a crosscut ? I've only used one of those things a few times in my life and I never care to again .I know why they called them "misery whips "

1948,the year I came into this world .You don't suppose they bucked those things with a hand saw?:O

Oh yeah a 15 ton log in a 50 ton lathe .:lol: