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  1. gf beranek

    Not logging necessarily, but some pictures.

    More that one time I stopped the show on a landing just to make sure everyone knew that I was coming through. It gets crazy at times.
  2. gf beranek

    Not logging necessarily, but some pictures.

    Log landings,... icky muddy in rainy season, dry and dusty otherwise. At peak times more busy than a California business interchange. Even in the boondocks. My best advise is to avoid landings the best you can.
  3. gf beranek

    Not logging necessarily, but some pictures.

    Steam. It was a glorious era of industry.
  4. gf beranek

    Not logging necessarily, but some pictures.

    They were practical men.
  5. gf beranek

    Not logging necessarily, but some pictures.

    Imagine packing that sucker on a slope. They used Donkeys. Steam was the means to move everything. It made the work a heck of a lot easier. I'm fortunate to have met, and get to know personally, some of the fine people who worked in the woods and went to sea during the transition from...
  6. gf beranek

    Not logging necessarily, but some pictures.

    Here's a block I found at the Scotia Logging Museum. Hundred years old they said. Heck, I'm 72.
  7. gf beranek

    Not logging necessarily, but some pictures.

    Ha!
  8. gf beranek

    Not logging necessarily, but some pictures.

    Generally I always set a pass-block and line and let the ground crew pull it up. But a few times I did it by hand. Once in a big leaner hanging over a canyon. (Pepperwood Creek, High climbers and timber fallers) When the block left the ground it swung out over the canyon, over a hundred...
  9. gf beranek

    Not logging necessarily, but some pictures.

    I hung a few of those in the trees. Brutal
  10. gf beranek

    Not logging necessarily, but some pictures.

    Thin bark. can't even see sapwood or growth rings.
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