When Loggers Climbed Trees

No disrespect intended, but that sure looks like the hard way to do that!

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Kicking out on that would really really suck...
Cutting each at bole would really really suck.
Damn.. that whole business would pretty much suck.... Thank the tree gods for more modern methods of access....:D
Hats off to the guys like Hap and Gerry that used to have to do it the hard way :thumbup:
 
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I agree Butch. I've always wondered about the climbing ways of the old high climbers. The first Gibbs Ascenders were made in 1965 I believe, and by then the glory days for high lead logging and the climbers that worked on them were for the most part, behind them.

Would they have embraced other forms of climbing such as SRT I wonder?
 
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It's an old time topping saw. Just like a cross cut saw, only smaller.

Butch, where did you find that pic?
 
That looks like a picture of a statue/sculpture.
 
So that Hap fella there, he must have been a straight up beast- you have him limbing the ridiculously massive spruce, you have him climbing and topping in that amazing short film I think entitled "coffee break," or "spar tree," he used to do headstands on top of the spar at timber carnivals...he's like the Johnny Unitas or Babe Ruth of tree men.
 
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Yeah Cory, Hap was an incredible logger, climber and rigger.

My goal is to gather enough info about his life and times and write a story about him someday.
 
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