chris_girard
Treehouser
I remember when I was a kid, seeing pictures of the huge blocks that were hung from the spar poles during the High Lead logging days and thinking how incredible it must have been working with that kind of equipment. At the time, I had no idea who made these types of blocks, but I certainly admired the men who climbed those trees and helped to set that rigging.
Years later, I was reading Jerry B's Fundamentals book and A Tree Story DVD and saw pictures of pull trees being rigged with these blocks (only the blocks were on a slightly smaller scale). I'm pretty sure that Jerry said that these were Young Blocks and that the ones that he used to haul up the tree to set the "hard rigging" weighed over 100 lbs! That's a lot of weight to haul up, if you are tight-lining a job by yourself and don't have any ground help to pull down on a pass block.
Below is a cool link to some of the old time High Lead logging that was done on the Olympic Peninsula during the 1920's-1930's with a setup showing some of the Young Iron Works blocks that were used. Some of you guys may have already seen this info, but I still think that it is so cool.
Check out the size of the block that the rigger is sitting on in the second page of pictures.
http://content.lib.washington.edu/curriculumpackets/logging/index4.html
Years later, I was reading Jerry B's Fundamentals book and A Tree Story DVD and saw pictures of pull trees being rigged with these blocks (only the blocks were on a slightly smaller scale). I'm pretty sure that Jerry said that these were Young Blocks and that the ones that he used to haul up the tree to set the "hard rigging" weighed over 100 lbs! That's a lot of weight to haul up, if you are tight-lining a job by yourself and don't have any ground help to pull down on a pass block.
Below is a cool link to some of the old time High Lead logging that was done on the Olympic Peninsula during the 1920's-1930's with a setup showing some of the Young Iron Works blocks that were used. Some of you guys may have already seen this info, but I still think that it is so cool.
Check out the size of the block that the rigger is sitting on in the second page of pictures.
http://content.lib.washington.edu/curriculumpackets/logging/index4.html