The Old Daze....

[MasterBlaster]

I'm glad I wasn't there!!!

 

[woodworkingboy]

Wonderful pics! It all looks like too hard work for this sissy, I might have sold lemonade. One thing, those guys sure could use an axe. I marvel at how clean the wood is from their chopping.

That horse in the tree is so darn cute!!

 

[NickfromWI]

I'm amazed by how much wood they are moving with 4 horses. I wonder if a person could take a 4hp motor and move one of those logs!!!

 

[arborworks1]

I love the old logging photos, Think of what those guys would have done to the forest with a modern day chainsaw.

 

[MasterBlaster]

The pics are from this site. I saw it at ArbTalk.

 

[arborworks1]

Awesome site, Thanks man

 

[stehansen]

Whole lot of sweatin' going on. I wonder about those loads with just a couple of horses also. Maybe it was all downhill.

 

[arborworks1]

Wonder if the ice made it alot easier to move those big loads, They all looked to be winter shots.

 

[Dave Shepard]

Unquestionably.

Great thread, Butch!

 

[Old Monkey]

I've heard that when they fell those old giant sequoias that they would quite often bust apart. I wonder if it was ever economical to take them down when you had plenty of smaller trees to take?

 

[squisher]

I'd transport back to those days in a heartbeat. Simple times, simple times.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Cool pics Boss. I love those old time shots.

 

[sotc]

I think I agree with you squishy

 

[treetx]

I'd transport back to those days in a heartbeat. Simple times, simple times.

Me too, but not as a danged ole logger. Piano player in a whore house is more my speed

 

[sawinredneck]

Neat thread Butch!
I've always wondered how they could stack the wood so high and neatly!
I was watching "Axes" on the History channel the other night, a guy droped a 24"ish tree with a double bit axe (my choice) in 36 min. It was fun to watch.

 

[Al Smith]

Excellant pics of the early days . I have basically the same pics in a book called "The Loggers " which was published by Time -Life a few years ago .

Another nice book is "Endless tracks in the woods " which covers the days of tractor logging mainly in the PNW and shows a lot of old growth stuff .

I may be mistaken but I believe that picture with those two Belgian horses and that massive piles of logs shows what still today is record amount ever moved by horses . If so that record was set on ice in either Wisconsin or Minnisota .

Which would be worse,to be a logger back then or a horse ?

 

[vharrison]

That horse in the tree is so darn cute!!

Isn't he? So sweet, poor thing is probably hiding out so he doesn't have to haul the big logs.

 

[brendonv]

It's amazing how they stack those logs.

My powerstroke wouldn't be able to move those piles 4 horses are moving.

 

[TheTreeWiseMen]

Cool pics Chief. Here's a biggie....

 

[woodworkingboy]

What's with those old loggers, not a one is wearing an ounce of personal protection equipment....if only they knew. There had to be a lot of serious injuries, all the weight handled with the most primitive of equipment. Give them credit for a lot of bravery.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Whole lot of sweatin' going on. I wonder about those loads with just a couple of horses also. Maybe it was all downhill.

Then how did they stop?

 

[JamesTX]

Cool pics, but I wish they would have left the big trees alone.

 

[squisher]

There was probably a big tree right were your house is, or possibly your house is made from a big tree, or possibly you wipe your butt with a big tree, or........ You see where I'm going with this right?

 

[thattreeguy]

the samoa cookhouse here has alot of old tools in its museum of logging,
west coast gtg climbers should check it out as well as hansens truck stop they have a collection of old logging pics for sale,

 

[sotc]

I second that! Samoa cookhouse woul be a geat place to have breakfast wih the crew........ family style!