Old time Logging

[Northart]

Here's a picture of the Worlds Record Log Sled load pulled by Horses. 50 white pine logs. Displayed at the Chicago Worlds Fair . Come from Upper Michigan.:)

The next 2 are of a Drag Saw cutting logs. No chainsaws back then.

[Northart]

Old steam log loader, loading railroad cars.

[Northart]

Here's one from Eureka, Calif .

[Rockbreaker]

Great pics Northart.
Back then you had to work hard for the money :notworthy
Almost like we do:bash

[nedly05]

Great pics Northart:drinkup

[DirectTech]

I wish I had access to some of the pictures that Great Northern (Timber company in Maine) had taken I have seen them, some of the pictures are absolutely amazing.

[bobcat ron]

Men were men back then and the sheep were nervous, they could make a ewe turn.

[EZ TRBO]

Awesome pics, I agree most people don't really know what hard work is anymore. These guys worked hard and didn't have the winter clothing or nice machines like we do now and some still complain.

Trbo

[Dozerboy]

Wow now that a load for only 2 horsepower....***...:beatsme

[surfer-joe]

If you like to read up on logging back in the old days and see how it progressed with machinery, get a copy of a book called "Endless Tracks In The Woods." It's put together by a couple of guys named James Young & Jerry Budy.

I bought it last year on Amazon and have not quite finished it yet, but it's full of pictures from the old days, lots of early crawler tractors and other equipment having to do with logging and earthmoving.

[Eric]

Hats off to those guys, that's earning your money. Yesterday I saw a woman whose car bumper sticker said "dirt worshiping tree hugger" and I almost puked. It's a shame what's happened to the forestry business in N.M. It's getting to be extinct.:(

[PSDF350]

If you like photos and history, heres a website with lots of both. http://www.vannattabros.com/

[bobcat ron]

I love reading about their history with the big dozers.

[Northart]

Steam Power loading railroad cars

[72V]

Nice picture, Northart. According to a book I have, this picture was taken up on the tip of the Olympic Peninsula at Neah Bay, Washington Pulp and Paper. It shows a Lidgerwood tower skidder, probably being taken down after logging a setting. That load in front of the skidder is for supporting the tower for transport. The logs were loaded onto cars by a swinging boom that laid flat down under the tower when in transport mode. These massive machines weighed 300 some tons, and had their heyday during the 1920's and '30s. The book says many of them flopped over during transport due to the soft subgrades typical with railroad logging. It's amazing they were able to recover them and get them back to work.

[atgreene]

Here's a few from Maine to add to the collection.

Hauling snow in Portland with horses.
Lombard Loghauler.
Sargent Co. of Portland snow loader.
A snow roller being used in Caribou.
And a snow roller in Garland.

Sorry, not all logging, but some neat equipment. I have some more of the snowplowing equipment that Sargent Co. made, as well as some old equip. pics, just need to find them. I also have some of my family hauling wood with horses and oxen but they need to be scanned.

[jlaroy]

Cool pictures, makes you appreciate technology.

[Nightowlbird]

I would not be suprised if we do not revert back to the old horse and carriage days with the fuel prices as high as they are. I would not be supprised that in the near future we will be using DC motors with solar panels or hydrogen fuel on our equipment. Good pictures make you appreciate what we have at this point.

NOB

[Ray Welsh]

I would not be suprised if we do not revert back to the old horse and carriage days with the fuel prices as high as they are. I would not be supprised that in the near future we will be using DC motors with solar panels or hydrogen fuel on our equipment. Good pictures make you appreciate what we have at this point.

NOB

I would have to agree with your above views. DC motors have great torque. Solar Energy is unlimited and free. It can be used to produce Hydrogen for fuel cells to power the next generation of mobile equipment. Horse and carriages........Not sure about that.....But one never knows the future??
C ya.........Ray

[Dozerboy]

There must be a lot of sunny days where ya'll live if you think solar panels are logical.

[Wolfcsm]

Here are some that you might find interesting.

Hal

[Wolf]

There must be a lot of sunny days where ya'll live if you think solar panels are logical.

Doesn't matter. Tree huggers say solar is a good idea. So what if the sun doesn't shine--they must be right, or so they think . . .

Besides, does anybody actually consider the cost of installing the solar panels/generator to begin with? It's quite expensive to put them in, tax credits not withstanding. . .

[Ray Welsh]

Doesn't matter. Tree huggers say solar is a good idea. So what if the sun doesn't shine--they must be right, or so they think . . .

Besides, does anybody actually consider the cost of installing the solar panels/generator to begin with? It's quite expensive to put them in, tax credits not withstanding. . .

Solar panels, known as PV or photovoltaics will still produce electricity under overcast skies, although at a reduced capacity. They use light, not heat, and you need more for cloudy days.

Tax credits depend on the government in control but I'll tell you this for nothing. "The sun will rise for many years after the last drop of oil is used up, so keep your horses handy".
Some may wish to Google "peak oil" which has predicted todays scenario for many years. It's all about supply and demand and certain members of society have burned oil like it was going out of fashon. Is that your country????????
C ya..........Ray

[OneWelder]

Wolfcsm
Are those a commercial picture ? I can remember my grandfather (he had a sawmill) having what I remember as the some of the same pictures. I have not seen these in 30 to 40 yrs so I could easily be mistaken. I also imagine these to be common poses around the Giant Redwoods

[Wolfcsm]

Wolfcsm
Are those a commercial picture ? I can remember my grandfather (he had a sawmill) having what I remember as the some of the same pictures. I have not seen these in 30 to 40 yrs so I could easily be mistaken. I also imagine these to be common poses around the Giant Redwoods

I got them off an internet site. Not commercial but did a search on logging and late 1880's.

Hal

[danieltree]

Great pics. I doubt that technology would help get those giants down.

[Banks]

Hello,

I am new to the forum so I can't start a new tread. I found an old logging picture from a logging tractor. I have never seen it before but I found it a interesting tractor and I would like to know more about it. Could someone tell me what tractor this is,maybe some more pictures of it. I live in Belgium and I do not have access to all the materials about American logging tractors.

Here is the link to the picture:

http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/indocc&CISOPTR=528&CISOBOX=1&REC=7

[AtlasRob]

Heres the picture, its titled Nehalem, Oregon.


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[Banks]

Thanks for replying atlasrob but is that the name of that tactor.

[hvy 1ton]

bwat? They had forwarders when people still used b&w? Kinda funny how long tracks took to come full circle.

[John C.]

Banks,
Nehalem is the name of the area in Oregon where the photo was taken.

The logging industry was alway very innovative in finding ways to move heavy logs out of the woods. I don't recognize the machine but would bet someone has taken an ag machine and modified it carry logs. It doesn't look like they were tied on so I would be kind of nervous about running the rig.

It is a good photo.

[Banks]

Tanks very much for the information John C. It's just I am very interested in tracked machines. But when I see this photo I though there is nothing new under the sun. If you see the tracked farm tractors of today they where around 75 years ago. In the text with the photo they mention 22 mph. It's very impressive. Its seem to me that the tracks or the same at with the tracked dirt wagons of that same time.

[Canevari Timber]

Here's one from Eureka, Calif .

Good to see a photo from my neck of the woods. I wish my Grandpa would get his old collection of photos out for me from when he was still logging.

[flyboy912]

During the early 60's I set chokers out in the Olympic peninsula in the last permanent camp. It was in the rain forest and it rained all the time. We walked on boardwalks in the camp with our corks on. The mess hall had everything to eat you could want. You grabbed a sack lunch on the way out the door. Most of the logs (big ones) were in the mud so we set a small charge under the log to blow out the mud and then jumped down into the water and set the choker. You stood on the log as the charge blew as that was the only safe place to be. Also worked high line on Mt. Rainier with a 600hp. tower yarder and 1 1/2 main line, pretty big logs.

[Drifter]

Heres the picture, its titled Nehalem, Oregon.


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Pretty sure that tractor is a Cletrac.

[Wolf]

great old picutures. where have all the big trees gone?