"Back in the Day"

[camptramp]

Cant help but wonder if in fact WFP has not got their fingers in this thread. Lot of wrong things happening here and nothing being done to rectify the situation. Yes it actually smacks of Don DEPENDS

I did not mean to offend anyone by posting Boulder Bills pictures with his captions under them , as I have , I sincerely apologize for it . I have some pictures that the Blk prince has loaned me that I will post . The rest of the pictures I have "Banked" will remain as such , as I have other projects that require my attention for the near future !

 

[camptramp]

B&K Logging , Browns Bay .

 

[drillrigdoc]

Camptramp, glad to see you back, ive been lurking here for a long while but always enjoy your pics, thanks

 

[camptramp]

Sinclair Spruce Mills Prince George B.C.

 

[camptramp]

Bs&w

 

[camptramp]

Upper Fraser Mills Prince George B.C.

 

[camptramp]

B.C. Spruce Mills

 

[Scrub Puller]

Yair . . .

Thanks so much camptramp for you ongoing commitment to document the heroic efforts of a whole generation of men who built these structures.

I for one did not know such flumes had existed and I can only imagine the relative value of the timber must have been greater back then than it is now . . . roughly what period are we looking at here?

Cheers.

 

[dirty4fun]

Some great photos of flumes one can only imagine the hours and engineering spent to built them. Thanks for sharing Tramp.

 

[Sigurd]

Great pics, must have been a huge job building those waterways, thanks ct

 

[camptramp]

I don't know any more about "Flumes" than you fellows , but I've heard about them being used . Usually in a situation in the early day's before the modern Logging Truck was perfected , to access area's with valuable stands of timber out to far to reach with skyline yarders and in to steep of country to reach economically by Logging Rail Roads . In the 4th picture it looks like a road of some sorts with logs used to roll logs out on , to drop into the Flume . Could the logs have been dragged to the Flume by Oxen or Horses or even early Caterpillar tractors ? It certainly shows what a determined Logger will do to get Logs to a Sawmill .

 

[Bumpsteer]

Have to believe the biggest issue with using a flume was a close constant water source. Wouldn't work well when the creek dried up.

Ed

 

[camptramp]

Holding Lumber .

 

[Jumbo]

The last flume built in Idaho was in the early 40s. It ran as I understand it until the late 40s. I believe that most flumes were used in the pine country with short logs 16' or so. Water was, and still is pretty cheap to move logs. Labor and material along with cutting practices today relegates flumes to the picture books.

 

[camptramp]

Holding Lumber .

 

[camptramp]

Boulder Bill .

 

[camptramp]

 

[camptramp]

Beaver Cove Lumber .

 

[camptramp]

 

[camptramp]

Boulder Bill .