"Back in the Day"

Dualie · Dec 11, 2015

The pics of the axe but timbers those boys weren't pulling any punches swinging them axes. Those chips look like roofing shingles.

Jumbo · Dec 12, 2015

Dualie said:
The pics of the axe but timbers those boys weren't pulling any punches swinging them axes. Those chips look like roofing shingles.

I have my grandfather's new falling ax, unlike axes you see today, the head is only 3-31/2 inches wide and long, about 12-14 inches in length. The handle is a little over 48 inches for reaching into the stump. I have seen some with 60 inch handles. He sharpened his so he could work either left or right handed. I know there were other techniques for sharpening, some made sense, some didn't. His old ax is only about 10 inches in length instead of 12-14. Shows how much they used the ax. The new ax is about 70 years old. The old one? Who knows. he started falling timber on the Satsop in 1912. He could pull a chip better than 12 inches when I was young and he was in his late 60s.

dirty4fun · Dec 12, 2015

Jumbo you have to be quite proud to have your grandfather's falling axes. I had never seen one but makes sense to be made that way when you are working in big timber. Thanks fro sharing.

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dirty4fun · Dec 18, 2015

That looks like quite a railroad trestle in the picture. A lot of man hours went into building that, is it still standing?

camptramp · Dec 18, 2015

check · Dec 19, 2015

Thanks for posting Camptramp! I just spent 3 hours in fascination looking over those pictures. This thread really gives us reason to be proud of our ancestors.

I had never seen pics of round log tracks for log trucks. That was really amazing. Especially the spans and loads.

fixou812 · Dec 19, 2015

....i know there's alot of young folks here. ...
....did you know the motor car and airplane (and the bicycle? )
...were invented about the same time?

Vigilant · Dec 19, 2015

dirty4fun said:
That looks like quite a railroad trestle in the picture. A lot of man hours went into building that, is it still standing?

Most of the old trestles in the American PNW were dynamited due to liability concerns. I would imagine the same is true for Canada. If that trestle were in fact left standing, there would probably not be much left of it by now.

Sidney43 · Dec 19, 2015

I know that a lot of the wooden trestles in the area of the Tillamook Burns in NW Oregon (three separate fires) were destroyed or partially so. I remember as a boy driving to the Pacific coast from Portland, Oregon, the remains were quite visible since the last fire left miles of forest destroyed. After the fires did so much damage, logging was resumed by trucks rather than try to rebuild miles of RR lines and trestles, some of which were pretty impressive. The last time I drove down the Wilson River hwy to the coast, was about ten years ago and I could not see a single remnant, probably due to time and the extensive timber growth everywhere.

check · Dec 20, 2015

This thread peaked my curiosity so I searched "early logging images". I don't know anything about the pics, just posting for entertainment.

check · Dec 20, 2015

...And a few more.

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