Vintage Logging – Log dumps

Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging is about log dumps.

Baikie Bros. Logging at Upper Campbell Lake, BC – 1961 Baikie Bros. Logging Co. log dump.

1945 Pacific Mills logging and donkey engines on the Queen Charlotte Islands.

1945 Logs being made into a Davis Raft for Pacific Mills.

1945 Logs being made into a Davis Raft for Pacific Mills.

1940s Logs falling off a wharf into the water at H.R. MacMillan Co.

1940s Logs being pushed off a logging truck into the water.

1940s Logs being moved on rails to the H.R. MacMillan Co.

1940s Logs being loaded off rail cars at the H.R. MacMillan Co. sawmill.

1940-1948 Trains pushing logs into the water.

View of cut logs floating in river with loggers seen standing on logs, possibly in Northern California.

Rights Information: Feb 28 2019 Special permission granted by the owning institution, California State University, Chico, CA, US, to WoodchuckCanuck.com, for use of this image for historical logging special collection review. Source: https://cdlib.org