Vintage Logging – Parbuckle
Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging is about parbuckling. Parbuckle is defined as a method of moving long, cylindrical objects, like logs, employing loop of rope, cable or chain arranged like a sling, used for raising or lowering the objects along an inclined plane.
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Photograph shows loading logs onto a logging wagon using the parbuckle method with a mule team. Plumas County, CA. 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: http://cdlib.org
Photograph shows log loading with Dolbeer donkey and oxen being used to pull the logs up and onto the wagon (parbuckle method), at Plumas County, California.
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Photograph shows men loading logs on to a wagon using draft horses using the parbuckle method. Written on photo: Loading logs Englebretsons – Wilson.
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1914 Men attaching chains to logs in snow covered forest using the parbuckle method to pile up logs.
Photograph shows log loading with Dolbeer donkey and oxen being used, at Plumas County, California.
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Photograph shows loggers loading sugar pine logs on a wagon near Clipper Mills, Calif.
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To the right of center, you can see a log being rolled up the poles onto the flat bed railroad car. IN the far background the rear of two horses who are pulling the log up with cables using the parbuckle method.
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Woodsmen using cables and horses to load large logs onto the wagons for transport.
Those were the last of the parbuckling photos, so here are two more to round out the 10 photo review.
4 unidentified men riding on chain drive truck; truck with concave wheels rolling on pole road crossing river; rocky beach and river in foreground bottom right; large tree at left; trees in distance.
Note that the wheels are made to run along logs laid down as tracks, refered to as a pole road. Placer County, CA.
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: http://cdlib.org
One Comment
David M Hatt
I used to use the same par buckle method back in 80’s an 90’s to load weir material on to a truck an pole trailer, the material was anywhere from 25’ to 65’ long mostly hard wood some popular an tamarack. We used nylon rope with a peavey dog on the ends an pull them on with a horse . My dad showed me this he used it a lot over the years, he lumber an farmed with horses all his life. Thanks.