Vintage Logging – Slip tongue carts
Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging is about the slip tongue carts used in the logging industry to drag the logs to the landing.
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Photograph shows Charles W. Blakesley standing next to a team hauling logs. Walter Thoms also stands by the cart. The picture was taken in front of Muller’s Barbershop, 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: https://cdlib.org
View of a logging tractor pulling a pile of logs in Susanville, Lassen County, CA.
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Horse and split tongue cart hauling a big log. Susanville, Lassen County, CA.
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Horse Big Wheel Logging near Lasco Camp which was located about 7 or 8 miles north of Westwood. Lassen County, CA.
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Photograph of log cart with big wheels pulling a large log. Westwood, Lassen County, CA.
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Hauling logs to steam loader. A horse team pulling a big wheel wagon loaded with logs.
Logging in Siskiyou County, CA.
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Photograph shows big wheel logging.
View of a horse drawn big wheel logging wagon in the forest. McCloud River Lumber Company, Siskiyou 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
