Vintage Logging – Stump cuts

Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging is about stump cuts, the massive stumps left behind from the trees felled.

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Woodsmen showing the method of sawing stumps at the ground.

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Showing fallers at work.

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Photograph shows a man with a measuring stick standing on a stump in a cleared site Coquitlam Dam.

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Felling a tree in Kitsilano forest.

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Picture taken on property 3379 West 22nd Ave., Vancouver, BC.

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The log which was dragged 1 1/2 miles to the boom by a duplex 4-wheel drive truck.

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Photographs of logging camps and operations near Clatsop, Oregon, run by the Spruce Production Division of the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War I.

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Note that the stump cut was a tree that grew over top of a fallen tree.

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Bonus image!

Making a house out of a stump 13 ft in diam., 10 ft. high at the Larson Lumber Co. mills, Bellingham, Washington. For the St. Louis Exposition. Hegg Photo. Probably the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis,1904.