
Vintage logging – chainsaws
Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging is about chainsaws.
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A 59″ x 20′ redwood log in process of ripping with an Atkins electric chain saw head and Titan chain.
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://www.cdlib.org/

Bucking Douglas fir log with power saw, Diamond Match Company, Chico, California.


Photograph shows loggers falling a Yellow Pine Tree with a chain saw, the man to the left is Eddie Reemts.
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://www.cdlib.org/

“Motosierrista” and “cuartoneros” are words to describe a Chainsaw man. TCO Chácobo y Pacahuara, Beni. Photography: Wesly Méndez

Deforestation in the forest of Lobaye territory of the Aka Pygmies, Republic of Central Africa. A logger felling a Sipo tree.


The head of the Cabinet, Ana Jara, announced tonight the reactivation of the multisectoral commission of illegal logging and the installation of 12 police stations.

Landing man preparing to trim logs, Walter Neifert. A Soper-Wheeler portable mill setup near Strawberry Valley, Yuba County, 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. http://www.cdlib.org/

Chainsawyer cutting into a bog log with an pneumatic chainsaw.

