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/

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

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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/

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

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

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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.

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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/

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Chainsawyer cutting into a bog log with an pneumatic chainsaw.

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