Vintage logging – circle saw mills

Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging is about circle saw mills.

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RG# 95-GP Records of the Forest Service General Subject Files Negative Number: 374846
U-Saw Prod., Lbr., Portable Mills – Nebraska. Saw yellow cottonwood lumber, 3 miles west of Neligh Nebraska. Taken by Carl A. Taylor 12/19/38.

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Record Group 95-GP
Records of The Forest Service
General Subject File
Negative Number:97574

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Record Group 95-GP
Records of The Forest Service
General Subject File
Negative Number:76190

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Record Group 95-GP
Records of The Forest Service
General Subject File
Negative Number:59666

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Saw mill activity at the Jerome War Relocation Center, Arkansas, United States, 16 Nov 1942

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Unfortunately, machine guarding didn’t keep pace with the machines themselves. Men routinely worked near giant exposed flywheels and saw blades. Hearing protection was rare or non-existent. Ontario forest industries filed more than 3,000 injury claims in 1938.

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