Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging is about horses and how they played a roll in the logging industry. That is, until railroads and machines took over.
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Horse hauling logs at a competition.1912 Loading logs onto tractor.
Note the horse in the background looking at the logs being loaded. I wonder what it was thinking?
Horse drawing wagon through old western town.Corvallis And Eastern Railroad logging car.1913-1919 McCloud River Lumber Co.1906 Logging snags (burnt timber) after a forest fire.1895 Logging west of MacDonald Street on Point Grey Road, Vancouver, BC.1905 A four-horse team dragging logs.1888 Moodyville Milling Company loading dock with two ships at bay.Fir – Diameter 9’8″ near Vancouver, B.C.
