Vintage logging -stump cuts

Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging are scenes are about the massive stump cuts for years gone by and more recently as well.

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Section of giant redwood tree trunk showing growth rings and surrounded by log fence.

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: cdlib.org

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Shows that it was felled entirely with axes about 75 years ago. Dense young stand of cedar, sequoia and pine in background.
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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A gang of men on a stump cut, loaded on a flat rail car.

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Men posing atop sections of redwood logs.

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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Circumference: 45ft
Diameter: 15ft
Species: redcedar
Valley: Gordon River
Region: Port Renfrew, BC
GPS: lat= 48.6260003005, lon= -124.421666466
Date Taken: June.10th.2010
Estimated Date Cut: 2010
Tree Farm License #: 46
Photographer: TJ Watt
Source: https://www.ancientforestalliance.org

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Loggers with assortment of saws standing on stump which reads LLLL (for Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen) and below sign reading Simmond saws are the best, camp 1F, 57th Spruce Squadron, Palix River. The Palix River rises in the high country south of South Bend in west central Pacific County and flows west to Willapa Harbor at Bay Center. Three forks of the river join in a wide tidal estuary. The name is Chinook Indian, meaning “slough covered with trees.” The middle fork is known as Tomhays River, for an Indian who lived at the river forks in the 1850s. The middle fork appears on some old maps as Canyon River. In 1857, James G. Swan called the stream Palux River in his journals. Another early version of the name is Copalux River.

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1945 Moving logs with a tractor for Pacific Mills on the Queen Charlotte Islands, BC.

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1912 One of the giant cedars at Wood Fibre [Wood fibre], B.C. which was dragged 1 1/2 miles to the boom by a duplex 4-wheel drive truck.

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