Vintage logging – logging trucks
Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging are scenes logging trucks and their role in the logging and forestry industry.
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Image information taken from the North Olympic Library System’s Kellogg Master Index, including the following notes:
Garford logging truck on Lincoln Street near Front Street in Port Angeles in 1919; Thomas Fox, driving; truck owned by Charles Fox and Sons Logging Co. Used in ‘Early days… Logging Trucks.’
Circa 1920 Diamond-T logging trucks on Camano Island; five trucks in line across photo; unidentified people, buildings and hillside beyond them; typeset caption “Fleet of early Diamond-T logging trucks at Utsalady on Camano Island, Washington, in 1920”.
Diamond-T logging truck with solid tires, truck with large log heading toward lower right; plank road on left; unidentifed man at wheel and unidentified man in uniform standing beside truck on right; trees in background.
Four men stop over railway tracks to pose for a photo with a 7ft Douglas Fir log weighing 32.5 ton.
1917 Fageol truck hauling large log; truck with crank on front, hard rubber tires and license #49550 facing toward right; two unidentified men sitting in truck without cab, unidentified man standing beside truck; “Snow Mercantile Co.” sign on building in background on right.
White truck with load of logs; truck with hard rubber tires and cab facing toward left; unidentified men standing on running board, standing beside front of load and three men standing on top of load; spar tree to rear of truck at right; two more unidentified men at right.
Probably on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington, US.
3 lumber trucks loaded, California – 1920 license plates.
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
One Comment
David M Hatt
I always enjoy these old photos of lumbering, I grew up with horses an lumbering an later in the 60’s my dad bought the first timberjack that was in this part of Charlotte County NB. Love the history.