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  • 1901 - A "B.C. Toothpick" cut at Hastings Sawmill for the visit of The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York.
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – Lumber mills

    October 2, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage photos takes a look scenes of lumber mills.

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    1939 Red River Lumber Company Humbug Logging Operation.

    Vintage logging – Trucking

    May 23, 2020
    1890s Logging Horses. - close up

    Vintage logging – Woodsmen

    June 13, 2020
    1926 High rigger climbing a spar tree.

    Vintage logging – Tree Climbing

    May 16, 2020
  • 1919 Sawmill and Factory of Lumber Products Limited.
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – Lumber companies

    September 25, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage photos takes a look at logging companies.

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    Log Pond.

    Vintage logging – Log drivers

    August 21, 2021
    1938 Mr J.C. Sawyer at Clarksville, Arkansas

    Vintage logging – Circle saw mills

    July 17, 2021
    Seven men stand at the end of a 200-foot log being harvested.

    Vintage Logging – Sky line

    April 4, 2020
  • Walnut crunch cake donuts
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    Walnut Crunch

    September 22, 2021 /

    I don’t recall where I found this recipe but I know one thing for sure, it makes a near identical recipe to the walnut crunch cake donuts that were commercially available here in Canada. No one knows for sure why its no longer made commercially. Luckily, we have a recipe that will allow people to make them at home.

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    Homemade pizza pies (recipe).

    Pizza Pockets and Pies

    November 6, 2021
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    Detroit Deep Dish Pizza

    March 9, 2022
    24hour pizza dough recipe video

    24 hour pizza dough, crispy recipe

    June 11, 2022
  • 1945 Pacific Mills' donkey engine on the Queen Charlotte Islands. (close up)
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – Logging

    September 18, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage photos takes a look at logging scenes in general.

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

    Vintage logging – tractors

    March 20, 2021
    1912-14 A shingle bolt flume in Capilano Canyon, BC.

    Vintage logging – flumes and sluiceways

    October 10, 2020
    1942 Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas

    Vintage Logging – Log yards

    December 28, 2019
  • 1903-1904 View of Harrison Mills (BC).
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – log yard

    September 11, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage photos takes a look at the log yards and the men who worked them.

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    Vintage logging – sawmills

    January 2, 2021
    1914 Men attaching chains to logs in snow covered forest using the parbuckle method.

    Vintage Logging – Parbuckle

    February 1, 2020
    Seven men stand at the end of a 200-foot log being harvested.

    Vintage Logging – Sky line

    April 4, 2020
  • Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – Log rafts

    September 4, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage photos takes a look at the woodsmen making log rafts to travel downstream or across the bay.

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    Crew at loading site with donkey engine and log rigged for loading, Schafer Brothers Logging Company, probably in Grays Harbor County.

    Vintage logging – Booms, Spars and A-frames

    July 25, 2020
    1900 Lumpkin Saw Mill workers.

    Vintage logging – Big Logs

    May 22, 2021
    1890s Logging Horses. - close up

    Vintage logging – Woodsmen

    June 13, 2020
  • 1932 Green Point Logging Co. Ltd. "Shay" locomotive working at log dump.
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – Log dump

    August 28, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage photos takes a look at the log dumping areas, where logs were dropped into rivers, lakes and ponds for transportation further downstream.

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    15 ton Upright Climax Geared Locomotive.

    Vintage Logging – Lumber Companies

    January 4, 2020
    1923 White and Sugar Pine.

    Vintage logging – Big trees

    May 29, 2021
    1926 High rigger climbing a spar tree.

    Vintage logging – Tree Climbing

    May 16, 2020
  • Log Pond.
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – Log drivers

    August 21, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage photos takes a look at the people of the rivers and other waterways who kept the logs moving.

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    1902 A patent illustration for a bridging device.

    Vintage logging – band saw mills

    July 4, 2020
    Jim Curry balances work.

    Vintage logging – clear cuts

    September 26, 2020
    Saginaw Timber Company

    Vintage logging – Bridges

    June 12, 2021
  • Steaming horse logging
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – Horses

    August 14, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage photos looks at the horses of days gone by and not that long ago.

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    1915-1920 Lougheed logging camp.

    Vintage Logging – Stump cuts

    April 25, 2020
    Crew at loading site with donkey engine and log rigged for loading, Schafer Brothers Logging Company, probably in Grays Harbor County.

    Vintage logging – Booms, Spars and A-frames

    July 25, 2020
    1940 View of a sawmill

    Vintage logging – log drivers

    October 31, 2020
  • Photograph shows two men with cross-cut saw felling a tree.
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – Hinge cuts

    August 7, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage photos looks at the hinge cuts used to fell the really big trees of days gone by.

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    1912 Felling a big tree with axes.

    Vintage logging – Winter

    May 30, 2020
    1936 Illustration of patent for a Shaping Tool for Saw Teeth

    Vintage logging – patents

    December 19, 2020

    Vintage logging – sawmills

    January 2, 2021
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