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  • 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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    Vintage logging – assorted

    June 20, 2020
    1909 Woman Standing on Diamond Rail Car with Large Log.

    Vintage logging – Women

    June 6, 2020
    Choking logs with a beautiful view.

    Vintage logging – scenery

    January 16, 2021
  • 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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    1926 High rigger climbing a spar tree.

    Vintage logging – Tree Climbing

    May 16, 2020
    1945 Pacific Mills' donkey engine on the Queen Charlotte Islands. (close up)

    Vintage logging – Logging

    September 18, 2021
    1906 Engine #7 and train of 20 cars of pine logs.

    Vintage logging – trains

    March 27, 2021
  • Timber rafts on Guyan River, Huntington, WV
    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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    1907 Hoisting log with jammer.

    Vintage logging – Machinery

    October 9, 2021

    Vintage logging – stacked lumber

    March 6, 2021
    Log Pond.

    Vintage logging – Log drivers

    August 21, 2021
  • 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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    1928 B And K Co., booming ground on Pitt Lake.

    Vintage logging – Scenery

    March 7, 2020
    1912-14 A shingle bolt flume in Capilano Canyon, BC.

    Vintage logging – flumes and sluiceways

    October 10, 2020
    1939 Red River Lumber Company Humbug Logging Operation.

    Vintage logging – Trucking

    May 23, 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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    1903 Logging with a donkey engine.

    Vintage logging – Steam donkeys

    July 24, 2021
    1905 Fallers cutting a tree.

    Vintage Logging – Saw Filing

    January 11, 2020
    1900 China postcard - small Chinese pedlars, wood-sawyers.

    Vintage logging – saw pits

    January 9, 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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    1907 Hoisting log with jammer.

    Vintage logging – Machinery

    October 9, 2021
    1910 Logging near Clio, CA, US

    Vintage logging – cattle

    August 29, 2020
    Sawyers using an elevated saw pit frame.

    Vintage logging – Carpenters

    June 26, 2021
  • 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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    John Vance ?, 13 ft in diameter.

    Vintage logging -stump cuts

    March 13, 2021
    Log Pond.

    Vintage logging – Log drivers

    August 21, 2021
    Saw filers with saw outside saw filing shack, White Star Lumber Company, Whites.

    Vintage logging – Saw Filing

    October 30, 2021
  • 1900 Flume unloading.
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – Flumes

    July 31, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage photos looks at the flumes used to transport lumber and logs over uneven terrain of the late 19th and early 20th century.

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    Vintage logging – stacked lumber

    March 6, 2021
    1900 Log on the narrow gauge railroad.

    Vintage Logging – Railroads

    February 8, 2020
    Children and teachers standing outside school building, High Point, WA, USA

    Vintage logging – Children

    July 10, 2021
  • 1903 Logging with a donkey engine.
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – Steam donkeys

    July 24, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage photos looks at the steam donkeys of the early 20th century.

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    A Sample of B.C. Fir - Diameter 9'8" near Vancouver, B.C.

    Vintage logging – horses

    October 24, 2020
    1900 Up and down saw blades.

    Vintage Logging – Lumber Machinery

    January 25, 2020
    1910 Coquitlam Dam, showing the original camp

    Vintage logging – camp

    August 15, 2020
  • 1938 Mr J.C. Sawyer at Clarksville, Arkansas
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – Circle saw mills

    July 17, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage photos looks at the early circle saw mills of the early 20th century.

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    1903-1904 View of Harrison Mills (BC).

    Vintage logging – log yard

    September 11, 2021
    1915-1920 Lougheed logging camp.

    Vintage Logging – Stump cuts

    April 25, 2020
    1903 Logging with a donkey engine.

    Vintage logging – Steam donkeys

    July 24, 2021
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