Vintage Logging Gallery

Vintage logging - Trucking logs out of the woods on the homestead

Vintage logging trucks - 9 Giant fir logs parade through town, western Washington

Vintage logging trucks - Piled high

Vintage logging trucks - West coast logging truck pulling 2 extra loads

Vintage logging trucks - piled high for transport.

Vintage logging trucks - winter logging

Vintage logging trucks - Pacific logging truck

Vintage logging trucks - red Mack 6 wheeler with picker crane

Vintage logging trucks - 1920 Mack AC on a log road

Vintage logging trucks - red Ford

Photograph shows a shay locomotive with a logging load taking water at the bridge across the west-branch of the Feather River. Work is being done on the dam, that belong to Pacific Gas and Electric, below, on the Feather River, Butte Co, CA. 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: https://cdlib.org

Ramsey Bar 1911 - 1915. Diamond Motive Power Kimshew operation. #6 in front, was a special design by W.A. Fairburn. Other engines were rebuilt equipment from Sierra Lumber Co. Logging locomotives await the days work at Ramsey Bar about 1912. 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: https://cdlib.org

1910s Asian crew on flatbed railroad car being pushed by Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Company's Climax locomotive no. 3. This particular locomotive, s/n 1331, was built in August 1916 for Snoqualmie Falls Lumber Company. It was a B class locomotive.

1945 West Fork Timber Company's 75-ton Baldwin saddle tank locomotive no. #75 with two crew transport coaches, Mineral, WA. The West Fork Logging Company was started by L.T. Murray in 1910. It was named for the company's first quarter section of timber which was located at the west fork of the Tilton River in Lewis County. By the latter part of the 1930s, Murray's holdings totaled 38,000 acres. West Fork Timber Company was created as a holding company for the purchase of land. Company headquarters were located in Mineral. L.T. Murray was very active in the logging industry and the Pacific Logging Congress. West Fork Timber Company sold its logging operations to St. Regis Paper Company in 1943. A small logging and shingle mill village on Mineral Lake is fourteen miles north of Morton in north central Lewis County. Once it had several producing mines the ore from which was used for production of arsenic. It was named for mineral deposits along Mineral Creek, and producing mines a half dozen miles from the town. This locomotive was purchased from the Deer Park Lumber Company.

Locomotives lined up by a log pond at Lassen Lumber and Box Company, Susanville mill 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: https://cdlib.org

The boiler exploded because of low water and a defective safety valve. It exploded near the commissary of Alger-Sullivan lumber camp number 8. The crew was off the engine, so there were no injuries. The train's bell was found over a mile away.

Stearns & Culver Lumber Company engine number 5 at Camp 9 - Bagdad, Florida. Builder: Heisler. James Campbell and H.W. Olcott are in the photograph, but their postion is unknown. Construction number: 1210. Year built: 1910.

1910s Canadian Western Lumber Co. Ltd., Fraser Mills; tramload of logs.

1910 Logging train at Haywood Junction, Duncan, BC.

1910s View of an S.L.R.R. locomotive hauling logs in a mountain area.

Skidding. Log being pulled by logging equipment in foreground with forest in background.

Schafer Brothers Logging Company camp no. 6

Saginaw Timber Company. Construction crew with Caterpillar bulldozer.

No. 14 En route to the landing. The McCloud River Lumber Company. View of logging arch and operator transporting havested log. Siskiyou County, CA. 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: https://cdlib.org

Logging Arch. View of logger operating a logging arch/tractor which hauling a log. 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: https://cdlib.org

Humbug Logging. Logs and logging machinery in foreground with forest in background.

1940 Crew at loading site with donkey engine and diesel tractor fitted with yarding arch and winch, camp 5, Simpson Logging Company, Grays Harbor County. Sol G. Simpson and his family moved to Mason County in 1887, where Simpson worked laying ties and rails for the Port Blakely Mill Company's logging railroad. He formed S. G. Simpson Company in Matlock in 1890. Three of Simpson's brothers joined him in Mason County, and two of them worked for him. Simpson Logging Company opened its first sawmill, the Reed Mill, at Shelton in 1925. Numerous other mills and logging operations along the West Coast have been acquired by Simpson over the years. [Source: James, David. Grisdale: Last of the Logging Camp. Fairfield, Washington: Ye Galleon Press, 1986.] Camp no. 5 was located east of Schafer Creek in Grays Harbor County and could be reached only by the logging railroad for many years. It was in existence from the 1930s to 1946, when the residents were moved to Grisdale Camp eight miles north. Arches and winches added to diesel "Cats" moved thousands of logs at Camp Five in the 30s and 40s.

1940 Cat and Log on Humbug Logging Job. CAT tractor and a Hyster steel arch machine moving logs in foreground with forest 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. Source: https://cdlib.org

1939 Skidding big logs. Man standing beside log and logging equipment with forest in background.

Woodsman at work.

Tree fallers posing on stump cut.

Woodsmen resting after felling a massive tree.

Woodsman felling a 2 plank cedar tree.

1948 19-year-old flagman Willy Perry, Jr. making signals on a cypress stump - Copeland, Florida. 1948 Feb 25 Flagman signals route of log, warns loggers in path of danger and tells skidder operator position of log.

Large Cedar Stump. Two unidentified men and two unidentified children sitting on top of stump; ladder on left.

1920-30 River Lumber (Logging) Company. Inventory lists company as River Lumber Company while photographer caption says River Logging Company. Either way, this logging company was probably located somewhere in British Columbia.

A 16 foot cross cut saw was used to bring down this Redwood tree.

Woodsman near a big stump cut.

Woodsman busy with his chain saw.

1907 Southern Pine Lumber Co.

1902 Robertson and Hackett Sawmill and Wallace boat yard at the south foot of Granville Street in False Creek.

1900 Unidentified sawmill

1900 Lumber wagon. Photograph shows a lumber wagon pulled by horses.

1900s Chaudière Falls, Quebec. View of a part of a sawmill on the Chaudière Falls with stacks of boards and planks in the background.

1907 Northern California Lumber Co. View of loggers gathered around a log to saw in half in Siskiyou County, CA.

1904 Construction of Great Northern Railroad tunnel beneath downtown Seattle. Showing the material yard at south end, site of King Street Station.

1900 Deck of sailing vessel. With cargo ramps, two crew members, and cargo of lumber, Washington.

1902 Ships and trains at lumber dock - Fernandina, Florida.

1902 Drying lumber - Withlacoochee, Florida

Big wheel logging with cattle.

Brooks Scanlon Logging Co. Loading Ponderosa pine logs onto railroad flatcars with cherry picker big wheel. Brooks Scanlon was a well known company based in Bend, Oregon. The large Ponderosa trees point to this photo likely being taken in Central Oregon. Some time betweem 1915 and 1950.

Brooks Scanlon Logging Co. bewtween 1915 and 1930. The Brooks Scanlon Lumber Co. name is on the two flatcars. Brooks Scanlon was a well known company based in Bend, Oregon. The large Ponderosa trees point to this photo likely being taken in Central Oregon.

Oxen pulling cypress logs from St. Johns, FL.

1935 Logging with a mule drawn high wheeler at the Cherry Lake Rural Rehabilitation Project - Cherry Lake, Florida. Cherry Lake Farm (also known as Cherry Rural Rehabilitation Project) was a New Deal rural relief program initiated by the FERA and the Resettlement Administration (RA) and implemented by the WPA. The project involved moving 500 needy families from Tampa, Miami, and Jacksonville onto a 15,000-acre communal tract. The workers formed the cooperatively-owned Cherry Lake Farms (headquartered in the 1839 former plantation home, the Hinton House) and constructed a school, an auditorium, a coop store, barracks, a lumber yard, and a mill. Families lived in 170 cottages with phones, electricity, and running water, all furnished by jointly-owned utilities.

1910 Southern States Lumber Company. Ox team with logs and high wheel, woodsmen along side.

Activity near a logging work camp. Ox-drawn Martin wagons, a small gauge steam locomotive, and workers near a logging work camp or commissary.

Hardwood Logging Operations in Louisiana. A view of the edge of a forest, with livestock lined up, fallen logs scattered about, and a group of men. Some of the logs have been tied together.

1930's Logging in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana. Image shows a timber wheel, also called the core log that enabled early loggers to skid logs with relative ease. Image was taken in Caldwell Parish during the 1930's.

1925 Fargo Lumber Company. Ollie Braddock driving a Fargo Lumber Company high-wheeler on Altamonte Drive past Altamonte Chapel. Accompanying note: "Pulled by six oxen the cart is westbound to pick up a load of logs. View from the southwest."

1910 Logging Train Crossing Big Antelope, Tehama County, CA. View of steam locamotive crossing tressel with cars full of logs. Loggers are visible in the cab of the engine and alongside the train. 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

1910 Loading camp - Gordon Pasha Lake, Camp 6 - Brooks-Scanlon-O'Brien Company Limited.

1910 Great Southern Lumber Company. Year built: June 1910. Builder: Schenectady Locomotive Works, const. no. 48178. Engine type: 2-6-0. The steam engine later became the Great Southern Lumber Company #4. Cylinders (diameter and stroke): 20" x 26".

The Davidson locomotives were built using boilers from New Zealand Railways trains. This is one of the 1908 models, standing almost complete in the Davidson yard at Hokitika. Davidsons were designed to work on both wooden and steel rails.

1907 workers loading timbers on Grand Trunk at Powassan.

1907 Drake Lumber Company engine number 94

Steam engine #2 of the Warnell Lumber and Veneer Company - Plant City Region, Florida, May 12 1904. Diameter of driving wheels: 26". Cylinders (diameter and stroke): 8" x 12". Year built: March 16, 1901. Builder: Lima Locomotive & Machine Company, const. no. 628. "T" boiler Shay built for wooden rails. The Warnell Lumber and Veneer Company had trackage rights over the Charlotte Harbor & Northern Railway Company from Garwood to Bradley Jet.

In 1904, this tramway at Maropiu, Northland, had such a steep grade it required a brakeman riding on each bogie (small cart). They both wound hand cranks that pressed board brakes onto the faces of each wheel. It was very dangerous work. On a nearby tram in that same year, a brakeman was crushed to death by a log when a bogie wheel collapsed. Listen to Alec Brownlee talk about the tramways that brought logs to the mills on the West Coast. Audio recording: https://teara.govt.nz/en/speech/12236/brakemen

1890 Bond Lumber Company (Okeechobee, FL) sawmill and locomotive - Glenwood, Florida.

1880 Hilliard and Bailey Lumber Company train - Hilliard, Florida. Engine named "Florida" but dubbed "Runaway" after an incident in the 1880s when an engineer left a head of steam in its boiler at quitting time, causing it to slowly chug down the tracks toward Hilliard later that evening, alone. Usually the engine pulled lumber from the Hilliard and Bailey mill in Hilliard to the company's Kings Ferry docks. The engine pictured is a 0-4-2 Forney locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works at Philadelphia. It was designed for light railroad use on 5-foot gauge tracking.

CAT hauling log with arch. Location possibly the Pacific Northwest region of the USA.

Bolivian forest, hauling mahogany logs. A Caterpillar diesel D7 Tractor equipped with Hyster D7N winch and Hyster logging arch is used to haul mahogany logs through woods to mill.

1907 Traction engine pulling a train of five loads of logs WA

Hyster Arch logging.

1940 Bloedel, Stewart & Welch logging operations. Caterpillar tractor #3 and Arch bringing in turn of logs at Great Central Lake, Vancouver Island.

1940 Simpson Logging Company camp no. 5. Caterpillar tractors and donkey engine at loading site, with flatbed railroad log cars and shack in background.

1947 Woodsmen with a Caterpillar Skidder. Owned by Comox Logging and Railway Co.

1947 CAT logging at Sandspit, Queen Charlotte Islands.

Vintage logging tractors - the log is bigger around than the tractor!

An early CAT at work. Here is a rare look at one of the earliest Cats at work in the Little River Area of Mendocino County.

Sunken logs with scuba diver, New Zealand

1958 Bringing up dead logs from the Suwannee River - Graceville, Florida .

Sunken logs

Large Cedar Stump - Two unidentified men and two unidentified children sitting on top of stump; ladder on left.

1898 Hauling logs by mule-drawn skid at a lumber camp.

1910 Mule team hauling a log.

1948 Feb 25 About 30,000 pounds are suspended in air here as one log rides bicycle of overhead cable toward skidder and another log is loaded on rail car.

1909 Horses pulling heavy two sleighs of logs

1895 Lumber to be loaded onto tall ships on the wharf at the Brunette Sawmill Company.

1893-1906 Crew members of AUSTRASIA on ship and dock with SIMLA adjacent, Washington. The AUSTRASIA was a four-masted British bark out of Liverpool, later known as the German GUSTAF (1910) and the Australian MELBOURNE (1927). It was built in 1892 by by Russell & Co, Port Glasgow and sunk in 1937 after a collision with another vessel. The Simla was a steel four-masted bark built in 1890 by Russell & Co, Port Glasgow. PH Coll 318.71 Contextual Notes In 1908 cargo of coal caught fire at Acapulco harbour and afterwards the Simla was converted to a hulk by the Union Oil Co of California.

1900 Port Blakely lumber mill, Washington. Thirteen sailing vessels in dock, log pond in the foreground. Handwritten on verso: 4 m. bark Queen Elizabeth (Capt. E. Fulton); 5 m. schooner Louis (Capt. Gedburg [sic G. I. Genburg]); 4 m. bkntn Jane L. Stanford (Capt. Mollested [sic Mollestrom]); 3 m. bark Highlands (Capt. Smith); 4 m. ship Lancing (Capt. F.W. Chapman); 4 m. schooner? Prosper (Capt. Johanssen); steamer Horda (Capt. Svendsen); 3 m. ship Brodick Castle (Capt. O. Olson); 4 m. schooner William H. Smith (Capt. Smith); 3 m. ship Pera (Capt. A. Teschner [sic Tescher]); 3 m. bark Seminole (Capt. Taylor); 3 m. schooner Excelsior (Capt. Burmeister); 3 m. schooner Peerless (Capt. Johnson).

1896 Washington Mill Company. Hadlock Bay, Washington.

1895 Three-masted ships at loading dock, Tacoma, Washington.

1895 Puget Mill Company. Sailing ships docked at Puget Mill Company, Port Gamble, Washington, February 9th.

1893-1906 Crew of British bark ASTERION. On deck loading planks, Puget Sound, Washington. The ASTERION was a British bark out of Liverpool. It was built in 1869 and converted into a barge in 1907.

1870 Putnam Lumber Company. Shipping dock of Putnam Lumber Company - Jacksonville, Florida.

1870 Lumber wharf : Jacksonville, Florida.

1870 A montage of etchings of Pensacola Harbor - Pensacola, Florida.

1917 Sylvia Shingle Company. Mill pond, and railroad tracks. The Sylvia Shingle Company was established in Montesano and operated from ca. 1910 to ca. 1922. Montesano, the county seat of Grays Harbor County, is eight miles east of Aberdeen on the Chehalis River near the mouth of Wynooche River in central Grays Harbor County. In 1862, the name Mount Zion was suggested by the wife of the first settler, J. L. Scammon. Another pioneer, Samuel James, suggested the present name from the Spanish monte or mountain, and sano or health. Local authorities thought Sam's name had more meaning.

Machinery made by Sumner Iron Works of Everett, Schafer Brothers Logging Company shingle mill, Montesano, Wn.

1915 Workers preparing shingle bolts at a Washington mill. Workers preparing shingle bolts at a Washington mill about 1915. Photographers: Webster and Stevens. From the collection of the Museum of History and Industry.

Shingle packers in Snohomish County mill. 1910. Photographer unknown. From the collection of the Everett Public Library.

1915 Seaside Shingle Mill. Everett, WA. Seaside Shingle Mill. Everett, WA. 1915. Photographer: Juleen. From the collection of the Everett Public Library.

Cypress Lumber Company shingle sill - Apalachicola, Florida, early 20th century.

1918 Aloha Mill and Shake Company. Production Division soldiers, with members of the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen in background, Aloha. Detachment of 421 Aero Construction Squadron. U.S. Signal Corps. Loyal Legion men in background. Aloha was once home to Aloha Mill and Shake Company. It is located two miles east of the Pacific Ocean on Beaver Creek in west central Grays Harbor County. It was founded by R. D. Emerson and W. H. Dole in 1905. The name, a Hawaiian greeting, was chosen by members of the Dole family, who were landowners and business people in Hawaii.

1909 W.H. White and Company. Quality - Considered, we feel sure there are none who can excel us in high grade. White Rock Maple Flooring - We want to convince you we are talking facts and would suggest you try us on your next order. We can also ship promptly Michigan Maple, Hardwood and Hemlock Lumber and White Cedar Shingles. - W. H. White Company, Boyne City Lumber Company. Mills at Boyne City, Michigan. Wholesale Yard North Tonawanda, N.Y. (ad featured in American Lumberman, Chicago, IL, April 03 1909.)

1929 Advertisement for Suwanee River Pine and Cypress from Putnam Lumber Company - Shamrock, Florida. From the American Lumberman Magazine. Bud Alston is seated on the log in lower left.

Carson Linn Logging Trucks advertisement.

1932 Green Point Logging Co. Ltd., steam donkey.

1932 Green Point Logging Co. Ltd., steam donkey.

1920 Corridor cut in Youbou, BC

1940s Rail line and logging equipment, Youbou, B.C.

1910-1921 New Zealand coastal railway. At the beginning of the 20th century the introduction of steel rails meant that tracks could be built on steep grades, with sharp curves. This famous tramway along the wild surf coast of Piha, near Auckland, carried kauri logs to the Piha sawmill. Its major period of activity was 1910–21.

1894 Golden Lumber Company's Mills, Golden, BC.

1949 Ship James Lick loading at Pacific Mills Ltd. dock.

Metal engraved print, The woods in autumn.

Log hauler stopped on a bridge to take in the view.

Log hauler stopped on a bridge to take in the view.

1885 Bronson's Mills, Ontario, Canada

Little crafts - Pitsawyers in China

A water colour illustration of two men working a pit frame saw. The scene appears to be within a town or city, possibly an early commercial construction site.

Before 79 A.D. - Carpenters at Herculaneum, Italy.

Carpenters using a saw pit frame to make lumber.

Carpenters making lumber with a saw pit

An illustration of a group of carpenters and sawyers

A wood carving depicting Chinese sawyers.

Little crafts - Pitsawyers in China

Chart for sawyers making lumber and veneer.

Chart of carpenters and sawyers.

Saw pit sawyers in China.

1896 E. Faber's Cedar Mill

20211106 - Vintage logging scenes, Nova Scotia Canada

1899 Kimball Lumber Co. mill and yard in Apalachicola, Florida.

1896 Cypress Lumber Company building in Apalachicola, Florida.

1896 E. Faber's Cedar Mill

1884 Tilghman Mill - Palatka, Florida.

1890 Simpson and Company's gang mill - Bagdad, Florida.

1886-1890 Hamilton Mill

1898 Sawmill at Pe Ell, WA., Sec. 35.T.13.5.W.

1898-1901 Lake Whatcom Logging Company

1885 Early sawmill on Lake Washington

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

1919 Saw filer, Brookings Timber and Lumber Company,, Brookings

1948 A worker checks the sharpening of a band saw at Lee Tidewater Cypress Company mill - Perry, Florida

1948 A worker checks the sharpening of a band saw at Lee Tidewater Cypress Company mill - Perry, Florida

1952 Lumberman works on his saw - Everglades, Florida.

1907 Sierra Lumber Company Logging Train

1905 Logging Railroads.

1900s Men producing lumber with machinery in forest.

1903 Men laying railroad cross ties in the woods.

1907 Southern Pine Lumber Company at Diboll

1905 Logs on flatcars at unidentified sawmill.

1905 British Columbia Toothpicks 18 x 18 inches x 70 ft

1908 Clear Lake Logging Co.

1910 Canadian Western Lumber Co. Ltd.

1910 Early Wooden Railroad Rails and Bed

1907 Hoisting log with jammer.

1907 Southern Pine Lumber Company workshop interior.

1900 single man operation interior

1905 Sawing log in sawmill.

1905 Feb 28 Patent for Portable Sawmill

1905 Illustration patent of a Gang Saw Mill

1907 Hoisting log with jammer.

1908 A Logging train, Washington state

1907 McGiffert Log Loader in East Texas, USA

1907 Shingle saw.

1880 Interior of Warnell Lumber & Veneer Company's basket factory.

R.J. & B.F. Camp Lumber Company

1930 Elberta Crate & Box Company (Tallahassee, FL)

1901 - A "B.C. Toothpick" cut at Hastings Sawmill

1901 - A "B.C. Toothpick" cut at Hastings Sawmill

1940 Lumber yard at Youbou, B.C.

1910 Construction of Dixon Lumber Mill at Crystal River

1930 Bagdad Land and Lumber Company.

1935 Cherry Lake Rural Rehabilitation Community.

1900s Fraser Valley Sawmill

1900 Unidentified saw mill.

1895 Coombs Lumber Company - Apalachicola, Florida

Weaver Loughridge Lumber Company - Boyd, Florida

1895 Coombs Lumber Company - Water Street, Apalachicola, Florida.

1890 Cypress Lumber Company's pay office.

1910 McDowell Crate & Lumber Company

20th century early, Mayo Lumber Company

1939 Putnam Lumber Co. in Shamrock, Florida.

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

1945 Pacific Mills' donkey engine on the Queen Charlotte Islands.

1939 big log at Camp 4, Trout Lake, BC.

1945 Man looking at power saw connections in the Queen Charlotte Islands.

1945 Man looking at an electric tree faller in the Queen Charlotte Islands

A chart of Logger's Tools.

Dot Logging Co. at Knight Inlet

Log load No. 21.

Log load No. 26.

An elephant skidding logs.

1906 La Moine Lumber and Trading Co.

1903-1904 View of Harrison Mills (BC)

1903-1904 View of Harrison Mills (BC)

1900 Stirling City Mill Pond.

1916 East half Granville Island before filling.1916 East half Granville Island before filling.

1923 Harry Zink at millpond.

1902 Ross McLaren Lumber Company

1942 Schafer Brothers Logging Company, Olympic Camp.

1900 Port Blakely Mill, Washington.

1904 Drake's Logging Camp, Louisiana.

1916 Florence Logging Company.

Timber rafts on Guyan River, Huntington, WV

Timber rafts on Guyan River, Huntington, WV

Moving logs to New Orleans through the West End channel.

1950 Keith Potter mill operations.

Keith Potter's mill, Marshalltown, Nova Scotia.

1950 Keith Potter mill

1950 Keith Potter mill in Marshalltown, Digby County Nova Scotia.

1950 Keith Potter Bay of Fundy mill operations.

1950 Boat towing logs, Digby Nova Scotia.

1870s Log transport in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia)

Tractor crawler pushing logs out to make a river raft.

1932 Green Point Logging Co. Ltd. "Shay" locomotive working at log dump.

1932 Green Point Logging Co. Ltd. "Shay" locomotive working at log dump.

1930s Eagle Lake Sawmills, Giscome, B.C. Dumping the loads at mill.

Ready to dump at a log pond.

Logs plunge downhill into the water, Pope & Talbot, Dallas, Oregon.

1947 Logging Truck.

1938 Cumshewa Inlet, BC. Log dump; A.P. Allison Co.

1930 Crew at loading site below railroad trestle, camp 3, Clemons Logging Company, near Melbourne.

Logs unloaded at the log pond.

Log dump.

1890s Claxton, BC

Log Pond.

Log Pond.

Logging Wannigan

1900s River driving was the most exciting part of logging in the early days – and the most deadly.

These calked boots are an essential security measure when working in log-driving operations.

Typical occurrence in the log-sweeping operations

The sweeping of logs at the Rapide de la Montagne.

1940 The beginning of the log-drive.

1920s Atlas Lumber and Shingle Company

1855 Rescue of men from a log driver's raft, Chaudiere Falls.

Art rendering of early log drivers.

Horses hauling large log on wagon.

Horse logging

Diamond Match Company.

Diamond Match Company.

Logger inspects the hinge cut before proceeding with the fall.

Washington's Wonderful Woods and Women.

Gentleman stands in a massive hinge cut.

Woodsmen stop for a photo while standing on spring boards.

600 year old fir tree.

A man standing in a massive hinge cut.

Fallers and woman beside tree, St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Company

Falling crew and speeder, Pacific National Lumber Company

Jewel Robertson logging the redwoods in Northern California.

Part of flume, Broughton Lumber near Willard, WA.

1935 Potlatch Forests Incorporated.

1900 Flume unloading.

1939 Log scaling 5500 ft. entering Rockport Redwood Company sawmill.

1903 Logging with a donkey engine.

1903 Logging with a donkey engine.

1908 Oct 7: View of a logging train hauling logs and equipment through Tehama County, CA.

1902 Loggers at the top of a log chute.

1904 Pierce County, California

1902 Hall and Bishop Logging Company.

1902 Sierra Lumber Company.

1905 A Young Logger in a Log Chute

1905 Hall and Bishop Logging Company.

1903 Cut log rolling downhill after being winched by donkey engine.

1902 Hall and Bishop Logging Company.

1942 U-Saw Prod., Lbr., portable mills - Arkansas

1939 July, JC Sawyer, Clarksville, Arkansas

1938 July, JC Sawyer, Clarksville, Arkansas

1941 Illustration of a patent for a Portable Sawmill

1941 Illustration of a patent for a Sawmill

1908 McFarlane, Thompson and Anderson, Fredricton NB

1939 U-Saw Prod., Lbr., portable mills Missouri

1940 Humphrey's Mill, Yuba County, California

1941 Voss Alder Mill, South Fork Gualala River, California

1950 near Double Springs Road and the Grayson Road, Alabama

1953 Charlie Durham small sawmill, Salt Creek, Alabama

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

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

1891 Flea Valley Mill.

1916 Cathlamet Timber Company.

Children and loading crew with gondola railroad car, horse team, and logs to be loaded, Nelson and Company.

1922-1923 Children playing on swings.

1940 Children and teacher outside of school building, camp 5, Simpson Logging Company, Grays Harbor County.

Early Days Trucking.

1928 Boys sitting on steps at railroad logging camp

Children and teacher outside schoolhouse, McCormick

Walville Lumber Company

Saginaw Timber Company

1928 Hobi Timber Company

1946 Bloedel, Stewart and Welch kraft pulp mill at Port Alberni.

Schafer Brothers Logging Company

Wash day.

Saginaw Timber Company

Saginaw Timber Company

Schafer Brothers Logging Company.

Schafer Brothers Logging Company

1920s Train on trestle with load of logs.

Polson Logging Company

North Western Lumber Company

1930s Green Point Logging Co.

Logging Train on Trestle

1890s High bridge on the Ouray Stage Line.

1915 Logging railroads, Weed Lumber Company

Crane Loading Logs onto Train

Crane Loading Logs onto Train

Polson Logging Company, near Hoquiam.

1946 Taylor & Carver Logging

Crew at loading site with logs on railroad skeleton car, camp 1, Polson Logging Company, near Hoquiam.

1920 Coats-Fordney Lumber Company, near Aberdeen.

1928 Lake Sawyer Lumber Company.

Crew at loading site with loaded flatcar, two donkey engines and spartree, camp 15, North Western Lumber Company, near Vesta.

1930 Clemons Logging Company, near Melbourne.

The meeting of two means of transport.

1930 Clemons Logging Company, near Melbourne.

Match stick making.

1874 First $4 bank note issued by the Bank of Ottawa.

1906 Five-dollar bank-note issued by the Bank of Ottawa.

1903 Twenty-dollar bank-note issued by the Bank of Ottawa.

The Rustic Economy

Sketch of a cooper tightening the staves of a barrel.

1919 Drawing illustrating an E.B. Eddy Company Silent Parlor Match match-box

Labour Payment Schedule

Remember Eddy Matches?

Match stick making.

The match-sticks travel by millions on the assembly-line, between dipping-baths and drying stops.

One of the very first matches made by Ezra Butler Eddy during the 1855-1860 period.

Another of the matches produced by E.B. Eddy.

1905 Henry L. Yesler Sawmill.

E.B. Eddy's Lumbering and Manufacturing

Ad: One Man Power Saw

1947 The ad says it all.

1920 Lumber trucks.

1920 Lumber trucks.

Vintage photo, log loading on a truck.

1918 White truck with load of logs.

1917 Fageol log truck.

1920 Early Diamond T logging truck.

1919 Garford logging truck, Charles Fox and Sons log truck in Port Angeles

1905 Hall and Bishop Logging Company.

1900s Sultan Railway and Timber Company

1900s Rock Bay from the boom of logs.

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1900s Old Curly (former C.P.R. locomotive)

1905 Hall and Bishop Logging Company.

1905 Hall and Bishop Logging Company.

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Slip tongue cart old logging photos

Slip tongue cart old logging photos

Slip tongue cart old logging photos

Slip tongue cart old logging photos

1940 Another means of hauling logs in the La Blanche Lake district.

1932 The E.B. Eddy’s No 5 Shanty, somewhere on the Upper Ottawa River.

Winter Adirondack logging.

1928 Clemina, BC - vintage logging

1940s Tractor pulling.

1940 Another means of hauling logs in the La Blanche Lake district.

This is quite probably a Petite-Nation jobber’s shanty.

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McCormick Lumber Company.

Lake Sawyer Mill Company

Wynooche Timber Co., Seattle, WA

Riding the sky line.

Crew at loading site with skeleton cars, Polson Logging Company

Goodyear Logging Co., Clallam Bay, Washington

1933 Spar tree at Campbell River

1948 Log Storage at Shasta Box, Douglas City, CA.

Clemens Logging Company

1937 Tractor yarding logs.

1941 Pacific Lumber Company.

Skidder hauling big logs.

Woodsmen skidding big logs.

1963 A-Frame Logging Alberni Canal

1920s Adams River Lumber Co.

Horse team and crew with large log on skid road.

1887 Tacoma Mill

1899 SENATOR in dock, Washington.

1887 Port Blakely lumber mill.

1900 Port Blakely lumber mill, Washington.

1893-1903 BENICIA in dock with crew members.

1893-1906 Port Ludlow sawmill, Washington.

1889 Tacoma Mill Co.

1890 Ships moored at Port Blakely, Washington.

1891 Seattle Terminal and Railway Elevator Co., West Seattle.

1900 Cross-hauling.

1895 Puget Mill Company docks.

2014 More than 120 thousand hectares of forests were deforested in 2013 in Colombia.

Vintage logging - Saw pits : Vietnamese sawyers in Tonkin.

Vintage logging - Saw pits : The sawyer Thyolo Malawi.

Vintage logging - Saw pits : Postcard of Chinese Wood Sawyers, Peking, China.

Vintage logging - Saw pits : Carpenters making lumber from a curved piece of timber.

Vintage logging - Saw pits : A wood carving depicting Chinese sawyers.

Vintage logging - Saw pits : A water colour illustration of sawyers using a whip saw.

Vintage logging - Saw pits : A factory setting of sawyers in Vietnam.

Vintage logging - Saw pits : 1915 Les scieurs de long.

Vintage logging - Saw pits : 1900 Edgers at work whipsawing.

Vintage logging - Saw pits : 18th century Sawyer in India

Vintage firewood truck delivery service.

Vintage firewood delivery trucks.

1946 Band saw cutting log