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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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    Seven men stand at the end of a 200-foot log being harvested.

    Vintage Logging – Sky line

    April 4, 2020
    1900 Lumpkin Saw Mill workers.

    Vintage logging – Big Logs

    May 22, 2021
    1945 Moving logs with a tractor for Pacific Mills on the Queen Charlotte Islands, BC.

    Vintage logging – tractors

    March 20, 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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    Vintage logging – stacked lumber

    March 6, 2021
    1900 five men under the roof of a saw mill

    Vintage logging – machinery

    December 12, 2020
    1939 Canadian International Paper log-drivers trying to break a jam with their peaveys.

    Vintage logging – log jams and log rafts

    November 14, 2020
  • 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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    Egyptian carpenter making lumber.

    Vintage logging – carpenters

    August 22, 2020
    1940 Another means of hauling logs in the La Blanche Lake district.

    Vintage logging – Sleighs and Winter

    February 20, 2021
    John Vance ?, 13 ft in diameter.

    Vintage logging -stump cuts

    March 13, 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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    Vintage logging – log dump

    November 7, 2020
    Egyptian carpenter making lumber.

    Vintage logging – carpenters

    August 22, 2020
    Sawyers using an elevated saw pit frame.

    Vintage logging – Carpenters

    June 26, 2021
  • Children and teachers standing outside school building, High Point, WA, USA
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – Children

    July 10, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage photos features the children who were present during these pioneering days.

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    Log driving is dangerous work.

    Vintage Logging – Log jams

    December 14, 2019

    Vintage logging – circle saw mills

    September 19, 2020
    Log driver in Oregon.

    Vintage Logging – Log drivers

    November 30, 2019
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    Vintage logging – Camp

    June 19, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging show snapshots of camp life for loggers and workers at the camps.

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    Humbug Logging

    Vintage Logging – Tractors

    May 2, 2020
    Log driver in Oregon.

    Vintage Logging – Log drivers

    November 30, 2019

    Vintage logging – chainsaws

    September 5, 2020
  • Saginaw Timber Company
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – Bridges

    June 12, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging show bridge construction methods and some of the ways bridges were used in the logging industry.

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

    Vintage logging – flumes and sluiceways

    October 10, 2020
  • Crane Loading Logs onto Train
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – Boom, spars and A-frames

    June 5, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging shows different scenes of logs being loaded and the men who operated the rigging of booms, spars and A-frames.

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

    Vintage logging – Log dump

    August 28, 2021
    Sawyers using an elevated saw pit frame.

    Vintage logging – Carpenters

    June 26, 2021

    Vintage logging – Advertisements

    May 1, 2021
  • 1900 Lumpkin Saw Mill workers.
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – Big Logs

    May 22, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging shows some of the big logs that fell come from the stumps.

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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
    1914 Men attaching chains to logs in snow covered forest using the parbuckle method.

    Vintage Logging – Parbuckle

    February 1, 2020
    Steaming horse logging

    Vintage logging – Horses

    August 14, 2021
  • 1900 Lyonsville Lumbering.
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – woodsmen

    April 17, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging are a nod to the men of the woods, and the various tasks they did in the logging and lumber industries.

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    1937 Tractor yarding logs.

    Vintage logging – skidding

    February 6, 2021
    1901 - A "B.C. Toothpick" cut at Hastings Sawmill for the visit of The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York.

    Vintage logging – Lumber mills

    October 2, 2021
    Crane Loading Logs onto Train

    Vintage logging – Boom, spars and A-frames

    June 5, 2021
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