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  • 1905 Logging Railroads.
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – Railroads

    October 23, 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 various logging scenes that benefited from railroads.

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    1923 White and Sugar Pine.

    Vintage logging – Big trees

    May 29, 2021
    1928 B And K Co., booming ground on Pitt Lake.

    Vintage logging – Scenery

    March 7, 2020
    Charles W. Blakesley with team hauling logs.

    Vintage Logging – Slip tongue carts

    April 11, 2020
  • 1907 Hoisting log with jammer.
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – Machinery

    October 9, 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 various machinery that supporting the logging industry.

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    Vintage logging – Advertisements

    May 1, 2021
    1936 Illustration of patent for a Shaping Tool for Saw Teeth

    Vintage logging – patents

    December 19, 2020
    1940s Logs falling off a wharf into the water at H.R. MacMillan Co.

    Vintage Logging – Log dumps

    December 7, 2019
  • 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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    1902 A patent illustration for a bridging device.

    Vintage logging – band saw mills

    July 4, 2020
    1945 Building a raft for Pacific Mills

    Vintage Logging – Log rafts

    December 21, 2019
    1936 Illustration of patent for a Shaping Tool for Saw Teeth

    Vintage logging – patents

    December 19, 2020
  • 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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    1900 Lumpkin Saw Mill workers.

    Vintage logging – Big Logs

    May 22, 2021
    1909 Woman Standing on Diamond Rail Car with Large Log.

    Vintage logging – Women

    June 6, 2020
    Carbon River Shingle Company mill workers and children.

    Vintage logging – Shingles

    March 14, 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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    1890s Logging Horses. - close up

    Vintage logging – Woodsmen

    June 13, 2020
    1905 Alaska Central Railroad.

    Vintage Logging – Skidding Logs

    March 28, 2020

    Vintage logging – axe men

    June 27, 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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    1945 Building a raft for Pacific Mills

    Vintage Logging – Log rafts

    December 21, 2019
    1890 Looking across Burrard Inlet From Vancouver, BC.

    Vintage logging – lumber ships

    January 30, 2021
    1899 Locomotive "Two Spot" at Royal City Planing Mills

    Vintage logging – Trains

    May 9, 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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    WTC, Women's Timber Corp., creative commons, lumber jill, machinery, stacked lumber, women

    Vintage Logging – Lumber Jills

    January 18, 2020
    close up 1890 Lumber ships loading at Hastings Sawmill.

    Vintage Logging -Ships

    March 21, 2020

    Vintage logging – lumber mills

    December 5, 2020
  • 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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    close up 1890 Lumber ships loading at Hastings Sawmill.

    Vintage Logging -Ships

    March 21, 2020
    Republic of Central Africa, felling a Sipo tree.

    Vintage logging – Chainsaws

    July 3, 2021
    1940 Another means of hauling logs in the La Blanche Lake district.

    Vintage logging – Sleighs and Winter

    February 20, 2021
  • Republic of Central Africa, felling a Sipo tree.
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – Chainsaws

    July 3, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage photos features chainsaws and the role they have played in the logging industry.

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    1940 View of a sawmill

    Vintage logging – log drivers

    October 31, 2020
    1902 A patent illustration for a bridging device.

    Vintage logging – band saw mills

    July 4, 2020
    1923 White and Sugar Pine.

    Vintage logging – Big trees

    May 29, 2021
  • Vintage Logging

    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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    1900 five men under the roof of a saw mill

    Vintage logging – machinery

    December 12, 2020
    Sawyers using an elevated saw pit frame.

    Vintage logging – Carpenters

    June 26, 2021
    1902 A patent illustration for a bridging device.

    Vintage logging – band saw mills

    July 4, 2020
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