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  • Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – lumber mills

    December 5, 2020 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging is about lumber companies.

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    August 14, 2021
    1910 Tree felling using spring boards.

    Vintage logging – Big trees

    July 18, 2020
  • 1900 Cross-hauling.
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – log yards

    November 21, 2020 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging is about log yards.

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    15 ton Upright Climax Geared Locomotive.

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    January 4, 2020
    1885 Saw Mill.

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    February 22, 2020
    1905 Fallers cutting a tree.

    Vintage Logging – Saw Filing

    January 11, 2020
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    Vintage logging – log dump

    November 7, 2020 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging is about log dumps, the area where logs where brought and dumped into the waterways.

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    1900 Up and down saw blades.

    Vintage Logging – Lumber Machinery

    January 25, 2020

    Vintage logging – chainsaws

    September 5, 2020

    Vintage logging – shingles

    January 23, 2021
  • 1940 View of a sawmill
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – log drivers

    October 31, 2020 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging is about log driver’s and the dangerous work of traveling the waterways.

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    1905 Logging Railroads.

    Vintage logging – Railroads

    October 23, 2021
    1919 Tree felling.

    Vintage logging – hinge cuts

    October 17, 2020
    1919 Sawmill and Factory of Lumber Products Limited.

    Vintage logging – Lumber companies

    September 25, 2021
  • A Sample of B.C. Fir - Diameter 9'8" near Vancouver, B.C.
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – horses

    October 24, 2020 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging is about horses and how they played a roll in the logging industry. That is, until railroads and machines took over.

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    1937 Tractor yarding logs.

    Vintage logging – skidding

    February 6, 2021
    3 lumber trucks loaded, California - 1920 license plates.

    Vintage logging – logging trucks

    April 3, 2021
    1940 View of a sawmill

    Vintage logging – log drivers

    October 31, 2020
  • 1919 Tree felling.
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – hinge cuts

    October 17, 2020 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging is about hinge cuts, the front cut when felling a tree. It sets up the falling direction of the tree as it hinges on the remaining wood after the back cut is performed.

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    Vintage logging – sky lines

    February 13, 2021
    Crane Loading Logs onto Train

    Vintage logging – Boom, spars and A-frames

    June 5, 2021
    1900 Lyonsville Lumbering.

    Vintage logging – woodsmen

    April 17, 2021
  • 1912-14 A shingle bolt flume in Capilano Canyon, BC.
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – flumes and sluiceways

    October 10, 2020 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging is about flumes (sluiceways) that were used to transport logs and lumber across uneven terrain.

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    3 lumber trucks loaded, California - 1920 license plates.

    Vintage logging – logging trucks

    April 3, 2021
    close up 1890 Lumber ships loading at Hastings Sawmill.

    Vintage Logging -Ships

    March 21, 2020
    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
  • A large team of horses pull timber along a skid road, Washington State.
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – Corduroy roads and steam donkeys

    October 3, 2020 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging is about corduroy roads. I only had a few remaining, so I topped up the weekly 10 with a few steam donkey pictures.

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    1939 Red River Lumber Company Humbug Logging Operation.

    Vintage logging – Trucking

    May 23, 2020
    Charles W. Blakesley with team hauling logs.

    Vintage Logging – Slip tongue carts

    April 11, 2020
    1900 Log on the narrow gauge railroad.

    Vintage Logging – Railroads

    February 8, 2020
  • Jim Curry balances work.
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    Vintage logging – clear cuts

    September 26, 2020 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging is about clear cutting. Although the practise is nowhere near the scale it used to be, people still argue over how much should be cut down in an area.

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    1900 Cross-hauling.

    Vintage logging – log yards

    November 21, 2020
    1930s Two women pose near stacks of large cants.

    Vintage logging – Women

    April 10, 2021
    1900 five men under the roof of a saw mill

    Vintage logging – machinery

    December 12, 2020
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    Vintage logging – chainsaws

    September 5, 2020 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging is about chainsaws.

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    Vintage logging – Log drivers

    August 21, 2021
    1932 Green Point Logging Co. Ltd. "Shay" locomotive working at log dump.

    Vintage logging – Log dump

    August 28, 2021
    1915-1920 Lougheed logging camp.

    Vintage Logging – Stump cuts

    April 25, 2020
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