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  • 1907 Wreckage after Burning of Champion Mill at Lyonsville.
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – Accidents

    April 24, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging are mostly about accidents, fires and train wrecks, that made a hard job that much harder to recover from and continue doing.

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    1900 five men under the roof of a saw mill

    Vintage logging – machinery

    December 12, 2020
    1905 Logging Railroads.

    Vintage logging – Railroads

    October 23, 2021
    1910 Coquitlam Dam, showing the original camp

    Vintage logging – camp

    August 15, 2020
  • 1930s Two women pose near stacks of large cants.
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – Women

    April 10, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging are the women of the world and the different roles they played in the early days of logging.

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    1900 Lumber wagon pulled by horses.

    Vintage Logging – Stacks of lumber

    April 18, 2020
    Carbon River Shingle Company mill workers and children.

    Vintage logging – Shingles

    March 14, 2020
    1945 Moving logs with a tractor for Pacific Mills on the Queen Charlotte Islands, BC.

    Vintage logging – tractors

    March 20, 2021
  • 1906 Engine #7 and train of 20 cars of pine logs.
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – trains

    March 27, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging are scenes are about trains and their role in the logging and forestry industry.

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    1900 China postcard - small Chinese pedlars, wood-sawyers.

    Vintage logging – saw pits

    January 9, 2021
    Log driving is dangerous work.

    Vintage Logging – Log jams

    December 14, 2019
    Sharpening a whip saw.

    Vintage Logging – Saw filing

    February 15, 2020
  • John Vance ?, 13 ft in diameter.
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging -stump cuts

    March 13, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging are scenes are about the massive stump cuts for years gone by and more recently as well.

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

    Vintage Logging – Sky line

    April 4, 2020
    1902 A patent illustration for a bridging device.

    Vintage logging – band saw mills

    July 4, 2020
    Log driver in Oregon.

    Vintage Logging – Log drivers

    November 30, 2019
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    Vintage logging – stacked lumber

    March 6, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging are scenes about stacked lumber in all sorts of sizes and piles.

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    1907 Hoisting log with jammer.

    Vintage logging – Machinery

    October 9, 2021

    Vintage logging – Advertisements

    May 1, 2021
    1926 High rigger climbing a spar tree.

    Vintage logging – Tree Climbing

    May 16, 2020
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    Vintage logging – Slip tongue carts

    February 27, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging is about winter scenes including sleighs and other means of transport over the snow.

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

    Vintage Logging – Sky line

    April 4, 2020

    Vintage logging – Camp

    June 19, 2021
    Log driver in Oregon.

    Vintage Logging – Log drivers

    November 30, 2019
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    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – sky lines

    February 13, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging is about using high wire devices to pull logs out of difficult terrain.

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    Match stick making.

    Vintage logging – articles

    May 8, 2021
    close up 1890 Lumber ships loading at Hastings Sawmill.

    Vintage Logging -Ships

    March 21, 2020

    Vintage logging – sawmills

    January 2, 2021
  • 1937 Tractor yarding logs.
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – skidding

    February 6, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging is about skidding logs out of the forest and a few of the different ways that job was accomplished.

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    1912 Felling a big tree with axes.

    Vintage logging – Winter

    May 30, 2020
    1942 Jerome Relocation Center, Denson, Arkansas

    Vintage Logging – Log yards

    December 28, 2019
    1940s Logs falling off a wharf into the water at H.R. MacMillan Co.

    Vintage Logging – Log dumps

    December 7, 2019
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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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    1910 Coquitlam Dam, showing the original camp

    Vintage logging – camp

    August 15, 2020
    1940-1948 Train pulling a load of logs over a trestle bridge.

    Vintage logging – bridges.

    August 1, 2020
    1900 Log on the narrow gauge railroad.

    Vintage Logging – Railroads

    February 8, 2020
  • 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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    1900 Chute Logging

    Vintage logging – Big logs

    July 11, 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

    Vintage logging – stacked lumber

    March 6, 2021
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