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  • Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – Advertisements

    May 1, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging are about advertisements from the different companies that played a role in forestry and manufacturing of lumber.

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    Carbon River Shingle Company mill workers and children.

    Vintage logging – Shingles

    March 14, 2020
    1914 Men attaching chains to logs in snow covered forest using the parbuckle method.

    Vintage Logging – Parbuckle

    February 1, 2020
    John Vance ?, 13 ft in diameter.

    Vintage logging -stump cuts

    March 13, 2021
  • Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – shingles

    January 23, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging is about shingles and shakes that kept us out of the weather.

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

    Vintage logging – saw pits

    January 9, 2021
    3 lumber trucks loaded, California - 1920 license plates.

    Vintage logging – logging trucks

    April 3, 2021
    Republic of Central Africa, felling a Sipo tree.

    Vintage logging – Chainsaws

    July 3, 2021
  • Sawmill

    Cracking open some pine

    January 19, 2021 /

    A bit cooler this January Tuesday. -11ºC with the wind chill. Just warm enough at the start of the afternoon to get out and spend the day sawmilling. With sharp blades, big logs and two people, the work seems to cruise right along.

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    DIY hack - brush sweeps oil from sawmill blades

    DIY hack – brush sweeps oil from sawmill blades

    June 10, 2022
    Saw mill blade wooden boxes

    Protect your investment

    June 30, 2021
    WoodchuckCanuck can saw your logs into lumber for a reasonable rate, Antigonish County, Nova Scotia.

    Saw milling logs to lumber

    December 1, 2021
  • bag of softwood kindling, Antigonish County, Nova Scotia.
    Firewood

    Sawdustday

    January 16, 2021 /

    Slicing and dicing a few pine logs to make some bags of kindling today. Just a short video below, showing the nuts and bolts of a simple sawmilling operation. Bags hold one cubic foot of softwood.

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    Wooden bikes made from scrap firewood, used for delivery of goods.

    Firewood from around the world.

    December 30, 2019
    Firewood works of art.

    Friday’s Firewood from Around the World

    July 17, 2020
    Firewood cage dumped with skidsteer.

    Friday’s Firewood from Around the World

    August 28, 2020
  • 1900 China postcard - small Chinese pedlars, wood-sawyers.
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – saw pits

    January 9, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging is about saw pits, the ancient art of sawing logs into dimensional lumber.

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    1905 Alaska Central Railroad.

    Vintage Logging – Skidding Logs

    March 28, 2020

    Vintage logging – Axe men

    May 15, 2021
    close up 1890 Lumber ships loading at Hastings Sawmill.

    Vintage Logging -Ships

    March 21, 2020
  • 1936 Illustration of patent for a Shaping Tool for Saw Teeth
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – patents

    December 19, 2020 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging is about the numerous patents that were filed for inventions claimed in the saw milling, lumber and logging industry.

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    1907 Hoisting log with jammer.

    Vintage logging – Machinery

    October 9, 2021
    Sharpening a whip saw.

    Vintage Logging – Saw filing

    February 15, 2020
    1905 Fallers cutting a tree.

    Vintage Logging – Saw Filing

    January 11, 2020
  • 2020-Nov 07 Sawmill slabs out for delivery.
    Firewood,  Milling Lumber

    Slaburday

    November 7, 2020 /

    With our skidsteer still down for track repairs, we have to keep moving with deliveries.

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    Firewood Around the World.

    Firewood from around the world.

    November 6, 2019
    Firewood delivery truck with boom for off loading bagged firewood.

    Friday’s Firewood from Around the World

    December 25, 2020
    Firewood trucks. They don't make them like this any more.

    Firewood from around the world.

    November 27, 2019
  • 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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    Choking logs with a beautiful view.

    Vintage logging – scenery

    January 16, 2021
    1900 Lumber wagon pulled by horses.

    Vintage Logging – Stacks of lumber

    April 18, 2020
    15 ton Upright Climax Geared Locomotive.

    Vintage Logging – Lumber Companies

    January 4, 2020
  • 1910 Logging near Clio, CA, US
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – cattle

    August 29, 2020 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging is about the cattle that were raised for work and for food.

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    close up 1890 Lumber ships loading at Hastings Sawmill.

    Vintage Logging -Ships

    March 21, 2020
    Log driving is dangerous work.

    Vintage Logging – Log jams

    December 14, 2019
    1900 Lumpkin Saw Mill workers.

    Vintage logging – Big Logs

    May 22, 2021
  • 1910 Coquitlam Dam, showing the original camp
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – camp

    August 15, 2020 /

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

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    Vintage logging – Axe men

    May 15, 2021
    1937 Tractor yarding logs.

    Vintage logging – skidding

    February 6, 2021

    Vintage logging – lumber mills

    December 5, 2020
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