The forestry and logging pictures thread

[Mastermind]

I agree. Thank you JJ.

 

[Mastermind]

Around these parts today......you could never find that many men that were willing to work.

 

[luckydad]

Unfortunately that's the case in most places now Randy...[emoji20][emoji20]


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[Mastermind]

Unfortunately that's the case in most places now Randy...[emoji20][emoji20]


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It's a damn shame really.

 

[Stump Shot]

Yes indeed, love all these old pictures of days gone by. Fear my finger would cramp trying to "like" them all. Thank yo very much for posting @jacob j.

 

[jacob j.]

Jacob, is that you in the picture with what looks to be spruce?

Not in that picture- that's a Canadian faller that's a friend of a Facebook friend.
Somewhere though, I have some pictures of myself cutting a fairly large Spruce in the winter of '96/'97.

 

[jacob j.]

I agree. Thank you JJ.

It's my pleasure- most of these I just pass along from Facebook. Some of the heavy equipment pictures come from Eric W. Cole (aka "Rusy Grapple"), a long time logging contractor from Alaska.

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[jacob j.]

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[jacob j.]

I think this is an old Prentice loader, maybe a 495.

 

[jacob j.]

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[sawfun]

Those big logs sure bring back memories. I remember as a kid when two log loads seemed to be the norm and one log was not uncommon. Then three seemed to be the standard in the early 70's. It seemed in the late 70's and early 80's five log loads were common. Now it's mostly pecker poles or 18" logs at best. I now look at the back of trucks for saw felled timber, which is rare. There were numerous bent cranes to lift loads and the cone shaped slash burners. The last one of those I saw burning was in the early 90's.

 

[jacob j.]

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[jacob j.]

Those big logs sure bring back memories. I remember as a kid when two log loads seemed to be the norm and one log was not uncommon. Then three seemed to be the standard in the early 70's. It seemed in the late 70's and early 80's five log loads were common. Now it's mostly pecker poles or 18" logs at best. I now look at the back of trucks for saw felled timber, which is rare. There were numerous bent cranes to lift loads and the cone shaped slash burners. The last one of those I saw burning was in the early 90's.

The last WigWam I saw in service was at Mazama Lumber in Creswell in the late 80's. There was one up at Bohemia (in Disston, Oregon) when they closed the mill in 1990 but a lot of parts of the mill had been closed since 1988. I was actually working for a hazmat contractor and we cleaned up the tank traps at the old Bohemia site in 1991.

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[jacob j.]

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[jacob j.]

Russian stick wagon

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