The forestry and logging pictures thread

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[Stackowood]

That would be a wild ride downhill with ice and snow.

 

[ajschainsaws]

 

[ajschainsaws]

 

[hoskvarna]

That would be a wild ride downhill with ice and snow.

Better have some studded rims.


Sent from Hoskvarna Hills

 

[RandyMac]

 

[fossil]

A few pics and some loggers words from Haliburton, Ontario, Canada


I remember the first morning we went up there to start tailing the Hawk river and I said I wonder how we’re gonna get them logs into the water. You see, I’d never done it before. When we come to the river, this old Sam Whittaker, he had the peavey over his shoulder and he was ahead of us and we were following him like a couple of pups."
~ Logger, 1947 river drive for Hodgson’s Mill


"He went into the river up to his neck and started pulling these logs up and that water just ice cold. He was so tough, we just went in, too, and never said a word.”

~ Logger, 1947 river drive for Hodgson’s Mill

“Jack Madill could spear a log at Crab Rapids and ride ‘er down to Halls Lake in time for dinner.”
~ Logger, 1947 river drive

“You couldn’t imagine some of the stories these fellas would tell at night up there in that bunkhouse after supper. I remember Ed Mitchell, he’d be sittin’ back and then he’d start with, “There ain’t nothin’ what I ever knowed of …” and then he'd start.. They could keep you spellbound.”
~ Logger, 1947 river drive

 

[fossil]

I believe that these Alligator boats were used in both Ontario and Quebec. I have seen only one pic of the type that was used where I vacation in Haliburton County. It didn't have anything on deck but the boiler and the mechanicals to turn the side wheels.
They started logging the area for white and red pine in the 1800's. It was logged out by 1920's and from pics I've seen, looked like a moonscape. It's heavily forested now with a mix of birch, ash, maple, red oak, poplar, aspen, cedar, whjte and red pine. The lakes are littered with logs that sank back then.


Alligator boats (small side-wheelers) hauled booms of up to 60,000 logs, and could crawl across bogs from one lake to another. They were flat-bottomed scows, and they carried about a mile of cable on board, which they used to pull themselves over land by winding up a cable anchored to a point some distance away. A steam side-wheeler, the Beaver, was on Baptiste Lake since at least 1917, when Sam Baptiste was the captain

 

[fossil]

That would be a wild ride downhill with ice and snow.

And I'll bet that happened by the look of where the driver is standing for a quick escape.

 

[ajschainsaws]

I found this great photo yesterday on the inter web it just puts into perspective how vast the areas are which some of you guys live and work

 

[ajschainsaws]

This is our district very up and down a lot of small parcels of land and forest and very small roads some are barely 8ft wide

 

[jacob j.]

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[jacob j.]

Courtesy of Lane Boyd:

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[jacob j.]

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[jacob j.]

Courtesy of Dennis Frazier:

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[jacob j.]

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[jacob j.]

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