Any loggers on here?

[NIsaacs]

Dang I quit the log woods back in '97 and now here I am again:-laf Just on a small scale with home site prep, sure do like the smell of fresh pine sawdust! The first pic is some nice Yellow Bark (Ponderosa Pine) The second one is just leaving my house bound for Tucson.

Nick

 

[BIGNASTY]

looks good Nick, now that we cut trees on our own property we do it with a little different kind of power called Mules but same kind of idea

Take Care Brother

BIG

 

[mwilson]

I was looking for a picture of pine logs and stumbled upon this old story...

Worth a read if you want to see how things were done here in Maine back in the day...

http://www.foresthistory.org/Publications/JofFH/Scaler.pdf

 

[NIsaacs]

Cool old pic's Mike, thanks. They sure had to work hard back in the day! We always figure the log scaler at the saw mills had a fat thumb, we never seemed to get the scale we figured we should have. I use the Scribner scale book. The load in the first picture had 1360 bd. ft. or at 10# per bd. ft. that load weighed 13,600 lbs. about what it felt like.

Nick

 

[mwilson]

I can remember the hand crews *****in' about the scaler years ago when I hauled wood...age old issue.....

 

[vr1967]

My great great grandfather Robert Monroe Roberts (on log) with his team at the old White Cap store, which was located at the corner Busy Corner and Berwick Cassells Roads in Amite County , Mississippi. Taken around 1890-1900 time frame.

 

[NIsaacs]

Picture for you pulp wood loggers Just a little trivia, Arizona has the largest Ponderosa Pine stand in the world, not bad for a desert! Some of these are 34" on the butt, scary when you fall them on a 1/4 acre home site

Nick

 

[ALSAN]

I spent 18 years as the head sawyer in northern Wisconsin in a hardwood mill running mostly red oak but other hardwoods 102 inch long sticks , electric over hydraulic set works with 60 buttons or levers in the cab about 3 million board ft a year not big in todays big mills
Then spent 2 years scaling logs and buying lumber
Old habits die hard i cant see a load of logs without thinking i wonder what they look like opened up