Logging

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    I can see it and I'm not on Facebook.

    Very interesting. Life was certainly harder back then, wasn't it?
     
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    Great video!

    If you enjoy this topic look for a little book and video called Lumberjack Sky Pilot by Rev. Frank Reed.

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    The tree does not look happy!:(
     
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    Another one from the west. This is a logging railroad.

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    Well, you can sure tell that OSHA wasn't around back then...…..
     
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    I worked in a logging operation when I was younger for a short while. We had chain saws and log skidders, but it was still the hardest work I ever did.
     
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    On a much smaller level, my dad would log trees on his land and I helped with that, mostly peeling polar. I hated it, but it wasn't the work so much as the mosquitoes, deer flies, horseflies, and other biting and stinging things.
     
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    I worked between college and the Navy pulling labs off the mill after the sawyer sliced 'em. It took two of us to handle 18 ' long 2x12 planks in wet oak, but most of the rest was a one-man job. Many had leather aprons to protect the pant legs, and I would go through at least one pair of gloves daily. It was awful work, but the guys I worked with were great.
     
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    Flume Logging - Clearwater River, Idaho, 1938 (silent)

    Flume:. an artificial channel conveying water, typically used for transporting logs or timber.



    Timber topping and riding down a flume in Oregon, 1951

     
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    @Shirley Martin...I see what you're doing!

    Your placing your head on other bodies in your Avatar!

    That's OK, though. :)
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    It's FaceintheHole. Be who you want to be. :p
     
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