https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10203993253302649 Logging in Maine in the 1930s. It's a Facebook video, so if you're not on Facebook, sorry.
I can see it and I'm not on Facebook. Very interesting. Life was certainly harder back then, wasn't it?
Great video! If you enjoy this topic look for a little book and video called Lumberjack Sky Pilot by Rev. Frank Reed.
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.
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.
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.
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
@Shirley Martin...I see what you're doing! Your placing your head on other bodies in your Avatar! That's OK, though. Hal