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Started by Jeff, October 20, 2002, 01:14:44 PM

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Jeff

I have a collection of old photos that I will try to show here on occasion. If you have some of your own, feel free to join in. (Please to not use images you find on the web. They are probably copyrighted)

Just call me the midget doctor.
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Commercial circle sawmill sawyer in a past life for 25yrs.
Ezekiel 22:30

Jeff

Just call me the midget doctor.
Forestry Forum Founder and Chief Cook and Bottle Washer.

Commercial circle sawmill sawyer in a past life for 25yrs.
Ezekiel 22:30

Fla._Deadheader

I've heard about the 2 way saws. What keeps the blade from running off?  Harold
All truth passes through three stages:
   First, it is ridiculed;
   Second, it is violently opposed; and
   Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

Jeff

This one is not a picture, its a video clip. It should be of interest to Fla._Deadheader. :)

Click here for "Cutting Cypress"
Just call me the midget doctor.
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Commercial circle sawmill sawyer in a past life for 25yrs.
Ezekiel 22:30

Bibbyman

Here are a couple I've posted before of my Uncle Chick and Aunt Nellie.




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woodman

Jeff do you have a photo of that band cutting a log ?
Jim Cripanuk

Jeff

I don't have a picture of that mill but I have one of a pretty bigun. :)

Just call me the midget doctor.
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Commercial circle sawmill sawyer in a past life for 25yrs.
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Fla._Deadheader

Neat video, Jeff. I could watch an hour or two of stuff like that. Thanks, Harold
All truth passes through three stages:
   First, it is ridiculed;
   Second, it is violently opposed; and
   Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

Jeff

I have a neat one that Paul_H sent me that has some cool clips in it from the 50's was it Paul? I will try to get some ready. That takes me a lot of time because the machine I am using is not powerful enough to process it very fast. I usually crash a few times while trying to capture on sequence. This is one that I had captured a while back, but had not formatted for the web til today.
Just call me the midget doctor.
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Commercial circle sawmill sawyer in a past life for 25yrs.
Ezekiel 22:30

woodman

Wow Jeff the mill and the log big wowlets see some more
Jim Cripanuk

Paul_H

Yeah Jeff,it was the late 50s, very early 60s at Inglewood on Vancouver Island.

I enjoyed that Cypress clip.Those guys had to be nimble.
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ADfields

I wonder if them boys could stand up on dry land! :)

Weekend_Sawyer

 I wonder how many of those guys made it through the apprinticeship. Must have been a wet learning curve.
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Corley5

Cutting cypress doesn't look like fun.  Those are some BIG band saws :o 8)
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Jeff

Just call me the midget doctor.
Forestry Forum Founder and Chief Cook and Bottle Washer.

Commercial circle sawmill sawyer in a past life for 25yrs.
Ezekiel 22:30

Ron Scott

Jeff,

Any info. on approximate date and what river of photo??
~Ron

Ron Scott

Young Forester, February 1962. Checking heavily used deer trail in wintering area (deer yard). Sault Ste. Marie Ranger District on the old Marquette National Forest, now the east side of the Hiawatha National Forest.

Marquette National Forest was renamed by Executive Order of President Kennedy.


~Ron

Jeff

No info on the river photo Ron. Many of these photos are from old Industry or government pamphlets from the first half of the last century. This next one comes from  Paul Bunyans Quiz; Questions and Answers about the Forest put out by the American Forest Products Industry in Washington. Circa 1950.

 
Just call me the midget doctor.
Forestry Forum Founder and Chief Cook and Bottle Washer.

Commercial circle sawmill sawyer in a past life for 25yrs.
Ezekiel 22:30

Ron Scott

Hand Planting Red Pine. Reforesting the Spectacle Lake Fire area on the Soo District, Hiawatha National Forest. Fall 1962.


~Ron

Ron Scott

Foresters Cruise Timber. Winter 1963; Sault Ste. Marie Ranger District; Hiawatha National Forest.

Note the vintage Polaris snowmobile used for winter travel.


~Ron

Tom

"Holy Mackeral Andy!", What a pine tree.

Fla._Deadheader

Would that be one of them "Ponderosa Pine's" ???
   I have heard that some of the Heart Pine we are looking for, would measure 10 feet across. That's hard to believe. :o
All truth passes through three stages:
   First, it is ridiculed;
   Second, it is violently opposed; and
   Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

ADfields

Looks like Ponderosa to me.   Back when loging was still within the law in northern Arizona you could see a log truck with 2 logs like that for a load once a week or so at a mill.   I never loged lumber down ther but my Dad and I cut 16 cords of firewood from a big old Alligatog Juniper neer Camp Wood Arizona so I do rember some BIG trees.
Andy

billbobtlh

http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/commerce/c027531.jpg suwanee
http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/reference/rc00875.jpg  tallahassee
http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/reference/rc02346.jpg  wekiva river
http://fpc.dos.state.fl.us/reference/rc04997.jpg  3000 years

deadheader here are some logs that may not have made it out of the suwanee river.


Here is a wealth of photos. I tried to send several but they were too big..

Fla._Deadheader

Allright. Thanks for posting those URL's. The Wekiva River is off limits. Too scenic ????  You can actually see the logs laying on the bottom.  Harold
All truth passes through three stages:
   First, it is ridiculed;
   Second, it is violently opposed; and
   Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

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