The 1938 New England Timber Salvage

[jeeper9574]

Interesting video, thanks for sharing.

I remember my grandfather talking about this storm. In the aftermath, he got what I believe were red pines as part of a replanting program through the state. They had planted a hillside with them to act as a windbreak. A cousin harvested a bunch to build a cabin about 20 years ago as they were starting to decline but I believe there is a couple left.

[barbender]

Ray should be able to understand being weighed in stones😂

There was a big storm that went through my area during the same time period, they called it the "Hurricane of Cass Lake" or something. I'll have to see if I can find an article about it.

[barbender]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5378570.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjghpLg9ciMAxXWL9AFHbsHJP4QFnoECCIQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1M_RtfahcYeyk_4AzbBfMN

It says that timber was laid down in a "20 mile swath from Bemidji to Grand Rapids" which is a distance of about 60 miles. This is also the exact same track that a powerful storm took in 2012. 

 We lost all of the big pines on our place, there were areas of Federal property behind ours that had some really nice, 100+ year old Red and White Pine that was just flattened👎 There were probably millions of board feet laid down on the Chippewa National Forest in both storms.

[Magicman]

a persons weight was measured in units of 14 pounds, called "stones".

So a stone's throw would be how far you could chunk your lumber   

[Rhodemont]

We had a wet raw weekend so I read the copy of "Thirty-Eight"  that had arrived. It is an easy, intersting read that covers a lot more than just the actual logging recovery itself.  The meteorology of hurricanes and why 38 had an unusual track in our minuscule view of time. Why the New England forests were of the make up they were at the time. The inventive fast response of the Forest Service, which could never happen now with the status of our government.  The huge push for fire prevention clean up.  And then the log recovery and sawing of 2.6 billion bf.  Just think the chainsaw was not invented for almost 10 years.

[barbender]

It's amazing to me that the Germans were hitting English cities with rockets, while we were still putting wood up with whiplash and horses.

[Resonator]

Keep in mind back in the day, having a "work gang" of many men doing hard labor on any job was the standard practice. Mechanization with gas engines was still relatively new and catching on, especially in rural areas. Where blacksmiths to make tools, and stables with horses, were common. And they were what people were used to using, and knew they could rely on to do the job, day in and day out.