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Discussion in 'The Sawyer Room' started by wildwest, Oct 11, 2015.

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  1. wildwest

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    wow
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    Love them old pics!!!
     
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    Looks like they had to weld 2 saws together for that one!
     
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    Stinny made a similar comment!
     
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    hmmm..........wondering what they would have used to weld with back then?......lots of heat i'm guessing.......:fire:.......love that homemade ladder as well, not too sure i'd want to stand that high on it !!
     
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    Dat a lot of BTUs right dere!
     
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    I bet the heat comin' off the 2 guys sawing that was perty high too. That's some serious work right there.
     
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    and that was only one cut!!...........:axe:
     
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    And I thought I worked hard. Gotta give them credit.
    Ok so we got the monster down. Now what? Did they have huge bandsaw mills back then?
     
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    Always my thought when I see picture like this how do they process it. When my loggers with new equipment and feller butcher dropped 4 foot diameter sugar maples that were past prime the chose not to process the trunks.. too hard on the equipment Did not know what I was doing but ended up working on it on and off most of summer. I earned those BTUs
     
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    How long did it take to make the cut?
     
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    VERY cool old pic!
     
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    Wow is right
     
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    The heats in the work
     
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    They have photo shop back then?
     
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    Same here. OK...it's down. Now what? You've got an umpteen hundred ton log and you....?
     
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    Assuming they grew people shorter back in the day, and the guy on the ground is about 5' tall, that looks to be a 15' diameter log. If they cut it to 8'8" for lumber, that butt end would weigh about 39 tons.
     
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    They started in 1847 and finished in 1848.:headbang:
     
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    Another one of those guys who's good at math!:faint:
     
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