Went with one of my sons on a trip to the PA Lumber Museum http://lumbermuseum.org/ Cool trip through beautiful country. Three pics attached are my favorites. 3 million plus board feet trapped on bend of Susquehanna River. Steam mill they still operate once a year. And the best one, guys taking down a massive pine with hand tools of course.
Cool pics. I have read a few books on the lumber industry in NH, a lot of those pics are simular to the riverside mills from back in the day. When I go backpacking I see old railbeds, old lumberjack camps and old bridges and fortifications. It's cool stuff if you like that kind of history. Thanks for sharing
awesome pics brother......I'm going to move this over to the Sawyer room, it's more fitting over there with our other vintage logging photos and vids....
Takes a lot of logs to cover the world's azzes with toilet paper... By now, the area those logs were taken from have prolly been cut twice again already. It is an amazing pic tho.
I was wondering after looking at the pic of the log jam...Were the logs cut to a standard length back then as they are now-a-days? I realize that they were a lot longer back then; but would anyone know for sure?
I'm not sure, but I'd guess that, because it was so labor intensive to get just one tree down and to a mill... that lengths prolly were determined most of the time by how much of a job it was gonna be to move em. Weight being the issue. Once in the river, not so much.
