Thought you guys would get a kick outta this

This damm thing's bark is thicker than my actual firewood!

 

I love how those guys cut a slot, stick a board in and then stand on it

 

Those guys were real badasses back in the day

 

Lots of old stumps around this area have springboard slots in them as they usually cut the stumps pretty high.

 

Thats so cool

 

Surely those are redwood trees right?

 

I feel so soft when I see guys like this

 

My guess is douglas fir.

 

makes you think how many trees they would have cut if they had the saws we have today

 

Kind of hard to hide the evidence when you screw up the back cut.

 

In my younger days I would compete with a single buck saw at some local venues and that was enough of hand sawing for me those men were a different breed of tough JB

 

I’m always surprised how slender the guys are in those pics. Sure they are burning tons of calories, but I’d think they would build more muscle mass. Guessing they didn’t have the best nutrition available?

 

I imagine they were like jerky all muscle because from what I have read those lumber camps did a pretty good job feeding them

 

Can’t imagine how many calories they’d need to consume to keep up with their activity level? 4000-5000?

I know I get really hungry after a day off CSS!

 

There would be none left!

 

There would be a big endurance aspect to working like that all day. Big muscle mass and stamina don't go together.
In the book "Deadfall" the author talks a bit about how well-fed workers were in the early western Washington logging camps.

 

Getting into the weeds here but oh well.