Early Logging Photos

Thanks, some interesting photos there, such as this one from New York in 1907:

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Neat stuff, thanks for the post.

Off topic, but this jumped out at me:

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L. L. Bean?



"Leon Leonwood Bean, the country slicker and demon merchandiser who founded the L.L. Bean store in Freeport, Maine. . ."

". . .vexed by chronically wet feet on deer hunts, he had hit on the notion of sewing lightweight, comfortable leather uppers to the rubber bottoms of ordinary galoshes."

https://www.si.com/vault/1985/12/02/621002/using-the-old-bean#


Bob

I bought my first pair around 1976. At some point I sent them in for new bottoms. Eventually they got replaced when a bad dog chewed up the uppers. :(


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Neat stuff, thanks for the post.

Off topic, but this jumped out at me:

uploads%2F2017%2F6%2F8%2Fwoodsmen_29.jpg




L. L. Bean?



"Leon Leonwood Bean, the country slicker and demon merchandiser who founded the L.L. Bean store in Freeport, Maine. . ."

". . .vexed by chronically wet feet on deer hunts, he had hit on the notion of sewing lightweight, comfortable leather uppers to the rubber bottoms of ordinary galoshes."

https://www.si.com/vault/1985/12/02/621002/using-the-old-bean#


Bob

I bought my first pair around 1976. At some point I sent them in for new bottoms. Eventually they got replaced when a bad dog chewed up the uppers. :(


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Those jumped out at me also. I have been wearing the shorter pull ons since the seventies. I think my current pair is from Cabelas though.
 
Terrific stuff! Love all those old photos.

Those rubber bottom boots, we call them pac boots, are still great for the Pacific Northwest. White's brand boots (Spokane, WA) are probably the best but I wear a pair of Schnee's (Bozeman MT) boots because they're exceptiional for our weather and cheaper than White's. I've had them resoled twice and the the leather uppers are still in fine shape.
 
Terrific stuff! Love all those old photos.

Those rubber bottom boots, we call them pac boots, are still great for the Pacific Northwest. White's brand boots (Spokane, WA) are probably the best but I wear a pair of Schnee's (Bozeman MT) boots because they're exceptiional for our weather and cheaper than White's. I've had them resoled twice and the the leather uppers are still in fine shape.
The idea is the same with the leather uppers and rubber bottoms but the soles are very different. No steel shanks in these, the Maine hunting shoes have soft rubber soles that are very flexible. Probably not recommended for heavy duty hiking with a load on your back as you could also bruise your feet. And the soles are slick in a variety of terrain.
For folks that have trouble wearing stiff soled boots or want to slip through the woods quietly they are a viable option though.
 
the one single bit hanging on the tree,is that a michigan pattern?i think it was in the second set of pictures
 
The camp cook was the 2nd most important man in camp after the saw filer. A good cook will keep men in camp while a bad cook will drive them away. I've read stories (maybe in 'Holy Old Mackinaw') about loggers leaving camp to follow a good cook. That's a great book, BTW. Follows the logging industry from the NE through the upper midwest and out to the Pacific Northwest. For a good read about the logging industry in the PNW try 'Deadfall'.
 
Here is another good one for the reading list.
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"First published in 1955, this book tells the lively and entertaining story of the Olympic Peninsula, 'the fist of land thrust north between Puget Sound and the Pacific Ocean, a wilderness area of six thousand square miles, as large as the state of Massachusetts, more rugged than the Rockies, its lowlands blanketed by a cool jungle of fir and pine and cedar, its peaks bearing hundreds of miles of living ice that gave rise to swift rivers alive with giant salmon; the first land in the Pacific Northwest to be reported by explorers, the last to be mapped--the last wilderness.'
Murray Morgan has recorded the epic adventures of the pioneers of this remote region in this rousing and humor-filled saga, one that should capture the imagination of Americans everywhere."
 
Bob, I just noticed that last picture was labeled "Schafer Logging" - do the you know where that picture might have come from?

And what is that beast of an axe right of the stove, between the guys?
Your "everyday puget sound splitting cruiser"?
 
Think it might be a hammer.are all the double bits pugets,hard for me to tell the pattern in these old pictures.
 
Think it might be a hammer.are all the double bits pugets,hard for me to tell the pattern in these old pictures.

Some of them maybe but the handles are long and some of them look like they have some "octagonal/hexagonal" gripping. Some look a little "raw".

Also I noticed even/to more heel wear on the bits. "Good Bit Keeping" Maybe when you are swinging your strike that far away from you to meet your partner's in the middle, it wears your axe differently? On a springboard, 10"-20" up?

Some of those are pretty big trees.
 
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