Dan Mooney
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leo, they would build rigging to do that, sometimes it was a wood frame that would allow them to roll them out onto the sleigh and other times they had a cable system rigged in trees to hoist with horses.. you can laod alot by just using the chains and pull them up the side.
the guy on the right at the bottom is L.L.Johnson from charlotte michigan,, but what i find hard to believe is the weight them two horse are going to pull that is 50 to 60 thousand pounds if its white pine and its more if its red oak which i believe it is.. 98K if its red oak??/
A lot of the old logging operations that there were remnants of around where I grew up would build the landing around the biggest tree in the area. As I recall it it was called a "King Tree" (but I can't find a reference to that online so might be wrong). All of the rigging for loading would be done back to this tree and I think it was sometimes used as an anchor for skidding as well but am not as sure on that one. You could often find the stump of this in the middle of the clearing, often only it and a pile of sawdust was all that was left.
I was thinking along the same lines as Peter. I'm betting it was a staged photo.
Or maybe a very early version of Photoshop. ( think they called it Phototent back then.
I was thinking along the same lines as Peter. I'm betting it was a staged photo.
Or maybe a very early version of Photoshop. ( think they called it Phototent back then.
We call that Skyline Logging where I'm from. In really remote places they would use what we called Spar trees along the skyline to help keep the skyline in the sky, but at the landing area where the trees were sized and then cut it was almost always a metal tower that was used, it came as a self propelled unit, usually like this....
I'm sure back in the day they used actual trees, but that may have been back when they were using steam winches as well...?
And more info that you might want can be found >> HERE <<
nope, not photoshopped, that pic was taken in Ewen Michigan and they were displayed at the worlds fair in the 1890's. That was my moms home town and they had a replica in town for many years, got rid if it some years back as it was rotting and they did not want kids to get hurt climbing it. Check out page 8 http://www.mcmillanlibrary.org/rosholt/wi-logging-book/wilogging/images/00000009.pdf
ryan that stacker,, in the picture does that top part have long wooden pointed sticks like a giant comb? if so i have seen them and never knew there use.. i have dealt with loose hay but never seen those in use before.