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28th June 2011, 12:37 PM #1Senior Member
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pics from the good ol' days
Received these in an email recently, not sure of their origin, just thought i'd share
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28th June 2011, 02:01 PM #2
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Thanks for sharing. Great pics
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28th June 2011, 06:30 PM #4
Thanks for those pics. Crikey, they made trees big in the old days!!
Any idea where the pics were taken?
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28th June 2011, 10:17 PM #5
It's amazing how much smaller people were in those days...
Great photos, thanks for posting.
That sure is one long saw.Cheers, Richard
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28th June 2011, 10:48 PM #6
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29th June 2011, 12:35 AM #7
Those days when you could get real timber.
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29th June 2011, 01:12 AM #8Senior Member
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Not sure where they were taken but some of the monsters look like Cedar and Douglas Fir
I think people might have been a little shorter back in the day come to think of it, but they sure were fit!
here's a few more
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29th June 2011, 05:34 AM #9GOLD MEMBER
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#1 with the man lying down in the notch: judging by the bark appearance and the spring boards, I'd guess Douglas-fir and Pac NW location. There are little stumps no more than 3m diameter like that with the spring board notches, 15 minutes from my house.
#2?
#3 possibly sitka spruce, cut for ties/sleepers in the early railroad days. There are 4m x 4m enlarged photos like that right here in McBride.
#4 (with the man on the ladder) first thought is western red cedar but it's incredibly rare to find a solid stem. Most trunks that diameter are no more than a shell, maybe 15-30cm thick.
#5 Maybe Sitka spruce, the bark is too thin for Df or WRC.
My arms scream out with pain when I look at the length of the saw blades.
I can't see the pics while I write this, hope I got them in order. Another possibility is that some are California redwood (Sequoia sp.)
When I was a little kid, I went to the Pacific National Exhibition in Vancouver, BC. I remember very clearly going on a tour of a 15m/50' home, chainsaw carved out of a single WRC log.
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29th June 2011, 11:58 PM #10
I'll vote for Pacific Northwest too.
Some of their sawmills used bandsaws with 25-ft wheels; close to 100-ft blades.
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