Thread: pics from the good ol' days

Col

Thanks for sharing. Great pics

Thanks for those pics. Crikey, they made trees big in the old days!!

Any idea where the pics were taken?

It's amazing how much smaller people were in those days...

Great photos, thanks for posting.

That sure is one long saw.

I believe the first one is an old Forestry Commission (now Forests NSW) photo taken on the NSW north coast. They published it as a poster about 25 years ago. Don't know about the others.

Those days when you could get real timber.

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

#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.

I'll vote for Pacific Northwest too.

Some of their sawmills used bandsaws with 25-ft wheels; close to 100-ft blades.

Cheers,
Joe