Log haulers and horses were the main means of moving lumber to waterways so they could be floated to market.
I remember story's about logging in the old days based on my age. Now logging in the old days the way I did it is still considered the old days.
Log drives, log haulers, horses wilderness saw mills, logging camps with no ways to get to except walking or riding horses. That was the old days by my time growing up.
Huddled on a bobsled behind a team of horses at -40 degrease is vivid in my memory from my father doing it, leaving the house before we got up so he could make a couple timely loads of pulpwood cut to four foot length and be back before dark in the evening.That was in the late forty's and although trucks were used to haul wood there were very few "woods roads" so horses were used to get pulpwood to or near the highway so it could then be trucked to the railroad and loaded on rail cars for the rest of the way to paper mills.
I remember story's about logging in the old days based on my age. Now logging in the old days the way I did it is still considered the old days.
Log drives, log haulers, horses wilderness saw mills, logging camps with no ways to get to except walking or riding horses. That was the old days by my time growing up.
Huddled on a bobsled behind a team of horses at -40 degrease is vivid in my memory from my father doing it, leaving the house before we got up so he could make a couple timely loads of pulpwood cut to four foot length and be back before dark in the evening.That was in the late forty's and although trucks were used to haul wood there were very few "woods roads" so horses were used to get pulpwood to or near the highway so it could then be trucked to the railroad and loaded on rail cars for the rest of the way to paper mills.
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