And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
It's a donkey engine. Pulls a cable (via a highline) attached to felled logs, with chokers, to a landing where trucks wait to haul them off to the mill!
This could possibly be an entire gypo crew. The donkey operator is the gentleman with his right arm on the donkey roof. The men on either side of him are the faller and his bucker. The youngun in the plaid shirt is most likely the choker setter. Young, dumb, and quick! The bright shirt helped the operator keep him in view. Notice the cut off bottom hems of the loggers tin pants. Helped to keep them from getting tangled up in underbrush.
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ReplyDeleteIt's a donkey engine. Pulls a cable (via a highline) attached to felled logs, with chokers, to a landing where trucks wait to haul them off to the mill!
ReplyDeleteAnd it's on skids so it can be moved from site to site.
DeleteChoker Setter, aka "Widowmaker".
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ReplyDeleteThis could possibly be an entire gypo crew. The donkey operator is the gentleman with his right arm on the donkey roof. The men on either side of him are the faller and his bucker. The youngun in the plaid shirt is most likely the choker setter. Young, dumb, and quick! The bright shirt helped the operator keep him in view. Notice the cut off bottom hems of the loggers tin pants. Helped to keep them from getting tangled up in underbrush.
ReplyDeleteI believe that's an amputation machine...they're smiling because they made it through another day with their limbs.
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