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.
I have a photo with smaller logs stacked about half as high, with my Great Uncle at the reins. Supposedly the largest horse-drawn load ever to come out of the Northern NY Adirondacks. I imagine these were stacked from a hillside using an uncut tree trunk as a hoist.
@Survivorman et al. They would keep a few trees and use those as cranes.
Anyone get near ( 60 mins west ) PDX, check out Camp 18 on Hwy 26. (good grub too) (url may be down today I got a DNS error ) http://www.camp18restaurant.com/loggingmuseum.html
see also https://www.filson.com/blog/field-notes/brief-history-of-horse-logging/
That is one heck of a pile!
ReplyDeleteTwo mules, no problem
ReplyDeleteAs long as they can get 'em moving, no worries.
ReplyDeleteThe issue is stopping though
Getting them to move, no problem.
ReplyDeleteGetting them to STOP once in motion...well...
if it's downhill
ReplyDeleteIs this some type of photo shop picture?
ReplyDeleteI have logging books with pictures from the 1800s showing even bigger loads.
DeleteYes, but.... how did they stack them?
ReplyDeleteThere is no indication in the photo concerning how they were able to stack the logs that high. I am very curious to hear any ideas about that.
ReplyDeleteIt was from Ewen, Michigan. In upper peninsula for the chicago worlds fair. horses just for fun/scale. White Pine logs
ReplyDeleteI have a photo with smaller logs stacked about half as high, with my Great Uncle at the reins. Supposedly the largest horse-drawn load ever to come out of the Northern NY Adirondacks. I imagine these were stacked from a hillside using an uncut tree trunk as a hoist.
ReplyDeleteYeah! It's Balsa Wood! :)
ReplyDeleteNot so much snow in Balsa country.
DeletePaul Bunyan set this up
ReplyDelete@Survivorman et al. They would keep a few trees and use those as cranes.
ReplyDeleteAnyone get near ( 60 mins west ) PDX, check out Camp 18 on Hwy 26. (good grub too) (url may be down today I got a DNS error )
http://www.camp18restaurant.com/loggingmuseum.html
see also
https://www.filson.com/blog/field-notes/brief-history-of-horse-logging/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logging