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Thursday, October 17, 2024
A huge one log load. Must have been a bit of work to get it up on that wagon.
The caption reads "Clipper Mills, Calif.", which is between Maysville and La Porte in Yuba, Butte and Plumas Counties. A company named Soper Wheeler owned about 100,000 acres around there until about ten years ago, when they sold out to Sierra Pacific Industries and moved to New Zealand, mainly because California sucks. Not only does that area have some of the best soil for growing trees, that entire area is a 'banana belt' and gets LOTS of precipitation. Trees grow fast.
That log is what we'd call a 'Yellow Pine', which is an old growth Ponderosa Pine with those big plates for bark. Great photograph.
^^^Agree on NZ. Calif sued Sierra Pacific for starting the Moon(?) fire. Turned out Calfires' lawyers lied and were chastised by the judge. But they probably got bonuses.
some people used to know how to shift really heavy loads with block and tackle and horses. It's really pretty damned easy if you know how and have the right gear.
The tree that produced that log probably took the crew that produced it the better part of a day's worth of labor to fall, limb and buck it into lengths. Which was okay, as it probably amounted to two shifts worth of work at the sawmill to turn that tree into boards back in that time period. A tree like that had at least a hundred thousand board feet of timber in it, and probably much more.
For reference, a modern big log sawmill in the '70s was lucky to cut 175,000 board feet of scaled logs in an eight-hour shift. Today's mills are a completely different story. They're truly amazing, as far as the wood they can crank out.
I'm from New Zealand and you're not far wrong with your comments about our Governments. Maybe we're guilty of styling our politicians after Trump/Harris hehe.
Trying to stop that thing going down hill might be a problem.
ReplyDeleteThe caption reads "Clipper Mills, Calif.", which is between Maysville and La Porte in Yuba, Butte and Plumas Counties. A company named Soper Wheeler owned about 100,000 acres around there until about ten years ago, when they sold out to Sierra Pacific Industries and moved to New Zealand, mainly because California sucks. Not only does that area have some of the best soil for growing trees, that entire area is a 'banana belt' and gets LOTS of precipitation. Trees grow fast.
ReplyDeleteThat log is what we'd call a 'Yellow Pine', which is an old growth Ponderosa Pine with those big plates for bark.
Great photograph.
To each, his own, but if you ask me, New Zealand sucks too. Beautiful country, but their people have managed to elect horrible governments.
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^^^Agree on NZ. Calif sued Sierra Pacific for starting the Moon(?) fire. Turned out Calfires' lawyers lied and were chastised by the judge. But they probably got bonuses.
Deleteload it up with a gin pole and a block n tackle
ReplyDeletesome people used to know how to shift really heavy loads with block and tackle and horses. It's really pretty damned easy if you know how and have the right gear.
ReplyDeletewhat are the wagon wheels made of ?? thanks
ReplyDeleteI wondered the same. The wheels appear to be wood with an iron rim.
DeleteMe Three! Solid wheels, wtf?! Irish, you have a post to research!
DeleteProof Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox are just as real as Bigfoot.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how long it took to cut it down. Bad asses back in those days.
ReplyDeleteThe tree that produced that log probably took the crew that produced it the better part of a day's worth of labor to fall, limb and buck it into lengths. Which was okay, as it probably amounted to two shifts worth of work at the sawmill to turn that tree into boards back in that time period. A tree like that had at least a hundred thousand board feet of timber in it, and probably much more.
DeleteFor reference, a modern big log sawmill in the '70s was lucky to cut 175,000 board feet of scaled logs in an eight-hour shift. Today's mills are a completely different story. They're truly amazing, as far as the wood they can crank out.
I'm from New Zealand and you're not far wrong with your comments about our Governments. Maybe we're guilty of styling our politicians after Trump/Harris hehe.
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