Author Topic: Logging in WA (OLD PICS) very cool and sad (Read 11567 times)

krout81 · « **on:** March 22, 2011, 11:32:46 PM »

Got these in a email today I have seen these stumps as I am sure a lot of you have.
check out #26 a picture of logging at Kosmos, Wa. The city of Kosmos no longer exists because it's under water at Rife lake. when the water is very low, you can actually walk the streets of Kosmos(concrete is still there,although broken up)

krout81 · « **Reply #1 on:** March 22, 2011, 11:33:54 PM »

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JimmyHoffa · « **Reply #5 on:** March 23, 2011, 12:05:18 AM »

Cool pics. The mills back then must have looked quite different to take trees that size.

burrheadcountry · « **Reply #6 on:** March 23, 2011, 12:10:09 AM »

krout81, I love looking at the old photo's. My grandad and his brother logged here in Washington. There are a few trees left (not many)here from that era. Here's a link you may enjoy. Thanks for sharing.

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,60446.0.html

bowhunterforever · « **Reply #7 on:** March 23, 2011, 12:16:35 AM »

Awsome pics

you dont see timber like that any more

383man · « **Reply #8 on:** March 23, 2011, 05:58:59 AM »

I've seen some real bruisers like these backcountry elk hunting in the selway unit in idaho, awesome pictures man, thanks for posting em.

ICEMAN · « **Reply #9 on:** March 23, 2011, 05:59:27 AM »

Awesome pics krout, you definitely made my day!

GoldTip · « **Reply #10 on:** March 23, 2011, 06:35:23 AM »

Very cool pictures, great to see them. Most all of my family back home in MT works with wood one way or another, whether it's in the mill, hauling it to the mill, or cutting it for the mill. One of my Uncles still got a 3 log load back in the mid 90's, so some of that big timber is still around. One of the big things thats changed is the ability to get to that big timber.

farmin4u_98948 · « **Reply #11 on:** March 23, 2011, 06:51:51 AM »

It always amazes me to what MEN did without modern tech. The old rail bridges especially. Thanks for sharing...

bearpaw · « **Reply #12 on:** March 23, 2011, 07:21:35 AM »

Those are some awsome pics, thanks for sharing.

Skillet · « **Reply #13 on:** March 23, 2011, 07:31:26 AM »

I really dig old logging/mining pics. Thanks!

400out · « **Reply #14 on:** March 23, 2011, 07:57:00 AM »

Very cool thanks for sharing! I would have loved to walk through those forests

saylean · « **Reply #15 on:** March 23, 2011, 07:59:24 AM »

Someone call L and I...they arent tied off!

Pretty sweet pics.

halflife65 · « **Reply #16 on:** March 23, 2011, 08:24:21 AM »

Very cool. My dad was a logger and road builder for a many, many years and I love looking at the old pictures (I fumbled around a little with a chainsaw and some chokers during the summer when I was in college but I was never very good at it). I like looking at the rigging and trying to figure out how they did it, etc.

Some of those are just pumpkins. Huge old trees.

Jason · « **Reply #17 on:** March 23, 2011, 08:31:48 AM »

Lots of stumps still around from them big old tree's, anywhere along hwy 101 get off the pavement you'll see em.
Its cool seeing the old spring board no.tches in them

agchawk · « **Reply #18 on:** March 23, 2011, 08:56:16 AM »

Man, what I would give to be able to walk through that old-growth nowadays. I know there is still some back in the deep country but the entire west side was like that at one time.

Great pics...as a bit of a history buff I always enjoy lookin' at the old photos. Those were some hardy men, that's for damned sure.

Skagitdrifter · « **Reply #19 on:** March 23, 2011, 09:07:35 AM »

Those guys must have been some tough SOB's
Great pictures- thanks for posting them.


Do you have access to the originals?
I had a series of 12 original Darius Kinsey logging photos on the wall in my office.
A customer came in one day and told me they were worth about $500 - $1000 per.
After some research I found out he was right.
Needless to say I took the pictures down. Now they hang on the wall of my Man Cave.

ORCA_SIX · « **Reply #20 on:** March 23, 2011, 09:26:28 AM »

Very cool. When you drive into the town of Shelton, there is a large slice of a tree cutout that is quite large. But I don't think it is as large as many of those photos. It is amazing how old those trees were. If they could tell stories, ohh the Elk and Deer they have seen.

shedcrazy · « **Reply #21 on:** March 23, 2011, 09:41:06 AM »

Love the photos! The size of those trees they logged is amazing.

BlackRidge · « **Reply #22 on:** March 23, 2011, 09:45:22 AM »

Amazing stuff

I feel bad for those horses w/ loads of 20+ logs...

trippledigitss · « **Reply #23 on:** March 23, 2011, 09:49:20 AM »

In-freaking-credible! Those are some MONSTER trees! I couldnt imagine cutting those with a chainsaw let alone axe/bucksaw, that is amazing! You are right, those guys - and their horses were some tough SOB's! That pic of all the logs on the train is cool, they are all cool Thanks!

Curly · « **Reply #24 on:** March 23, 2011, 09:52:06 AM »

Those old pics are very cool.

My grandpa logged a bunch of the Grays Harbor area. There is a good book about the old logging days in Grays Harbor; it is called "they tried to cut it all" by Edwin Van Syckle. There are some really cool old logging pics in that book too.

Rick · « **Reply #25 on:** March 23, 2011, 09:56:30 AM »

A few of those pics are hanging on the walls of a little diner in Mill Creek,called the "Saw Mill"

quadrafire · « **Reply #26 on:** March 23, 2011, 10:12:37 AM »

All I can say is WOW. Can you imagine the effort to pull one of those buckboards that are like 10 ft long. Holy cow.
alot of cool pics.

skier2480 · « **Reply #27 on:** March 23, 2011, 11:48:32 AM »

Those are great pics! My grandpa and my uncles logged most of their lives. My Dad logged up until I was born and I was a chokerman for a couple of months before I started my current job 11 yrs. ago. I really miss it.

Skyvalhunter · « **Reply #28 on:** March 23, 2011, 11:55:15 AM »

Very nice pics thanks for posting them. i have picked up a few on Ebay. My dad was an ex logger and would have loved checking them out.

Special T · « **Reply #29 on:** March 23, 2011, 12:11:27 PM »

I think the worlds largest western red ceder is near forks.. Well some place between squim and forks.. I saw it 15 years ago... 19 Ft in diameter

PolarBear · « **Reply #30 on:** March 23, 2011, 12:23:36 PM »

Cool pics, thanks for sharing!
One of my cousins (he is long gone now) use to log Hood Canal and the Sound for huge sunken old growth logs. He dove off of a barge wearing the old fashioned brass helmet and gear. He said that he was getting them from a couple hundred feet deep and that he was weighted down so much because of the depth and the current that he had to be hooked up to a cable and winch to get him back up. He also talked about hooking into logs that swam away (monster ling cod). He was a tough old *censored*.

jackmaster · « **Reply #31 on:** March 23, 2011, 12:31:03 PM »

could you imagine falling one of those big ole boys and accidently fall it across a big ass stump

jryoung · « **Reply #32 on:** March 23, 2011, 01:50:53 PM »

Quote from: agchawk on March 23, 2011, 08:56:16 AM

Man, what I would give to be able to walk through that old-growth nowadays. I know there is still some back in the deep country but the entire west side was like that at one time.

Great pics...as a bit of a history buff I always enjoy lookin' at the old photos. Those were some hardy men, that's for damned sure.

No doubt, kind of bittersweet looking at these in that I would have loved to walk though these forests 120 or so years ago. But, had they not done what they did, the PNW would not be what it is today.

NW-GSP · « **Reply #33 on:** March 23, 2011, 01:51:39 PM »

amazing! thank you for posting!

Sumpnneedskillin · « **Reply #34 on:** March 23, 2011, 02:29:23 PM »

Go to the Tacoma Public Library image archives

http://search.tacomapubliclibrary.org/images/defaultn.asp

If you enter the word 'logging' in the keyword search you will get over 300 photos.

If you enter 'St Paul' (as in St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company) in the search you will get over 400 images.

I've spent many hours surfing the website and I'm sure once you get in there many of you will too.

timberghost72 · « **Reply #35 on:** March 23, 2011, 07:59:22 PM »

Those pictures are awesome. Would have been cool to be in this area 100 years ago.

elksnout · « **Reply #36 on:** March 23, 2011, 08:17:08 PM »

Them 'ol boys were just doing a days work and hadn't the slightest idea guys like us would be drooling over their pictures and not see the day when those trees were gone. Very nice.

Skyvalhunter · « **Reply #37 on:** March 23, 2011, 08:30:15 PM »

The University of Washington has alot of Logging photos on their historical photo web page and photos can be ordered from there.

Oneshot1Kill · « **Reply #38 on:** March 23, 2011, 08:42:11 PM »

I wish i could've walked through the forests back than just once! It would've been like walking in a prehistoric place! Those trees are HUGE!

zackmioli · « **Reply #39 on:** March 24, 2011, 03:35:31 AM »

absolutely amazing photographs. thank you for posting them. incredible to think about what those guys and horses went through to provide for themselves and their families.

Idabooner · « **Reply #40 on:** March 24, 2011, 03:16:21 PM »

Does anybody know what the whiskey bottle in the first few pictures is used for?

Every sawyer had one. It's got a wood plug with a small hole or groove in it, a wire hook on the neck to hook on your belt or in easy reach, it's filled with coal oil (kerosene) to fling onto the misery whip (cross cut saw) to cut the sticky pitch so the saw would pull easier. Dad was a faller when I was young, him and I logged the ranch (East side), nothing big enough for a spring board. So I got to spend one summer on the end of a saw. I know why they called them misery whips. Another interesting thing, look at the lean figures on those men, they ate all they could and didn't go to the gym. Love those old pictures, I can remember the end of those days.

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