Logging in WA (OLD PICS) very cool and sad

[saylean]

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

Pretty sweet pics.

[halflife65]

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]

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]

 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]

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]

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]

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

[BlackRidge]

Amazing stuff

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

[trippledigitss]

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]

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]

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

[quadrafire]

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]

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]

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]

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