follow up on my ax finds

[ojm bc]

Here is a old photo from my library, it's clear the old ax I found were from the pioneer logging days.Where I'm going to hunt the
worlds largest fir tree was felled only mi nits away from my house. It is recorded to be 2000 years old with a 417 feet height and 77
feet circumference at the butt. The bark alone was 16 inches. I may find a few relics here sure will try, thanks for looking. oj

 

[gordygroover]

Where you living???
My first job (1972) was offbearing on the head-rig for Weyerhaeuser here in Longview, Wa. All the mill cut then was old-growth and some of that stuff was massive. Had a 13 foot diameter butt-cut come in one day that looked like it wouldn't make it onto the log deck.

 

[ojm bc]

Live in Vancouver, it was founded basically on lumber export,, I live minits away from where the world's largest fir was felled, many of the stumps still are visible.. oj

 

[edjcox]

Just think how srupid it is to kill a tree of that age. I'm sure they planted none to replace it. We're supposed to be stewards of our planet but seemingly go out of our way to reak havoc devastation everywhere we can. The gulf is the latest example. I'm tore up by seeing those oiled seabirds dieing in muck they cannot understand and have no defense against.

I guess I'm a tree hugger... Don't mind logging but why do we always have to clearcut everything?

 

[d-2]

I would have hated pulling on the crosscut saw they used to cut that sucker down. The way my luck runs who ever would have been helping me would have been "riding" his end of it. Neat picture. I have some here of my great, great Grampaw sitting on some whopper pine logs that are sitting on flat cars, back when they used to put a RR track down so a place could be logged. Being lazy I went to work for the state police and quit working in the log woods in 1977. I'm glad I did. If I can find those pictures I will post some...d2

 

[ojm bc]

n/t

 

[ROD P]

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