Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
Keywords: |
logging horse skidding personnel |
Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 19 |
Description: | Team skidding log with tongs. This is team which E. Sussice used for skidding along sawlogs on #18 & #19. When logs were small he used only a single horse. Team belongs to the contractor, G. Fountain. |
Date: | 10/23/1953 |
Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
Keywords: |
harvest personnel horse skidding pulpwood |
Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 35 |
Description: | Single horse used for skidding pulpwood. George Cramer and Donald Horner. |
Date: | 2/13/1953 |
Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
Keywords: |
harvest log deck personnel horse skidding pulpwood |
Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
Description: | G. Cramer and D. Horner piling pulpwood in the woods. |
Date: | 2/13/1953 |
Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
Keywords: |
log deck harvest personnel horse skidding pulpwood equipment |
Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 35 |
Description: | Bucking pulpwood at the landing on comp 35. Shows chainsaw in use; also horse and harness used for skidding. |
Date: | 2/1/1953 |
Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
Keywords: |
harvest equipment vehicle horse skidding |
Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25 |
Description: | Log truck stuck in soft dirt at first forks on Comp. 25. Required horses 10 minutes to pull truck out, using 2 pulleys and cable. Low spot was at a fill, probably where a couple of logs should have been placed first. Soft ground caused by thawing of a thinly frozen crust. |
Date: | 10/22/1952 |
Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
Keywords: |
harvest log deck horse skidding equipment personnel |
Organisms: |
birch spruce |
Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25 |
Description: | Compt. 25 after the sawlogs were cut, but before pulp cut. Horses owned by G. Fountain and used for skidding. Log loader and logs in foreground, at landing. |
Date: | 10/1/1952 |
Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
Keywords: |
equipment harvest horse skidding road |
Organisms: | white pine |
Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
Description: | A team was used for skidding, but a tractor was required for white pine logs exceeding 36" in diameter. The loader was used to load trucks. |
Date: | 1950 |
Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
Keywords: |
log deck pulpwood horse skidding |
Organisms: |
yellow birch spruce |
Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
Description: | 27 cords of pulpwood obtained within convenient skidding distance for one horse. |
Date: | 1950 |