| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
harvest equipment tree length logging |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 53 |
| Description: | Log loader used for tree length logging on compartment 53. This piece of equipment materially decreased loading time and costs compared with other compartment where it was not used. |
| Date: | 9/16/1957 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
harvest road tree length logging |
| Organisms: | spruce |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 53 |
| Description: | Skidding tree length spruce (60 to 80 feet to 6 inch top). On compartment 53 to log deck. Note scarification of soil caused by TD 14 and large tree length logs. |
| Date: | 9/11/1957 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
harvest road tree length logging |
| Organisms: | spruce |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 53 |
| Description: | Skidding tree length spruce (60 to 80 feet to 6 inch top). On compartment 53 to central log deck. |
| Date: | 9/11/1957 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
harvest equipment |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 53 |
| Description: | Log loader used on compartment 53, 50 and 51. Location of photo unknown beyond compartment number |
| Date: | 9/11/1957 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
harvest equipment tree length logging |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 53 |
| Description: | Log loader moving tree length logs at deck for ease of bucking. |
| Date: | 9/11/1957 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
harvest tree length logging equipment vehicle |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 53 |
| Description: | Log loader putting 16 foot logs on truck. |
| Date: | 9/11/1957 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
harvest tree length logging equipment vehicle |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 53 |
| Description: | Log loader putting 16 foot logs on truck. |
| Date: | 9/11/1957 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
harvest equipment tree length logging road |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 53 |
| Description: | "Series" of 2 photos showing TD-14 tractor at main loading deck - used to move tree length hardwoods into position so they can be easily bucked and loaded. |
| Date: | 9/6/1957 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
harvest tree length logging |
| Organisms: | spruce |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 53 |
| Description: | Tree length spruce ready to be skidded to main loading deck by TD-14 tractor. |
| Date: | 9/6/1957 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: | harvest |
| Organisms: | yellow birch |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 53 |
| Description: | 2 logs from compartment 53. On left: HM - 28 inch diameter sound at butt. On right: yellow birch - 30 inch diameter at butt, sound except 10 inch rot in center. Butt all sound 14 feet up tree and the rest of the tree. |
| Date: | 9/6/1957 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
road log deck harvest |
| Organisms: | fir |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 18 |
| Description: | Taken S70E from a point N03E 0.36 chains from stake 67-24. |
| Date: | 5/7/1956 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
road harvest |
| Organisms: |
paper birch fir |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 18 |
| Description: | Taken due N from a point S72E 0.33 chains from stake 68-25. |
| Date: | 5/7/1956 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
log deck harvest pulpwood |
| Organisms: | spruce |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 52 |
| Description: | Specific location unknown. An estimated 27.5 cords of pulpwood cut from Northeast knoll of compartment 52. Aboout 98% of the pulpwood is spruce. Compartment 49 is in the background; note heavily poisoned area. |
| Date: | 3/27/1956 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: | harvest |
| Organisms: | white pine |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25 |
| Description: | Taken due north from plot stake 28-67. |
| Date: | 6/6/1955 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
harvest personnel regeneration |
| Organisms: | white pine |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25 |
| Description: | Taken N30W from a point 0.83c chain S02E of plot stake 27-67. D. Vander Poel in photo. |
| Date: | 6/6/1955 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
harvest equipment log personnel road |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25 |
| Description: | George Fountain loading pulpwood with use of mechanical loader. |
| Date: | 11/6/1953 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
stump old growth harvest |
| Organisms: | white pine |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 19 |
| Description: | Old growth white pine stump 57" diameter at 2 feet above ground. Annual rings could be counted 30' above ground -- 227 years. Estimated age of tree about 250. Sound above 30'. Total height 147'. Merchantable length 87'. 6' of butt cull, next 22' contained rot but was merchantable 65' sound logs. 7' broken section. 45' top not merchantable. E. and B. Sussice in photo. |
| Date: | 10/23/1953 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
log deck shelterwood harvest |
| Organisms: | white pine |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 19 |
| Description: | Bert and Ernest Sussice decking white pine logs. Initial cut to establish a shelterwood for reproduction. |
| 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: |
harvest log deck personnel pulpwood equipment chainsaw |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 35 |
| Description: | Donald Horner bucking skidded pulpwood at the landing. Using chainsaw. Residual stand in the background. |
| Date: | 2/13/1953 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
harvest log deck personnel pulpwood |
| Organisms: |
spruce fir yellow birch maple hemlock |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25 |
| Description: | Piled pulpwood cut from compt. 25. Stand has been cut for sawlogs and spruce and fir pulpwood. Some hemlock remains along with defective yellow birch and soft maple. Much of this wood is quite defective even though it is small. Rev. Frank A. Reed in photo. |
| Date: | 2/12/1953 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
equipment road harvest |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 35 |
| Description: | G. Fountain's leader and TD-6 tractor on highway next to comp 35. |
| Date: | 2/12/1953 |
| 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 log deck personnel |
| Organisms: | yellow birch |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 35 |
| Description: | S. Monette and D. Horner piling pulpwood in the woods. Stand visible in background. |
| Date: | 1/12/1953 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
harvest log deck pulpwood |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 35 |
| Description: | Piled pulpwood cut from comp. 35. Residual stand visible in background. |
| Date: | 1/4/1953 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
harvest reproduction pulpwood swamp shelterwood |
| Organisms: | black spruce |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25 |
| Description: | In foreground, pulpwood cut from narrow neck of the black spruce swamp. In background, higher ground from which sawlogs have been cut. Initial removal cut in old growth stand to be handled under shelterwood. Preparatory cut ommitted because of abundant and advance reproduction. |
| Date: | 12/4/1952 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
harvest swamp |
| Organisms: |
white pine black spruce red spruce |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25 |
| Description: | Foreground -- red spruce stand on small knoll within black spruce swamp. White pine grows on the knoll but not in the swamp. |
| Date: | 12/4/1952 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
harvest pulpwood swamp |
| Organisms: | black spruce |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25 |
| Description: | Stump-piled pulpwood in the black spruce swamp. |
| Date: | 12/1/1952 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
harvest personnel |
| Organisms: | spruce |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 30 |
| Description: | Near northwest corner of compartment. Felling large spruce (same as pictured in PSEF_MU30_244). |
| Date: | 12/1/1952 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
harvest log |
| Organisms: | white pine |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25 |
| Description: | White pine log 50% cull. |
| Date: | 10/22/1952 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
harvest personnel equipment chainsaw |
| Organisms: | red spruce |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25 |
| Description: | Bert Sussice felling 20" red spruce with chainsaw. |
| Date: | 10/22/1952 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
harvest swamp |
| Organisms: | black spruce |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25 |
| Description: | Black spruce swamp on compartment 25. Wood is being stump-piled. Ground is too wet to use horses for skidding. Cutover area in foreground was similar to that in the background. |
| Date: | 10/22/1952 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
harvest personnel equipment |
| Organisms: |
white pine spruce |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25 |
| Description: | Load of spruce and white pine logs cut from compartment 25. Team and log loader. Left -- F. Mose; Center -- R. Perry; Right -- G. Fountain. |
| Date: | 10/22/1952 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
harvest stump |
| Organisms: | white pine |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25 |
| Description: | Three white pine stumps 30". Over 50 percent cull in logs. At right, entire tree was cull. |
| Date: | 10/22/1952 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
harvest stump old growth shelterwood |
| Organisms: | spruce |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25 |
| Description: | View after most of the sawlogs were cut, but before pulp cut. Removal cut in old growth stand to be handled under shelterwood. No preperatory cut made this time. |
| Date: | 10/22/1952 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
harvest equipment vehicle stump |
| Organisms: | spruce |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25 |
| Description: | After sawlogs were cut, before pulp cut. |
| Date: | 10/22/1952 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
harvest vehicle equipment personnel |
| Organisms: | spruce |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25 |
| Description: | Compt. 25 after the sawlogs were cut, but before pulp cut. |
| Date: | 10/22/1952 |
| 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: |
harvest road log deck equipment swamp |
| Organisms: | black spruce |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 25 |
| Description: | Black spruce swamp in compt. 25. G. Fountain breaking swamp road with TD-6 bulldozer |
| Date: | 1952 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
personnel harvest log deck stump |
| Organisms: |
white pine balsam fir spruce |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | After a stand of large pines were cut about 1900, understory balsam fir and spruce developed to pulpwood size. Only a few pines originated after the cutting in 1900, because spruce and fir already occupied the site. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
log deck harvest personnel |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | Large cuts of softwoods in mixedwood stands, and light cutting for hardwoods, can convert some stands to hardwoods. "Is it desirable or undesirable? Will residual hardwoods make satisfactory growth? Will they be sound upon reaching merchantable size? Can the land owner afford to do anything different than this?" |
| Date: | 1950 |
| 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: | harvest |
| Organisms: | white pine |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | Not all of the old white pines were sound. This one was 50% cull. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
log deck harvest softwood pulpwood |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest |
| Description: | Where softwoods were dominant, about 4 cords of pulpwood were cut per acre, and a good stand remains for the future. |
| Date: | 1950 |
| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
harvest equipment road personnel |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 52 |
| Description: | Image showing a skidder pulling cut trees out of forest. |
| Date: | 1950 |