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Hand loading of log truck from log yard along winter haul road, in MU5 in November 1952
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU5
Compartment Management Study
selection system
personnel
equipment
logging
vehicle
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Hand loading of log truck from log yard along winter haul road, in MU5 in November 1952
Date: Nov-52

Hand loading of log truck from log yard along winter haul road, in MU5 in November 1952
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU5
Compartment Management Study
selection system
personnel
equipment
logging
vehicle
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Hand loading of log truck from log yard along winter haul road, in MU5 in November 1952
Date: Nov-52

Bert Sussice felling 20" red spruce with chainsaw.
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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

Load of spruce and white pine logs cut from compartment 25. Team and log loader. Left -- F. Mose; Center -- R. Perry; Right -- G. Fountain.
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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

After sawlogs were cut, before pulp cut.
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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

Compt. 25 after the sawlogs were cut, but before pulp cut.
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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

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.
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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

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.
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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

Wood chipper in action
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Collection: RMRS Archive Images
Keywords: equipment
mistletoe control project
forest pathology
Location: Grand Canyon N.P.; AZ; United States
Description: Wood chipper in action
Date: 5/1952

Wood chipper in action
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Collection: RMRS Archive Images
Keywords: equipment
mistletoe control project
forest pathology
Location: Grand Canyon N.P.; AZ; United States
Description: Wood chipper in action
Date: 5/1952

Wood chipper in action
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Collection: RMRS Archive Images
Keywords: equipment
mistletoe control project
forest pathology
Location: Grand Canyon N.P.; AZ; United States
Description: Wood chipper in action
Date: 5/1952

Preston A. Morse felling American larch with chainsaw, in MU4 in March 1952
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Collection: Penobscot Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive
Keywords: MU4
Compartment Management Study
diameter-limit cut
personnel
equipment
logging
Organisms: American larch
Location: Penobscot Experimental Forest; Maine
Description: Preston A. Morse felling American larch with chainsaw, in MU4 in March 1952
Date: Mar-52

Black spruce swamp in compt. 25. G. Fountain breaking swamp road with TD-6 bulldozer
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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