| Collection: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest Historical Photo Archive |
| Keywords: |
logging equipment road |
| Organisms: | paper birch |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 19 |
| Description: | G. Fountain building truck road on Comp. 19, using TD-6 bulldozer. The sawlogs have been cut, but the white birch has not. |
| Date: | 11/20/1953 |
| 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: | pre-harvest |
| Organisms: | white pine |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 19 |
| Description: | Stand before cutting. Looking south from 57" white pine stump. Photo taken from log deck. |
| Date: | 10/23/1953 |
| 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: |
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: | shelterwood |
| Organisms: |
red spruce fir white pine |
| Location: | Paul Smith Experimental Forest; Compartment 19 |
| Description: | A shelterwood cut has been made to get more reproduction before the final cut 10-15 years later. This compartment is meant to produce an even-aged stand of red spruce, balsam fir, and white pine. |
| 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 |