Historic Logging and Milling Photos

[SwampDonkey]

About '66 was the end of the drive. Irving built some piers above Beechwood dam before it's construction, near Clearview, that never got used when the government stopped the drive.

J. K. Irving's wife, Jean, wrote a book about Rev. R. H. Nicholson from up near Woodstock (Riceville), who was also a painter and teacher. Many of the paintings are of horse logging and camp life, which Jim Irving commissioned Nicholson to paint in 1960 from his memories. The Irvings own many of his paintings, some are at the Faculty of Forestry at U of Toronto. A lot of the scenery you can tell is from Carleton County, you look at them and know exactly were they were if you know the area up along the river valley in the Woodstock area. He would teach Mrs Irving to paint when she enrolled in his classes in 1977. The folks in the family here knew the Rev. because he was a Wesleyan preacher and involved in Bethany (a Wesleyan Bible college), which was founded in Woodstock in 1945 and moved to Sussex in 1966.

I have a copy of the book here signed by Mrs Irving and Rev. Nicholson. My aunt in Sussex, now 80, is a retired teacher and she paints as well. She gave this copy to us.

This is one of Rev. Nicholson's paintings called "Icing at Night".



I don't know if anyone has seen this, but my grandfather has done this work years ago. They iced the roads to make it easier sledding the wood out of the woods. My grandfather  (mom's dad) would have been the same age as the Rev. born 1909. It was dad's side of the family that has the church ties to the Rev. But dad's mom had uncles that were woods contractors or teamster with hired men and camps they built.

[clearcut]

The University of California has digitized the Fritz-Metcalf Photograph Collection and put it online for all to browse.

The Fritz-Metcalf Photograph Collection is a group of about 9000 photographs relating primarily to forestry, conservation, and the lumber industry in California and the United States. Subjects include logging operations, logging equipment, reforestation, forest research, fire protection, lumber mills, and the activities of the University of California's School of Forestry. The photographs were taken from 1906 to 1984 by Emanuel Fritz, Woodbridge Metcalf and others.

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BIOS/fmpc/index.html

[TreeWinder]

Thanks, great resource

[SwampDonkey]

You fellas are new to the forum, so you may not have seen this older thread.

[SwampDonkey]

Logging camp



Well, they have to eat to.



These are from a calender. 

[isawlogs]

 Can you make some copies of the calendar   I'd send ya some looneys maybe even twoneys for one . 

[SwampDonkey]

Message sent mon ami.

[SwampDonkey]

Tractor train arrives at the rail siding, very cold day, 30 below.

[isawlogs]

 That pic reminds me of what my dad told me he did one winter. They had bought a new tractor and took a hauling contract with there cutting contract. The tractor was/is a 1954 Fergusson 2085. Dad had ordered a cab for it and a set of half tracks, tracks arrived but not the cab 
  Tractor pulled two sets of bob sleighs once the tracks where set and hardened. The haul was about ten miles at the most with one long lake to cross, that was the cold part of the treck, the cab would of made it a nic winter , dad told me he would put the tractor in first gear once on the lake, jump off and run around the tractor and sleighs to stay warm.

[SwampDonkey]

Yeah, I don't know how common they were around here unless they cut on company ground. My grandfather and uncle only used horses. And my grandfather used a horse in his teens (1920's) until the early 1980's. Dad started out with horse and went skidder in the late 70's. I remember his black mare he bought and used, had a little old abandoned house on the upper farm with mud floor for the horse to stay in a few times. I remember us going and looking for a horse to. Funny how you can remember stuff like that when your only 5 or 6. The old house I can remember up until the 90's sitting near an old apple tree. When we sold stumpage and cleared some farm, I never saw it again and can't remember if it was cleared or just rotted into the ground. We also planted trees, so with all that going on I imagine it got lost.