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« on: March 03, 2002, 01:34:09 pm »
While messing around on ebay I came across a magazine story they were auctioning off, from a weekly journal called "The Outlook"

Nobody had bid on it so I bid a buck. Well, I won. What I did not know at the time that the article was written about Michigan Logging. Whats so interesting about that?

The Title of the Illustrated article is "The Modern Lumberjack". Always interested in modern logging techniques. Its a good read, even back when it was written. August 2, 1922.

My daughter has typed it out for us, and I now have the original framed and hanging up.



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Re: Modern Lumberjack
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2002, 02:16:17 pm »
Times have changed but by reading this I felt like I was there for the experience.  Reminds me of the quote in the movie "The River Runs Through It"  where the Jacks were said to be as tuff as the handles of the axe's they weilded(sp.)  The article read of Proud Men working for Appreciative Companies, a rare combination in the times we live in now .   An exciting purchase for $1, worthy of framing and posting.  Thank's for sharing !!
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Re: Modern Lumberjack
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2002, 02:29:10 pm »
   Hi Budman, you got me so confuzzzzed...your letter reads like you were able to zero in on Jeff's picture and read that weeny little print..is that the case, and if so , HOW (LOLOL :D :D :D )?   lw
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« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2002, 02:31:17 pm »
   Duhh..I just found the link. As Gilda Radnor used to say, 'Never mind..' :-[ ::)   lw
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Re: Modern Lumberjack
« Reply #4 on: March 03, 2002, 02:35:46 pm »
Just want everybody to know that L. aint that ditzy. I just added "Click here to read" to help identify the link. I'm pretty sure itrwernt there when L. made her questioning post :D
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Re: Modern Lumberjack
« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2002, 03:51:14 pm »
Great story!  I'll give ya  your dollar back for it! ::)

Actually, I have copied it and will use in in a news letter I send out to the landowners in my area.  A little history, even if it is about (gasp!) yankees, is worth the effort. ::)
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« Reply #6 on: March 03, 2002, 04:11:39 pm »
Right Don !!    And them "Jack's only moved on to Michiganderland after they had trimmed a few trees in the lower Mississippi Valley and had been taught their skills. Then they sought out the easy small trees of Michigander"yankee-land"  where the work and woods were soft and they didn't have to break a sweat or sharpen their implements as often !! :D :D
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Re: Modern Lumberjack
« Reply #7 on: March 03, 2002, 04:31:19 pm »
Yankees!

I'll have you know my great-great-great-great-great-great grandpere was felling trees in Michigan back in 1710 not long after he got off the boat from France. I still wonder which side we were on in the French and Indian War. There's still a lot of people with French names living in Michigan. Their ancestors were logging here when Mississippi was still part of Spain.

Yankees!  >:( >:( >:(

Show some respect or I'll come down there and feed you some muskrat.  ;D

BTW, great story Jeff. Thanks for sharing it.
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Re: Modern Lumberjack
« Reply #8 on: March 03, 2002, 04:31:21 pm »
Be sure to give us a little mention in dat der newletter eh Don? ;)
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Re: Modern Lumberjack
« Reply #9 on: March 04, 2002, 06:51:33 am »
Yep, some of us here were born a hundred years too late? 8) 8)  I now understand better what I father use to say to us youngns, "Swamp this place out!".     :D :D
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Re: Modern Lumberjack
« Reply #10 on: March 04, 2002, 05:50:05 pm »
Hey frank,
You mean your first job wasn't as a swamper? :)  A couple of friends of mine first job in the woods was as a Powder Monkey. :o ;D

Great article Jeff. 8)
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Re: Modern Lumberjack
« Reply #11 on: March 04, 2002, 05:51:46 pm »
Everybody sing!

"I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay,
I sleep all night and I work all day..."

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Re: Modern Lumberjack
« Reply #12 on: March 04, 2002, 06:44:05 pm »
My first job was a gopher.....  
.......Go for this!  Go for that!
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Re: Modern Lumberjack
« Reply #13 on: March 05, 2002, 06:21:02 am »
Great Stuff!!!  I have some old photos of the logging camp my grandfather worked in which are quite similar to the photos here!  It was on the Parker Spur Road west of today's M-35 between McFarland and Little Lake.  Thanks,  Jeff! :)
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Re: Modern Lumberjack
« Reply #14 on: March 05, 2002, 06:24:00 am »
Jeff, I sell your sight and give you fame and fortune every where I turn, why, if I got a nickle for every time I told folks about your site, I'd almost have enough to buy a capucinno!

But, in retrospect, I have not the space to Print the article, gues I'll just have to give this web page out as a point of forestry interest.  

some of my clients are ex-yankees! ::)
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Re: Modern Lumberjack
« Reply #15 on: March 05, 2002, 09:41:57 am »
Jeff,
A good historical find relating to Michigan's History.
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Re: Modern Lumberjack
« Reply #16 on: March 05, 2002, 01:56:45 pm »
Well you sure can't beat that for a buck. ;D
Dang now I'm sounding like a phone ad.
So I'll quit while I'm ahead. It is amazing some of the stuff you can find on E-bay.

Speaking of auctions when is that tree of hope auction going to start Jeff?
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Re: Modern Lumberjack
« Reply #17 on: March 05, 2002, 05:24:47 pm »
Gordon that's a good one. "What can you get these days for a buck?" I like Terry Bradshaw. :D

Jeff that is cool. I have never been on Ebay, but now I am going. See you on the Antiques Road Show and let's get that story on the MFRA web site ya ol' dog you.
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