My dad was a logger and had his own mill. I remember when he bought his first forklift. Before that every board was put on the truck then hauled to the pile where it was stacked on sticks to dry. When it was sold a lumber grader came to the mill and it was graded and loaded by hand onto the tractor trailer, a load in a day. So you think that's not so bad, well think green oak 8/4 (2 inches thick) up to 20-22 inches wide at times, and the heart of almost every hardwood log was sawed into a 4x4 or 4x6 and sold to a pallet mill to be resawn for pallets. Dead green that stuff is heavy. We sawed almost all grade hardwood, very little softwood. We wrestled logs, had to roll them across the millyard with canthooks to get them to the mill and used canthooks to turn them on the carriage. I remember taking 8 slabs off some of them that were too big for the saw (56"). I also remember loading logs on the truck by hand, dig a hole along a bank for the truck, build cribbing alongside, logs dropped onto the truck at first then you rolled them up poles onto the top of the load. Picture of the millyard the logs on the right would be rolled across by hand into the mill.
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Today's Featured Article - When Push Comes to Shove - by Dave Patterson. When I was a “kid” (still am to a deree) about two I guess, my parents couldn’t find me one day. They were horrified (we lived by the railroad), my mother thought the worst: "He’s been run over by a train, he’s gone forever!" Where did they find me? Perched up on the seat of the tractor. I’d probably plowed about 3000 acres (in my head anyway) by the time they found me. This is where my love for tractors started and has only gotten worse in my tender 50 yrs on this “green planet”. I’m par
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