14+ Logging In The 1800s

Though a roaring industry through the 1920s the Great Depression hit logging hard. This man is working to clean up debris and clear areas that were haphazard after the logging operation had moved on.

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Logs were hauled to the banks of the frozen rivers where they were stacked and held until the spring thaw.

Logging in the 1800s. Until dusk even eating the noon meal in the woods. The horses and oxen on the other hand were very well treated and. Logging Axes Lumberjacks used two types of axes in the 1800s.

The men came to the camp in late fall or early winter as logging was a cold weather job. Many of the logging workers were migrant workers who moved from town to town following the work. Commercial logging operations and sawmills sprang up during the late seventeenth century.

Courtesy Oregon Historical Society Enlarge Image Timber had its ups and downs in Oregon history. In the beginning 1820s logging camps were actually one building 20×20 built around a fire pit that supplied both warmth and a means of cooking. In the beginning of the era there might be 50 or so smaller logging camps in the valley however by the 1880s there could easily be over 150 camps in the valley during any given winter.

Log booms were areas on waterways that contained giant piles of floating logs. Oregon loggers pose on a massive tree stump in the early 1900s. Now those tanneries and sawmills are gone demolished or returned to nature along with the boom towns that.

Once the logs were gathered the booms were often towed as a raft-like unit to saw mills for processing. Commercial logging followed the expansion of America as companies struggled to keep up with the furious pace of progress. The food was plentiful if boring.

When loggers were forced to move away from the water and inland due to lack of trees near the water they used horses and oxen to haul their cut wood through the forest. The Admiraltys venture to get mast logs out of the New England forest in turn produced a labor force that with it developed into a booming domestic lumber industry. They would use one axe to get through the bark and the second for the tree itself.

Next came log flumes which were essentially water filled troughs that helped guide logs down the stream and were tied together like a raft. No Axes to Grind. The crews worked from about 4 am.

In the late 1800s north-central Pennsylvania was the epicenter of American logging. Fox The use of the railroad makes it possible to get out hardwood timber which otherwise could not be utilized because the logs are too heavy to be floated down the stream and would sink. Timber harvesting quickly became the top manufacturing industry in the west.

By 1931 most mills operated at less than half capacity. In the late 1800s and the first half of the 1900s the most common method was the high-wheel loader which was a set of wheels over ten feet tall that the log or logs were strapped beneath. Lumber was a big part of Maine and other northeast states in the 1800s as settlers started to move west the look for more natural resources and land another forest was found to supply the Green Gold the Great Lake States of Wisconsin Minnesota and Michigan became the logging center of the early United States.

By the early eighteenth century improvements in transportation made sawed lumber an important export. In the waning years of Wisconsin log boom men traveled up north looking for any way to earn money. After the spring thaw they were floated down river to retention ponds where they were sorted by company and then sent to their respective sawmills for cutting.

Often a few men would set up a site near the shore of Puget Sound cut down all of the surrounding trees and overload the closest ship for transport to California. When the ice broke in spring the logs were floated downstream to Oshkosh and other mill towns. They generally had a team of oxen to help transport logs.

When Euro-Americans swept westward in the 1800s they needed raw material for their homes and lives. Twelve to fourteen men would live in the camp. Transport by any means other than boat was difficult in the back-country.

Logging railroads penetrated the area starting around 1884 and continued service until 1945. A single-bitted or single-headed axe and a double-bitted axe. This video produced in 1993 contains information on Michigans logging era with an emphasis on Clare County during the last quarter of the 19th century.

The usual meal would be bread potatoes tea beans and pork. Logging is the process of cutting processing and moving trees to a location for transport. None of the camps have been preserved and most were beyond the narrow boundaries of the Riverway but their impact can still be seen today.

During the first decades of significant settlement logging was very much a small organization enterprise. As noted by researcher William F. The Menomineee developed a successful logging business from the river which ran through the center of their reservation.

Some loggers believed the double-bitted axe to be a dangerous choice and preferred to use two single-bitted axes instead. Menominee men stayed in lumber camps all winter cutting timber and hauling it by sleigh to the riverbank. These were mostly local concerns serving construction demands in fairly small localities.

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