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Gross Income, Net Profits, Production, and price index in the Lumber Industry 1920 -1934 [57] Year Gross Income (In Millions Dollar) Net Profit (In Millions Dollar) Production (In Board feet) (In Millions) Wholesale Price Index (1926=100) 1920 3,312 N/A 35,000 N/A 1922 2,402 167 35,250 N/A 1924 2,835 132 39,500 99.3 1926 3,069 117 39,750 100.0 1928
A crew of log buckers with crosscut saws in 1914. [1] Bucker limbing dead branch stubs with a chainsaw, also known as knot bumping Bucker making a bucking cut with a chainsaw Bucking, splitting and stacking logs for firewood in Kõrvemaa, Estonia (October 2022) Bucking is the process of cutting a felled and delimbed tree into logs. [2]
First a climber must climb and descend the 60-foot pole, when their feet touch the pad it is the signal for the male boom runner stationed on the chopping dock to run the logs to the logrolling dock; when he touches the dock it is then the female boom runner's turn to run the logs over to the chopping dock, once touching there the hot saws then ...
The term lumberjack is of Canadian derivation. The first attested use of the term combining its two components comes from an 1831 letter to the Cobourg, Ontario, Star and General Advertiser in the following passage: "my misfortunes have been brought upon me chiefly by an incorrigible, though perhaps useful, race of mortals called lumberjacks, whom, however, I would name the Cossacks of Upper ...
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A Eucalyptus being felled using springboards, c. 1884–1917, Australia McGiffert Log Loader in East Texas, US, c. 1907 Lumber under snow in Montgomery, Colorado, 1880s Logging is the process of cutting, processing, and moving trees to a location for transport .
Lumberjacks in front of logging camp building. A logging camp (or lumber camp) is a transitory work site used in the logging industry.Before the second half of the 20th century, these camps were the primary place where lumberjacks would live and work to fell trees in a particular area.
There the logs were decked onto "rollways." In spring when snow thawed and water levels rose, the logs were rolled into the river, and the drive commenced. [6] To ensure that logs drifted freely along the river, men called "log drivers" or "river pigs" were needed to guide the logs. The drivers typically divided into two groups.