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[Sawyer Rob]

Hey oldpath, check these out,

Why mess with that low grade wood, when I have oaks like this to deal with,

And then, there's a bunch of hard maples too!

SR

 

[Agvg]

I have a lot of wood on those steep areas but it's to much work to get it, in the old days they put up wires from the mountain sides down to the bottom an sendt firewood on small hooks or pullys down the wire.

 

[Agvg]

Where it ends up

 

[Creamer]

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The question is how can you work with a winch? When you have the right toys it is playing. When you don't have the right toys it is work.

 

[Jstpssng]

I have a lot of wood on those steep areas but it's to much work to get it, in the old days they put up wires from the mountain sides down to the bottom an sendt firewood on small hooks or pullys down the wire.

I was cruising timber in New Hampshire. One thing we had to do was determine if the hills were operable or not. For a half mile or more I climbed a slope which by normal standards would be considered inoperable; yet kept seeing old stumps so obviously it had been harvested before. On my last plot before reaching the top I measured out from a tree to get it's height and stumbled over an old steel flume, lying on the ground headed down the hill. I always wanted to return and check it out further but had gone through a forest service gate to get there, so couldn't go back just to satisfy my own curiosity.

 

[goeduck]

I was cruising timber in New Hampshire. One thing we had to do was determine if the hills were operable or not. For a half mile or more I climbed a slope which by normal standards would be considered inoperable; yet kept seeing old stumps so obviously it had been harvested before. On my last plot before reaching the top I measured out from a tree to get it's height and stumbled over an old steel flume, lying on the ground headed down the hill. I always wanted to return and check it out further but had gone through a forest service gate to get there, so couldn't go back just to satisfy my own curiosity.

Logging by flume and rivers, including damming the rivers to create more immediate flow was common around these parts back when.

Flumes, Chutes and Splash Dams - Logging in the early years | Spokane Historical
History of Flumes for transporting redwoods
The Columbia River - Broughton Flume, Washington

 

[Jstpssng]

Logging by flume and rivers, including damming the rivers to create more immediate flow was common around these parts back when.

Flumes, Chutes and Splash Dams - Logging in the early years | Spokane Historical
History of Flumes for transporting redwoods
The Columbia River - Broughton Flume, Washington

Nice links. I have heard of them being used, this is the only one which I actually ever came across though. I always thought that water was used, but this one had no nearby source. Lots of times the chute was made of wood and just rotted back down when their job was done; the one I found was steel, and looked very similar to what you see on commercial concrete mixer trucks.

I went bass fishing on a man-made lake one afternoon with an old woods worker; as we boated up through the channel at high speed, he commented "Back before we knew any better, I ran a bulldozer down through here clearing the rocks so there wouldn't be anymore log jams."
I have read that out your way there are efforts being made to return those rocks into the channel, to help the fisheries and other aquatic species.

 

[Oldpath05]

Well Sawyer Rob I checked it out, what a freakin mess, must be several acres of storm damage, glad I dont have to clean that up, some of those trees still tension on them and broken tops to, what a mess.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Well Sawyer Rob I checked it out, what a freakin mess, must be several acres of storm damage, glad I dont have to clean that up, some of those trees still tension on them and broken tops to, what a mess.

A tornado went through there... It will NEVER all be cleaned up, I'm just taking the best of the worst... lol

ANYWAY,

My helper came over today and we cut/skid some more firewood, adding to our growing pile,

After a few hours of skidding, we decided to cut a wagon load, so I lifted and held the logs over the wagon with my tractor and my helper cut them to firewood lengths,

"Johnny" really zipped through the wood,

and S N we had a pretty good wagon load, so we headed home,

EVERYONE sure loves my Jonsered 2260!

Next will be to get this load split...

SR

 

[BrokenTrack]

Nice links. I have heard of them being used, this is the only one which I actually ever came across though. I always thought that water was used, but this one had no nearby source. Lots of times the chute was made of wood and just rotted back down when their job was done; the one I found was steel, and looked very similar to what you see on commercial concrete mixer trucks.

No need for water, just shove the log into the chute, put a horse onto it, and down over the mountain it would go.

I would be interested in knowing what area of New Hampshire you were in. I have an old logging book that has a lot of information about New Hampshire logging in the 1800's and into the early 1900's. I do not remember reading anything about metal flumes though. Notched wooden ones were quite common too.

I live in Maine, but have a house in New Hampshire too, and have a lot of family that lived and worked in new Hampshire forests for Parker and Young, etc.