Looking for some specific pics

[northmanlogging]

A year or so ago some folks posted a pic of a one log load going through a parade in Darrington, tried searching for it, but couldn't find perhaps it was before the hack?

Anyway turns out it very well maybe my grandpa's truck, no one in the family has a copy of it and it would be nice to remedy that.

Matter of fact any one log loads from the PNW would be nice to see.

 

[dhskier2]

This isn't in a parade, but it is from the Darrington photo archive. Comes with the following caption:
Postcard of an enormous old growth Douglas fir log on a log truck with three men posed for the photo. Remarks on back identifies the men as left to right: Jim Reece, Henry Brown and Earl Morgan. This description is on the back of the postcard: "GIANT FIR LOG. This 13,000 board feet specimen is typical of the giants still found in the virgin forests of Oregon and Washington. A lot of lumber in this one." Photographer is J. Boyd Ellis, published by the Ellis Postcard Co. of Arlington, Washington, and the company that made the postcard is Dexter of West Hyack, New York.

 

[bitzer]

I see they put a dutchman in her! Good, good.

 

[northmanlogging]

I think that is the same log... but... the one I'm thinking of is just a the back end and its crossing some railroad tracks...

 

[056kid]

I see they put a dutchman in her! Good, good.

Put a gol cutter on a tree like that & they might just get lost in the laberenth of plunge cuts and windows to commpensate for an undersized bar and wacky technique.

 

[bitzer]

Put a gol cutter on a tree like that & they might just get lost in the laberenth of plunge cuts and windows to commpensate for an undersized bar and wacky technique.

The wouldn't even know where to start. I think Bob had a story about when Soren Eriksson went out west to teach GOL back in the 70s or 80s or whenever.

 

[1270d]

The wouldn't even know where to start. I think Bob had a story about when Soren Eriksson went out west to teach GOL back in the 70s or 80s or whenever.

Id like to hear the story if possible

 

[056kid]

Yeah, i don't imagin it caught on. If you ask a cutter west of the mississippi if he knows gol and he'll probably think you are talking about some test his kids will take in school.. or a new mixed martial arts fighting technique. Lol

 

[Gologit]

The wouldn't even know where to start. I think Bob had a story about when Soren Eriksson went out west to teach GOL back in the 70s or 80s or whenever.

It's not my story but it's well documented and told by others. The story might be a little embellished with the passing of time but most logging stories are.
From what I hear his mission to bring enlightenment and procedural correctness to the knuckle draggers west of the Mississippi was a big failure. I think he got his feelings hurt when people laughed at him and his methods. The general consensus was that he meant well but he didn't really understand left coast production falling.
There have been some GOL classes out here but they're geared more toward weekend warriors and people new to cutting. The emphasis is on saw safety and that's good.
GOL for production fallers was...and continues to be...not very popular.

 

[Gypo Logger]

Put a gol cutter on a tree like that & they might just get lost in the laberenth of plunge cuts and windows to commpensate for an undersized bar and wacky technique.

Everything I know I learned from Eric Sorenson.

 

[Gypo Logger]

A year or so ago some folks posted a pic of a one log load going through a parade in Darrington, tried searching for it, but couldn't find perhaps it was before the hack?

Anyway turns out it very well maybe my grandpa's truck, no one in the family has a copy of it and it would be nice to remedy that.

Matter of fact any one log loads from the PNW would be nice to see.

This?

 

[Eccentric]

A parade of logging trucks in Western Washington. The lead truck is from Arlington Transfer Co.

This is the link to the site that had the pic:

http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/kg_logging.htm


Cool old IHC Iron hauling the big wood.

 

[northmanlogging]

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Not quite, Color and crossing a set of rail road tracks, big snow capped mountain in the back ground.

If I remember correctly some one had claimed it was in Oregon, even though the mountain is clearly White Horse...

 

[Gypo Logger]

This one postcard is on ebay.

 

[Gypo Logger]

Not quite, Color and crossing a set of rail road tracks, big snow capped mountain in the back ground.

If I remember correctly some one had claimed it was in Oregon, even though the mountain is clearly White Horse...

I will keep looking.