Lousiana 1920s swamp logging.

[tramp bushler]

Set your spring board down and it floats, drop your ax and it sinks into the mud. Heck you sometimes can not walk in it without miring up.
I have cut some in similar conditions and can see the advantage of the boat. at least you can lay something down without losing it. Plus I have no great love for leaches and all the other nasty creepy crawlers from bacteria to gators and everything in between.

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. I think it would take alot of getting used to .... I don,t know if I could ..Gators , snakes , spiders , ect ....I think I,ll stick with potentially irritated moose , Brown and black bear . and White Sox , No See ums and skeeters .

 

[danieltree]

I imagine those cypress stumps last a long time . Yellow cedar , the Alaska version , is actually a cypress and those stumps will last hundreds of years ....

There are fewer left than when I was a kid but there are still some out there. They hollow out and a tree will grow up through the center of some and some are so big you can go inside it. The south used to have some very large timber. The whole state of Louisiana was a clear cut at one time. There were some pockets here and there that didn't get logged but for the most part it was stripped bare. I have seen photos of trees that can compare to some of the stuff that comes out of the northwest.

 

[tramp bushler]

I knew a bushler named Slim Huckabee who was from South Carolina or somewhere back there and he talked of mahogany trees hid dad fell that were 6-8 foot on the stump and like a hundred feet to the first limb ...... There was alot of huge timber a long time ago ....Everything used to be made from wood ..... Heres a prolly stupid ? How much of Louisiana is swamp and how much is dry ground ?/