My dad was a logger and had his own mill. I remember when he bought his first forklift. Before that every board was put on the truck then hauled to the pile where it was stacked on sticks to dry. When it was sold a lumber grader came to the mill and it was graded and loaded by hand onto the tractor trailer, a load in a day. So you think that's not so bad, well think green oak 8/4 (2 inches thick) up to 20-22 inches wide at times, and the heart of almost every hardwood log was sawed into a 4x4 or 4x6 and sold to a pallet mill to be resawn for pallets. Dead green that stuff is heavy. We sawed almost all grade hardwood, very little softwood. We wrestled logs, had to roll them across the millyard with canthooks to get them to the mill and used canthooks to turn them on the carriage. I remember taking 8 slabs off some of them that were too big for the saw (56"). I also remember loading logs on the truck by hand, dig a hole along a bank for the truck, build cribbing alongside, logs dropped onto the truck at first then you rolled them up poles onto the top of the load. Picture of the millyard the logs on the right would be rolled across by hand into the mill.
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Today's Featured Article - Madison's County - by Anthony West. Philip Madison has been a good friend of mine for quite some time. He has patiently suffered my incessant chit chat on the subject of tractors for longer than I care to remember, and on many occasions he has put himself out, dropped what ever it was he was doing, to come and lend a hand cranking handles, or loading a find onto a trailer. Although he himself has never actually owned or restored a tractor, he was always enthusiastic and always around helping with other peoples projects.
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