Forrestry in Sweden 1915

[log_hauler]

Intresting thing is how much easier it is to drag those logs over snow. A technique I have used occasionally in snow is dump large logs on a sledge-a much easier way to shift them over a distance!

[Mark Bolam]

Great stuff Xerxses.

 

Love the bit in the first vid at 4.40 when the guy gets some help from a bear!

[Dilz]

knew there would be a coffee brake in there some where.....

Awesome stuff - the horse sledging looks mint! would love to have a crack at that!

[mr kipling]

That looked hard work bet it kept them warm though. Love the old stuff especially stuff about redwoods..

[chaffey]

amazing videos!! i wonder why he scores the tree before he fells it with the axe?!

 

I wondered exactly that!! Still it was hard work back then. Here's to us and our chainsaws:thumbup:

[Xerxses]

I wondered exactly that!! Still it was hard work back then. Here's to us and our chainsaws:thumbup:

 

I´m not enterily sure but I think it has to do with the floating...

Traditionally houses were built with logs lying flat on top of eachother, joined in the ends. The timber was debarked and used in full lengts or planked and used for flooring. When the log was used for floor they used the whole width of the log and just made the sides flat so that every plank was tapered, they turned every second one "upside down" so every broad send met a narrow end and thus made the planks "straight" They didnt waste any material cutting the logs into straight "sleepers" before milling.

 

I think the "scoring" made debarking easier or had to do with the actual transport in water, but I havent found the answer yet.