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Jackson Brothers Logging...From the Sechelt online Archives and Peter Jackson Collection

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Burns and Jackson Logging, hauling a 180 ft spar tree with a 29 inch top....in the 50's My dad worked for Jackson Bros logging on and off, as a faller for many years. When we lived on Davis Bay Road, that was Jackson's logging road. All the kids knew to stay away from the small hill just outside our house when a loaded logging truck could be heard rumbling towards us. One fine day, when an empty truck went zooming up the hill, it hit a pothole and the trailer jumped off the back of the truck. The loose trailer rolled through the ditch and right through our fence, just feet away from where I was playing on the lawn. Link to other logging related posts are here...   http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/07/lost-treasure-trove-of-abandoned.html http://adventuresinmikeslife.blogspot.ca/2012/02/loggingre-posted.html When we moved to a new Davis Bay house, the majority owner of Jackson Bros, Mike Jackson lived a few doors down on Whitaker road. One of my first pa...

Time Travels....Logging in Days Gone By

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I was poking around....here and there, and I found a few photos that you night enjoy. Plus..at the end, a great video that documents the history of logging in the Squamish area. It features a ton of film/video of seldom seen operating old time logging equipment True story...this is the hospital that I was born in....Garden Bay BC...back in 19something something.  The hospital was built to treat loggers who got hurt in the surrounding mountains and inlets. It was too far, and too much of a wait to go to Vancouver...too many men suffered and died, before they could get treatment. Opened in 1930. 1st Pacific truck...built in Vancouver, and getting shipped to Newfoundland P-16 with a spar One of Doug Sladey's trucks Lake Cowichan log train Harrison Lake steam yarders Campbell River steam donkey Vancouver Island 1987 Truck mounted log boom ...Quesnel 1950 2 man chain saw Nice tires...looks like this might have been a 2 trailer set-...

Textures and Colours of Abandoned Logging Equipment

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I'll put a sound track on this later. These are still images of old logging iron that was left to rust out in the forest. Peeling paint, rust and moss on metal...all the good stuff.