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camps to look for new methods to log as much forest in the quickest amount of time possible. Carter, the boss-logger, money hungry man that he was, got his loggers
only to fell trees that were close to shore. As Grainger explains, "In those days good timber was plentiful- good timber, on sea-coast slopes, that could be felled and shot right down to water- hand-loggers' timber." Most boss-loggers of the early 1900's were looking to make cash and make it fast.
A typical logging camp at the turn of the century consisted of approximately a dozen men. The tools used by these loggers were not particularly developed as would have been preferred. In fact they were quite heavy and beastly. If one was to take a trip back to a logging camp around the turn of the century one would see various tools such as: heavy jack-screws, a light ratchet screw, big seven-foot saws, axes, and heavy chains for chaining logs together.
A logger's typical work day, as Grainger describes it, would ...

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machine; five thousand well spent dollars if one just imagines the time, energy and money one could save by this investment. One may ask the question, "How would the acquisition of a single of machinery benefit Carter so much?" To answer that question one must know what a steam is and what its primary functions are. Then and only then can one realize the immeasurable impact it could have on the availability of logs, the workload of loggers and also the final output of logs ready for the sawmill. The "Steam ," as Robert from the VanNatta Logging History Museum of Northwest Oregon, consists of a steam boiler and a steam engine connected to a winch all mounted on a ‘sled' called a ‘ ...

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