Railroad History Story: Logging the North Woods
Michigan's Internet Railroad History Museum
Logging Photos Around Boyne City
Page 1
----------
----------
 |
Logging camps were rustic at best. This is a prime example of a logging camp from the Boyne Falls area. |
 |
Camp operators knew that Lumberjacks worked better when they were well fed. So, all camps had a staff of good cooks on hand. |
 |
Two Sawyers with the tools of their trade. Laying on the log above the crosscut saw are a wedge and a short handled hammer. The wedge will be driven into the log above the saw to keep the log from pinching on the saw blade. Two axes are also visible in the photo. |
 |
At the Cross-haul, logs "snaked" out of the woods by teams of horses are loaded onto Big Wheels for transport back to the camp. Big Wheels were an invention of Silas Overpack of Manistee. |
 |
Whenever a photographer came into the woods, the lumberjacks would show off by loading up a sleigh with an incredible load. This was generally done for show, as no single team of horses would be able to move a sleigh loaded this heavily. |
 |
A big Wheel set arrives at camp with a load of logs. A McGiffert log loader can be observed in the background. |
 |
This is believed to be at Camp No. 10, which was a rather large camp northeast of Elmira. Not many camps were equipped to load two trains at the same time, such as this. |
| More Logging Photos | |
| Top of Page |