I guess this makes sense in the time before trailers. 160 foot long pilings going to Pearl Harbor

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/374/

I think this is a screen side Dodge.. and what a logging situation, interesting trailer dolly, but I imaging the brakes were barely up to the task of steep hills and the weight of the log

https://forums.aaca.org/topic/341211-period-images-to-relieve-some-of-the-stress/page/673/

A google search returned this info:

This photograph captures a moment in 1926 in Sumner County, Tennessee, illustrating the blending of traditional farming practices with new technology.

a crude logging bridge, that got the job done. Photo by the famous logging photographer Darius Kinsey. Glacier Creek in Whatcom county

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=8862369673808901&set=gm.2084330018703858&idorvanity=398268110643399

I learned of Kinsey's logging photos in 2015, and they are impressive https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search?q=Darius+Kinsey

straight out of Final Destination... wouldn't you think anyone working for the Forest Dept would be familiar enough with logging to KNOW not to be so damn close you could get killed by one?

A USFS truck was at the front of a two-vehicle convoy traveling west on Highway 101.

 This vehicle was driving at or near the speed limit (55 mph) with the cruise control set.

 At 10:48 a.m., the lead USFS vehicle driver noticed a log truck turning into the eastbound lane onto the highway from the south side of the road. 

The log truck did not complete the turn as expected. 

The USFS vehicle driver applied the brakes and steered right (north) to create as much distance as possible. 

The trailer with its load of logs detached from its tow vehicle and rolled perpendicularly across both lanes of the highway—directly into the path of the USFS vehicle—leaving no chance for avoidance. 

The log truck’s loaded trailer and USFS vehicle struck each other in the ditch on the highway’s north side. The airbags deployed and logs from the trailer entered through the windshield. The driver’s side door was crumpled. Both the driver and the passenger hit the deployed airbags.

https://www.facebook.com/wildfirelessonslearned/posts/pfbid0QxcgVzniAuPLtwX1WKN7KnzvxcvCjGJ2zzKyZnkbiEF8eYxDiAYDPhiCVxttPiZjl

https://lessons.wildfire.gov/incident/olympic-nf-vehicle-accident-2025

hauling a Steam Donkey on a Kelly logging truck

https://www.oldoregonphotos.com/subject/cars-trucks/3-1-2-ton-kelly-springfield-truck-hauling-a-steam-donkey-c-1917.html

this looks like it's a forest crawling machine! Olofsfors tracks over tires on a John Deere 1270G 8x8 tire forest processor

https://forestmachinemagazine.com/new-alliance-tyres

what the frickin heck is this? An Australian Steam Powered Whim! Only 4 ever made!

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10226830441167109&set=pcb.1512100402704210

The steam Whim was designed to collect and deliver trees into a sawmill. It is believed they could lift 19 tons of timber.

The crew of a steam whim consisted of a driver, a fireman to operate the whim, and a faller and swamper on the ground to prepare and attach the logs for carrying.

https://sparkarrester.wordpress.com/tag/steam-whim-timber-engine/

https://pickeringbrookheritagegroup.com.au/sawmills/steam-powered-whim-model/

This color photo is only a 1/10th scale model to prove it was possible to make one from the photos

The Shacks - rail cars that functioned as temporary mobile housing and for supplies that followed loggers into the forested wilds of north-central Pennsylvania during the late 19th-century

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=383296974482185&set=a.368696449275571

I haven't posted Kinsey Brothers logging photos in a while

https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/threads/half-track-dump-trucks.424344/

A company called Madill out of Canada uses Sherman tanks as the undercarriage for yarders, which are a mobile "spar" or towers used in cable logging operations.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=326432076867379&set=p.326432076867379&type=3

A demolition company in Northern NJ, Ottilio and sons, had a couple of Shermans they used for taking down buildings in the 60's. There is a video of it.

There supposedly was one used for logging in the Schenectady-Glens Falls, NY area, possibly purchased from the Watervleit arsenal, that the turret had been removed and left in a barn somewhere long after the tank was scrapped.

In a small village in northern Minnesota, there was an older gentleman, who was the radio man at Battle of Bastogne. After the war he bought a tank without the turret to use for dragging the trees they cut down for his logging crew. 

It worked well, except it consumed 60 to 70 gallons of gas a day. Then they heard about a diesel engine they could convert it with, that cost $3,500 , which was a lot of money, back then, but he finally went for it, with his partners and then it only used an average of 10 to 12 gallons a day.

In the late 1960's there was a place in Salem Ma that sold Sherman tanks

An old zinc mine still has a Sherman tank in it. They removed the top and put a drill on top of it. It’s been sitting there since about the 70s when they got newer equipment. The mine is now shut down so you can’t get into see it anymore

1910ish wooden railroad rails and log ties. I've never seen this before

https://woodchuckcanuck.com/2021/10/23/vintage-logging-railroads-3/

someone found that a logging "fore and aft" plank road was left on a Canadian island, and is still there about 80 years after it was last used

 

https://www.facebook.com/EricBrightonNostalgia/photos/183991943996869

a bridge and it's traffic about a 100 years ago

https://www.facebook.com/EricBrightonNostalgia/photos/p.196830616046335/196830616046335/?type=3

Thanks Terry for sharing these cool photos! Now HERE'S a look behind the scenes of railroad bridges!

that's 1 Million rail road ties in ONE winter

and now it's easy to see how they made so many of these bridges and plumes

Thanks Terry! 

first photo I've seen that has a pole road AND a plank road, 1937

 https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/lumberjacks-british-columbia-history-1900-1930/

when you run out of train cars, what are you going to do to get those logs delivered? Improvise.

 

large logs can be pushed ahead of a steam engine, or pulled behind while loaded on flatcars. 

The pushing option of course requires a low-friction surface of some type between the rails, to allow the heavy logs to slide easily. 

 This photo was taken near the mills at Bridal Veil, in the Columbia Gorge.

https://www.oldoregonphotos.com/subject/trains/two-ways-to-move-logs-by-raiload-1904.html

U. S.Reclamation Service 1913 Holt tractor used to haul logs in Washington state

https://www.oldoregonphotos.com/subject/occupational-views/logging.html

the little engine that could

 some where in the Yoop a long time ago. The photo was found in an old log cabin

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2332482086905081&set=a.132377116915600

a Kelly truck, with Goodyear rubber over solid rims - 1923

https://www.overdrive.fi/forum/threads/vanhoja-valokuvia-ameriikan-raitilta.267070/page-1276#post-3444690

how about this... a plank road to the logging area so the trucks could get in and out

I bet no one has done this in the last 50 years

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by-part-2.1154030/page-797#post-13805904