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JD in da UP · Feb 8, 2017

Hello everyone. I've finally registered after reading over your shoulder and enjoying this community for the last 8-10 years. I posted a question or two as a guest and kind of got busy on other things for a while. I have all sort of interests and one Is old time logging. Last winter there was posted one of the old time logs loaded on a big sleigh picture. There was lots of speculation at the time about the large number written across the bottom of the picture. Weight or what? Anybody remember that? So, Old John swoops in a year later with the answer: the number is board feet, measured with a special rule inside the bark on the small end. By the way we have on the home place a JD 420c, Case SC, Oliver s55, Oliver 1255, White 2-60 and a Kubota KH91 excavator. Mostly Oliver oriented, the JD in my handle/username is for dad's JD dozer and my initials. Take care, John

mj · Feb 8, 2017

Welcome aboard!

Cory Schmidt · Feb 8, 2017

Welcome officially to the world wide funny farm...many good folk(as you may already have noticed) that always willing to lend a hand, or just a laugh. Feel free join in to the chat as often or as scattered as you'd like.

Joe W. · Feb 8, 2017

Uffda

Philip d · Feb 8, 2017

Welcome and have fun! You've got quite a collection there!

RandyB(MI) · Feb 8, 2017

Welcome JD ! I'm just a "troll' but spend a lot of time in summer in the UP. Camping for 7 days over in the west end this summer. We get up to the Soo and east end quite often and always the antique tractor bridge crossing. Enjoy yur stay.

ray hofstetter · Feb 8, 2017

Welcome to the forum...from Ohio. Visited da UP a couple of times and it sure is nice up there....

RBoots · Feb 8, 2017

Welcome sir, I too have a soft spot in my heart for old time logging, been fascinated by it sonce I was very little. I'm from central MI and dabble in logging and a bit of timber management/tree removal, and log hauling, even though I am a truck driver/road maintenance worker as my "real" job.

Ross

JD in da UP · Feb 8, 2017

Thanks for the acceptance. There's even a "basket-case" farmall super a. We do live in a great place. And now friends all over the world, officially!

Philip d · Feb 8, 2017

Your welcome and thank you,it's a great meeting place for all of us, PEI Eastern Canada here,potatoes is the main farming activity here,we're odd balls as we have dairy lol

CGID · Feb 8, 2017

Welcome! I remember the log-load photo you are referring to and over the years I have seen a few more like it. I know for a fact enormous loads were moved on sleighs, fitted with iron shoes, and over iced roads. - But - I have never seen a photo of one of those really giant loads in motion. And once in motion, I don't think there could be enough drag-bakes to stop one. I'll guess those remarkable loads were made for photo-ops, to sell photos and impress the city folk.

jimlll · Feb 8, 2017

Welcome, spent two years at the radar site in Sault Ste. Marie in the mid 60's

ben70b · Feb 8, 2017

I worked with a guy from a little town outside of Marquette in 2007, went back home with him and his wife one weekend to tear it up in the UP, I don't remember a whole lot but I do remember the yooper dome

johnlobb · Feb 8, 2017

Welcome! We spend quite a little time in DA UP! Many friends around the Copper Country, am going to a wedding in the middle of March in Hancock. Probably we'll be staying in Eagle River. What town are you near? We also have friends in Chatham...

Spudm · Feb 8, 2017

Say ya to da UP, eh? I'm from Michigan too....

JD in da UP · Feb 8, 2017

I have no idea how to send any jnfo but if you were to google "world's fair log load " and go down to a site called Shorpy's they have some pictures and claim a huge load from Ewen, MI was moved a quarter mile to a railroad loading site. Then by rail to Chicago.

Doug Wi · Feb 8, 2017

One son went 4 years at Mich tech at Houghton. The one thing I remember most is they told him if he brought a car to school, make sure he had a snow shovel. And to bring the shovel into his room, cause he would need it to find his car. That lake effect snow piles up quick.

JD in da UP · Feb 8, 2017

I live in Skandia, between Marquette and Chatham, Oldest son graduated from Michigan Tech in Houghton, daughter soon to graduate from Finlandia college in Hancock. We're all verifiable Yoopers.

JD in da UP · Feb 8, 2017

Houghton/Hancock is a very cold wind tunnel of a wintering place. Go Huskies! Hockey. Daughter is marrying a Tech player this August.

JD in da UP · Feb 8, 2017

I'd like to see the tractor ride across the bridge. You guys that make that trip are really something. Maybe a little crazy..

gab · Feb 8, 2017

Welcome, we were up to Copper Harbor last June on the hunt for weather cooler than Illinois, stayed in Hancock next to the lift bridge, nice country. You got a waterfall in the yard or a copper mine, can you make a pasty, how deeps the snow?

CGID · Feb 8, 2017

I checked out Shorpy's and I stand corrected! It must have been made for the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. It was this fair that gave Chicago the nick-name Windy City. Up to that point in time, New York assumed the position as the exclusive source of anything newsworthy and reporters there could look down their noses at reporters from other cities. The World's Fair in Chicago changed all that. The fair really was a remarkable event and it became a news source that drew attention away from New York. All the "hot air/wind" coming out of Chicago was New York's way of trivializing the news coverage devoted to that city. I believe a log load of that size would have been assembled for that fair.

JD in da UP · Feb 8, 2017

We have a creek on the back corner of our home place, no waterfall, no copper mine, you bet I can make you a pasty if you call ahead next time and our snow cover isn't anything like they get in the Keewenaw. I'll say we have about 16 inches of snow on the ground.

JD in da UP · Feb 8, 2017

Thanks for the welcome. I hope those were 2 good winters. I went to high school with a lot if air force dependents from nearby K I Sawyer AFB. Were you at the Soo with the air force?

jeffcat · Feb 8, 2017

Here are some more.

RedMF40 · Feb 8, 2017

Hello from another relative newbie! Your mentioning logging caught my attention. I'm a frequent visitor to Iceland, hardly any trees to speak of. In january driving along north coast many logs i saw piled near the water. Only farms in that area--sheep mostly--so i knew the farmers were pulling the wood out of the water and stockpiling it. Precious commodity. But where was it coming from? My guess was Norway or Sweden--nearest places to the east, across the water from Iceland. Turns out researchers wanted know same thing, traced the logs to forests in Siberia, where logging takes place. Some of these logs get loose, make their way to the ocean down the logging rivers. Takes about seven years for them to wash up on the shores of Iceland.

SweetFeet · Feb 8, 2017

Welcome! It's a great site... many helpful and knowledgeable folks here for sure.

Photos are always good (especially if it's rusty stuff).

I wound up here about six years ago due to rusty stuff... started posting after my husband and I bought our rusty '31 Farmall Regular. We had LOTS of questions and the great folks here helped us a great deal.

showcrop · Feb 8, 2017

You might be interested in two steam logging locomotives that were abandoned in the Allagash wilderness in Maine. I just found out about them this last weekend.

K Effective · Feb 8, 2017

Welcome, fellow Michigander. We're about as far apart as we can be in this beautiful state, I'm on the beach just north of Indiana. Have spent many good times riding across that beautiful, bounteous snow of the UP.

Grandpa worked two winters in a logging camp outside of Marquette back in the 'teens. As a farmer, he was tasked with keeping the horses up, but had time to learn the lumberjack job as well. He spoke German, English, Polish and a little Russian, so I think he could talk to just about anybody up there, Finns, Swedes, etc. Talked about weekly showers and a monthly train ride to town for furlough. Hard life back then, cutting virgin timber.

Benelli · Feb 8, 2017

Welcome JD ! Been to the up a few times can't wait to go back. Love the west side iron river watersmeet area! Some of the nicest people and defiantly the cleanest place I have ever been too! Enjoy it here lots of great people and info!

WI Dan · Feb 8, 2017

Welcome!
Gotta say, I enjoyed the UP more than I did the central north of WI when I drove through.
Of course...a dinner at Bell's in Hurley sure made me smile!

sms · Feb 9, 2017

Welcome to the site. If you are interested in old time logging I can reccommend a good book "Tall Trees, Tough Men" an anecdotal history of logging in the northeast. The author Robert E. Pike worked in the woods with the old timers available on Amazon. Also a good video on youtube "The Saga of the White Pine Board 1927" shows the whole process from begining to end including hauling logs with a Lombard Steamer. My dad had a mill and I grew up in the woods and mill. A picture of my dads mill late 50's.

Saga of the White Pine Board, 1927

sms · Feb 9, 2017

I also have a mill I use and a couple in waiting including one powered by steam.

sms · Feb 9, 2017

If you watch the video "Saga of the White Pine Board 1927", I posted a link above you can see them hauling some good sized loads through the woods.

Donald Lehman · Feb 9, 2017

Welcome!

lenray · Feb 9, 2017

Len down at Clare, Michigan--welcome-----Packers--Lions?????

JD in da UP · Feb 9, 2017

Len, Packers, Tigers, Red Wings. It's a central U P thing. I don't care too much about all that anymore. The kids have taken over that department. We go through your area when we visit the wife's family in Indiana. Hope you're having a good February. John

rrlund · Feb 9, 2017

I think Skandia is where an old gal here in town was from. She's passed away now,but she used to tell of her dad trying to raise potatoes up there. He bought a new Oliver 70 and she said they had to put in the poles for the power line back to their house before the power company would hook them up to electricity. She said he'd drive the 70 out and use the lights to see at night to dig the holes. I don't know what her maiden name was,but she said her dad died in a mine accident and his name is on the memorial at the Iron Mine Museum.

JD in da UP · Feb 9, 2017

I didn't think this would turn into a research assignment right away, but I worked for the farmer whose family had the Oliver dealership here. He might recognize that story. I'll ask him about that. I owe him a visit some evening anyway.

JD in da UP · Feb 9, 2017

Thanks for the video + pictures. Are you looking for a boiler or an old locomotive to run steam? I'd come down to pull the whistle cord for you when you get it up and running.

rrlund · Feb 9, 2017

Shoot,I said it was her dad who died in the mine accident didn't I? It was her grand dad.

JD in da UP · Feb 10, 2017

Pretty neat how that works out, eh? I've read that the few inhabitants of Isle Royale in Lake Superior would harvest cordwood from the beaches, but only the stone or rocky beaches. They couldn't keep cutting edges sharp if cutting wood infused with sand. Now tell us more about visiting Iceland
sometime if you have a chance.

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