Type of Work: Logging

Loading Logs for the Triangle Lumber Company in Onchiota

Loading Logs for the Triangle Lumber Company in Onchiota

Workers use a cable boom and grapple to load logs onto a truck for the Triangle Lumber Company mill in Onchiota. Triangle Lumber Company was owned by James LaTour. Onchiota, NY.  Circa 1960 to 1970. Photo donated by Jill McKenty.

Operating a Log Skidder in Elizabethtown

Lumberjack Philip Jackson operating a Log Skidder in Elizabethtown

Lumberjack Philip Jackson operating a 1978 John Deere 440C skidder. In the foreground is Jack Pulsifer. The skidder is on top of a pile of large, soft maple logs cut close to the Boquet River. Spring 2016. Elizabethtown, NY. Courtesy of Philip N. Jackson IV. Jackson says he’s been logging for about 66 years. Listen […]

A stack of white pine logs in Elizabethtown

A stack of white pine logs in Elizabethtown

A stack of large white pine logs. On the right is a Mack tri-axle log loader. The logs were cut by Jack Pulsifer and Philip N. Jackson IV by Lincoln Pond. Spring 2016. Elizabethtown, NY. Courtesy of Philip N. Jackson IV.