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I have enjoyed looking at old logging photos for as long as I can remember. I guess it's because my Grandpa was a logger, my Dad was a logger and I was a logger. I will never forget being six years old and getting my first ride on a John Deere skidder. Kenny Draper was the man my dad worked for and he sat me up on his lap and let me steer it around in the woods. I felt like the king of the world! Seventeen years later when I was 23, I went to work for the same man as a sawhand and spent most of the next seventeen years in the log woods here in Arkansas. Even though I was a logger it's always been a little sad to me seeing the photos of these giant trees being hauled to the mill. But at the same time it always amazes me knowing they were cut using axes and crosscut saws, then loaded on wagons and trucks and hauled to the mills and milled into lumber by back breaking hard work by some of the toughest men who ever lived. My Dad used a crosscut saw to log for my Grandpa back before the second World War and was paid a dollar a day. I was a logger for many years using modern equipment and it was a tough job, but nothing like the loggers of the past. They dont make men like those old loggers anymore. I hope you enjoy seeing the photos below.

Here'sa fewphotos of modern logging, this is the equipment I ran when I was in the log woods.