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- Tough Guys
- Lost in Toyland
- And without gloves
- If I were a blindfolded time traveler
- Smoke Consumer Also Cooks
- Oh that stove!
- Possibly still there?
- What?!?
- $100 Reward
- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
- Passenger trains have right of way over freights?
- Coal
- Never ceases to amaze me.
- Still chuggin' (in model form)
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Log Lading: 1942
July 1942. "Grant County, Oregon. Malheur National Forest. Loading large logs on truck for transport to railroad flatcar." Photo: Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Parbuckling
These logs are apparently too much for that steam powered heel-boom loader to lift, so it is being used to roll the logs aboard by parbuckling, with the cable run under the log and attached to the truck frame, giving a mechanical advantage. The ramp timbers will then be repositioned to roll the third log on top of these two.
Note the CAT D8 at the far left beyond the Mack bulldog hood ornament. It probably made the very wide tracks in the center foreground. Air cleaner location makes it a D8, not a D7. Where it is positioned, it might have a cable attached to the truck trailer to counter the pull from parbuckling.
There is apparently no connection between this Edward Hines and the Detroit based Edward Hines, who did so much for paved highway development.
... and the hat on the guy at far right!
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