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21 photos and 1 illustration tagged saws, from 14 members of Flickr Commons.

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Related tags

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• 1900s
• men
• workers
• victoriantradecards
• miamiuniversitylibraries
• muohiodigitalcollections
• tools
• logging
• publicdomain
• trees
• hammers
• logs
• sawmills
• axes
• cottonindustry
• mills
• steamengines
• lumber
• timber
• photoborders
• bldigital
• date1528
• pubplacebologna
• sysnum000840022

Members using this tag

• Community Archives of Belleville & Hastings County 6 photos & illustrations
• Miami University Libraries - Digital Collections 4 photos & illustrations
• Provincial Archives of Alberta 1 photo / illustration
• Mennonite Church USA Archives 1 photo / illustration
• National Library of Medicine 1 photo / illustration
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1 photo / illustration
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 1 photo / illustration
• Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales 1 photo / illustration
• OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons 1 photo / illustration
• State Library of Queensland 1 photo / illustration
• Keene Public Library and the Historical Society of Cheshire County 1 photo / illustration
• National Library of Scotland 1 photo / illustration

Conversations

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Two men on springboards with saw felling tree

from OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons

• 1 older comment, and then…
• Pixel Wrangler said:

  More info on "springboards":
  
  "Logging - Springboard Marks" by KQEDquest
  
  
  "Hikers in Samuel P. Taylor will find the occasional redwood stump etched with divots. Loggers would cut these slots through the foot-thick bark (now worn away) and into the wood to hold springboards they would stand on when sawing through the tree's enormous trunk, which could be 15 or 16 feet across. Often the base of the tree was made of knotty burls that were difficult to cut through, so loggers would raise their cut several feet above the burls, making their task easier."

• OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons said:

  Thanks for the information-- something I was curious about as well!

• John Andersson said:

  I like all pictures you show for us! (sorry for my bad english)

• OSU Special Collections & Archives : Commons said:

  I'm glad you enjoy them! We have lots to share and some great ones coming in the spring. Make sure you check out our other Flickr page and the OSU Libraries Digital Collections page for more great pictures.

• Chris Toy said:

  Great old pics! Do you have any of lumberjacks using axes to fell trees? I'd like to use them as I tell a story about a competition between an old and a younf lumberjack.

Foty Quarry (Oakeley), Blaenau Ffestiniog

from Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales

• jamica1 said:

  Great light; powerful image

October 30, 1901

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• beachcomber australia said:

  What, no comments?! There be trouble at t' mill !

• beachcomber australia said:

  30 October 1901 was a Wednesday ...

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  beachcomber australia thank you.