Since it is Saturday of the Memorial Day weekend, I am busy making the rounds of the local cemeteries. Today’s photograph is an  interesting scene depicting one log loads was taken in 1949. It was part of the Purdy Brothers Logging operations.  In 1977, while working with my Dad, at that time,  L&M Logging, there was a rare opportunity to harvest a massive sugar pine near Swains Hole. While it was ordeal to put that log on the trailer bunk, that was only half the battle. It turned out, while Dad drove the logging truck to the mill, it was so over weight, that along the way he experienced four blown out tires. Upon arriving at Coin Lumber they were not amused that the size of the log, since over the years the sawmill machinery had been modified for smaller logs.

Tim

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