Gallery›Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library›T-I-M-B-E-R. The power saw has replaced the axe, but lumbermen remain the same as they were in the days of Paul Bunyan and his blue ox, Babe. The Pacific Northwest still boasts of tall timber, ever-rolling rain clouds, and the he-est of the men. Stewart Holbrook tells of a Gray's Harbor hooktender who declared "When I yells 'Go ahead!' the hemlocks all bend double and the clams go down a foot!". Cutting A Toothpick, a skilled rigger works his way up a Douglas fir 150 feet and then saws off 60 feet of the top.
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library
T-I-M-B-E-R. The power saw has replaced the axe, but lumbermen remain the same as they were in the days of Paul Bunyan and his blue ox, Babe. The Pacific Northwest still boasts of tall timber, ever-rolling rain clouds, and the he-est of the men. Stewart Holbrook tells of a Gray's Harbor hooktender who declared "When I yells 'Go ahead!' the hemlocks all bend double and the clams go down a foot!". Cutting A Toothpick, a skilled rigger works his way up a Douglas fir 150 feet and then saws off 60 feet of the top.
[ca. September 1950]
CC0 — Public Domain
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