Too many...all the same...logging

[lumbercamp]

Just got back from a 3 hr dig. I was hoping to find a lumber camp but but failed to, so instead I dug along side a log slide. I found these log retarders also called goose necks. They are a common find here.

 

[goldencoin]

neat iron, wish I could get at some logging stuff

HH
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[Mike in Berks]

At least you have something to show for the time you put into it lumbercamp
i can see why they call them goosenecks hey, you got some more relics to add to your
awesome collection

i hope your getting close to the camp good luck diggin Mike

 

[Mich. Wolverine]

Nice finds. I have found some logging artifacts. The best one is an anchor with a 6 foot hand hammered chain that held the logs upstream from the mill until they were ready for them. I love the logging relics.
Wolverine.

 

[lumbercamp]

I see you are from Mich. goldencoin. There has to be tons of logging items in that state. As Rando says, they are everywhere. Logging relics are extremely easy to find. I very seldom come home empty handed. It's the carrying heavy iron for miles that's the hard part. But it is worth it in the end after I clean them up and put on display.

 

[Mich. Wolverine]

Alright Lumbercamp and rando enlighten me. There is a river north of me that had dug canals called booms to hold the logs upstream from the mills. The river where I found the anchor had no canals. I know that they used log dogs to hold the loose logs in the middle. Is this still called a boom when they held logs up river with an anchor? I'm looking for more information to put in the local paper about the history of the town with other relics that I have found.
Thanks for any help.
Wolverine.
If you want to see a picture of the anchor it's under Feb. 2, 2008 annual finds.

 

[allen]

those do look like goose necks !!
approriate name for them !

 

[Rusted_Iron]

Still nice finds. I take it those are blacksmith made, not factory?

 

[lumbercamp]

Good question Rusted_Iron. I would like to say they are blacksmith made, I may be wrong. I checked the others that I have and there are none that are symmetrical enough to have been made in a factory.

 

[goldencoin]

I see you are from Mich. goldencoin. There has to be tons of logging items in that state. As Rando says, they are everywhere. Logging relics are extremely easy to find. I very seldom come home empty handed. It's the carrying heavy iron for miles that's the hard part. But it is worth it in the end after I clean them up and put on display.

Yep, but I'm at U of M and there are no logging sites around here. I've gotten some axes in the thumb, but they may not be from the lumbering industry

HH
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