XX Crossed two items off my logging camp bucket list!

[highnam]

Luck was on my side this week....I found the log stamping hammer yesterday and if that wasn't exciting enough I got home and started looking through my books remembering a few photos of local log butt markings. I didn't find my stamp on the end of any logs, but to my shock I found a photo of what could be my hammer in the hands of a logger taken 100 years ago by a famous local photographer Darius Kinsey. The photo says. "Fir log, nine feet in diameter, on logging trucks at landing."
I'm sure a company had multiple stamp hammers and my stamp may not be the one in the photo, but It's still neat to know this stamp made it's mark on many Grandaddy Fir and cedar. Aside from a couple I.D. tags this is my only find directly related to the company.
The other bucket list find was a men's ring I found it sifting along with the comb. I believe the ring is green celluloid and has no markings. The comb is hard rubber from the "The Butler hard rubber company"

 

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[dig kzoo]

Great finds!!! it is cool that you were able to find a pic aswell!

 

[dougofpa]

Highnam:

Nice finds..those stamping hammers are hard to find. I know of a few logging camps here in pa and found some good stuff as well.

I was lucky enough to come across a hammer. It was just luck.

 

[John Boy]

That's an awsome find and to have an old pic of it to.way to go

 

[rastinirv]

That is incredibly cool

 

[Wildcat1750]

What a Tree-mendous find!

 

[kuger]

Now that is cool!!!!

I took a friend to hunt a property that through extensive research had learned a very prominent Officer in an influencial Regiment,had built and resided in the house and he also homesteaded the land as his Cattle ranch.As luck would have it my friend dug the guys cattle brand!!

 

[materdigger1]

Very cool find highnam

 

[highnam]

You can practically kill yourself digging large iron hits in logging camps. Every once in a while a hole makes it all worth while. Awesome story Kuger, hope your buddy appreciates the find as much as you would have.
Doug of PA...sweet hammer find, you would think the stamping man would take his job serious enough to be careful not to leave his tool around to be lost. I read that unmarked logs were auctioned off at the mill to the highest bidder!

 

[kuger]

You can practically kill yourself digging large iron hits in logging camps. Every once in a while a hole makes it all worth while. Awesome story Kuger, hope your buddy appreciates the find as much as you would have.
Doug of PA...sweet hammer find, you would think the stamping man would take his job serious enough to be careful not to leave his tool around to be lost. I read that unmarked logs were auctioned off at the mill to the highest bidder!

......he gave it away!!!!

Your right,diggin iron is that way,ya just never know when a gun is gonna be layin there though!Gotta dig iron.Your find and picture is just priceless!!!WTG!!!

 

[pong12211]

Wow that is a really cool find.. Will make a great display piece.. Congrats.

 

[BosnMate]

I was swinging a coil in the location of a gypo mill and bunkhouse here locally. Didn't find a log brand. I was hoping for some coins around the bunkhouse, and perhaps an ox shoe or two, but with no luck. Did find some chunks of iron, some old hand forged chain, and some really big horse shoes along with lots of other iron chunks in all sorts of shapes. Congrats on the finding the log brand and photo combination, I think that's awesome. You know those boys were standing on spring boards when they sawed that monster down. Back when I was gainfully employed and putting my money into social security instead of taking it out, a friend was driving a log truck, and hauling off Burnt Mountain on one trip he was over height, over weight, over width and over length, loaded with one log. There are still Doug Fir trees that big on the mountain.

 

[surf]

Sedro-Wooley Journal

Hello highnam,

Excellent finds, sir from a great period in North Western US history.

That stamp hammer and the Kinsey photo are wonderful. Thank you for sharing them with us. Kinsey is a favorite photographer of mine.

Self-Portrait with Cameras by Darius Kinsey

 

[highnam]

How lucky are we to have had a photographer like Kinsey...for many years he dedicated most of his time capturing images of the Pacific Northwest logging at the turn of the century. Can you image lugging that camera with all the glass plates? So thankful he did, nobody else was doing it.

 

[surf]

Campbell River Museum

nobody else was doing it.

Hey highnam,

I think you might be surprised at the number of photographers that were documenting lumbering history. Certainly none with the single minded purpose and artistry of Kinsey, but thankfully there are photos aplenty. Engage your googler and you can visit the logging camps of Maine, tour the south, zip up to Michigan and Wisconsin and then head westward...

 

[HutSiteDigger]

Hey thats good stuff man! I once saw a photo of soldiers around their hut sites in Belle Plains Virginia 1862 and being very familiar with the land around here I noticed that I knew exactly where that photo was taken place and went there the next day to find a lot of hut sites all because of the photo. Some great stuff you found Good job!

This was the photo of the camp site I found in Belle Plains it was the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry camp, the camp was really odd layout for being on the hills like that, but come to find out a lot of the units had camps on hill sides like these and not on the much flatter ground. Anyhow you can learn a lot from photos.

 

[highnam]

Hey thats good stuff man! I once saw a photo of soldiers around their hut sites in Belle Plains Virginia 1862 and being very familiar with the land around here I noticed that I knew exactly where that photo was taken place and went there the next day to find a lot of hut sites all because of the photo. Some great stuff you found Good job!

This was the photo of the camp site I found in Belle Plains it was the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry camp, the camp was really odd layout for being on the hills like that, but come to find out a lot of the units had camps on hill sides like these and not on the much flatter ground. Anyhow you can learn a lot from photos.

Awesome photo... What a score to know where the pic was taken. Photos are such a wonderful resource...I'm always amazed to go back to a photo and see something I hadn't seen the first few times.
Surf- the pic of the horse in the undercut is incredible! I must admit I haven't researched much outside of Washington State...look what I've been missing,

 

[BigTonyB]

Wow, that's an amazing find and the photo history is icing on the cake! Congratulations, Highnam!

 

[highnam]

Wow, that's an amazing find and the photo history is icing on the cake! Congratulations, Highnam!

Thanks big Tone, guess I need to thank the logger for pointing that stamp directly at the camera, viewing the pic from the naked eye you can only see he's holding a handled object, when I viewed the photo with a magnifying glass I panned down the handle and nearly choked... What are the odds? I can't find any other photos from the turn of century with a visible stamping hammer. Anyone that knows of one I'd love to see it.

 

[JmCraz8]

Ow that awesome and to have an old pic with it in there is just amazing, congrats!!!