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Logger trimming logs at Wearyman Creek. Saw is in left foreground.
2. Timber saw
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Timber saw in front of cut logs in the snow.
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Stump in the snow. The trail where logs have been dragged through the snow is to the right of the stump.
4. Buster Beck
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Buster Beck with a cant hook log roller, positioning cut and trimmed logs into a pile. A piece of lumber is being used as a wedge.
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Everett Warren stacking logs at the lower sawmill on Wearyman Creek.
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Gustav (Gust) Benson sitting on sled loaded with logs and pulled by a horse team. Benson worked at Benson's (no relation) sawmill at Pando.
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
7. Logs
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Logs stacked waiting for transport out of the timber.
8. Fallen logs
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Fallen logs, waiting for trimming and hauling.
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Alfred Benson's log cabin (hewn inside) on Shrine Pass FSR (Forest Service Road) 709. His skid horse in harness for pulling logs is standing outside. There are several cabins (log and board), a blacksmith shop and a barn at the site.
10. Logging horse
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Horse used by loggers to pull logs out of the standing timber.
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Jack Beck standing behind a log which the horse is pulling through the snow.
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"In February of 1933 there was no snow at the John Ambos sawmill on the east rim of Rock Creek Canyon and very little anywhere in the McCoy area, for that matter. But a year later, there was plenty of it. The A frame just to the right of the mill shed, supports a heavy aerial cable that Frank Haddon had stretched across the canyon for a log hoisting operation in 1930 which was a dismal failure." -- McCoy Memoirs, p.245
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