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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.
3. Logging Camp
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Logging camp up Wearyman Creek.
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Ron Dump, Theodore "Bud" Beck, Louie "Dutch" Gleiforst and a fourth man standing in front of a trailor house. Ron Dump has his right arm in his right boot (his right foot is bootless but socked) and the men are examining the toe. The men were cutting logs for Ray Earl Warren, owner of the trailer house. Model A Ford in the background; logs, sandwich and canteen in foreground. The site is 3.5 miles up Shrine Pass and was known as Kelly's. It's...
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Buster (on left) and Jack Beck sitting on a felled log at the upper Wearyman logging camp (Warren Brothers & Robinson Sawmill).
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A man, possibly Buster Beck, in snowfield with a cross-cut felling saw, possibly near Fancy Pass.
"A felling saw is generally less stiff than a bucking saw and the backside, as well as the cutting side, is usually curved inward. Felling saws are more often used to cut down standing trees, so the thinner, lighter design is easier to use without gravity holding the blade against the cut." [http://www.fs.fed.us/t-d/pubs/htmlpubs/htm77712508/page03.htm]...
7. Fancy Pass
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Looking at one of the two piles of lumber that were left at Fancy Pass.
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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.
9. Jack Beck
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Jack Beck using a horse to pull a log on upper Wearyman Creek for Warren Brothers & Robinson Sawmill.
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Ron Dump, seated, and Bruce Beck with axes and hand saw in front of a felled and trimmed log. They are logging on Shrine Pass for Ray Warren, Sr. Buster and Bruce Beck and Ron Dump worked when they were still in school during the summers and falls of the year.
11. 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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Bruce Beck (left) and Ron Dump seated during a break while logging on Shrine Pass. The skid horse pulls the logs.
13. Logs
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Logs stacked waiting for transport out of the timber.
14. Logging camp
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Logging camp up Wearyman Creek.
15. Fallen logs
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Fallen logs, waiting for trimming and hauling.
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From left, Buster Beck, Durbin McIlnay, and Frank Robinson at a logging camp on the upper Wearyman Creek.
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Distant view of the Peterson Creek tramway, used to transport lumber from the Peterson Creek sawmill to the railroad at the bottom of the Eagle River Canyon. The picture was taken from the Champion Mine at Bell's Camp. The steep terrain is testimony to the difficulty in logging in this area.
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Joe Fear, brother of Angela Fear Beck, with his children standing on a skid tractor at the upper Wearyman sawmill area.
19. Logging horse
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Horse used by loggers to pull logs out of the standing timber.
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From left, Ray tippett, Buster Beck, Bud Beck, and Don Knight, resting on the Holy Cross City Road. Wuinn Beck may be seated just above Buster in the photo [difficult to see].