Melody Provost Holmes was recently out at a logging camp in Wacedah Township, just outside of Norway, where she brings us a look at the winter logging operations here UP North. A number of log stacks on the deck, ready for loading onto the trucks that will transport them to market. Plus a look at the various large machines used to harvest the logs from the forest.

It's neat to see them all stacked like this and note the markings on the bark where the branches were trimmed off in the fourth photo. That looks like cedar bark, to me, correct me if I'm wrong. The markings on the ends of the logs in the last two photos are quite interesting, too. Plenty of rings there to count so the trees can be aged, but I'm wondering what causes markings like the center "sun-like" one in the fifth photo and then the split running through the middle of the log in the last photo. Any ideas?

Very interesting set of pictures. The equipment they use these days is just amazing. Mary, i was wondering the same thing about the 'sun' pattern. Wind stress?

Interesting...graffiti?

Nice bunch of logs. They would make a lot of nice paneling. I'm not sure about the different markings on the logs but I think it has to do with the pitch in the log. All except the one that looks like the Pssty.com logo, that one is special and is found very rarely:)

Seeing pictures like this makes me think of the
"olden" days. To think the work that was put into
cutting down trees back then, before all of this
great equipment. Thank goodness for technology!

Deb S. (Usedtobeayooper):
"Seeing pictures like this makes me think of the "olden" days. To think the work that was put into cutting down trees back then, before all of this great equipment. …"

Olden days!!! … Deb, now yer makin' me feel "Olden!" 😭

I very clearly remember my uncles "out in da bush making wood" with a couple o' sharp axes and a (click →) two-man crosscut saw and a team of horses back on da farm in the late 1940s/early 1950s!¹

Yes, FRNash! My uncle did that type of work also.
It was such hard work then. Not that it's not now,
but even more so back in the day.

Brings back a lot of memories seeing the logs when we would go 4 wheelin thru the woods, Nice Pix!!

" He's a lumberjack and he's ok, sleep all night and work all day."

Monty Python

Great photos.