Title:
A-frame Logging at Neets Bay, August 18, 1955
Photographer:
Paulu T. Saari
Description:
A-frame logging is unique to Southeast Alaska and coastal British Columbia. The massive A-frame was mounted on a huge spruce log float. Through a system of wire cables and pulleys arrayed between the A-frame and the adjacent hillside, logs felled and trimmed in place could be dragged down to the water, where they were rafted up for towing to a mill. A-frame logging made it possible to log virtually any slope that descended to tidewater, without having to build roads.
This A-frame outfit is particularly large; the logs making up the frame appear to be at least 120 feet long. (Note the scale of the float plane tied up to the float.)
This A-frame outfit is particularly large; the logs making up the frame appear to be at least 120 feet long. (Note the scale of the float plane tied up to the float.)
Collection:
Ketchikan Museums: Paulu T. Saari Collection, KM 2003.2.63.1347
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A-frame logging operation at Neets Bay
A-frame logging operation at Neets Bay