The timber getters

A previous post, Harvesting redwood trees, showed a video of lumberjacks at work before the advent of the chainsaw. Above is a video from the same period showing timber getters, the Australian equivalent of lumberjacks, at work. There is also detail about the little camps set up where the wives and kids could live nearby the worksite along with the workers themselves.
 

Harvesting redwood trees

Above is a film from the 1940s showing redwood trees being cut down, transported and processed at a lumber mill. Amazingly the old-timey lumberjacks fell the trees with only axes, saws and wedges making us modern folk look like little more than chainsaw dependent soyboys in comparison.

Lumberjacks

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I found these pictures of old-timey lumberjacks at the website La boite verte. We know they're old pictures, not only because they are in back and white and the people dress funny, but because there are no hippies chained to the trees to protect them.

You can find more pictures from the set at the La Boite verte post Couper des gros arbres.