Moonson posted:Geysergazer, Very nice to see those authentic logging photos.
Does one of the workers in the top photo have on a head-covering black leather
super-hero type hood on ? (!)
I think it is an artifact due to Dad's cheap camera [lens] having poor light-gathering properties. If you look carefully the other cutter's face is more obviously in shade and I think that is actually the same case with the guy you spotted (face in shade). It does look a bit strange though, doesn't it?
These pics are or may well be completely on-topic. Granddad had one "set" (sawmill setup location) that was on land owned by the Shawmut RR. The contract job was cutting and milling the Oak into railroad ties which they hauled to a Shawmut siding and loaded onto rail cars. These pics could well be of that set.
Speaking of cutters, my Uncle remarked that during lunch break they would hone and strop their axes and were satisfied only when they could shave the hair on their arms with their axes. They never set those axes down. That is why you always see axes sunk into wood.
Similarly Grandad would touch-up the big circular saw blade during lunch.
