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North Country History with Rob Burg
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 21 ม.ค. 2009
Home of the "North Country History with Rob Burg" podcast, exploring the Forests of the Great Lakes. I will be your guide on this adventure of exploring the history of the Great Lakes forests from precontact to the fur trade; the 19th century lumber boom, wildfires, and environmental degradation, to reforestation and conservation; and modern forest recreation and responsible modern forestry. Each episode will explore a different topic about the Great Forests of the Great Lakes.
Rob Burg is an environmental historian with more than thirty years of experience working in museums and history agencies in Michigan, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania. Rob began working in forest history in 1998 when he became the site historian for the Michigan History Museum's Hartwick Pines Logging Museum and the CCC Museum. Rob has presented programs to a variety of audiences throughout the United States and Canada, authored numerous articles, and is now launching the North Country History podcast.
Rob Burg is an environmental historian with more than thirty years of experience working in museums and history agencies in Michigan, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania. Rob began working in forest history in 1998 when he became the site historian for the Michigan History Museum's Hartwick Pines Logging Museum and the CCC Museum. Rob has presented programs to a variety of audiences throughout the United States and Canada, authored numerous articles, and is now launching the North Country History podcast.
Winter Logging
Prior to mechanized transportation, logging and winter were synonymous. The only way to move logs upwards of 5-6 miles was on ice and snow. In the white pine region, this made winter the ideal season to be logging in the forests. Large log sleds were pulled by a team of two horses, or oxen in some locations, over roads that had been iced and carefully groomed over time to support the heavy loads. They were taken most commonly to a banking grounds along a river to wait for the Spring thaw and the opening of the rivers to transport the logs to the sawmills.
In this episode, listeners will learn about the grooming of the roads and the uses of horses and sleds to move the logs, and how the "shantyboys" (the loggers' term for themselves) lived and worked in the forests during the coldest months of the year.
Episode Sources:
Benson, Barbara E. "Logs and Lumber: The Development of Lumbering in Michigan's Lower Peninsula 1837-1870." Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, 1989.
Ellis, Charles. "Among the Michigan Pines," "The Current." Chicago, Volume III, 1885.
Fitzmaurice, John W. "The Shanty Boy: Or Life in a Lumber Camp." Democrat Steam Print, Cheboygan, MI, 1889.
Heilala, John J. "In an Upper Michigan Lumber Camp." "Michigan History" Michigan Historical Commission, Lansing, MI, Vol. 36, No. 1, March 1952.
Holbrook, Stewart H. "Holy Old Mackinaw, A Natural History of the American Lumberjack." The MacMillan Company, New York, 1938.
Karamanski, Theodore J. "Deep Woods Frontier: A History of Logging in Northern Michigan." Wayne State University Press, Detroit, MI, 1989.
Maybee, Rolland H. "Michigan's White Pine Era 1840-1900. Michigan Historical Commission, Lansing, MI, 1960.
Nelligan, John Emmett. "A White Pine Empire, the Life of a Lumberman." North Star Press, St. Cloud, MN, 1969 edition (originally published in 1929).
Sorden, L.G. "Lumberjack Lingo." Wisconsin House, Spring Green, WI, 1969.
Wells, Robert W. "Daylight in the Swamp!" Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY, 1978.
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In this episode, listeners will learn about the grooming of the roads and the uses of horses and sleds to move the logs, and how the "shantyboys" (the loggers' term for themselves) lived and worked in the forests during the coldest months of the year.
Episode Sources:
Benson, Barbara E. "Logs and Lumber: The Development of Lumbering in Michigan's Lower Peninsula 1837-1870." Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI, 1989.
Ellis, Charles. "Among the Michigan Pines," "The Current." Chicago, Volume III, 1885.
Fitzmaurice, John W. "The Shanty Boy: Or Life in a Lumber Camp." Democrat Steam Print, Cheboygan, MI, 1889.
Heilala, John J. "In an Upper Michigan Lumber Camp." "Michigan History" Michigan Historical Commission, Lansing, MI, Vol. 36, No. 1, March 1952.
Holbrook, Stewart H. "Holy Old Mackinaw, A Natural History of the American Lumberjack." The MacMillan Company, New York, 1938.
Karamanski, Theodore J. "Deep Woods Frontier: A History of Logging in Northern Michigan." Wayne State University Press, Detroit, MI, 1989.
Maybee, Rolland H. "Michigan's White Pine Era 1840-1900. Michigan Historical Commission, Lansing, MI, 1960.
Nelligan, John Emmett. "A White Pine Empire, the Life of a Lumberman." North Star Press, St. Cloud, MN, 1969 edition (originally published in 1929).
Sorden, L.G. "Lumberjack Lingo." Wisconsin House, Spring Green, WI, 1969.
Wells, Robert W. "Daylight in the Swamp!" Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY, 1978.
Send us a text (www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2422296/open_sms)
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Very interesting!!
@@shirleyburg847 Thank you! I'm glad you liked it!
A dedicated saw filer would've been more common in big camps while a traveling or itinerant filer would've been seen in smaller camps. Most of the speciality tools-- spiders, jointers, raker gauges, hammers, etc. were fairly simple but could keep tolerances to within a thousandth of an inch. Champion tooth saws were more common when cutting frozen wood and are still the ones most likely to be found in northern Michigan.
@@PATCsawyer that's great information. I might want to pick your brain sometime in the future. At one time we did programs at the Logging Museum called "Tools of the Trade." One of my former seasonal employees was our saw expert, as this wasn't one of my strengths. If I do a podcast episode on the logging tools, I think you might make a good guest.
Use of crosscut saws for directional felling was a huge labor saver while better blades made for faster bucking.
@@PATCsawyer absolutely! Thank you for listening to the podcast.
Just found your podcast, going through them now. As a wilderness sawyer, the tools of that era are still in use today and are sometimes the tool of choice for trail logouts when you're trying to keep your skills up.
@@PATCsawyer thank you for following. I just realized that I have watched a couple of your videos before. I just subscribed to your channel too. I'm having video issues at the moment, so I'm sticking to just the audio podcast for now.
Hartwick Pines is a good resource for studying Michigan lumber history. I spent a summer at the logging museum a few years ago, giving lectures on the tools and techniques used by the saw crews to process all that white pine. The tool technology got a big boost by the invention of the raker tooth for crosscut saws.
@@PATCsawyer, you're right, it's an excellent resource. I was the site historian for the museum from 1998-2013. It is where I became a forest history expert. Stay tuned for episode 9 of the podcast that will go live on February 17. I will be interviewing Hillary Pine, the current historian and we'll be talking about the park. Again, thank you for listening.
Looking forward to learning some more history. Very easy to listen to. Thank you for not playing music while you are talking.
@@AmyRichardson-m2d Thanks Amy. Yeah, I'm not a fan of that either. Just at my opening and closing credits.
Hi Rob - Excellent initial podcast, relaxed, warm and well spoken, well done! Looking forward to your first podcast Uncle Dale
@@Roger-p2g6u Thank you Uncle Dale. I just saw this now. The second episode is now available too.
Looking forward to it.
Subscribed!
I apologize for all the ahs, uhs, and ums. Except for those, I do my best speaking off the cuff unscripted.
No need, unscripted is the way to go in my opinion - conversational is bettah.
LOL.. That was funny... He just kept running back and forth until he got tired and then fell over... Zeus is awesome!