Re: Exploring more of the Madera Sugar Pine Lumber Grades...
| July 03, 2020 10:33AM |
About midway down the grade at the top of the incline was a loading site for logs. I don't have a photo as the brush was too thick to clearly see it, but timber had been set into the ground to make a rollway. Above this location was a depression possibly for a donkey engine.
There were two spurs at the top of the incline. One that went off to the northeast for about 500 feet:
This is at the end of the spur looking back to the southwest
About midway through this spur was another rollway for loading logs:
This is the most intact rollway I've seen on the MSP.
At the top of the rollway was a skid road that led to the northeast:
Some of the interesting items in the brush near here were the remains of a wooden barrel:
And the head of a shovel:
To be continued...
There were two spurs at the top of the incline. One that went off to the northeast for about 500 feet:
This is at the end of the spur looking back to the southwest
About midway through this spur was another rollway for loading logs:
This is the most intact rollway I've seen on the MSP.
At the top of the rollway was a skid road that led to the northeast:
Some of the interesting items in the brush near here were the remains of a wooden barrel:
And the head of a shovel:
To be continued...
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