Steel cable hoisting lumber, Ponchatoula, Louisiana, 1946.
Title
Steel cable hoisting lumber , Ponchatoula , Louisiana , 1946 .
Creator
Eagle, Arnold (photographer)
Description
Logging operations in the Ponchatoula cypress swamp for the Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company . This is one of the last large scale logging operations of the practically extinct red swamp cypress . Skidding in the log . The skidder , a huge railroad derrick a boom 65 feet high , moves on rails laid in the swamp . From the top of this towering boom a powerful steel cable is stretched and fastened to a tree in the swamp . Along this cable rides a pulley with another cable which ends in a grab hook . In the swamp the lumberjacks work , sometimes up to their armpits in mud and water ; they fix the grab hook to one end of the log . The skidder pulls the log , one end lifted into the air , there other dragging in the swamp , and stacks it near the rails .
Subject
Logs Lumber industry Hoisting machinery
Volume Number
075
Tab Heading
Cypress Loading
Group
Louisiana Images
Location Depicted
Ponchatoula (La.)
Region
Southeast
Date Original
1946-10
Object Type
Safety film negatives
Source
2.25 x 2.25 in. b&w safety film negative. Item no. SONJ 44716 in the Standard Oil (New Jersey) Collection, University of Louisville Photographic Archives.
Citation Information
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Collection
Standard Oil (New Jersey) Collection
Collection Website
http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/sonj/
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Photographic Archives
Format
image/jpeg
Ordering Information
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Image Number
44716
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