Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2019.070.008 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Description |
Photograph depicts a high rigger chopping the top off a Douglas-fir, with the top beginning to fall. The tree will become a spar tree for the logging of timber. The man pictured is possibly Doug Little. Location not listed, but presumably somewhere on Vancouver Island. |
Image File Name |
1955 - Douglas fir topping - Vancouver Is. - 2019070008 - jpg72 - 001 |
Date (y/m/d) |
1955/ / |
Place |
Vancouver Island |
Provenance |
In 1952, Doug Little helped build a cabin to be an office for timber survey crews (see 2019.070.001). Timber Cruising is the process of measuring the volume and quality of standing and down timber before it has been harvested. At this point Doug had worked as an Assistant Forest Ranger. He also worked as a chain and radman for the highway survey crews in the Rock Creek district and in the Greenwood area. After another stint with the Forest Serivce and unsuccessful attempt to get into Ranger School, on the advice of a "Mounted Policeman", Doug decided to go to UBC to earn a Forestry Degree. After graduating from UBC in 1953, Doug Little began employment with BC Forest Products as an assistant logging engineer. After about a year he left to become a chokerman, and over the course of the next couple years he worked a variety of jobs as he worked his way up to become a high rigger-- probably the best paying job in the woods at the time and the most hazardous. |
Search Terms |
Douglas fir high rigger spar tree logging people |
Collection |
Logging T&E |
People |
Little, James Douglas |
Subjects |
People People associated with manual labor Falling & Bucking Documentary, Vancouver Island |