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Loading logs with winches in Harrisville

Auldis LaPlatney, Ken Cring, and Buck Gerow loading logs (using a Bay City cable winch powered by a McCormick Deering motor) onto a truck bed. Winter of 1939. Harrisville, NY.

Check out our story on Ross Young, a logger from Harrisville. 

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