North Country At Work

Man driving team of horses with bobsled piled with cut logs during winter. Circa 1910-1920. Town of Webb, NY.

Loggers at work during the spring drive, trying to move jammed logs with peaveys. Circa 1920. Town of Webb, NY. Click here for a North Country at Work story on Webb’s transformation from logging town to winter wonderland.

Eight loggers during the spring drive, trying to break a log jam with peaveys. Circa 1920. Town of Webb, NY.

Logger poses using a peavey to move logs during spring log drive in the Adirondacks. Circa 1920. Town of Webb, NY. Click here for a North Country at Work story on Webb’s transformation from logging town to winter wonderland.

Loggers trying to break a log jam with peaveys, during the spring drive. Circa 1920. Town of Webb, NY.

Bert, Floyd, and Charles delivering wood on a bobsled. Circa 1910-1920s. De Kalb Junction, NY.

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. 

Aerial photo of the Verne A. Wicks Coal, Feed, and Lumber operation lumber yard, picturing stacked logs, stripped logs, and milled wood and boards. Circa 1940s and 50s. Harrisville, NY.

Two men (one is Verne Wicks, who owned a lumber operation) loading logs onto a Ford truck bed. Circa early 1950s. Harrisville, NY. Check out our story about Ross Young, a logger from Harrisville. 

Loggers standing and sitting atop a load of logs on a bobsled, drawn by a team of horses. Winter. Circa 1910-1920. Town of Diana, NY.