VICTOR, Mont. - It would be hard to calculate what an important role horses played in Montana's logging industry. Long before mechanized tools, loggers depended on horses to do the heavy lifting. In ...
As workers go, Travis Thorson and his buddies, Mike and Prince, are a rare breed. Just ask the stream of gawkers watching them toil along Kitchen Road in Bay County's Fraser Township this week. "We've ...
Manly Stanley and High Falutin aren’t exactly light on their feet. But their horseshoe-clad hooves were less damaging Thursday to a sensitive historic garden site that is undergoing restoration on ...
Nathan Yoder fastened a chain around a 10-foot section of a log from a tree that had just been felled. With a tug on the leather reins, he spurred the team of Belgian draft horses into motion, ...
King County ecologist Lisa Brandt had a problem. To build a habitat for salmon breeding, she needed to move more than 30 logs through a densely wooded area along the Snoqualmie River channel, but she ...
Ted and Petey, two of Carl Russell’s 14-year-old draft horses Credit: Ken Picard Carl Russell wraps one end of a steel chain around a felled tree, then backs his 3,200-pound “power unit” — aka Ted and ...
Logging is some of the oldest work around Northern New York. Many communities around the North Country were established around logging camps in... Mar 20, 2018 — Logging is some of the oldest work ...