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Crew and guests with electric transfer log loader, skeleton railroad cars, and truck, Schafer Brothers Logging Company, Olympic Camp, October 7, 1942
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| Title | Crew and guests with electric transfer log loader, skeleton railroad cars, and truck, Schafer Brothers Logging Company, Olympic Camp, October 7, 1942 |
| Photographer | Kinsey, Clark |
| Date | 1942 |
| Notes | Caption on image: Oct. 7th, 1942, Electric Transfer Log Loader. Kinsey Photo, Seattle, Wash. No. 2
PH Coll 516.3708 |
| Contextual Notes | Schafer Brothers Logging Company got its start in 1893 when brothers Peter, Albert and Hubert Schafer began logging on the family homestead 6 miles upstream from the mouth of the Satsop. The companies first donkey engine was purchased from Washington Iron Works. Hurbert went to work at the factory to learn how donkey engines were made and also to have all of his wages except for living expenses applied toward the cost of that first donkey engine. In 1913, they bought a 45-ton Heisler locomotive and laid tracks into the woods from Brady to usher in their railroad logging era. A shingle mill was purchased in Montesano in 1919, the first of many manufacturing plants the company would own through Grays Harbor County. Simpson Timber Company purchased Schafer Brothers Logging Company in 1955.
The electric log transfer was operated by power generated from the Schafer Brothers turbine at Spoon Creek Falls. It was, in effect, an overhead crane. A truck of logs drove under the crane; a sling picked up the entire load, package style, and swung it over a logging flatcar spotted next to the truck and dropped it. [Source: Holbrook, Stewart. Half Century in the Timber. Seattle: Dogwood Press, 1945.]
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| Subjects (LCTGM) | Logs
Loggers
Lumber industry--Washington (State)
Schafer Brothers Logging Company--People--Washington (State)
Schafer Brothers Logging Company--Equipment & supplies--Washington (State)
Grays Harbor County (Wash.)
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Loaders (Machines)--Washington (State)--Grays Harbor County
Logging trucks--Washington (State)--Grays Harbor County
Logging railroads--Washington (State)--Grays Harbor County
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| Location Depicted | United States--Washington (State)--Grays Harbor County |
| Digital Collection | Clark Kinsey Photographs
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| Order Number | CKK0704 |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction, inquire about permissions, or for information about prices see: http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcollections/services/reproduction-info Please cite the Order Number when ordering. |
| Negative Number | C. Kinsey 3708
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| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Clark Kinsey Photograph Collection. PH Coll 516
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| Object Type | Photograph |
| Physical Description | Silver gelatin, b/w ; 11 x 14 in. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x512 ppi. 2003. |
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