A 10x12 compound yarder at the Michigan California operation near Pino Grande in a typical setting. The Sugar Pine limb wood is delivered to the engines by a contractor at the rate of $10 per day per machine. State fire law requires clearing of 100 foot radius about each machine. This company is complying with the law though they feel that the hold-over fires around the operation may tend to make their men careless with fire
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Description
Location: average distance Identification: exact ground location unclear, appears unknowable No people present in picture
Type
image
Identifier
fritz_metcalf-1526
Subject
Lumber companies - Michigan-California Lumber Company Logging equipment - Donkey engines Pino Grande (Calif.) El Dorado County
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