Native American man cutting cedar tree for canoes — 3/26/64 — #45770_1
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Photograph Copyright Anderson & Middleton Company
United States — Washington (State)
Rayonier Inc.
Thanks to Terri Middleton, who notes: "This is one of a series of 15 photos, five of which have been selected for the website. The tree was 550 years old according to the notes in the Jones Photo Co. studio registers. The set of five images are numbered 45770_1; 46425_1; 46551_1; 46554_1; and 46556_1."
Thanks to Wayne Sutton, who adds: "The history of chainsaws is for the most part unexplored. They were conceived many years ago and there are accounts of one-off machines that were built by industrious inventors around 1900. Patents for part or entire saws were granted all through the late 1800's and early 1900's. Several patents were granted to Charles Wolf of Vancouver, Washington; he actually had some success marketing his Link Saw design beginning in about 1920. In 1926, Andreas STIHL in Germany developed and began selling his machines. Then things began to move much more rapidly and as the Second World War approached there were a number of folks testing the waters. Many of them, like Seattle's Mill and Mine, had been distributors for STIHL and since they were finding it difficult to get the German-built machines as the war approached, they went into production for themselves. This is one of the reasons you might hear Andreas STIHL said to be the father of the modern chainsaw, since most of the machines and companies have some traceable ancestry back to STIHL.”
