On the road again Tuesday March 11
At the Texas Forest Museum, Lufkin, TX
Our generation recognized the wooden box used for transporting soda.
Harvesting turpentine from trees. Turpentine is distilled from the sap of pine trees. I was surprised to read Vicks Vap-O-Rub had turpentine oil in it. During the era of wooden sailing ships turpentine was important product in the naval industry. Turpentine workers cut away the bark to allow the resin to flow into metal cups. Sayers didn't like to cut turpentine trees due to the possibility of hitting a nail and ruining the saw blade.
Once a week the sap was collected in barrels and
taken to stills where it was boiled in large copper vats.
Some streets were paved with wood.
12 inch tongue and groove cypress wood water pipe coated with coal tar.
Wooden school buses, circa 1930.
In the early 1950's Love Wood Products used mill refuse to make a product called wood flour. In 1954 the Temple Molded Seat factory manufacture toilet seats using wood flour.
Basket made of pine needles.
I have a new appreciation of these baskets after seeing Sharon making one.
Wooden bowl
Pulp cutter was an "easy, safe, one man operational unit.". Blade could cut horizontally to fell a tree and vertically to cut into sections.first chainsaws introduced in1920's were large and difficult to keep in operating conditions.
Pulp cutter was an "easy, safe, one man operational unit.". Blade could cut horizontally to fell a tree and vertically to cut into sections.first chainsaws introduced in1920's were large and difficult to keep in operating conditions.
Early chain saw
Chain saw blade.
Early on draft teams of mules or oxen pulled the logs from the forest. Mules were preferred due to their ability to maneuver through the woods and resistance to heat.
Oxen could pull more weight but had difficulty in the dense forested, humid conditions.
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| Caterpillars replace the animals. |
Crane to hoist logs.
Trucks hauling the logs.
Lumber mill.
Blacksmith was a vital part of the lumber mills.
Blade sharpener.
Tents were the homes of the workers and their families.
Money for shopping at the Commissaries.
The history of making paper.
Lufkin was new home of mill ready to make paper.
Look. We found a yellow (gold) and green truck. Let's get our Packers shirts on.
Piles of 4 ft logs for paper milling.
Early Forest Fighter.
These huge wheels aren't using Goodyear tires.
Railroad car use to haul the logs....look at the size of those logs.
Crossing the beautiful Sam Rayburn lake, the largest lake in Texas.
Others may be larger but also border other states.
We stayed at the Corp of Engineers San Augustin campground.
It was so peaceful even though it was spring break and lots of families.
We decided to stay until Sunday.
On our walk Friday we met Kathy, her Mom and Joe from Humble, TX. They are avid fishermen.
They catch 25 catfish a piece when they go fishing. They filet, vacuum seal and freeze the fish they catch and take home in their chest freezer. Kathy said you have to come on tomorrow we are having fried catfish.
Friday evening sunset.
Saturday 3 pm it started raining and kept raining all night. At 4:45 because of the rain Kathy brought us 2 plates of catfish, potatoes, hush puppies and cole slaw. It was ALL so delicious, lightly fried and with a Cajun zip. YUM. We really enjoyed meeting her and her family.
What great people we continue to meet.
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