ENGINEER CORPS: FORESTRY ACTIVITIES IN FRANCE [1918] Reel 2 · Part 3

Description

Reel 1 shows beech and pine forests in the Vosge Mts. Trees are felled and sawed. Logs are loaded on horse-drawn wagons. Bark is stripped from logs. Long logs, to be used for pilings, are skidded to a loading platform, loaded on carts, and hauled along a mountain road. Donkey engines, operated by the 20th Engrs., control the logs on the trip down the mountain. Reel 2, logs are lowered by cable down an incline railway at Granges. Cars are returned to the top by a turntable and donkey engines. Slash is burned. Soldier lumberjacks ride logs down the Courant River. Shows logs being sawed at Roullens, personnel of the 20th Engrs. and the 320th Labor Bn., and troops being paid. Reel 3, 20th and 110th Engrs. operate sawmills in the Vosge Mts. A portable sawmill is moved by tractors at Fagny. Track is laid for moving lumber at Roullens. Lumber is loaded on freight cars. Reel 4, railroad ties are sawed and loaded on railroad cars and trucks. Underbrush and small growth is cut in the Foret du Der. Firewood is cut into small lengths. German prisoners cut firewood and load it on cars in the Foret de Paimpont. Lumbering camps are built in the Vosges. The forestry workers eat lunch.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Historical Films