Tracks in the Forest: The Evolution of Logging Equipment - Hardcover

Drushka, Ken; Konttinen, Hannu

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9529086164 ISBN 13: 9789529086160

Publisher: Timberjack Group, 1997

Synopsis

With more than 200 photographs and an extensive text, Tracks in the Forest describes in detail the first logging equipment of the late 19th century, and the technological developments of the 1920s-30s and 1950s-60s -- the forerunners of 90% of all logging machines used today.

About this title

About the Author:

Ken Drushka worked as a journalist before spending sixteen years as a logger, silvicultural contractor and the operator of a custom sawmill. His work has been published in numerous periodicals, including "Equity", "Business in Vancouver", "BC Report" and "Truck Logger". Drushka's books include the BC bestsellers "Working in the Woods" and "Stumped: The Forest Industry in Transistion", "Against Wind and Weather", "Tie Hackers to Timber Harvesters" and "HR: A Biography of H.R. MacMillan", which won the 1996 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional BC Book Prize. He was also co-author of "Three Men and a Forester" (with Ian Mahood). Drushka passed away at the age of 63 in 2004.

Konttinen is a Helsinki advertising man, a freelance writer and illustrator.

About this edition

• Publisher: Timberjack Group
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 9529086164
• ISBN 13: 9789529086160
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 254