{"id":935,"date":"2018-11-28T01:21:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T01:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=935"},"modified":"2018-11-30T08:43:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T08:43:34","slug":"media-the-tie-hacks-of-wyoming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=935","title":{"rendered":"Media: The Tie-Hacks of Wyoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_937\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-937\" style=\"width: 182px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-937\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1364-182x300.jpg\" alt=\"Wyoming tie drive\" width=\"182\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1364-182x300.jpg 182w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1364-620x1024.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1364.jpg 726w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 182px) 100vw, 182px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crazy architecture&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During a break from today&#8217;s decorating (well, yesterday&#8217;s, I guess, now it&#8217;s after midnight) I watched a few YouTube things. One of the suggested videos I spotted was a PBS Wyoming thing called <i>Brotherhood of the Broadaxe <\/i>(see below), which I thought sounded intriguing.<\/p>\n<p>The story of the Wyoming Tie-Hacks, and the Tie-Drives, where thousands of trees are felled, and the resulting logs are turned into rough &#8216;ties&#8217;,\u00a0for the ever-expanding railroad network, being sent from remote camps by flume and river, is fascinating.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_936\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-936\" style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-936\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1363-180x300.jpg\" alt=\"Wyoming tie drive\" width=\"180\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1363-180x300.jpg 180w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1363.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-936\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Warm Spring flume clings to sheer rock.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The log flumes were miles long. The Warm Spring flume looks, on maps, to be about five miles or more. Note the guy perched on the catwalk in the above pic. Precarious!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_945\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-945\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-945 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1370-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Wyoming tie drive\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1370-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1370-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1370.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Feeding the ties through a channel in the river.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the period and location which this documentary covers, not one fatality occurred under the auspices of the Wyoming Tie and Timber Co.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_955\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-955\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-955 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1381-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"Wyoming tie drive\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1381-300x208.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1381.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-955\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clearing a log-jam. Dangerous large scale djenga-cum-pick-up-sticks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When you consider the extremely hard work, long hours,\u00a0and the vast volumes of timber cut down, prepared and transported, using only hand tools and very primitive methods of transport and processing, that is really quite amazing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_938\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-938\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-938\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1365-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"Wyoming tie drive\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1365-300x188.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1365.jpg 497w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-938\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ties gather&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The industry, a short-lived boom created by the burgeoning rail network, but soon to be rapidly superseded by industrialisation, lasted only one generation. It was a hard life. But judging by the accounts of those interviewed for this film, a good one&#8230; fascinating!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JkjXqmmaP-U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Scandinavians were a big part of this particular epoch, with the Wyoming Tie &amp; Timber Co. set up by a guy who&#8217;d done similar work back home in Norway. He got a lot of folks from the &#8216;old country&#8217;, and Sweden, to emigrate, and they formed the nucleus of the business.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_947\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-947\" style=\"width: 213px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-947 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1373-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"Wyoming tie drive\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1373-213x300.jpg 213w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1373.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-947\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">These are the kind of men who did the work.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Local Indians and other more or less &#8216;native&#8217; Americans would fill out the teams and bulk up the numbers, especially during the Tie Drives, after the Scandiwegians and other more expert Tie Hacks had done the felling and hacking, getting the wood from source to destination.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_952\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-952\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-952 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1378-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Wyoming tie drive\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1378-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1378.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ties at source, being poled into the river.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_951\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-951\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-951 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1377-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"Wyoming tie drive\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1377-300x184.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1377.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-951\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Good ol&#8217; horsepower was also used.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_949\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-949\" style=\"width: 211px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-949\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1375-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"Wyoming tie drive\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1375-211x300.jpg 211w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1375-722x1024.jpg 722w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1375.jpg 736w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Logs coursing down the flumes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_944\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-944\" style=\"width: 183px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-944\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1368-183x300.jpg\" alt=\"Wyoming tie drive\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1368-183x300.jpg 183w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1368.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-944\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flumes cut through ravines, sometimes even through the rocks themselves.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_956\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-956\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-956\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1369-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"Wyoming tie drive\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1369-300x177.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1369-768x454.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1369-1024x606.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1369.jpg 2029w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-956\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The scale of the flumes could be enormous.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_953\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-953\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-953\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1379-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"Wyoming tie drive\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1379-300x178.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1379.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ties being retrieved from the river.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_950\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-950\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-950\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1376-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"Wyoming tie drive\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1376-300x190.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1376.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-950\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ties are stacked and sorted.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_946\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-946\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-946\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1371-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"Wyoming tie drive\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1371-300x182.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1371-768x466.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1371-1024x621.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1371.jpg 1180w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-946\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Processing plants grew up at key locations.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hearing the old-timers and their wives and children reminisce about this period, it sounds both very hard, and yet very satisfying. The work was intense and seasonal, the logging locations were remote, and incredibly beautiful. Winters were hard, and skiing was an essential daily skill.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_958\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-958\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-958\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1383-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Wyoming tie drive\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1383-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1383-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1383.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-958\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cooks moved ahead of the work gangs, preparing massive meals. Check all the pots on coals!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Wyoming Tie &amp; Timber Co. really looked after their workers, building homes and camps, buying the employees kids Christmas gifts, and feeding the workers well (tourists would sometimes stop to watch the work, and were even invited to feast on the abundant victuals!). They even had programmes to look after the older less able men.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_957\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-957\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-957\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1382-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"Wyoming tie drive\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1382-300x191.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_1382.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-957\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The church at Dubois, made of logs donated by Wyoming Tie &amp; Timber.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a break from today&#8217;s decorating (well, yesterday&#8217;s, I guess, now it&#8217;s after midnight) I watched a few YouTube things. One of the suggested videos I spotted was a PBS Wyoming thing called Brotherhood of the Broadaxe (see below), which I thought sounded intriguing. The story of the Wyoming Tie-Hacks, and the Tie-Drives, where thousands &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=935\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Media: The Tie-Hacks of Wyoming&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-f5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}