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This weather vane sits atop the cupola of a building found in downtown Berlin, New Hampshire. Do you know what profession the vane is depicting?

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Barry

That would be what we call a boom tender.

And one awesome weather vane.
Greg Farber

A lost profession, caused by Environmental Fascists.
Harley

What is a ‘boom tender’? Looks like something related to logging but what exactly was his job?
Albert ladd

River driver
Lee

My mother got some photos of wanigans, logs, and workers on the last log drive down the Clearwater River in 1971 before Dwarshak dam was built. The area was logged heavily to get the logs out by floating rather than trucking as would be necessary after construction started . Logs were stacked for miles along the North Fork of the Clearwater in preparation for the spring high water.

A lost profession on the Clearwater caused by the construction of dams.

A bit of history: http://www.foresthistory.org/publications/FHT/FHTFall2000/mccollister.pdf
Barry

And a lost profession on the St. Joe caused by environmental wacko’s and the USFS. NO more logs in the Spokane river either, or the lake, or omg any other body of water in North Idaho, for the same freaking reason’s.

Nice try Lee, but once again you come up seriously short on the big picture.
Greg Farber

Thanks to this Agenda 21, Sustainable Development, the environmentalists foundation for tyranny many other professions are suffering dramatically right now, I have a 1000 square foot shop and 100,000+ in plumbing-heating and mechanical tools just sitting since August 2008.. I doubt I will ever do the mechanical in another high level custom home.. Of course the main stream media and those profane sheople will cry out the banking community are behind the housing collapse, and they are, but the changes by politicians like Bill Clinton, giving those banker animals to much room to corrupt the financial housing markets is called out for in the charter, Agenda 21 etc. etc.( created financial collapses to bring about the desired changes by them ) It is all interconnected for a single purpose and that is to destroy the Declaration of Independence and this u.s. serf middle class.. The elites want no opposition to there world governance once slow thinkers finally understand just exactly the expense of that globalism to them directly.. Damn fools, most of these u.s. serfs are thick as bricks.. Clinging to their Masonic created brick wall of illusions..
Barry

Greg- You know the gig as do I, yet I have one little thought that makes me smile in all of this. These idiots in the US that are supporting the ‘spread the wealth’ because they think they are getting something that belongs to someone else for free, have a very rude awakening. The poor in this country rank in the top 15% world wide. We’ll see how they are liking it when they are spreading what little they have to support someone else in some stinking mud hole somewhere. And they deserve every bit of it. In the end, the shallow thinkers will be the first victims, and I have no sympathy for any of them.

Tom Remington

Everyone did quite well in recognizing the weather vane. The photo was taken in Berlin, New Hampshire, near what used to be a very large and thriving paper mill. A few years ago the area began developing a museum of sorts in recognition of the history, lore and traditions of the “Northern Woods”. I might have my information wrong here but I believe this weather vane is situated nicely on top of a brand new building that is part of the Northern Woods exhibits, etc.

Yes, the vane depicts a “river driver” – a person that work the river, hopping and walking across a river full of logs in order to keep them moving down the river. Pulp was dumped into the rivers and sent to the mills or near railroad sidings to be loaded and sent to the mills for processing. River driving was a dangerous profession and required a great deal of skill to be good at it. Being adept at it reduced the chances of getting hurt or killed.

The profession of river driving vanished over time due to a number of reasons – damns were put in, improvements to other forms of transportation and objections from environmentalist that sending logs down a river was destroying the earth.

It was difficult to determine at the time Milt snapped the picture but I would estimate this vane to be in the four to five foot in length range.

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