6-12AP Southern Big Wheels Art PrintThis painting depicts "big wheels" used in about 1903, skidding a Southern Yellow Pine log to the mill. Wheels such as those shown here ranged from about 8- to 12-ft. in diameter and were also used in many other sections of the country.The stand of trees in this scene is mostly Longleaf Pine. In the earliest southern pine forest, Longleaf Pine outranked Shortleaf, Loblolly and Slash Pine and was comparable to the present rank of Douglas Fir in national importance. No description of Longleaf Pine is complete without reference to its longtime source for turpentine and resin, the principal products derived from the distillation of the pitch or crude gum, which exudes from the pine trees when chipped or wounded. Gum-running trees are noticeable in this stand by the chipped lower trunks. The great forests of North America continue to be our most valuable, and only, renewable natural resource. |
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