Logger Pillows
Description: Founded in 1838, Derry, Maine is a fictional town in the equally fictional Derry County, a setting found in a multiverse of novels, movies, and stories. Derry is based on the real life city of Bangor, and while the town's exact location differs slightly from story to story, it's always in the Bangor vicinity, with several real neighboring cities making appearances. Just like with the real town, Derry has its own giant Paul Bunyan statue and claims to be the lumberjack folk hero's birthplace.
Description: Vancouver-based Power Machinery Ltd. (PM), got into the chainsaw market in 1947 and by 1950 had put nearly 18,000 saws into the market. PM began selling the Rocket, a one-man chainsaw, in 1952 and by this time had broken into the international market. Wanting a piece of central Canada's lucrative pulp market, especially Quebec, PM created a saw for that market and dubbed it 'Canadien.' The marketing ploy worked, and PM Canadien saws flew off the shelves both in Quebec and on the world market. In 1962, PM was sold to Bristol Aero of England, who moved the factory to a hangar at the Vancouver Airport. They kept the PM name and continued by focusing on expanding and marketing the highly successful Canadien line.
Description: The forestry industry has been central to Washington State’s economy for nearly two centuries. In the early days, the virgin forests that covered the state helped fuel Western expansion and turned small logging camps into flourishing communities. Washington has over 22 million acres of forestland and is the second-largest producer of softwood lumber in the United States. Private logging companies like Frontier based in the town of Forks play an essential role in harvesting timber and getting it to the mills across the state.
Description: The West Side Flume & Lumber Co. was founded in 1898 to log 55,000 acres of land outside of Tuolumne, California. A 10-mile narrow gauge railroad was laid into the woods east of the town to haul timber down the mountain to the newly constructed lumber mill, as well as to carry loggers to the work sites. In 1900, the lumber company incorporated their railroad as a common carrier called the Hetch Hetchy & Yosemite Valley Railroad, hoping to offer passenger service to the Hetch Hetchy Valley, and on to Yosemite National Park. The passenger trains were operated twice-weekly, and later three times a week, but ridership remained low. In 1903, West Side was sold, and the name was shortened to West Side Lumber Co.
