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I used to watch American loggers the Peliters they used to drive those roads

My Dad hauled wood most of my life on the Golden road now my Grandson is a Raft Guide on the same river you're following The Penobscot

Should have found a local to take a ride with you up the Golden rd 😊 coulda got all kinds of info..back history and cool stuff people here are pretty good and we love our area

Hey, I collect older money. I'll trade for the 2 $5s. I have some really interesting antiques I can trade.

Dah Savot .

What is that accent?

In the early 1950s I worked for Whiting Corporation in Harvey, Illinois. Whiting was (and still is) a heavy industrial equipment manufacturer. In those days, we built large bridge cranes, electric arc furnaces, rail yard handling and moving equipment, and paper pulp washing machines. I remember working on one being built for the Great Northern Paper Company, East Millinocket Maine. I remember that particular order because my family were originally from New Hampshire, and there was almost no heavy industry in the southern New Hampshire area where we lived. After Amoskeag Mills in Manchester went out of business in the 20s I think, about the only thing around our area were small farms, except for textile and other industry in northern Massachusetts. Seen lots of changes in my 89 years.

GP took over GNP in a hostile takeover and drove it in the ground to save their own paper mill is basically what happened.

Check out shredding paper by micheal Hilliard. It’s all about the rise and fall of the paper industries here in Maine. I found it after looking on,one for info about sapppi (SD Warren) in Westbrook shutting down there last machine.

That hard hat was Gibby Rossignol of East Millinocket.

WOW some dude will seduce all the ladies with that Deluxe Hugh Hefner Combo Fireplace Bar Stereo System !!!

Where have you been all winter? No logging, no lot to log, and crappy winter to boot. Good luck guy stay cool summer sucks I'll take 20 below any day to 90 and humid.

Being from maine liked your golden road video i am a john deere fan except for the skidders the fuel pump in a very shitty location so I grew up to Timber Jack lol

25:30 what song were you playing

Most domestic engines the crank pulley is pressed on, where allot of Japanese cars it just slides on like in the video. Wanted to just double check before i pry too much on this crank pulley I'm doing

That’s a lot of space to hold your own trucking school CDL

That was a great intro. Labor unions and Maine regulations are parasitic. This is a great place, though. It is no longer about the mill. It is about what is real - Katahdin and all that surrounds.

The collapse of the Great Northern was caused by several fronts. The Golden Road was one of them. It got the name because it cost GNP a million dollars an hour to build. They had to build it because Government regulations banned river drives. Then, different regulations made it hard for them to do business. The company that bought them was from Georgia, not Connecticut. They did a hostile takeover by buying up GNP stocks. The new owner then set out to destroy the competition. They started out by selling the dams and Hydro electric buildings. Now GNP had to buy premium price for power. Then they sold off the land. Later they shuttered and stripped the Millinocket Mill. The East Millinocket Mill was repeatedly bought and sold by "Investment companies" Who pillaged the Retirement funds of the employees. The last company was the cruelest of all. They shuttered the Mill after they met the 7 million dollar grant requirements, then started to tear down the building for scrap metal .

Went to Great Northern Paper Co. Mill in the mid 70’s!!! No one in hell would have guessed it would ever close! Everyone in town was somehow involved directly or indirectly with the Mill!!! So So sad!!! The same with East Millinocket. Everyone in town involved in their!!!!!

What size socket for the pulley?

The pavement after able bridge is such a pile. the dirt is a far better ride lol. Washboard pavement and craters thru to dirt.

I lived here since 87. I jumped right into lumber.. it quickly died off by age 19, around 1990. I did not understand until zooming out on a forestry map on the interent decades later. that couple million acres is not as big as it seems. not to mention, once old growth is cut, it never returns as old growth again.. it's like watching it kill itself to midgetness. My dad just retired from trucking, lumber from hubert, LP etc. after 45 years. did potatoes to florida a lot too.

I had to laugh when you mentioned Connecticut. Years ago I was at a plant to pick up a load of paper rolls. After several hours the shipping manager came out asking drivers for volunteers to abandon the load so they could at least ship one full load. They'd run out of pulp and said it was going to be a few days before they had anything ready again... go figure.

How about respect gates and no trespassing signs. Hallowed ground for many of us. Get out and stay out. You have no idea the history. Respect.

Who is doing the music? I want it 👍

Great Video Thanks for recording that.

They toyed with folks in Millinocket with "plans to reopen the mill" for decades; hell, my grandfather worked in the Millinocket mill for 40+ years, had a heart attack and died there, still doing shift work in his 60s. Tough life... still have a few cousins up there but most moved south to Portland when stuff started going downhill in the late 70s - early 80s... last I heard, folks from Boston, etc, were picking up houses for $30k just as some place to park their snowmobiles for the winter.... shame really. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

U got one of the better videos I’ve seen far as how dark it got here n West Virginia it’s got dim bit nothing like the darkness u got

Is there anyway to extend the ramp make it longer

Nice pull, I make similiar content with tree felling and skidding. Im in an old tree farmer doing mitigation work at my place.

I made a hinged piece at the base of my belt to keep the junk from falling in there ,hinged so when the lugs come around it raises up to let them pass.

A small plastic wedge would save you from a pinched saw.

Beautiful country vermont It's beautiful great videos

I work 30 years with my family in maine for pell and pell fort kent, Gérald pelletier millinoket and Fernand madden howland maine, there was a good time 😅

The Great Northern from day one was only in Maine temporarily , to liquidate the millions of acres of softwood forest and then get out it made massive profits achieved it’s objective and got out and it was owned by a parent company in one of the lake states

I nearly spit my coffee out laughing when you said "it wasn't that rusty when I put it there." Oh can I relate!! I, too, love auctions and have stuff I had a good idea for at one point! Maybe we should trade our stuff so it feels new again...hahaha!!

Wish I was closer. I’d bring a thermos of coffee over…

Why isn't your hearing protection on?

Love the Trump flag.

Where abouts in Vermont are you from

You got it right people today. It's strange when I was a kid. You went to school if there were 6 inches of snow or even more now. If you get 2 inches, they close to schools. As far as a plug, I think Southern Vermont got most of it. Good video, though. Love Good logging videos

I wonder if the Pellitiers trucks made that good of time up thru there grossing 150 to 200 thousand?

Been a hard go up here in central Maine needs to freeze and stay that way

Looks like the weather is the same as the adirondacks nothing is freezing up. Is that road a snowmobile trail? Good luck, but the season got a late start and probably an early finish.

Hey partner, some good looking skidders

Id take that yella birch top and drag it up and down ya road. Then pray for cold weather

Well no snow in the south of France but it's wet in the mud looks like you have your work cutout there I hope the weather gets better soon for you

Were going backwards here in central N.Y...14 this morning maybe make some money soon..keep up the good work 👍👍

Hi, looks like some hilly terrain, is this near Montgomery? I started this past weekend tracking the skid road in prep for the cold week coming up to hopefully freeze in!