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Great film! This was done near Weed, CA and I grew up in Klamath Falls, OR where we had a lot of lumber mills until the late 70’s. If anyone wants to see all the equipment used in this film, visit Collier State Park that’s right off of Hwy 97 near Chiloquin, OR, (about 90 miles from Weed) there’s no fee to enter and they have a complete McGiffert log loader which is very rare. Like many young men in my community, my first job was setting choke for a skidder and I remember double choking some trees that were so big. Timber falling is not an easy job and you’re always walking up a mountain or down, very steep terrain!

Very nice footage!

amazing seeing those giant trees being tossed around by the crane!

Would like to make a small correction on the chain saw The saw is hydraulic operated the hydraulic pressure is provided by the dozer kinda rare honestly Amazing video my friend

This is incredible. Thank you for posting this.

What a criminal pillaging of our natural resources. Nothing to be proud of. 👎👎

Memory Lane, my dad worked at Long Bell Lumber and we lived in Weed and Mt. Shasta from 45 to 55. Great place to grow up.

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Thanks for posting. I picked cones and worked on ponderosa pine test plantations for the USFS in the 1990s around Tennant and McCloud. I still remember the thick dust from that volcanic soil when it dried out in the summer.

I remember living in Tennant in the early 50s. And going to school in the 2 room school house. Grades 1-8 with the older students going to Dorris via bus. The teachers were a married couple, Mr. (grade 5-8) & Mrs. (grade 1-4) Chronister (I can remember then but not last week!). The Catholic priest had mass on Saturday mornings. My Dad was working there in the late 40s and met my Mother in Klamath Falls; she was a waitress at the Pelican Cafe. They moved to Oregon for a while where I was born (I think there was a strike or something like that) and then moved back. I remember picking choke cherries for 10 cents a quart from the older ladies and we learned the berries were better cooked. We kids bicycled everywhere as we were free range kids and playing cards with a clothes pin made a lot of neat noise from the spokes. We made neat stuff in the Cub Scouts for our Moms. I had my first library card when I was 8 as my Mom was the volunteer librarian. I remember the bar at Bray that we kids had to wait outside while our Dads had a beer there; the generator there had no muffler. And, best of all, was the train ride from Bray to Dunsmuir on the Shasta Daylight. Our house was right next to the railroad tracks and the engineer and others would toss apples or oranges to us as we watched from the back yard. Heat was by propane tanks in the yards. Later we moved to Weed where we lived on Rabbit Flat Street until the company moved the houses so my Dad moved us to Mount Shasta rather than purchase the company house. So a little history from a kid's perspective. Oh, yes, first aid was the nearest house where the lady had bandaids and Merthiolate, lots of Merthiolate, for us.

Four whacks to drive a spike.

Stephen thanks for sharing this video. What a gem. As a current home owner in Tennant this really shows the history of the area.

Thanks! Sad to hear how much was buried needlessly and thoughtlessly.

My blood froze when I read "landfill bulldozer had buried them that night." Absolutely heartbreaking.

Vancouver Island British Columbia Canada, resident , great film what a treasure, the age of steam power!. First growth logs,a thing of the past! No sound needed come from generations of rail road Engineers and Trainmen brings back many childhood memory's of steam engine rides with my Grandfather and father! Such a loss to end up in a dump.

Drycreek Dave, In the early 1970's I worked for the USFS and we stopped in at the general store "cafe" on occasion. It was much like Galice Oregon was like in the early 1960's when I worked for the Oregon State Forest Service out of Soldier Camp Guard Station. No places like that anymore, to my knowledge.

My dad logged at Tenant in the early 60's - the roundhouse was being used as a repair shop and the big Buda diesel was still there to provide electricity. The houses were being repaired for retirement homes.

How have I not seen this sooner????

Ahhh man! I was born in the 80s but sure would of love living in does great days!

Thanks for sharing. Great piece of history!

Thank you so much for sharing this glimpse into the logging world. What a great film!

Amazing video.. All my life I've head my mom and dad talk about living in Tennant, CA during the late 40's and early 50's. I stumbled across this film clip and showed it to my 89 year old dad today. He and many others came to Tennant from Missouri for work back in those days. He said this video shows the bunk houses and mess hall at camp 1 where the loggers would stay during the week. The other clips are from the areas they were logging out of camp 1 that was about an hour or more down the track. The workers would ride the train back home to Tennant for the weekend then back to the camp on Sunday evening for the next week of logging. I sat and watched it with him as he named every piece of equipment they were using, he also was looking intently at the video to see if he could recognize any of the workers. He said it was hard to tell from the quality of the video. He mostly skidded logs with a bulldozer to the train track to be loaded using a jammer, the large crane like machine that straddled the train and lifted the logs and stacked them. The train I guess was called a mallet but he called it malley, so I'm guessing the T is silent. My dad ended up moving from the timber to the roundhouse as a blacksmith working on steam locomotives. The roundhouse is where the trains would come into Tennant and turn around to go back to the logging camps or to Weed, CA. They had a big shop there where a lot of the equipment repairs would be done. He ended up working for International Paper at the Weed location as a welder and blacksmith until they moved back to Missouri in the 60's. Thanks so much for posting this, I have been sharing with many friends and family here in Missouri who had family members who lived and worked in Tennant back in the day. I was born in Mt. Shasta but lived in both Weed and Mt. Shasta until we moved to Missouri when I was a child.

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Wow! What an awesome find and rescue... Makes we wonder what other fine video pearls of Siskiyou History has been lost in the trash piles? Really neat to see the old ArchBars and McGriffs in action. Brave Tough Men, too. Had to keep your head on a swivel and your wits about you at all times working around that stuff. OSHA would have a meltdown if that was the logging technology of today.

Great vid ! Thanks !