Piatt Family Skidding, Cutting, Splitting Logs - Part 3 - Shannon County Film Digitization Project
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- Camera roll 269 is one of three rolls (267, 268, 269) that show Willie Piatt and two of his sons, Edward and Kenny, working together in the timber skidding, cutting, and splitting oak logs into stave bolts. Missouri has long had a thriving barrel stave industry that relies on an abundance of white oak and the skills of timber workers like the Piatts, and the demand for their product is word wide. The stave bolts in these rolls likely ended up as whiskey barrels in Kentucky or Tennessee or Scotland. They may even have had a second life as wine barrels in France and other parts of Europe. Camera roll 269 shows close-up and in more detail the skill and hard work involved in making stave bolts. It begins with a long continuous shot, much of it in close-up, in which Kenny and Willie split a log, then lift, carry, and load the heavy stave-bolts onto their truck. The roll continues with more shots of Willie and Kenny working followed by a sequence of shots showing Edward skidding another large load of logs. The last part of the roll shows Edward removing the skidder's cable from around the logs, then measuring and cutting the logs into smaller segments for stave bolts. For more on stave bolts, see roll 253 which shows Willie and Kenny working at a stave mill in Bunker, Shannon County, Missouri. For more of the Piatt family in other contexts see rolls 215-219, rolls 248b-249, and rolls 321-327. Footage shot on November 30, 1978.
Part of the raw footage recorded 1978-1979 for the 1981 documentary motion pictures "Shannon County: Home" and "Shannon County: Hearts of the Children." Located in Special Collections, Meyer Library, Missouri State University.
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Real life living the good life.I miss these days.Good folks doing good things.
Like a hay crew ,you couldn’t find any young people today to do this kind of work!
The aches and pain of a hard days work is like a drug. I thank God everyday that I can still do this type of work.
Mule work I call it. Nothing better for you.
Until it breaks you down like me.
I knew some of this family , good folks .
That's nice!
They look and seem like good people. Very hard workers!
Love it good video my grandfather use to cut stays in the 40s 50s in Arkansas
My father ran "stave mills" in Russellville and Ozark, Arkansas in the 40s and early 50s, before moving to Columbia, Mo.! In the early to mid 60s, we both worked for Independent Stave Company, in Lebanon, Missouri!
You would be hard pressed to keep up with them boys today ! That's a days work right there !!
Absolutely!
In the late 80s early 90s, I cut, split, and hauled many staves to Macon,MO
Hombres de buena madera.......
An old poulan throwing chips. Haha
Ain’t nothing like pulling them chokers off side of a mountain all day.
I know this may be a silly question, but why does that camera man keep pushing that red beeping box at the end of each take?
Had to reset the camera.
Up in
This was only 6 years ago. There's loggers all over that work like this. !!!
7 years now and this was video back in 79 and 1980s
1978
5 year old video wtf
This is from the 80s
Was that guy really using a Poulon chainsaw ? Cheap piece of crap then and still a cheap piece of crap . O well , I'm sure he at least got through the day with it lol
grow up
@@dbcooper692 ... Lol grow up ? I didn't realize I was being immature simply stating that Poulon as a brand has always sucked . So maybe you should be the one who needs to grow up ? Yes probably so , otherwise you'd have kept your mouth shut
You dummy nobody cares
Prob all he could afford and it got the job done
@@garyteague4480 ... I'm sure it most likely did. It was the next day, using the same chainsaw where the problem arrised. I'm positive it crapped out after a second day of work lol.