Lumberjacks on the Frontier
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Lumberjacks and Loggers on the Wild Frontier
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Due to this week's giveaway, there is an overwhelming amount of comments. Please understand if I don't respond to yours.
My head's too big for it anywho.
MAD HATTER
We'll, we axed for it. Yeah, you got to the root of the matter and went out on a limb for us all. Great episode!
Well, we don't like to leaf things laying around.
Cut it out! 🪓
@@AgentXRifle OK! I'll pack a trunk.
@@ArizonaGhostriders You guys are going to have to do a lot to bury the hatchet after those puns. :)
Hey! Santee's a good sap. You're barking up the wrong tree when you say he's got a heartwood. Leaf him alone and just go with the phloem.
I didn't think, logging in, that I would find such a good, clear-cut video on Lumberjacks. Truely a cut above, what I saw didn't leave me board at all. I was always curious of how they lived and flannely have an answer. I epsecially enjoyed the swing between comedy and information passing without milling about on too much.
I also guess I'm not the only one doing puns...
YOu could leaf it alone...
Thanks!
@@ArizonaGhostriders I come out of the wood-work to give you a compliment, and this is what I get... You and I have an axe to grind.
I hope all these puns are above board.
@@Camdor5 i am willing to step out on a limb, and say T H A N K YOU TO ALL , involved here. May peace and security, arrive at your places of residence, always !
Love watching these every week. I'm from big timber area and back in the day a single redwood would yield 25 houses. We have a logging museum that is an old cookhouse for the logging town with all kinds of memrobillia like handle bar chain saws and bread baking pans welded together to bake 6 or more loaves at a time. The Samoa cookhouse if you are ever out in Eureka Calif is a great place to see and catch a meal.
I have worked with a 2 man cross saw and an axe. I can tell you those guys were in good shape. I knew you had to do The Lumberjack Song
It was a given. Thanks!! Wow....that's some hard work
@@ArizonaGhostriders Yep but my Grandfather didn't have a chainsaw on the farm until I was grown. It was a saw pit for. Boards and timbers. 2 main cross cut for felling trees or an axe. It was hard but enjoyable work in the mountains of Virginia. I have no idea how many fence post and timbers and boards I helped him cut but he built a new barn for calving and treating injured animals. I enjoyed spending time with him so I always volunteered to help no matter what.
A story you might enjoy. On my honeymoon we went to Williamsburg, I think it was the Cooper's shop. The apprentice was cutting with a 2 man and asked me if I wanted to try it. I went to it. I settled in to a rhythm and cut a couple of staves. My wife told me he was starting to drag a bit during the second one. Me I just fell into the rhythm I had always worked at. I wasn't trying to show off and apologized to him.
I was a Mad Hatter after hearing Santee's puns. Lol He was pretty sharp with them and branched off into a real good story. He stayed on course and didn't bark up the wrong tree. He cut to the chase and didn't put me to sleep sawin' any logs! Condolences To Doc Davis' Family and Friends. Rest Easy, Cowpoke.
Thank you!
Mad hatter. This is by far my favorite RUclips channel. Never disappoints.
Thank you!
I really enjoyed this one. Thanks much.
My grandfather was a steam engineer for donkey engines used to haul logs out of the woods. My dad was an all-around logger that could high climber set chokers faller you name it. I set chokers and was a landing chase when I was younger.
Very cool!
Thanks for another great episode. Merry Christmas my friends. I think I speak for many of us, you all have become dear friends to us out here in RUclips land. We look forward to your wonderful episodes and escapades weekly.
Thank you! Much appreciated!
Ok so " Mad Hatter " that being said I can not describe the joy I get from your channel . My area ( South East Texas) Economy was first built on logging and it is still part of our economy . Any one who finds themselves in Forks Washington ( if you can avoid the damn sparkling vampires ) see the logging museum it is amazing how hard they lived and how much they ate to support themselves .
Thanks and appreciate the tip on the logging museum
I logged in the '80s in Wyoming, living in the woods it was hard enough work hella hard with a chainsaw and a log skidder, even did some firewood in and log those with horses but I can't imagine felling trees with axes like they did back in the day
Wow!!! That's impressive, Michael.
Good to see. I mentioned earlier, my great grampa and his two older brothers left Maine after the Civil War and moved West as lumberjacks and cut all the trees down. Supposedly they were called the "Giants of Maine", they being robust and 6' 6" and taller. They moved all the way to Washington, down to California and moved back to Spokane. The Old West was more than cowboys, miners and cavalrymen. Lumberjacks, store keepers and farmers were in the mix. I have family from Alaska down to Oregon and in between. Back in Maine all the way down to Florida. Tennessee, West Virginia and here, in the Shenandoah Valley. And can't children in Wyoming and Missouri. Even have a cousin in Germany, staying after he left the U. S. Army in 1968. I'm sure there has got to be some some logging camo shootouts or axe murderes to do some shows on. Good shows. Reminds me of my family 110 to 130 years ago.
Once again, great family history!
I gotta say Santee your channel and videos are standouts. Having always had a interest in history but always wanting to know specific topics this channel definitely fuels that desire. Its also so cool to hear & see all of you western / frontier reenactors and how much yall put into research & recreation. Someday Id love to see all yall Arizona Ghostriders :)
Much appreciated! Very nice thing to say
Living in western Washington state, I've met alot of people who have worked as loggers and have heard many stories. All I can say is that's one hell of a way to make a living! And not for this mad hatter!
Loved the video as usual and I have wondered, don't you folks ever make any bad videos? If so I haven't seen one yet. Keep up the great work!
Seven brides for seven brothers, fellers, buckers, peelers, and a mad hatter. What a crew!
Thank you!
Mad Hatter
When I first saw this I thought about saying let me axe you a question lol Santee beat me to it in like 8 seconds......lol where's the bar tender 😂 haha
LOL!
Last month on Halloween I went to an estate sale of a retired antique dealer. Picked up a small 19th century hatchet for about three bucks. One of the best deals I've ever gotten on an 1800s antique.
Very cool!
Excellent video Santee. I LOVE how you chop away and debark the story to expose the pulpy truth to history. Exposing those roots to the tales is how you keep the history of the west alive...Doc was wrong
ya know, it wasn't Wyatt, Santee, you're an oak.
I just wish you'd leaf these puns alone, Drew. I'm getting board with them.
My great great grandpas brothers died on a log jam in the late 1800s and all he (his name was Axel) could do was sit there and watch... which is what (I think) caused Axel to immigrate to the US from Sweden in 1902. It's also probably part of why he was a bad alcoholic. (After he immigrated he switched professions and worked in a mill.)
Sad story, but great that you have that history of your family.
@@ArizonaGhostriders Ive always found it odd how little some people know about their family ancestry. I also know Axel used to go to bars, get drunk and fight the cowboys regularly lol. It was sort of like his pass time... Some people watch base ball, football, or fish... Axel used to get drunk and fight lol.
Wonderful episode as always….glad it’s finally getting cold enough to wear my lumberjack flannels
Cool!
I would love a mad hatter to add some bling to my winter attire. Keep your powder dry.
I went to college in Humboldt, CA. One of the neatest things in the area was the Lumberjack history museum in the Samoa Cookhouse, an actual still active dining hall for Lumberjacks that worked in the region in the 1890s. It is now a publicly available resteraunt with great grub. It is also cool to go out into the redwoods, throw down a blanket, and lay down on the stump of an ancient Redwood long since turned to timber.
Thank you!
Rest in Peace " Doc."
The Good Men Always seem to Leave us Too Soon.
Jim Obviously was Not the Mad Hatter.
Best Wishes from Montana! M.H.
Thank you!
You are very Welcome.
I've Lost a Few Great Friends myself.
M.H.
@@mikehagan4320 😢
I might not be a lumberjack but I used to help cut down trees for firewood when I was a kid and I use a axe during the whole time with wood chopping because gas powered log splitters were expensive which in the end I had talent for wood chopping where I never had any accidents of any type.
Cool!
This was a great video. Very interesting. My dad and his brother worked in sawmill and lumber camps way before I was born. I don’t think my dad was a lumberjack because of his size ( he was short and small ). Wish I had asked more questions when he was alive. Thanks for this episode.
You're welcome. Much appreciated!
It's funny. In Seattle near Pioneer Square part of historic Seattle is a nice slope. When Seattle was a logging town, they would skid the logs down near there. Claiming this is where the term skid row came from.
Cool!
The guy at 1:35 is a 'highclimber', for obvious reasons. He tops off the tree to make a spar tree for cable logging. They attach a giant pulley at the top, and basically create a winch system with a steam engine at the landing to pull the logs up the hill. Guy wires also have to be put in to keep the tree in place when it's under tension. Mad hatter!
The clip continues as the guys sways back and forth in the "recoil".
@@ArizonaGhostriders Not a job for the fainthearted. I used to work with a retired logger who did that, and he showed me a photo of himself after he somehow climbed on top of the topped tree, 100' up in the air, and was standing there doffing his hard hat for the camera.
“Where’s the bar tender?” It took me literally one second than I laughed so hard I woke my wife up.
MadHatter. 😉
That was my brother Steve doing the voice.
@@ArizonaGhostriders
Very funny.
Mad Hatter. My 5 yo. son and I love watching Westerns together and love that your channel covers the reality of things!
My family logged the Rocky Mountains...Pa Pa was a skidder using his own mule to skid the felled logs out of the stand. My mother and her siblings lived in the timber camps growing up. It was seasonal so they moved back to the family homestead during the winter months. My husband just retired a few years ago from loading and hauling the logs to the sawmill.
That is so cool! Well, then you know all this stuff and more!
@@ArizonaGhostriders It is still so fun to see all this on you show! It was a hard life for the families but my mom and her siblings have kept the good memories of growing up 'wild and barefoot' around the camps.
Mad hatter. I work for a tree service up in Connecticut and I always wished I could have seen how it was back then, it's kinda what you wish you could've done when you are 12 years old hearing of Paul Bunyan
Good Morning Santee!
Another excellent informative video… Thank you for all your hard work at introducing us to western history!
Mad hatter
My pleasure!
I would have been bitterly disappointed if there were no Monty Python reference. Bless you.
Mad hatter.
Great grandpa was a logger foreman in the 1920s before that he was a freight wagon driver at the end of the century one of his freight wagon stops is actually at my dad's ranch in parachute Colorado so it was crazy to be at the same place he was at over 100 years ago
Cool!
In my area of Canada there was a lot of logging surrounding the nearby creeks and rivers. So there are a bunch of old saws axes and other tools around garage sales and such. We once even found a log riders pole in our shop up in the rafters and like many others we have a large two person saw decorating the wall
So cool!
Doubt you’ll see this but. My family and I recently moved further west and found a great antique store.
I somehow ended up with a pile of old tools and a nearly empty wallet. I’ve now got a late 1800s double bit axe and a draw knife from around the same time. Among other things.
Greetings from Ireland. Mad Hatter eigh. Great episode as ever.
Thank you!
The legendary blue T-Rex! Legend has it Smokey the Bear actually said "Only BLUE can stop forest fires."
Babe the Blue Rex
Thanks for talking about some of the least talked about subjects in the old west times. They give us things we take for granted today like homes furniture and etc. MAD HATTER.
You're welcome.
the axe in the stump then the outlaw pulling the gun was good… lol love this channel..
Thanks
Mad Hatter.
I once went to a logging camp that was rebuilt for historical purposes in California once. They had the cook shack up and going and it was one of the best places I ever ate.
“Glad you axed...” Sweet! Nice to see how your channel is growing! 5000 calories just for breakfast!?? I’m 6’1” 250 and used to work the flight line at two airports in my youth handling heavy fuel hoses and freight and that breakfast would kill me!!! Good grief! Heck, I think Denny’s lumberjack if it is still on the menu is only 1000 calories... 🤯😱🤢🤢
Mad Hatter . My dad was known as a Topper. They would cut off the top of the trees. That way when they fell them. They wouldn't split the wood. Love your videos, have a great day.👍
I left out Topper! Sorry to your Dad!
Just reading the title, made me go - "MY BROTHERS!!!" LOL, I would totally fit in at a frontier logging camp, I pretty much dress the part on a daily basis. I also love swinging axes into bits of wood, or into burglars (sinister laugh).
Cool! Thank you!
Great episode!! Mad Hatter was certainly a thing back in the day, the chemicals made the hatters go a bit silly upstairs! Also, the hat is my size...God bless!
Thank you!
"MAD HATTER" Good information Santee.
Thanks
Mad Hatter:
How do trees get online?
They just log on.
LOL!
mad hatter. The phrase "as mad as a hatter" refers to the 19th century usage of a mercury-based compound in the making of fine hats. Due to long-term exposure, hatters would often develop symptoms of mercury poison, such as tremors or mood-swings, that would make them appear "mad" to others. however I'm not that mad. I'm also not a DC supervillain. My coworkers do think I'm a little crazy thou. good episode.
I've worked as a lumberjack once or twice before funnest job I've ever had
Nice!
The mad hatter is so mad he up and went to the state hospital of his own free will.
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Man I'm really glad I found this channel. After playing red dead redemption it gave me an itch to learn more about the old west, this channel certainly helping with that. Thank you. History deserves to be remembered. Mad hatter.
You should check out Legends of the Old West Podcast, you can thank me later. Up yonders . 🤠
Thank you! Much appreciated!
That last part of having infinite pancakes would make anyone happy
Right?
OK Mad Hatter, another good episode as usual. Those redwoods in California sure took big axes and saws. See 'ya down the trail.
Thank you!
Congrats on winning the hat.
Mad Hatter. Thanks too all who make the show. History at it's best. And I will see you down the road.
I eat a 5000 calorie breakfast, unfortunately, I probably only burn 1000/day! I really like hats but they have to be about a 7-7/8 to fit my noggin! Great video as always Santee.
Thank you, Richard!
1975, I, and a man named Gary were Bouncers at the Guys 'N Dolls Roadhouse in Cold Springs Ky. I am 6' 3" and weighed 220#, Gary was 6' 7", 340# with NO FAT on him, local Restaurant in Cincinnati had Pancakes "all you can eat" for a Dollar, they took the sign down after Gary ate 3 dozen of them, yes, we were both former Lumber Jacks in West Virginia!
Wooooowww!! So neat. Thank you!
The only place I've heard that lumberjack song before was on an episode of the A-Team. Murdock started singing it when they were transporting truckloads of logs.
I'm currently making a character who had a background being a river rat (which I now know the term for) so thanks for all the info you packed into this video!
Mad Hatter.
Originally in a Monty Python sketch. ruclips.net/video/pfRdur8GLBM/видео.html
Yep!
Didn't have to wait too long for The Lumberjack Song, I knew it was coming, you're just a
"Mad Hatter" Santee
Now what wood ya know?! I log in to find a whole splittin' episode about lumberjacks. Who can axe for more? It sure was knife to see! Also: MAD HATTER - the madder the glad'er.
LOL! Glad you couldn't leaf it alone!
@@ArizonaGhostriders Well you know me; give me a half a chance to go out on a limb...
I definitely do not envy the job they had back then! Just doing logging with a chain saw is painful enough. Even with logging vehicles it's still a pain. Oh, and MAD HATTER!!
Thank you!
I’m glad he axed that question too 😂😂😂😂
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I guess our ancestors wore many hats. Just like the mad hatter this video is full of dad jokes. And I love it.
See you next week Santee!
Thank you!
“Can’t shoot no breeze with a bunch of trees.”
LOL!
@@ArizonaGhostriders That’s a line from the song in 7 Brides for 7 Brothers when they are singing a song while chopping wood.
Mad Hatter...
Now that we're coming into the winter months, I'd love to see a video on how they used to deal with snow in and around towns in the old west.
I'll see what I can find out.
Great video. I worked with loggers for 15 years and their history has always fascinated me. Your puns were better than ever Mad Hatter.
Much appreciated!
The T Rex showing up as babe cracked me up! Also im addicted to watching this channel now thanks 🤣
You are very welcome!
Mad Hatter. Santee, I really enjoy your videos. Entertaining, educational and the quick hit approach is just right with 5 minute lengths. Thank you.
One thing about Santee. He always gets to the root of the topic... 😁
LOL!
They were called logger in Washington state. In fact in Sedro Woolley they had the Logger Rodeo for The Fourth of July.
Fun stuff, there, eh?
That was great as usual and one of my many favorites thanks Santee .... will go to the Mad Hatter for some Flapjacks!
lol!
I did some Summer work with one of my Maternal Uncles who was a logger. Tough work, especially in that particular part of North Carolina as there are no rivers big enough to transport the logs. Everything had to be hauled out by wagon or truck. At least the trees were generally smaller than their Pacific Counterparts...
Edit: Forgot about the Mad Hatter.
Thank you! Much appreciated!
Mad Hatter who was cutting wood and got very mad like the Mad Hatter
Thank you!
Both of my grandfathers owned two man tree saws. I still have them, I think they're really cool.
Mad Hatter was mad because of his axe breaking and he had to make a new one before winter clam
OK!
Santee be the mad hatter! Great video as always. I was waiting for the north to Alaska reference lol
Too many references, too little time.
Ironic timing, Santee.
Just received two large axes in the mail, yesterday.... and spent part of last night fixing one of the already damaged leather axe masks that came with them. Two different companies, two very different quality masks. Thankfully an easy fix. Cut a small piece of thin cardboard to size to match the rip in the side of the mask. Bit of industrial strength glue. Cardboard slapped against the rip on the outside of the mask. Clamp in place for a couple of hours. Cut off the excess glue around the edges with a razor. Not pretty, but fixed the issue. Ironically the cheap thin cardboard nearly matches the cheap thin leather mask. Thankfully both of the axes are very good quality.
Lesson learned though. If the mask doesn't have a thick leather welt, means it'll have to be replaced down the road. 🪓
Yes! Good fixing, though
Great episode on the other people that opened up the west.
Mad Hatter
My Saturday begins, with a cup a joe .... and looking for the new Arizona Ghostriders post .... then I can move on to what ever it is I had planned for the day. MAD HATTER!
Thank you!
So many puns in the vid and comments lol. Hope that hat finds a good home!
It will
The Jacks were a rowdy bunch. They logged the Midwest bare which was worse than killing the buffalo off really. During their heyday you could get work and be well fed. Many farmers left their families in the winter to care for the farm while they logged for money to keep things going. During the mid 1870's - 1890s people asked which was hotter on Friday night Hell, Hayward or Hurley. That's just the loggers and not the copper and iron mines. If you have ever logged an area with even a chainsaw you know what work is, then add subzreo temperatures and the danger of work if there is a clipper storm then you realise why the partyied hard.
Tough job took tough dudes!
Living in the Puget Sound I've seen some of these logging places that you spoke of in the video. One of these places is about 45 minutes from where I live and the town itself locally they call it the zombie town because you never see people during the day but it's considered to be a haunted lumber mill. Coolness huh? 🤠🌵
That's pretty cool! I'd like to see it one day.
Mad hatter! Know what a lumberjacks favorite tv show is? It’s “chopped”!
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Did you know that the term feller came from the lumber jack industry Santee as the term started as a way of referring to men that fell trees
Didn't know that!
Mad Hatter. How about an episode on land surveyors in the old west? Not only the ones laying out the railroads, but those surveying the square mile sections in the Western wilderness?
Mad Hatter!! I simply love youse guys!!! Keep the ole' West alive!
Thanks!
Mad Hatter! Thanks for this episode! As an arborist i really enjoyed it!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Mad hatter! I can’t “beleaf” the great stories you give us!
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I THOUGHT YOU WERE BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE LOL
Awwww, leaf it alone! 👍🏻
Mad hatter! Thank you for keeping the old west alive and keep the videos coming. Merry Christmas!
Very good video indeed. Wasn't sure if you would put in any clips of that beautiful ode to lumberjacks, but I kind of thought you might include a bit.
Oh and sometimes your puns make me think you're as mad as the hatter in that story about that Alice chick.
Thanks for kicking off my Saturday for me. Take it easy, and be safe out there. 😎
Thanks! Lol!
Well if its a Mad Hatter you seek then look for the AGR logo on the bunk rail and again looking over that really long saw .. That was a keel vid gang and nicely done better every time. Than!
Mad Hatter and just wanted to say I've watched all your videos and even got my Dad watching. Thanks for the entertainment!
Santee you are madder than the mad hatter. I'll saw you next time. Merry Christmas.
Thank you!
Mad Hatter - My friend has divorced a lumberjack.. He is now her axe-husband.
LOL! That's a sharp one!
I used to do technical tree removal in Flagstaff. No shortage of work you just have to be crazy as the mad hatter
Oh Cool!
Mad hatter.
I always try to catch your videos when I can. Keep them coming.
Another great episode! And I'm not sure if I've said this or not, but I love the intro you guys have now for your show.
You guys have great content. I love you how you’re educating people about the true wild/old west.
A good video about a huge bit of history. Any mad hatter will watch that
Thanks
Mad hatter. I’m like stories like this. I like to ”branch out “ and learned Different things.
How did I miss this one this channel is the best
Thank you very much.
Mad Hatter comment/pun for the day: What did the hat say to the tie? You hang around and I’ll go a-head.
LOL!