Logger interview #48 Gary Phillips. "Got into logging with my first breath"

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I sat down with Brinnon raised Gary phillips to get some of the locals history, and hear about the glory days working in the woods.

[@Dan-nl2ug]

Thanks Daniel for Tenacity to get these old timers to tell there storys,thanks Gary,so much enjoy these videos,just a mason county boy who retired from ground lead logging 25yrs ago

[@jimfurubotten5658]

Thanks👍

[@jasonmarshall7983]

It's been 8 years since I've Hauled logs in a 1978 kenworth...You're bringing back memories brother ,,,happy new year

[@DanielBoonesloggingvideos]

Cool Jason Thanks for watching. I love the model year 197&

[@jessestout8646]

Great interview! Really enjoyed all the pictures too! He has a beautiful home also!

[@DanielBoonesloggingvideos]

Glad you enjoyed it! thanks so much for watching Jesse. it was super fun to put this together for your viewing pleasure.

[@ccclc6159]

interesting stories would like to see some pics, there is some nice woodwork in that house, my grandad had a chair like he is sitting in

[@DanielBoonesloggingvideos]

It’s kinda hard to do unless you sit through the whole interview but I included over 100 photos throughout this interview while he’s talking.

[@ccclc6159]

@@DanielBoonesloggingvideos Thank you for the video,I am on about day 4 watching your video, and finally finding the pics, you and the guy in the video probably grew up logging and knew most of the logging machines' terms and techniques before you were even teenagers, I'm 58yo and don't know much of anything about logging when the storyteller mentions machines, I need pictures to kind of help me understand the stories, Thank you for the video and all the work you put into it.

[@terryandsherryweed1702]

Great information.....a real blast from the past

[@DanielBoonesloggingvideos]

Couldn't agree more!

[@seantatham9960]

Absolutely fantastic interview….

[@DanielBoonesloggingvideos]

thank you Sean !

[@wlogue]

Thanks D.B. that was a good one!

[@DanielBoonesloggingvideos]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@kellykonoske91]

Love these stories Dan. Also the new in tro! ( still wearing the hoodie I got from you at the OLC ) Take care. Todd Konoske

[@DanielBoonesloggingvideos]

Awesome Todd Thank you! I'm glad the hoodie is still going strong.

[@cherylmillard2067]

Red Cook was an amazing fiddler. There was a story about Ma Yelvik when her husband died, she had put him in the back of an old truck, I can't remember the why, maybe someone remembers this. Ma Yelvik and her daughter died when the original Yelvik's Store burnt down, her son Ivan Yelvik, was a strange person, he would handcuff customers he knew as a "joke". There was a log dump by Seal Rock in Brinnon. 1:25:26 Red Cook is on the right. 1:32:27 Isn't that Mike Love? This was a great talk, I went to school with some of those guys in Quilcene.

[@DanielBoonesloggingvideos]

haha yeah they left him in the pickup because ma didn't want to go into town til she needed to stock up the store , or something to that effect. i didn't know that about ma i thought it was just the daughter that died. yes that is Mike . thanks for watching Cheryl.

[@cherylmillard2067]

I think in 78 or 79 one of the Phillips or the Corys was killed at the Big Quilcene river when a Toyota pickup pulled out in front of them at the Fish Hatchery Road at the Big Quilcene Bridge. I think they were in their self-loader, the details are a bit vague, but I can remember the scene in my mind, I could have the names wrong.

[@denniswilhelm1316]

It was two guys in pickup, not Corey or Phillips, Dick Hughes self loader

[@jessestout8646]

Great interview! Really enjoyed all the pictures too! He has a beautiful home also!

[@DanielBoonesloggingvideos]

Thank you Jesse. It was fun putting this together 😀