Had a buddy over in shelton wa. started out highclimbin for simpson timber co. for 12 dollars day, he passed away at 74 from liver cancer just 5 weeks after his last climbin job
@@MalbackHendrix lol, tree loppers regularly just spur up a tree and tip the head out. I have done 4 just this week. The are honestly some of the easiest jobs. Only difference is that I use a chainsaw. If someone wants to pay me more to do it with an axe and crosscut i gladly would
Proud to say that my brother and I are arborist's, carrying on the loggin' family tradition out of Southern WA (he owns a tree service on the big island of Hawaii). Uncle has owned his logging company for years with a great reputation. Grandpa would be proud.
My twin Uncles, Albert and Clark Dayton were loggers back when it was virgin timberland up in Ashland Wisconsin. I remember when my Dad took us up to Ashland, to visit and site see the tremendous huge floating islands of logs on Lake Superior, waiting to be towed to the saw mills. It is impossible to describe how it looked, it was unbelievable to see such a huge amount of floating logs ready for the saw mills.
I watched this a couple days ago and had to come back and say that the song in this video has been stuck in my head ever since! I woke up this morning and my first thought was “Let’s go springboard choppinnnn’”. I absolutely LOVE this song and this video as well! Cheers!’
Thanks! It's a very catchy tune! We listened to it a lot on our roadtrip to the World Lumberjack Championships one year! Glad you liked the video, my partner put it all together. Be sure to check out his channel at Wild Axe TV!
My Dad's donkey is still in the back 40 with lines still in a tree, unless it's rotted off and fell, I haven't walked up there since the mid 70s. Isn't in the hills above Chilliwack BC Canada.
@@samuelluria4744 Nope, I own & run a highly successful family Forestry Business here in Oregon. Why do you ask if I’m employed as a Barista? do you need a job again?
Yeah, 🤣 I was just breaking your horns, because you mentioned your Grandfather, and not yourself...which is totally cool and humble, but left you open for a "Portlandia"-type jab... Stay safe! Just stay clear of anybody that smells like a double-caramel-raspberry-mocha-lat'cha'tino!! 😜
@@kallekilo5978 - Right. Cause there's a way to guage that. My Grandfather came over to Montana from the Basque country and proceeded to bite the nuts off of several thousand sheep....but, there was no record keeping back then, and so his sheep-nut-biting exploits will be forgotten to history....
Lived and logged out of Gray's Harbor Washington. Third generation. Those were good days. Hard and dangerous work, used to be a saying about fatalities and accidents "a man a day". Still have allot of those old tools Grandpa handed down. I can still smell the shake rats in my mind. EPA came in to our rough and tumble town and shut it down. Still a bunch of gypos still at it though. Towns full of gays and druggies now... Seattle needs to stay home and leave the rest of us alone.
I climbed trees for 20 years....then past year i had a top split and take my climbing loop 50 ft...melted my knot and threw me off....i got really hurt
We have those two poles guy ed together, so the guy still climbing rocks both poles inter rupting knot tieing for the other person... not like cutting trees, either fully guy them or not at all, I'm thinking... Great work
My niece once asked me if I had a death wish. I retired at 32 from crab fishing /pot cod / salmon tendering, and I joined the Ironworkers Union. I told her 'no, you're thinking of a logger'. Those guys have a dozen ways to get killed, and that's before they even climb a tree !
I would do whatever your climber is doing, for $250/day, and I have ALL my own gear, and I drag brush, shoulder wood, repair equipment, buy cold drinks for the young bums, don't ask anyone else to sharpen my saw, or gas it up.... Too bad I'm in Jersey, competing with hundreds of illegals...
dont get to see ol Hap much anymore, I heard there was some kind of legal copyright jargon goin on so they removed his coffee break video.Do you know anything about that?
@@jaredmercer7043 we ain’t talking bucket cutters, or suburban yards here cowboy This is the industrial side of what you are imaging (aka logging not suburban tree care)
@@jaredmercer7043 I don’t put anything above two stories down for under 200 bucks That doesn’t include clean up & break down Go get started on your own Didn’t even have ropes or a ladder Made tree house stairs out of a board to climb up my first job for neighbors
Gabriel Moline yes you can I cut a fir down not too long ago that was close to two fifty and over five foot in diameter at the base. I took it at eighty feet to fit it into the lot it was on .
Lorric Logging Well, that is excellent. Good work. As soon as you get them down, the fires will come and take the rest. Just like Brazil and Australia. Looking forward to the entire content of North America to be nothing but smoldering coals and soot and concrete. Just hope I live long enough to see the fear and anguish on the faces of all the humans finally realizing it’s too far gone. Just a few more years.
Gabriel Moline don’t believe the hype, dude, I walk in timber like this occasionally it still exists, and grows back to this height. You are letting the media manipulate you.
Had a buddy over in shelton wa. started out highclimbin for simpson timber co. for 12 dollars day, he passed away at 74 from liver cancer just 5 weeks after his last climbin job
As a arborist I can say these dudes back then we’re insane & built completely different💪🏽 RESPECT
I'm proud to be able to say I'm an arborist. Love these men. Skills on another level
don't compare these men to arborists! no rope, no prussik, only a lanyard and balls
@@MalbackHendrix lol, tree loppers regularly just spur up a tree and tip the head out. I have done 4 just this week. The are honestly some of the easiest jobs. Only difference is that I use a chainsaw. If someone wants to pay me more to do it with an axe and crosscut i gladly would
@@MalbackHendrix the didn't use a rope back then? Man, I guess that rope they always tossed around the tree was for show...
No crane? Forget it. Lol just kidding. Always interesting to watch this kind of stuff and compare it to the industry today.
@@HabeasJ, you mean the lanyard? Gaffing up and climbing a rope are two different things.
Proud to say that my brother and I are arborist's, carrying on the loggin' family tradition out of Southern WA (he owns a tree service on the big island of Hawaii). Uncle has owned his logging company for years with a great reputation. Grandpa would be proud.
Prussic loop is pretty revolutionary for those old fellers. I'm pretty happy with my spider lift.
As a line clearance arborist, I enjoy these.
Imagine the stamina and toughness of these men. 💪 No chainsaws back then
My twin Uncles, Albert and Clark Dayton were loggers back when it was virgin timberland up in Ashland Wisconsin.
I remember when my Dad took us up to Ashland, to visit and site see the tremendous huge
floating islands of logs on Lake Superior, waiting to be towed to the saw mills.
It is impossible to describe how it looked, it was unbelievable to see such a huge amount of floating logs ready for the saw mills.
dang bruh ty for the imagery ur description was pretty cool that sounds crazy
When boys were men and men were monsters!!
and black people were properly opressed!
That's what I would of been drawn too back then. I love climbing big old trees
I watched this a couple days ago and had to come back and say that the song in this video has been stuck in my head ever since! I woke up this morning and my first thought was “Let’s go springboard choppinnnn’”. I absolutely LOVE this song and this video as well! Cheers!’
Thanks! It's a very catchy tune! We listened to it a lot on our roadtrip to the World Lumberjack Championships one year! Glad you liked the video, my partner put it all together. Be sure to check out his channel at Wild Axe TV!
Buzz? Lol
My Dad's donkey is still in the back 40 with lines still in a tree, unless it's rotted off and fell, I haven't walked up there since the mid 70s. Isn't in the hills above Chilliwack BC Canada.
Oregon family since 1840. My great grandfather Logged the Siuslaw, the Smith, the Umpqua, the Alsea, and the Coquille, serious Timber.
And now you're a barista?
@@samuelluria4744 Nope, I own & run a highly successful family Forestry Business here in Oregon. Why do you ask if I’m employed as a Barista? do you need a job again?
Yeah, 🤣 I was just breaking your horns, because you mentioned your Grandfather, and not yourself...which is totally cool and humble, but left you open for a "Portlandia"-type jab...
Stay safe!
Just stay clear of anybody that smells like a double-caramel-raspberry-mocha-lat'cha'tino!! 😜
I would crack - up when I would ask Jerry-Paul,,”which way you gonna fall it”? He’d smile and say “DOWN”
Brilliant , thanks very much 👍😎
My uncle worked on the Clearwater River logging in the summer, log floats down river in the fall and tending bar during the winter in Moscow, ID.
my great grandpa did that when he came to america
I bet he lived longer than mine. Went straight to west va. Strip mining 🤦♂️
Finnish loggers, the greatest of all
@@kallekilo5978 - Right. Cause there's a way to guage that.
My Grandfather came over to Montana from the Basque country and proceeded to bite the nuts off of several thousand sheep....but, there was no record keeping back then, and so his sheep-nut-biting exploits will be forgotten to history....
Love the music 👍👍👍👍👍
Saw Danny Sailor in Vancouver BC many time at the PNE.
Lived and logged out of Gray's Harbor Washington. Third generation. Those were good days. Hard and dangerous work, used to be a saying about fatalities and accidents "a man a day". Still have allot of those old tools Grandpa handed down. I can still smell the shake rats in my mind.
EPA came in to our rough and tumble town and shut it down. Still a bunch of gypos still at it though.
Towns full of gays and druggies now... Seattle needs to stay home and leave the rest of us alone.
I love this video!!!
I climbed trees for 20 years....then past year i had a top split and take my climbing loop 50 ft...melted my knot and threw me off....i got really hurt
It's a dangerous job! Hope you are okay now Ken!
I am sorry to hear. How are you now?
real cool!!! to see Ed Smith from Eatonville and Hap Johnson from Castle Rock
Mike Treadwell DOES ANYONE REMEMBER JOE FLORI?
Nice to see some old video floating around of great uncle Hap.
And we think logging and climbing dangerous today how about back then
Real though dudes, now we're softies haha. Good video, thank you for sharing.
can you imagine chunkin a big fir down with an axe and swede fiddle even in 6 to 10 footers thats alot of choppin and sawin!
them old timers were nuts omg
We have those two poles guy ed together, so the guy still climbing rocks both poles inter rupting knot tieing for the other person... not like cutting trees, either fully guy them or not at all, I'm thinking...
Great work
Keep on thinkin'...
........best thing ferr'ya!
One of those voices at the beginning sounds like Oiva Wirkkala
My niece once asked me if I had a death wish. I retired at 32 from crab fishing /pot cod / salmon tendering, and I joined the Ironworkers Union. I told her 'no, you're thinking of a logger'. Those guys have a dozen ways to get killed, and that's before they even climb a tree !
Tree climber here 💪🏼✊🏻
I'm 53......still climbing
Awesome Lee!
Ive got AXE DISEASE ! And I LOVE this video :) Who is performing that great logging, foot stop'n song ???? :)
I’d like to know the song too!?
I'm Going Springboard Chopping - WEIRD ERIC BUNYAN
Just thinking if you had to do that today
Buenos para el trabajo esos viejos me hubiera gustado estar con ellos
66. still climbing
GOOGLE HAP JOHNSON THE LEGEND
I did that for two months every fukin day rain or snow only time you got to stay on the ground was when the wind would be a danger
Nicely done 😁
Nice🙏🏼👍
My dad is rolin mentioned in the song! At 6:23:)❤
I pay my climber $300-$450 a day. They deserve every $🙏
Where you at?
Hiring?
I would do whatever your climber is doing, for $250/day, and I have ALL my own gear, and I drag brush, shoulder wood, repair equipment, buy cold drinks for the young bums, don't ask anyone else to sharpen my saw, or gas it up....
Too bad I'm in Jersey, competing with hundreds of illegals...
Song credits please, I love the song, who sings it?
I'm Going Springboard Chopping - WEIRD ERIC BUNYAN
dont get to see ol Hap much anymore, I heard there was some kind of legal copyright jargon goin on so they removed his coffee break video.Do you know anything about that?
💚🌳💚🌳💚🌳💚🌳💚🌳
Crazy.
It is too done everyday just not the way they did it in 1900 like this competition. Things have come a long.way
Albany, Oregon Timber Carnival.
whats the song on the end?
the average life of a man then was only 45 to 50 years back then.
What's the source material for the black & white footage?
whats the name of song
I'm Going Springboard Chopping - WEIRD ERIC BUNYAN
Tenino wa
highest paid job in the woods(tree Topping) 40's=50's=60's
I have no idea where you got $21.50 hr.Cutters Make $200=$400 per day in the NW
@@jaredmercer7043 we ain’t talking bucket cutters, or suburban yards here cowboy
This is the industrial side of what you are imaging (aka logging not suburban tree care)
@@jaredmercer7043 I started out of jail at 20 cutting trees with a refurbished saw I was given by a local scrapper
@@jaredmercer7043 I don’t put anything above two stories down for under 200 bucks
That doesn’t include clean up & break down
Go get started on your own
Didn’t even have ropes or a ladder
Made tree house stairs out of a board to climb up my first job for neighbors
I own 5 companies now
It just takes determination… sometimes balls of steel help
Well, one thing is for sure, you cannot find a two hundred foot fir tree anymore.
Gabriel Moline yes you can I cut a fir down not too long ago that was close to two fifty and over five foot in diameter at the base. I took it at eighty feet to fit it into the lot it was on .
Lorric Logging Well, that is excellent. Good work. As soon as you get them down, the fires will come and take the rest. Just like Brazil and Australia. Looking forward to the entire content of North America to be nothing but smoldering coals and soot and concrete. Just hope I live long enough to see the fear and anguish on the faces of all the humans finally realizing it’s too far gone. Just a few more years.
Gabriel Moline don’t believe the hype, dude, I walk in timber like this occasionally it still exists, and grows back to this height. You are letting the media manipulate you.
Lorric Logging I have removed thousands of trees. It’s my job. Residential almost exclusively. Unlike you, I know there is a limit.
Lorric Logging You should upload more vidz. I put up a bunch. None good, but still.
Would have been much better without the music lol
Prepperjon yes