This video brings back so many memories! Brought a tear to my eye! I knew most of these gentlemen being interviewed! They were all my dad’s (Jack Chambers and family) friends! I do miss the lifestyle! Not the rain ha ha!
The one thing I remember was going to Ketchikan to "Raw Haw" and getting lucky was mostly lied about. The variety of people was enormous and everyone knew "Swede Larson" a gentle where many a man who had spent his coin soon would camp in Swedes big old warhouse out on the docks. My first trip in got me in what I thought was serious trouble as I was known as a good mechanic and so I got drunk as a skunk and when I woke up, I heard the buzz of the plane engine, they told me to go back to sleep and they would wake me! I did and when I woke up, I was in the wrong camp and couldn't leave for a week! So I made the best of it and worked in their shop with their tools and was told I was a good mechanic and if I wanted to stay I could. I told them my gear was at thorne bay and they said we will go get it and I told them I just wanted to go back. I wound up having to work two weeks and for more money included and then I begged to use the ship to shore phone. The gods were with me and Swin Larson told me to get my but home, he would send a plane for me and that is how I got out of there. Turned out that the check they gave me was junk and "Swin" gave me a weeks wages for being loyal and I worked the season for him. I learned to pick my my friends carefully and sleep lite if I went to town. Many more stories after that one but for now
This video brings back so many memories! Brought a tear to my eye! I knew most of these gentlemen being interviewed! They were all my dad’s (Jack Chambers and family) friends! I do miss the lifestyle! Not the rain ha ha!
I pulled riggen for brad miller out of Dora Bay 1989. Cut timber out of Craig, hydaburg for Glen Snow in 92. Small world
I miss those days. I see a lot of familiar people and places here.
The one thing I remember was going to Ketchikan to "Raw Haw" and getting lucky was mostly lied about. The variety of people was enormous and everyone knew "Swede Larson" a gentle where many a man who had spent his coin soon would camp in Swedes big old warhouse out on the docks. My first trip in got me in what I thought was serious trouble as I was known as a good mechanic and so I got drunk as a skunk and when I woke up, I heard the buzz of the plane engine, they told me to go back to sleep and they would wake me! I did and when I woke up, I was in the wrong camp and couldn't leave for a week! So I made the best of it and worked in their shop with their tools and was told I was a good mechanic and if I wanted to stay I could. I told them my gear was at thorne bay and they said we will go get it and I told them I just wanted to go back. I wound up having to work two weeks and for more money included and then I begged to use the ship to shore phone. The gods were with me and Swin Larson told me to get my but home, he would send a plane for me and that is how I got out of there. Turned out that the check they gave me was junk and "Swin" gave me a weeks wages for being loyal and I worked the season for him. I learned to pick my my friends carefully and sleep lite if I went to town. Many more stories after that one but for now
I hope I can live that timeline when I die!
I was raised there Cool seeing those people AJ to this day I still consider him one of the class acts Ive ever met nicest guy there is Brad Miller to
Wig Wam burners. I miss seeing the red glow of those at night around where I grew up in Oregon. Todd the retired trucker.
I knew a few people in the vid. And lived in a few float camps. Yup, timber was the king of Southeast. Especially Ketchikan.
Knew Stretch Chatham when we were younger.
A small photo of an A Frame logging show at 0:37
I worked for Brad miller in Dora Bay Ketchikan.
Ivan looked way younger then 🤣