I used to live in this area about 7 years ago, such a beautiful place. Even the small logging towns and Mills are still there now, it's like stepping back in time
I used to live in Grimwade, great memories... Mullalyup was a special place, best experience even surrounded by the most wonderful people... wonder where they are now? Xx
@@dennisthemenace57 thanks mate, I reckon I remember Phil Manassa who played for Collingwood used still use the old drop punt a bit, ahh the good old days... ahh
Good that they were practicing reforestation back then, and keeping it sustainable. Still a beautiful place today, with plenty of tall timber standing.
I'm from the southwest born and raised. My family still have the the documentation acquired via FOI from the department of forestry. It says bassicly what their intentions were and that was was to maintain a facade of healthy Forrest along major highways. They never had any intentions of sustainability.
Dangerous places those sawmills and the timber felling. the industry once boasted the highest on the job death rate as late as the 1980s when I was working for the Forestry Commision of NSW.
I came from N*Z the land of the rising marxist to cut hardwood like this in the eighties,i was and experienced Bushman,probably only reason still alive,six killed in a month in Nsw,Victoria ,Tassie when i was cutting.090 Sthil pair of pants a singlet and hardhat!
I wouldn't have thought so then, but now I could cry to see those majestic karri trees cut down. We have lost most of our old growth forests. However, it's an excellent video and a true reminder of life in the forest way back then.
Our forests in Australia survived the last ice age, they were standing when dinosaurs covered the planet...it's a massive injustice that they couldn't survive us.
The timber industry is dying in Australia, mainly because state forests are locked up as national parks, sharply reducing the supply of timber. At the same time increasing amounts of timber is imported from overseas. Land is also cleared to plant plantations of trees, usually of exotic species that native animals cannot live in. Australian native tree forestry is a sustainable industry that is now unsustainable because of politics. It’s very sad many timber mills closed and timber towns declined since the 1970s.
look what we've done to our forests mate, it's not sustainable at all they overlog the national parks and expect them to keep growing back, should look on Google Earth at the logged areas they are all overgrown with lantana now
ME ! I was in the timber game in Tassy in the lower Gorden. Drove an R600 flintstone quad box behind a Thermadyne. Also falling, snigging with a D7E, we got 50 cents a ton for pulp the same for felling and barking. Stringy bark and mountain ash, single riders 36 foot going 26 plus tons, don't see em now. Shit l miss that life.
Uh... that was likely a 4' bar on that 090, or at the very least a 42" bar, the 090's are a massive power head, and really don't balance out till you get a 5' bar on em.
In the US where we call it Eucalyptus. If it's the same tree. Until I saw this I had no idea they grew so big. Farmers planted them as wind breaks in California. I hope timber workers in Australia still have their jobs.
Before computers when life was more simple and unhurried I would think every bit of the tree would be used either manufacturing or for providing fuel for heating with the off cuts and smaller branches
'Takes 600 years to grow and it can be felled in 20 mins' - so much regard for majestic specimens of nature (don't forget the wildlife, arboreal mammals etc, that depend on such trees) - It was as it was but trees like this are still being felled to this day.
yes but at least they plant new trees and take care of the forest... if say a forest get mature say 600-1000+ year old.. very few trees in that forest would be usable for timber.. notise some of the big ones in the video they had a hole in the middle. we do the same with spruce in norway.. planting new where its possible and start taking lumber out when its around 40 to 80 years old. but the serious landowners here too leave some dead trees standing both for the animals birds, but also as wind shadow for the young tree plants + we have lots of national forest where cutting trees for lumber isnt allowd
@@lucasrudd5253 Yes but you have to understand that humans can't recreate a forest. Once a forest is cut it is never the same. 90% of the original area of united states forest is gone. Most of what is left are areas that have grown back. Those areas are still nothing like what the settlers saw. Its really sad but I hope I can do my part by joining the forest service.
We think the intention of the film makers is to make the film about an "everytown" a typical small agricultural place without being specific. They do say it's 300km from Perth though.
Are there no laws governing such things as, Hard hats, No Smoking on the job, Chaining the logs while on the Trucks hauling to the mills? No wonder the work in those woods are so high!
@@gregshearer423 no i havent not for the last 20 years anyway. before that i was feild service trouble shooter and workshop foreman for Clark Equipment Victoria Australia.. After that i was on the wharf working on an maintaining 25 ton to 50 ton Clark Forklifts and Valmet Straddle Carriers. Why do you ask? Are you in the game?. of course i didn't write down all mistakes i seen that guy do that was just one of them
Mate, the correct spelling of the botanical name for Karri is Eucalyptus diversicolor with the genus starting with an upper case 'E' and the species with a lower case 'd'.
it takes 20 minutes to cut the 600 year old tree, so imagine how much one man can do if he works for 40 years. He can roughly cut 200-300k trees imagining that he is quite efficient. Theres roughly 1000-2500 trees in a hectare. So roughly a man can cut down 166 hectares of trees in a 40 years. No one would work as a axman for 40 years so lets halve it and make it 70 hectares of forest in a lifetime for one man. theres around 4 000 000 000 hectares of forest in the world, so one man will cut down 0.00000175% of all the forests multiply by the number of all the loggers around the world 1.4million (this is my estimate (usa logger number in 2016 was 55k which is 0.02% of population) unlike other data which is googled) that is 0.25% of all world forests. That means forests shrink by about 0.012% a year. And of course not all the forests are the same. some forest will never be the same for many many generations. ( all of this was a quick calculations and nothing more than just curiosity of mine)
Yep where's the regrowth in your calculations? In this story there were only 2 men felling trees for the whole town operation yet there were many more replanting & managing the cultivation.
foxfixa The data shows that worldwide, forest cover is increasing. Not sure I can be bothered looking it up again but in Europe alone, it’s incredible how much more in the last few hundred years. This is an example of facts beating “reason”.
Daniel Mckay And yet he's been felling for 20 years and the 2 of them keep the whole town operation in timber. But you probably know better about karri huh.
I used to live in this area about 7 years ago, such a beautiful place.
Even the small logging towns and Mills are still there now, it's like stepping back in time
2010ish I spent a few years in the south west of wa
I love this places
I wish to own a house in nature, away from the noise. I love rural life
I used to live in Grimwade, great memories... Mullalyup was a special place, best experience even surrounded by the most wonderful people... wonder where they are now? Xx
That's the sound of the good old Land Rover alright. That was our mode of transportation in the 60s & 70s here in the interior of Borneo...
Simpler, but rougher times. Who knew so many need this roughness to stay grounded.
Nice drop punt at 6:12, the driver of the Land Rover doesn't spare the horses, great film.
Drop kick, sadly gone from footy these days
@@dennisthemenace57 thanks mate, I reckon I remember Phil Manassa who played for Collingwood used still use the old drop punt a bit, ahh the good old days... ahh
That Stihl 090 is beautiful
Old is gold
Good that they were practicing reforestation back then, and keeping it sustainable. Still a beautiful place today, with plenty of tall timber standing.
Tall timber isn’t the same as old timber and it wasn’t sustainable
I'm from the southwest born and raised. My family still have the the documentation acquired via FOI from the department of forestry. It says bassicly what their intentions were and that was was to maintain a facade of healthy Forrest along major highways. They never had any intentions of sustainability.
Nice vid. 1973 was not that long ago and yet it seems like yonks when watching this.
actually, it was a while ago, those kids are in their mid 50s now..
Marvellous
Looks likes beautiful place to raise a family.
Dangerous places those sawmills and the timber felling. the industry once boasted the highest on the job death rate as late as the 1980s when I was working for the Forestry Commision of NSW.
thats only because trucking accidents are road accidents not work related
Steve Little That one tree had a missing limb. Got shot off. Proves your point.
I came from N*Z the land of the rising marxist to cut hardwood like this in the eighties,i was and experienced Bushman,probably only reason still alive,six killed in a month in Nsw,Victoria ,Tassie when i was cutting.090 Sthil pair of pants a singlet and hardhat!
Nice doco,we have a holiday house in Nyamup.I worked at the Kirup saw mill when young.
Beautiful old video
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I wouldn't have thought so then, but now I could cry to see those majestic karri trees cut down. We have lost most of our old growth forests. However, it's an excellent video and a true reminder of life in the forest way back then.
@Brett Mitchell the biggest of the karris is still standing
Our forests in Australia survived the last ice age, they were standing when dinosaurs covered the planet...it's a massive injustice that they couldn't survive us.
Love the old macks.
That was just fantastic thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very good to watch.
Really enjoying watching these video,s of the better days to live in Australia.
Thanks for posting.
Thank you. Glad you like them!
I miss old Australia so much.
We were so original. And now a multicultural world, everyone is the same, but stay to themselves.
Quick Stepz
Australia is stuffed now
@Quick I bet what would aborginees say to that.
The timber industry is dying in Australia, mainly because state forests are locked up as national parks, sharply reducing the supply of timber.
At the same time increasing amounts of timber is imported from overseas. Land is also cleared to plant plantations of trees, usually of exotic species that native animals cannot live in.
Australian native tree forestry is a sustainable industry that is now unsustainable because of politics. It’s very sad many timber mills closed and timber towns declined since the 1970s.
look what we've done to our forests mate, it's not sustainable at all they overlog the national parks and expect them to keep growing back, should look on Google Earth at the logged areas they are all overgrown with lantana now
Thank you for posting! Great documentary
That was enjoyable to watch
WOW! Tree nursery is advanced thinking for those days !
I live with those trees and they used karri for roof beams and jarrha for railway sleepers,
Who else was waiting for the ole Mack
Buddy Thomas only reason I clicked DM800
@@deborahchesser7375 của các
ME !
I was in the timber game in Tassy in the lower Gorden.
Drove an R600 flintstone quad box behind a Thermadyne.
Also falling, snigging with a D7E, we got 50 cents a ton for pulp the same for felling and barking.
Stringy bark and mountain ash, single riders 36 foot going 26 plus tons, don't see em now.
Shit l miss that life.
1972 old stihl 090 just chilling sayin yeah im here lookin nice
Cool logging on fairly flat ground.
9:04 Mack Flintstone R-600
Beginning of the vid is a stihl 090
Look at those stihl 090s notice they dont use huge 4'bars. Ive never liked a realy long bar i feel its hard to keep them cuting streight
Uh... that was likely a 4' bar on that 090, or at the very least a 42" bar, the 090's are a massive power head, and really don't balance out till you get a 5' bar on em.
Boy the cars were hard looking but the girls could play well...
Nice film ☺
12 miles to go to highschool isnt that bad i had to go 20 miles for high school while living in a major US city
Was it uphill both ways?
lol !!!
Listen to those old supee charged and torbo tractors that dozzer has a sound like music
I once had alot of freckles, but mine went in to the wilderness and have not came back.
Beautiful lumber, it reminds me of redwood.
Most of the old lamp posts in New Zealand are jarrah an karri, nice fire wood when there past there use
It takes a hell of a lot of skill to cut down a tree that big.
In the US where we call it Eucalyptus. If it's the same tree. Until I saw this I had no idea they grew so big. Farmers planted them as wind breaks in California. I hope timber workers in Australia still have their jobs.
Yes, Eucalyptus Diversicolor. Species of flowering plant from the family Myrtaceae.
We point fingers at Brazil for clearing the Amazon?
They replanted
Before computers when life was more simple and unhurried I would think every bit of the tree would be used either manufacturing or for providing fuel for heating with the off cuts and smaller branches
And what they didn't use they put away for tomorrow's dinner!
Is that Graham Liddlow in the film ....and playing footy for Imps
Murray Swensen yes
9:53that dude almost got hurt
i would love to see one bloke from health and safety try and start that saw with no decompression.
@Luca what mental work.
Schönes Video....,;-)
What year would this be? Looks fantastic.
1972
The old farmers tell me that the bush is thicker and denser that decades ago
Still heaps of bush down Pemberton way
Should have a look on google earth
Love hearing those biguns hit the dirt
Pemberton region this is I´m guessing!?
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Looks like Donnybrook - the town has since regressed since the timber industry punched out for good.
It looks like pemberton, closest to the karri country and about 300km from perth.
'Takes 600 years to grow and it can be felled in 20 mins' - so much regard for majestic specimens of nature (don't forget the wildlife, arboreal mammals etc, that depend on such trees) - It was as it was but trees like this are still being felled to this day.
yes but at least they plant new trees and take care of the forest... if say a forest
get mature say 600-1000+ year old.. very few trees in that forest would be
usable for timber.. notise some of the big ones in the video they had a hole in the
middle.
we do the same with spruce in norway.. planting new where its possible and start taking lumber out when its around 40 to 80 years old.
but the serious landowners here too leave some dead trees standing both for the animals birds, but also as wind shadow for the young tree plants
+ we have lots of national forest where cutting trees for lumber isnt allowd
Im from margaret river, there are still massive forests to this day
@@lucasrudd5253 Yes but you have to understand that humans can't recreate a forest. Once a forest is cut it is never the same. 90% of the original area of united states forest is gone. Most of what is left are areas that have grown back. Those areas are still nothing like what the settlers saw. Its really sad but I hope I can do my part by joining the forest service.
@@javen69 the whole earth is fucked mate, accept it
at least we got some nice new wood
What town is this? Please
We think the intention of the film makers is to make the film about an "everytown" a typical small agricultural place without being specific. They do say it's 300km from Perth though.
@Faqyur Ma'ama i recognized the main street but wasn't sure
Falling 600 years in 20 minutes.
Cool eh
Are there no laws governing such things as, Hard hats, No Smoking on the job, Chaining the logs while on the Trucks hauling to the mills? No wonder the work in those woods are so high!
Timbers Town,🔔🤝🤝
9:51 What, you can't hold the weight of a tree? Pffft.
His back muscles would have been torn badly after that ......
A Stihl 070 or 090 AV.
090 for sure
Também trabalho com Eucalipto (lenha)🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
6 minutes ,vs 600 years , all gone why couldnt we of left a few
They did. Didn't you watch the whole video?
There is heaps left
are you going to wait 600 years to cut them down again?
Why yes they are roger. You keep hugging them we will keep cutting them.
@@billyjohnson1009l dont hug them there to big. what about you?. Give them hug do you? Do you like getting rid of the oxygen making plants? .
Nah, get em now
I heard italian spoked
Yes. "Quando arrivi a casa stasera?" "Quattro e mezza." "Fai ciao ciao a papà,amore."
guy a 9:51 nearly had an serious injury :D
You really shouldn't play with five tonne logs like that!!
20 tonne logs!
That's what real men do
dirt bike addiction used to. Contemporary man has been emasculated.
Papa Goes to work baby!
@9:56 almost killed,
а зачем поджигали лес?
so sad to cut down such old beautiful trees
I always think of Australia as bushes, desert and kangaroos.....
Land rover💕
what’s the name of the place thay did the Vidio on
That’s Pemberton, stunning little town.
what kind of wood are saw mill cutting?
Karri, almost extinct now.
yes but what kind?
I didn't see a kiln operating! Don't they dry the lumber before selling it???
no, not for construction timber, moisture not that high.. finishing timbers, into the kiln.
@@matts5105 karri is far from extinct !!!
Матрица как налепит фильмов, так хоть стой, хоть падай. Пипл схавает
4:15 j root
600 years..... I'm not against logging at all, but they should have left the giants as they were.
It all goes by road now, what a backward step.
Felt like I just watched a 70's porno .
Lots of wood.
Why are they speaking like Pingu?
Harvesting 600yr old trees 😫
Bloody crazy anyone thinks its bad they are stopping native forest logging
that guy on the forklift needs some operating instructions
And how’s That he looked to do a perfectly fine job
@@gregshearer423 he was turning with the load raised to high
roger hector and slowing down accordingly you’ve clearly never done much work around forklifts
@@gregshearer423 no i havent not for the last 20 years anyway. before that i was feild service trouble shooter and workshop foreman for Clark Equipment Victoria Australia.. After that i was on the wharf working on an maintaining 25 ton to 50 ton Clark Forklifts and Valmet Straddle Carriers. Why do you ask? Are you in the game?. of course i didn't write down all mistakes i seen that guy do that was just one of them
Why
hairdressers weren't invented in the 70's ..... LOL :)
Ucalyptus Diversicolour- Karri tree. I respect the man needs a job, but I hate him just the same. Sorry. 1:15
Mate, the correct spelling of the botanical name for Karri is Eucalyptus diversicolor with the genus starting with an upper case 'E' and the species with a lower case 'd'.
@das wright cause he,s a wittle snow flake , a he gonna cwie cause the bad man cut a twee !!! i,m sure he dosnt use any forest products !
Poor little sook
:-)
> lap...
it takes 20 minutes to cut the 600 year old tree, so imagine how much one man can do if he works for 40 years. He can roughly cut 200-300k trees imagining that he is quite efficient. Theres roughly 1000-2500 trees in a hectare. So roughly a man can cut down 166 hectares of trees in a 40 years. No one would work as a axman for 40 years so lets halve it and make it 70 hectares of forest in a lifetime for one man. theres around 4 000 000 000 hectares of forest in the world, so one man will cut down 0.00000175% of all the forests multiply by the number of all the loggers around the world 1.4million (this is my estimate (usa logger number in 2016 was 55k which is 0.02% of population) unlike other data which is googled) that is 0.25% of all world forests. That means forests shrink by about 0.012% a year. And of course not all the forests are the same. some forest will never be the same for many many generations. ( all of this was a quick calculations and nothing more than just curiosity of mine)
Ice Carpenter one thing you'll have to remember is that sustainable logging regrows a lot of forests
Yep where's the regrowth in your calculations? In this story there were only 2 men felling trees for the whole town operation yet there were many more replanting & managing the cultivation.
@@DiscoFang the bush in the warren region is thicker than ever
i live here !!
foxfixa The data shows that worldwide, forest cover is increasing. Not sure I can be bothered looking it up again but in Europe alone, it’s incredible how much more in the last few hundred years. This is an example of facts beating “reason”.
@@DiscoFang I was sceptical when I read your comment. Did some reading and you're right, so cheers. All the best
Not much of a notch in that tree should have been about ten inches
Daniel Mckay And yet he's been felling for 20 years and the 2 of them keep the whole town operation in timber. But you probably know better about karri huh.
Thanks for the advice Daniel
@@DiscoFang it was a small notch if you watch it fall it went backwards it wouldn't have if the notch was bigger
dkc173
600 year old trees, dropped in 20 minutes. Re-growing, ready in the next 600 years, as if they give a stuff! Propaganda TV
It’s incredibly sustainable
Nice film ☺
Nice film ☺