My Father hauled Redwoods in California. At one time he hauled for the Mayr Bros. in Hoquiam, WA. Just recently I have been collecting oldtime logging footage and enjoying every frame of it. This is great footage, Thank you.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. I'm amazed at how many people watched these. I'm glad I spent the time converting them to upload to RUclips, or they never would have been online, at least until someone else did it. There are about 12 total videos on my channel from this collection.
Thank you Mickey for preserving such a valuable part of the history of the logging industry. Thousands in this generation can see how much back breaking labor went into just falling one large tree to provide the timber our country needed. With the development of the chain saw and other labor saving equipment made life easier in the woods but it is still dangerous very physical work.
my grandfather, father and I have been doing this for generations. I pride myself about still using bucksaws! its partly keeping the tradition alive and going and the fact that if you can work like that you feel like a champion at the end of the day
It is a times like these sayings like “Look after your tools and your tools will look after you” were ever so relevant. I should imagine you swiftly became an expert in the art of sharpening a saw or Axe with Trees that mighty.
I worked in the Schafer Brothers mill in south Aberdeen for seven years in the seventies. These clips inside the mill, though taken many years before, are very familiar. It should be stressed that sawmill work was as dangerous as the woods. Could tell you horror stories. Lost my right hand in the planer mill and almost bought the farm. Was not my fault, messed up my life, but Weyerhaeuser, operator at the time, was too self insured to be blamed. Went after the manufacturer of the hula saw, Viking in Portland, and received a pittance. But the high climber on a 250-300 ft Doug fir? No thanks. One mistake and you dangle like snot. Tough men.
The strength and endurance this type of logging demanded would only be done by men in top physical condition, not to many loggers would be working in their 50s, many were injured or were killed from accidents.
Incredible early footage. Thanks for preserving this History. Those Men were so tough back in those days-no wonder when many of them -went off to fight in WW1/WW2 and Korea The Communist/Facist’ forces faced the toughest Warriors on the planet🇺🇸and yeah thankfully some old growth trees were preserved in Wilderness areas thanks to real Men like our 26th President Teddy Roosevelt.
Your right; the beauty of work like that is that you can pull your chair up to a buffet and eat EVERYTHING in sight and not gain a pound -- breakfast, lunch and dinner!
In a training seminar many years ago. They started with a film of an Old Gentleman scaling a tree topping it , climbing up on top sitting down and pouring himself a cup of coffee. Has anyone ever seen that or know where I may find a copy of it? It truly was extraordinary. Thank you in advance.
It impacts me to see an old fir felled. In my neighborhood, Madrone Canyon in Larkspur, CA, harming a fir or redwood will cost you $20k-50k these days.
They aren't harming a Douglas fir: they are felling it to build houses. Take an airplane from the California border to Alaska over the Cascades and Coast ranges. One solid band of forest. Redwoods are a novelty, objects for tourist's photographs. Pacific Northwest stands of fir, spruce, hemlock, and cedar are nearly endless, packed together like flowers, and at their tallest, almost as high as redwoods. Harming a fir? Please.
@@davidbarr8394 Dave...Felling a Doug Fir for any reason is questionable, even for a non-birth clinic, currently in the newz. What's the area of the Amazon vs V. Island? See? Gotcha. I've sailed the inland passage since a boy and cannot imagine shores without trees. A larger threat is newsprint. It pays and takes the best and renders them into pulp. They did it in Quebec and it's ongoing. I revel in your defense , but damn your effort to denude Vancouver Island, one of the few pristine places remaining in the Western world. Courtenay, Comox, etc, ARE MINE!
My Father hauled Redwoods in California. At one time he hauled for the Mayr Bros. in Hoquiam, WA. Just recently I have been collecting oldtime logging footage and enjoying every frame of it. This is great footage, Thank you.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. I'm amazed at how many people watched these. I'm glad I spent the time converting them to upload to RUclips, or they never would have been online, at least until someone else did it. There are about 12 total videos on my channel from this collection.
Thank you Mickey for preserving such a valuable part of the history of the logging industry. Thousands in this generation can see how much back breaking labor went into just falling one large tree to provide the timber our country needed. With the development of the chain saw and other labor saving equipment made life easier in the woods but it is still dangerous very physical work.
my grandfather, father and I have been doing this for generations. I pride myself about still using bucksaws! its partly keeping the tradition alive and going and the fact that if you can work like that you feel like a champion at the end of the day
Amazing skill,craftsmanship, hard work, ream work to get the job done... hats off to those making it happen
best series of logging videos on youtube. Thankyou
It is a times like these sayings like “Look after your tools and your tools will look after you” were ever so relevant.
I should imagine you swiftly became an expert in the art of sharpening a saw or Axe with Trees that mighty.
strength and unparallelled endurance, these were the men of the forest.
I worked in the Schafer Brothers mill in south Aberdeen for seven years in the seventies. These clips inside the mill, though taken many years before, are very familiar. It should be stressed that sawmill work was as dangerous as the woods. Could tell you horror stories. Lost my right hand in the planer mill and almost bought the farm. Was not my fault, messed up my life, but Weyerhaeuser, operator at the time, was too self insured to be blamed. Went after the manufacturer of the hula saw, Viking in Portland, and received a pittance. But the high climber on a 250-300 ft Doug fir? No thanks. One mistake and you dangle like snot. Tough men.
The strength and endurance this type of logging demanded would only be done by men in top physical condition, not to many loggers would be working in their 50s, many were injured or were killed from accidents.
great film thanks for sharing!
Incredible early footage. Thanks for preserving this History. Those Men were so tough back in those days-no wonder when many of them -went off to fight in WW1/WW2 and Korea The Communist/Facist’ forces faced the toughest Warriors on the planet🇺🇸and yeah thankfully some old growth trees were preserved in Wilderness areas thanks to real Men like our 26th President Teddy Roosevelt.
Man after hand sawing those huge logs your forearms would look like Popeye the sailor man.
Your right; the beauty of work like that is that you can pull your chair up to a buffet and eat EVERYTHING in sight and not gain a pound -- breakfast, lunch and dinner!
not sure I understand how the human body can perform this level of physical exertion ..
IAM 55 yr old . fourth generation timberfaller from oregon logging been my job I love it hard but fair.
In a training seminar many years ago. They started with a film of an Old Gentleman scaling a tree topping it , climbing up on top sitting down and pouring himself a cup of coffee. Has anyone ever seen that or know where I may find a copy of it? It truly was extraordinary. Thank you in advance.
I haven't seen it and hope you can find it!
Possibly in the book: Red River Lumber.
came across it on RUclips randomly. Just search in old spar climbing it’ll come up
@@sideshooo2497 thank you
@@greggsannes493 ruclips.net/video/wgeVG6Mk1hU/видео.html
Those crosscut saws are known as misery whips-
It impacts me to see an old fir felled. In my neighborhood, Madrone Canyon in Larkspur, CA, harming a fir or redwood will cost you $20k-50k these days.
They aren't harming a Douglas fir: they are felling it to build houses. Take an airplane from the California border to Alaska over the Cascades and Coast ranges. One solid band of forest. Redwoods are a novelty, objects for tourist's photographs. Pacific Northwest stands of fir, spruce, hemlock, and cedar are nearly endless, packed together like flowers, and at their tallest, almost as high as redwoods. Harming a fir? Please.
@@davidbarr8394 Dave...Felling a Doug Fir for any reason is questionable, even for a non-birth clinic, currently in the newz. What's the area of the Amazon vs V. Island? See? Gotcha. I've sailed the inland passage since a boy and cannot imagine shores without trees. A larger threat is newsprint. It pays and takes the best and renders them into pulp. They did it in Quebec and it's ongoing. I revel in your defense , but damn your effort to denude Vancouver Island, one of the few pristine places remaining in the Western world. Courtenay, Comox, etc,
ARE MINE!
You hand these young guys an axe today an hour later you would find the axe laying against the tree and the young guys nowhere around
I wonder how many calories these guys burned in a typical day. My guess would be around seven thousand. Pass the bacon!!
8,000 calories/day
Min 11 Ese man tiene Guebo no Joda. trabajo arrecho
They look like good axes, don't think they were made in China.
Mieli czas a teraz piły spalinowe.
So bad they made the destruction of centuries old trees a sport.
You think it's a sport to be cut in half by a choker cable?
Today this is a crime.
Logging isn't a crime.
PINGPONGROCKSBRAH It should be.
Miguel Rodriguez
lol