brought timber down the st Joe river on a 12ft tug with my uncle Vern, choked for him 25 cent a day 8years old now 71

Some real hard working men back then

Around the 16 minute mark those logs getting hung up....omg I spent last winter winching white cedar out of a swamp that never froze, too soft to get a horse in, every damn log tended to bury itself in the mud under roots and stumps. Spent hours walking many miles back and forth to free snagged logs with no helpers. Farmall tractor running the belt driven winch

That dude splitting the wood. Holy shit he's jacked as all hell! Look at his arms!

Nice video and educational. But, the 'music' was not appreciated..

and they tipped there hat

Thank you for showing this video, thanks !!!

Would be nice, as well, to see some videos of efforts to replant.....

Look how tiny the people used to be!!!

The loud CRAP music is really annoying, so I have to watch the video and mute the sound. 🥃😎

Very good video on logging in the old days.Big different in logging today.

as a man i feel inadequate after watching these guys work

You’ve forgot to mention the north west “AMERICAN” logger taught the Canadian the technology for this whole film…. You’re welcome A…!

Those were hard tough men.

Dad came from Holland in the mid fifties to work on wooden spars and diesel donkeys in Port Douglas, head of Harrison lake B.C.. I started on 1" chokers on a 90ft Madill steel spar in '84. Been all over B.C. in the bush, in mills, in the bush now again, mostly highlead logging as well as skidder logging and heli-logging. The type of logging we do today is a variation of 100 yr old methods using steel cable suspended in the air. Most of the areas logged in this video have been logged at least one more time. In fact I have personally logged 2nd growth in an area that my Dad worked in. It is a battle of men and steel to gather wood for all who use it.

Watch Paul Newman's excellent movie 'Sometimes a Great Notion'!

kzbin.info?search_query=a-frame+logging+1988 a little later on the calendar:

Stupid music ruined it.

My Father back in late 60s threw 70s use log out in and around Terrace B.C Some of the old stories he has told me it’s wonder I am here writing this hardest job he said he ever had Love ya dad thanks for this wonderful life

Look at all those "privileged white males" i keep hearing about 😂

Between the Cat D-5 (I think) and the Auto Car truck , (again I think). Things got a lot easier for the logging industry ……

Nature killers . may their souls rest in shit

I started out wearing overalls, then switched to suspenders then 1 year in Iraq made me switch to a belt. But still cut off my pants 1" above my boot tops.

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Like it would never run out

wheres all the mexicans and black dudes?🤔

Could you imagine the youth of today going out into forest to fell the tree's like this now. Not a chance.

13:20 the cutter wouldn’t have been cutting wood for the shovel, it, and the trackside unit, burned coal. Finding firewood that burned hot enough to produce good steam, was a serious problem on QCI, so A.P. had coal brought in to run ever but the cold deckers.

When I turned 16 I drove my pickup truck up into the PNW mountain logging roads and the coolest stuff ever was all the logging gear and equipment. I was enamored by the yarders, excavators and dozers….so mystical perched out in those remote areas just patiently waiting for their hard working humans to come back on Monday to finish the block. Looking back I really regret not trying to get a job with one of the outfits working in the bush. Literally it’s one of the few things in my life I think about 30 years later.

Trees that big will never be seen again. Care to guess why?

This looks like a laurel and hardy setup.

Great vid and Bob Wills in the background to boot!

Fantastic footage! thank you for posting.

And...my grandpa used to say a man wearing suspenders is worth 2 men wearing belts. Love it!!!

My grandpa started working as a whistle punk in Germany when he was 8 years old. He worked in the camp with his grandpa. Now, 92 years later, I'm a millwright. This is such a great show. Thank you.

Sir... its like 300 ft or something...

I don't mean to be stupid but if you cut the tree down😊 cut limbs off of when it's on the ground

What an awesome clip. Amazing how hard they worked.

Wood those big monsters still be alive. Wood be tourists attractions now.

These men made America Great!

I am so sick of revisionist nature lovers that are clueless about how a nation builds itself from the ground up. Being born and raised in an established nation these whiners watch a video showing what was then a decent paying job bringing raw materials to market with technology that now has been obsolete for most of a century and insist on interjecting their best educated generation nonsensical comments. It was a different era. You face none of the challenges these men faced. These men would consider you to be effeminate lunatics for the manufactured problems you have elevated to the greatest importance. Can someone estimate the dimensions of this Davis raft? Is there a reasonable way to estimate amount of cable and chain holding it together? How were all the cables and chains returned for reuse? There were no safety men obsessing over how old was the proof test certification until just a couple of decades ago. Cables and chains were used until they failed? Without cables and chains the logging and transport sections of the company didn't operate and I cannot imagine cables and chains being written off as overhead consumables back then. How much timber does this raft represent? The number of trees? I simply have nothing to compare this with. Is there video of the raft being untangled and dismembered?

Great video! Thanks for sharing

Can surely do without the music. 🫤

Wonder how long it took to fall that huge situation spruce in the beginning part of this video.

Been to those sites in Bute if you want to see better do it soon theyre due for harvest soon

The mill at Powell River once the largest paper mill in the world now closed probably forever govt changes in how forestry fit into the economy killed it in th 80s still took 40 yrs for it to finally die

Some of that footage was at stillwater bc near powell river

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These loggers would kick anyone's ass, frickin hard built and determined, old school folk, These guys fought and won ww2, no wonder huh! Ain't built like that today., !!

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