1950s Sawmill Workers Educational Documentary - Timber In The Northeast - CharlieDeanArchives

The life of sawmill workers and loggers working for a large paper manufacturing company. The film culminates with a spring log drive on a New England river.
Filmed long before Marcel Levesque made chainsaws popular!
The film "timber in the Northeast" was sourced from the AVGeeks via archive.org/de..., they may be able to supply a higher-quality version.
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[@andypbj267]

I've worked in timber most of my life. I'm currently a millwright. I got tired of the mud, rain, and snow. Anyways, my mill does half a billion board feet a year. Back then, over 2500 sawmills only did 1.25 billion board feet a year. Wow. And thank God for modern chainsaws!!

[@gailedmonds9107]

Thanks for sharing this wonderful video. Brings back such fond memories of childhood living in lumber towns. My Dad was a head rig sawyer in Northern California with the redwood trees. Still love the smell of fresh cut wood today.

[@jasonbuttar7874]

Man these men sure knew what work was

[@ColleenHampson]

Wow i worked at a old sawmill for 40 years i love this from New Zealand

[@jimmyboy5597]

They used to show us these films in the early 70s in AV (audio visual) hour on Friday afternoons. Loved these as well as the nature films.

[@mrwaterschoot5617]

cool historic video. thanks for sharing.

[@prsearls]

I may have seen this in grade school. Lots of hard, dangerous work done by strong, fit men.

[@jamesmilos9909]

👍🏼 I was thinking the same thing! In the blacked out “movie room”, in the basement.

[@samking73]

Very good Doc. I love all the footage of them working the logs on the river.

[@imransharif443]

Nice old video good job good documentary great

[@ArmpitStudios]

Man, that’s great stuff. That really was America’s greatest era, mid 20th Century.

[@TheMarsgia]

What a great film. NO CAL OSHA to worry about, Just people working hard.

[@christinamoneyhan5688]

I was raised and lived near Williamsport Pennsylvania and that city was known as the lumber capital of the world . Nothing there now. It’s funny that I worked for International Paper Company and we were not producing paper at that factory. That factory is not there anymore either. Tree huggers got rid of forest products in lue of plastics. Not bio degradegradable. Trash and litter everywhere.

[@tigerphid9677]

Today the Northeastern United States is totally overgrown with forests. We should start again to use these forests' wood through scientific "management" practices that provide the resource and improve the forest at the same time.

[@studebaker4217]

"Keeping America the best informed country in the World". What happened?

[@tjlovesrachel]

Lolll don’t get us started

[@S99-c5s]

I was giggling at that

[@Live01Legends]

Media was bought and sold

[@Judicator37]

Comment sections, forums, chat rooms, media is now advertising and political leverage which you can pay for... - giving people a voice which allowed them to build echo chambers. Anything pre 1980s, Alex Jones and those like him would've been cast out and ridiculed into oblivion - now they can build a platform and megaphone that can reach the entire world and slowly degrade the society.

[@ArmpitStudios]

Hippies, liberals, working moms.

[@nephewbob7264]

the organ music is great.

[@lanapoulliot7682]

I remember seeing logs in the Kennebec River in Madison Maine

[@markvolker1145]

I wish I could have lived during this time! The US wasn't over crowded, outragously expensive, and the little man could make something of themselves rather than bow and submit to the endless government red tape!

[@wastelandman198]

End of the middle class - 2020

[@Joelontugs]

People seriously don't realize how long conservation has been a thing a people haven't been just pillaging trees with no care this is in the 1950 and they are talking about taking care of the forest

[@Fossilsunleashed]

no such thing as forest conservation only destruction

[@Fossilsunleashed]

they rob the big tree from the national forests now with helicopters back in the 50s the trees here used to be as big around as a car. the big trees are gone so explain how your conservation works again other than a few tree farms

[@LL-tk7vk]

@@Fossilsunleashed yeah because it’s not like they replant what they cut🙄

[@icarusburning2208]

@Mike Lyons he's a moron, must not like society and living in a stick built home.

[@kaifel7539]

Very nice documentary. Unfortunately the backround "music" is nerv killing

[@rebeccaanderson5037]

agreed jesus !!!

[@benjybaldwin773]

They don't make men like that anymore nowadays lot of them want to wear dresses

[@ralphaverill2001]

Obesity wasn't much of a problem among the workers in those days. In fact, it was more or less impossible, even with four starchy meals a day. And OSHA really was just a small town in Wisconsin. There was no mention of the number of serious injuries and deaths, especially by drowning, that occurred. Those wotkers were a long way away from any medical help. Some parts of "The Good Old Days" were pretty good; other parts, not so much.

[@pizza4prezident143]

Well at least they offer dental now lol

[@roasterbcool1492]

We must save the hairy chested nut scratcher

[@outdoorlifemaine6691]

No worked all day today on Old cleat tractor in the woods hauling logs now I come home and watch someone else do what the hell's wrong with me

[@poochie49]

At around 11:20. How to destroy a stream. But back in those days nobody was concerned.

[@tjlovesrachel]

Lollll

[@tjlovesrachel]

@S.p Bean ohhh yeahh I should shut my mouth... why is that

[@BR-bj3ot]

Look what “ progress” has done to our once great Nation. We went from One Nation Under God to a radical ideological cess pool of lost and dark hearted people!

[@QuacGiaNgoVietCongHoa]

Nature was also a part of the manufacture.

[@ShowCat1]

That video was so blurry I think I saw a bigfoot.

[@josephinebennington7247]

A very early use of RENEWABLE.

[@onlythewise1]

back when lots of wood now days America going to hell

[@Logjam5]

Keyboard action doesn't add much to the show.

[@PurplePerinaise]

They quickly forgot what the creator said then 🤔😂

[@MKOMKONNNN]

more organ music please

[@mrwaterschoot5617]

4 meals a day toons of calories to do a jlot of manual work. rumorhas it the old time loggers burn over 4000 calories a day. the more sebentary lives require less than 2000 calories with.less processed sugr an othee ingredients. this video is of the new england perspective. yet trees grow most every where the jungle forest near the equator . the usa has a wst coast california redwkood forests and the british columbia douglas fir forests . i was born 1956 and have been around men who worked cutting and trucking pulpwood for living. technology has x changed . less manpower and motr gasoline and diesel power. thevhnology is evolving to electric battery power. moe effiency less man power and the horse power moves from animal to machine horsepower.

[@greenhorn454yomoma4]

17:58

[@davidhickenbottom6574]

Over 2500 sawmills

[@arska77]

That is so f#€@&* annoying music.

[@kevinwasilewski598]

Look how demographics have changed

[@wphmijland]

Timber is NOT a crop.

[@Sillyturner]

Says who.

[@anglovetree3308]

How to destroy an ecosystem...

[@brucewelty7684]

Right, The US northeast no longer exists!