Logging in the PNW c 1985 Part 2 Yarding with a Slackline Carriage

This video highlights an example of logging 30+ years ago cutting big timber that is extremely rare these days. The video was done by a family friend on an old VHS recorder so the quality has degraded over time. I am glad to now have them in digital format for better preservation so folks can see how it used to done.

[@mangro51]

to the man at 17.26 .......hats off to you!!!! good logger !!! unless someone has been there ,packing a bunch of weight through the the brush ,they will never know how hard you work!!!!! PEACE

[@elwellboy]

Yep. Carrying a couple sections of strawline through the brush on steep ground is tough work. These guys love what they do and never complain. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@josephm.noviello1996]

Almost his body weight.

[@charlesmullins3238]

First thing I said…I’m 5’9” 120lbs and can pack my 47” 880 up these ol Ky mts if needed…1st thing I done when I got it see what packin it’s like..

[@jimhere1]

Thanks for your videos. In the mid 80's I worked for Munn Logging from Granite Falls. Munn had a yarder just like this one. He also had a Skookum-Tyee slackline machine that we did a lot of long span skyline yarding with, mostly with a modified North Bend system. Tony Reece flew our layouts for us. He also flew a lot of shake blocks for my dad.

[@elwellboy]

Glad you enjoyed them. Anthony passed away about a year ago. Great guy and awesome chopper pilot. There is a great video on KZbin of Anthony dropping dynamite charges to blow avalanches on Stevens Pass. Check it out. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@n.e.6560]

Awwww I heard about Anthony him and my dad where close made me sad to hear he passed we saw him back in 2017 I think it was . He was an awesome pilot I remember watching my dad actually flying with him on a bucket under the chopper to drop water on a fire on the mountain I think he has the video somewhere I might try to find it and post it . Thanks for these videos I miss seeing home 🏡

[@Buckshot9796]

Yikes! Brings back old memories! Thanks!

[@elwellboy]

Yep - You won't much if any logging shows like that nowadays. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@makmak151515]

I loved slackline. You had a mainline and a haul back. It made the whistle simple. Luca

[@elwellboy]

Yep - good set up. Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@jeffchandler1921]

Great video that sure is a funny looking sky car

[@elwellboy]

Funny looking but sure got a bunch of logs. Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@alexesgate8033]

Awesome video they sure put some nice turns on the ole girl stay safe get logs

[@elwellboy]

Alex - good to hear from you. I'm subscribed to your channel and enjoy your videos. A family friend (owner of this outfit) took this video in the late 80's. Unfortunately, he was killed in an logging accident about 5 years later. Lots of good footage here including leaning out the support tree. Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching and commenting. "stay safe get logs"!

[@randyschryvers7418]

Never worked under one those carriages. Used an old Ironbird and shop built one,precursor to a Bowman

[@elwellboy]

Not sure I could tell you what brand carriage that is. In the 60s and 70s there were a lot of shop built carriages and other contraptions used for various setups. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@jimhere1]

@@elwellboy it's a big slackpulling carriage made by Madill for use with the 052yarder, which this is

[@skadill]

great work.That Madill 046 sure can haul big turn in suspended.Probably the only video footage around of leaning an intermediate tree over a bit too.

[@elwellboy]

Glad you enjoyed the videos. Not many people these days have ever seen this kind of logging in the big wood of the Northwest. The family friend who took all these videos was the owner of the featured logging outfit. Sadly he was killed in a freak accident on one of his jobs a few years after the video. His son was hook tender and one of the guys tipping out the lift tree.

[@skadill]

Pure golden footage really.sad but true,the days of the big old growth big iron operations are done in your state.Still a lot of old growth done here in Coastal BC,but a huge amount of processor/mechanical size wood now too

[@jimhere1]

Could that be a Madill 052 tension skidder? The carriage looks the one used with that yarder.

[@DanielBoonesloggingvideos]

this is a great video thanks for taking the time to upload it for us !

[@elwellboy]

Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching

[@elwellboy]

did you know that the yarder in this video is the same one that you did a video on last year? Small world for big iron high lead machinery.

[@DanielBoonesloggingvideos]

@@elwellboy haha I sure did. Was practically doing backflips when I saw that it was the same one from your video. That is so true it is a small world for sure . Sounds like it will start a new life dredging rock sometime soon.

[@joepalanuk5718]

these are awesome videos man i wish i was born in those times that looks a lot better than whats being logged today

[@elwellboy]

Glad you enjoyed the videos. Be careful what you wish for-haha!! Logging that big wood required much heavier rigging than what is used today. Pulling inch or inch & 1/8 kinky chokers through the brush was a bitch. But, seeing all that big wood stacked in the landing was a beautiful sight!! Thanks for watching.

[@lesharrington4174]

@@elwellboy Twenty years ago I left Alaska and went to work in Oregon. In Ak. I had been logging big wood for years, and I was thinking (for some reason) that it was going to be easy money, with little chokers, little wood, etc. It didn't take any time at all on the hill to realize that it takes one of a lot of turns of peckerpoles to make any kind of scale compared with logging first growth wood. One hell of a lot faster pace, doing presets front and back.

[@elwellboy]

@@lesharrington4174 I logged in SE Alaska in the early 70s - worked at a camp at Corner Bay pulling riggin and tending hook. Lots of big wood and fighting hang ups when there wasn't much lift. Not sure I'd do well high leading the little crap being logged today. Although 5/8" chokers are a lot more tolerable than 1 1/8" - hahaha. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@stevebogart726]

Thats because back in the day they took the best and left the rest for Last so they took all the easy real good export logs, and exported them only timber lake that left now is in our parks in the long rivers

[@northmanlogging2769]

Thanks for this video, feels like I should know some of folks shown here, but been too long and I didn't move to Darrington until 88, anyway thanks

[@elwellboy]

Glad you enjoyed the video. A couple of the guys in this video are still around town. Thanks for watching.

[@jayclowe5904]

the good ole days miss em.jay granite falls

[@elwellboy]

Jay - Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@jimhere1]

I lived in Granite during the 80's and early 90's. I worked at Scott Paper, Munn Log, WRW, and Miller Shingle.

[@chadrides914]

Oh my gosh. These video uploads are excellent. Thank you so much for taking the time to post these. Very very very good footage. Hard working men there in beautiful country.

[@elwellboy]

Glad you enjoyed it. I wish the quality could have been a bit better but that's about as good as it gets from a 30 year old VHS tape. I still enjoy watching these.

[@robertjackson4121]

elwellboy my dad logged 4 x 80= 320 acres in 1946 in grays harbor county. Took a year to fall old growth cedar and build railroad. Then a year to yard it! Jacksog logging and shake mill.

[@elwellboy]

Very interesting. There was a lot of big wood in that area back in the day. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@erikcamacho6204]

Was this setting on the Olympic Peninsula? And is so, around what part?

[@elwellboy]

Not on the peninsula. This setting was near Darrington WA. The Madil yarder working this side is now in someone's boneyard over on the peninsula. It's noted in one of Daniel Boone's logging videos. Check it out. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@shakentosser]

I'm currently logging up the suiattle under a swing tower, woods definitely not as nice as it used to be

[@elwellboy]

Ah - I heard there was a fire up in that area. Nope we probably won't see logging in any of the old growth stands anymore. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@ShystySpokes]

Who was doin the logging? I was just born in 1985 but plenty of pictures of me in a car seat in my dads A model kenworth on plenty of North Fork Timber jobs just like this one..

[@elwellboy]

This show was Reece Logging out of Darrington up the Suiattle River. Sadly, the owner was killed in a freak accident a few years after he took this video. Reece's stopped logging in the mid 90s. Another KZbinr found the yarder used in this video - you can see it at kzbin.info/www/bejne/ooaUgquQns2EbZo - Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@morgankruse4666]

Is this Circle Cr up the Suaittle? Maybe G&D logging? Grew up in Oso in the 70's and 80's

[@elwellboy]

It is in the Circle Cr. area. This was Clayton Reece's outfit logging for Summit Timber in the mid 80s. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@richardgrumpywelsh2485]

Their is not much of that large timber left to harvest, I remeber the trains loaded with the large timber back in the 50s in Washington state

[@elwellboy]

Thanks for watching. I remember the trains too. As a kid, there were still two reloads in town where the trains would come in from the woods and they would reload the logs to go down the mainline. If you want to see some big timber check out my video "Old Time Logging-Galbraith Brothers History". Glad you enjoyed the video.

[@richardgrumpywelsh2485]

I was able to have my son download the Galbrath Brothers history of all the great pictures of all the great popele and the great equipment that they had for the time. My grand father had two mills in nothern Utah in the late 1800 which was powered by water, I think, He never had any horses that I know of, just a few Oxen, I think He Pased before 1900. and that was the end of the family saw mils.I am 85 now

[@elwellboy]

Glad you enjoyed the video. Sounds like your family had an interesting history in the lumber industry as well. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@stevebogart726]

Backwards logging

[@elwellboy]

Thanks for watching and commenting.